Tag: Amazon
WARN notice: Grit Delivers closing in Iowa City
A Workforce Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act filing Jan. 4 shows Grit Delivers has laid off 62 people in Iowa City.
The filing shows the...
Amazon, NSF give grant to UI researchers to make algorithms less discriminatory
A team of University of Iowa researchers and professors have received an $800,000 grant from the National Science Foundation and Amazon to make machine...
Amazon facility near Des Moines sells for more than $325 million
Avison Young’s Capital Markets Group has brokered the sale of a single-tenant net-leased property totaling more than $325 million of value and representing 2.68...
Online giants helped grow our small business
Our personal care products business is far away from almost everything, but thanks to our great online partners and happy customers, we’re selling nationwide...
Don’t give up on your business data just yet
Remember five or 10 years ago, when Big Data and analytics promised to change everything about how we do business?
Those were the salad days...
Transportation HUB USA
One of the Corridor’s most promising industry clusters is transportation and logistics.
The newly approved $108.6 million FedEx warehouse and distribution center in southwest Cedar...
Second Amazon facility goes on market for $355 million
The recently completed Amazon AR Sort Fulfillment Center in Bondurant is on sale for nearly $355 million, the second Iowa Amazon facility to hit...
Changing tide of capitalism
CBJ Editorial
Over the past several years there has been a change by some of the larger corporations and their leaders to push for more direction and regulation of companies to meet certain mandates perpetuated largely by political correctness.
Posturing for points against Big Tech
CBJ Editorial
Every few years Congress conducts a parade of successful business executives through committee hearings to lambast them and score political points.
It is usually...
Posturing for points against Big Tech
CBJ Editorial
Every few years Congress conducts a parade of successful business executives through committee hearings to lambast them and score political points.
It is usually...