Small Business Short-Term Strategies

By Gene Maddaus

President Donald Trump signed a $484 billion bill Friday to aid employers and hospitals under stress from the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 50,000 Americans and devastated broad swaths of the economy.The bill is the latest effort by the federal government to help keep afloat businesses that have had to close or dramatically alter their operations as states try to slow the spread of the virus.

Change of plans. Matt Damon is hunkering down in Dalkey, Ireland, with his family amid the country’s lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The US House of Representatives voted 388 to 5 on Thursday for another half-trillion dollars in federal relief, including $310 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program that offers forgivable loans to small business employers to keep workers on their payrolls  during the economic crisis COVID-19 caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic. There have been more than 26 million unemployment claims filed in the past five weeks alone.

By Ted Johnson

By Danielle Turchiano

By Variety Staff

By Vanessa Papas

Senate on Tuesday (April 21) voted to pass a bill adding $310 billion to the Small Business Administration’s COVID-19 loan program, including $50 billion for economic disaster aid loans, after the program's initial $349 billion funding pool ran out. The supplemental relief package is $484 billion in total and the House is expected to approve the bill later this week.

By Ted Johnson

By Matt Donnelly

By Erik Pedersen

The world hardly needs more nuclear brinkmanship between Israel and Iran, but that's the just the promise from Tehran, a nail-biting Israeli espionage thriller from Netflix's Fauda writer Moshe Zonder. Fortunately it's a TV drama without real world consequences as it portrays a crack Mossad agent hunted in her home town of Tehran as she finds refuge and romance among dancing and drug-taking secular Iranians.

Renfrewshire businesses have benefited from more than £3.3million of support from the Scottish Government.

Stacey Solomon has got a home that many of us envy, from her super organised cupboards to her perfectly designed garden. While we're in lockdown, as we battle to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the UK, the mum-of-three has been sharing a handful of small businesses where she has snapped up some of her most popular household items.

By Todd Spangler

Worldwide about 938,000 people have tested positive for the coronavirus and about 47,000 people have lost their lives battling the deadly virus. As the healthcare workers across the world continue to work round the clock and risk their lives to save other people, Hollywood star Samuel L Jackson has just one message for you – “Stay the f*** at home.” The Marvel actor recently narrated a children's book for adults titled ‘Stay the F**k at Home’ to encourage the practice of social distancing.

Samuel L. Jackson has a message for you during the coronavirus quarantine: “Stay the f–k at home.”

TikTok has struck short-term licensing deals with Universal Music Group, Sony Music and Warner Music Group, multiple sources tell Billboard, as the rapidly growing video-making app continues to establish itself in the music industry.