Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. John van Hasselt | Corbis | Getty Images Home rental company Airbnb is aiming to raise around $3 billion in its upcoming initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said on Friday, taking advantage of the unexpectedly sharp recovery in its business after the COVID-19 […]

As a majority of colleges opened their campuses this semester for some level of in-person instruction, they tweaked their academic calendars, streamlining the schedule to limit how often students travel to and from school. The resulting plan for almost every school in the country is a semester that either ends […]

In this Sept. 26, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Harrisburg International Airport in Middletown, Pa. President Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president tweeted early Friday. Steve Ruark AP President Donald Trump has several strikes against […]

Conflicting messages from public health authorities have fueled a great deal of confusion over COVID-19, particularly regarding its transmission. The terms “aerosol,” “airborne” and “droplet” have made the rounds in attempts to explain how the novel coronavirus may spread, but without sufficient explanations. There’s still debate over the exact role […]

October 2, 2020 8 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Let’s not sugarcoat this: the past few months have been devastating. Even if you haven’t personally experienced a tragic loss of a loved one or your businesses, the economy right now has still probably impacted your finances. As […]

It’s that time of year again, time for the Texas Renaissance Festival. — nine fun-filled weekends of visitors going to a rural area of Texas and pretending they live in another century. Although come to think of it, the early years of the Renaissance in Europe had a plague too […]

Hotels across the UK and overseas have reacted to the government’s suggestion of trialling airport testing at Heathrow this month. With a coronavirus testing facility on stand-by, Heathrow’s chief executive John Holland-Kaye said that talks with Downing Street had been “progressive” and testing could be operational within a couple of […]

Press release content from News Direct Corporation. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. https://apnews.com/press-release/news-direct-corporation/virus-outbreak-business-corporate-news-products-and-services-health-ffe804833906d8a237a91b2d308f6ab9 Click to copy –News Direct– Convey Services, a SaaS solutions company, today expanded its Cloud Conventions product line by launching Cloud Kickoffs™, an online portal solution exclusively for sales and annual conference […]

A handful of months and many tubes ago, Patrick Reilly had a decision to make. Did he get on the first flight home, or did he stay in Indonesia as the coronavirus pandemic began to surge, and travel became questionable? “Everyone at home was freaking and telling me that I […]

An almost-empty shopping mall. Photo by Georg Bommeli on Unsplash About half of us don’t trust public spaces, avoid travel, won’t go to dine-in restaurants, and won’t shop in bricks-and-mortar stores. And that’s not changing any time soon … even if Covid-19 miraculously goes away, or a vaccine is available […]

10 gifts for the aspiring TikTok star in your life Do you know someone who wants to make it big on TikTok?  Folks have used TikTok since its evolution from Musical.ly two years ago, but in the months since the pandemic confined most social interactions to the internet, the app’s […]

The garland-draped huts, the warm glow from inside, the smell of roasting nuts — all of that will be missing from Daley Plaza this year after Christkindlmarket organizers said the popular event will go online. Blame the coronavirus. “Ultimately, the safety of our visitors, our staff and our vendors really […]

With Election Day just a little over a month away, the showdown between President Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden is coming to a head. Following Tuesday night’s raucous and fiery debate in Cleveland — Biden called Trump the “worst president ever,” while Trump took shots at the former vice president over his son’s […]

getty Perhaps more than any other industry, healthcare has been rocked by COVID-19. From facing influxes of patients and not having proper equipment to pausing elective procedures for months, the pandemic has caused healthcare to change nearly everything about how it operates and designs patient experiences.  But even amongst the […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China estimated that 13 million railway passenger trips were made on Thursday at the start of the Golden Week holiday, the highest for a single day since the coronavirus outbreak began in February, according to state media. Although this figure signals pent-up demand for travel now that […]

Short selling allows investors to bet against a company by borrowing and selling its shares. This causes the stock to underperform, but it can also trigger explosive growth because of something called a “short squeeze” — which happens when a growth catalyst makes shares quickly rise, forcing short-sellers to cut […]