US Business
Allianz Lifts Buyback to €1.5 Billion After Strong Second Quarter
Allianz increased its planned share buyback for 2024 and maintained its outlook after it reported better-than-expected results for the second quarter.
Articles by Erin Slifka
Education
Kansas City University Announces Plans for Anesthesiologist Assistant Program
Kansas City University (KCU), the leading provider of physicians for the state of Missouri, has announced plans to further expand its offerings by developing an anesthesiologist assistant program based at its Joplin, Missouri, campus. Designed […]
Education
Missouri Southern State University Alumnae Awarded Inaugural Society for Human Resource Management Scholarship
This summer, two recent Missouri Southern State University (MSSU) graduates — April Black and Emily Studer ‘24 — were awarded the inaugural Missouri State Council of the Society for Human Resource Management (MO-SHRM) Conference Scholarship. […]
Events
Joplin Health Department to Host First Impact Driving Class for Teens on August 29
Did you know that car crashes are the number-one killer of teens aged 15 to 19? This age group has the highest crash rate of any age group on the road and teens are three […]
Events
Missouri SBDC at MSSU Announces Fall Semester Entrepreneurship Speaker Series, Presented by Southwest Missouri Bank
The Missouri Small Business Development Center (SBDC) hosted at Missouri Southern State University (MSSU) is excited to announce the speakers for their 2024 Fall Semester Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Unveiling the Entrepreneurship Journey! This event, presented […]
US Business
Playboy to Bring Back Print Magazine After Covid Shutdown
PLBY Group said that it’s relaunching Playboy Magazine with an annual edition that will be released in February 2025, a decision that comes about four years after announcing it would be shut down as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
US Business
Delta to CrowdStrike: Don’t Blame Us for Tech Problems
The airline says the cybersecurity company is shirking blame for the July outage, which led he carrier to cancel about 7,000 flights.
US Business
Amazon’s $4 Billion Investment in Anthropic Comes Under U.K. Scrutiny
U.K. antitrust officials are probing whether Amazon’s multibillion-dollar investment in artificial-intelligence company Anthropic poses a threat to competition.
US Business
Paramount Writes Down Value of Cable-TV Business by $6 Billion and Cuts 2,000 Jobs
Paramount Global, home of Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon, wrote down the value of its cable-TV networks by nearly $6 billion and cut 15% of its workforce, a day after rival Warner Bros. Discovery reported an even larger write-down.
US Business
Boeing’s New CEO Is Hands On. He’s Being Handed a Company in Crisis.
Robert “Kelly” Ortberg will need both strategic vision and an eye for detail as he tries to revamp a manufacturing giant that has been hobbled by production delays, factory flubs and quality lapses.