The pandemic was undeniably tough on the F&B industry in 2020. Many businesses had to pivot to keep their operations running, but pivoting doesn’t always guarantee survival. Even well-loved and known F&B brands with loyal and supportive fanbases were unable to keep up with the uncertainties of the year, and …
Read More »The Trump Administration Shut a Vaccine Safety Office Last Year. What’s the Plan Now?
As the first coronavirus vaccines arrive in the coming year, government researchers will face a monumental challenge: monitoring the health of hundreds of millions of Americans to ensure the vaccines don’t cause harm. Purely by chance, thousands of vaccinated people will have heart attacks, strokes and other illnesses shortly after …
Read More »Overlooked No More: Roland Johnson, Who Fought to Shut Down Institutions for the Disabled
Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. This latest installment is part of a series exploring how the Americans With Disabilities Act has shaped modern life for disabled people. Share your stories or email us at ada@nytimes.com. In …
Read More »Despite RM10mil In Funding, Here’s The Real Reason Why Offpeak Shut Down After 5 Years
Author’s Blurb: Recently we got news that Offpeak had ceased operations, so we reached out to co-founder Lau to learn what went wrong. He was brave enough to lay it out in detail (and we’re thankful for that), so hopefully the lessons learnt are ones that startups in similar positions …
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