Daily business news in the Great State of New York!
NEW YORK — S&P Dow Jones Indices is adding two companies to the S&P 500, and also making changes to the S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600: S&P MidCap 400 constituents Leidos Holdings Inc. (NYSE:LDOS) and IDEX Corp. (NYSE:IEX) will replace Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:APC) and Foot Locker Inc. (NYSE:FL) respectively in the S&P […]
SCHENECTADY — Look out Las Vegas, New York is now taking sports bets. For the first time in history, Rivers Casino in Schenectady officially began accepting legal sports bets Tuesday morning at a brand new sports lounge that has the look and feel of ones found in Las Vegas casinos. New York now joins neighboring […]
ARMONK, N.Y. and DALLAS — IBM has formed a multi-year strategic alliance with AT&T, one of the nation’s largest phone companies and owner of Warner Media. Under the agreement AT&T Communications will use IBM’s expertise to modernize AT&T Business Solutions’ internal software applications, enabling migrations to the IBM Cloud. In addition, IBM will provide infrastructure to support […]
Amy’s Kitchen, a leading organic food manufacturer based in Santa Rosa, CA, has broken ground on a 389,000-square-foot specialty frozen food manufacturing facility in Goshen, Orange County NY as its East Coast hub. The facility, which will be one of the largest previously-undeveloped manufacturing plants to select New York State in more than 30 years, […]
NEW YORK — Bemis Company Inc. (NYSE: BMS). a maker of packaging products, is joining the prestigious S&P 500 Index this Friday. Bemis will replace toy maker Mattel Inc. (NASD: MAT) in the S&P 500, and Mattel will replace Bemis in the S&P MidCap 400 effective prior to the open of trading on Friday, June […]
The NY Times has launched a new site focused on parenting. NYT Parenting is a site for new and expecting parents who want help having and raising kids today. Whether readers are struggling with fertility or feeling burnt out at home with little kids, in the Parenting section the NY Times will provide guidance and […]
ELMSFORD, NY — Party City won’t be celebrating this news. The Westchester-based party goods chain said it will close 45 of its locations this year. There are currently 870 Party City stores across the country. The store closures will take place throughout the year. Party City also reported first quarter results and blamed a global […]
LONG ISLAND CITY — Altice USA, which has 4.9 million residential and business customers with a major presence in the NY metro area including Long Island and Westchester counties, has agreed to acquire Cheddar, the digital-first news company, for $200 million. (Photo: Jon Steinberg, CEO of Cheddar, and Dexter Goel, CEO of Altice USA, Source: […]
NEW YORK & ARMONK, NY — Private equity firm Centerbridge Partners has struck a deal to buy IBM’s marketing platform and commerce software offerings. The transaction is expected to close in mid-2019, subject to completion of applicable regulatory reviews and customary closing conditions. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. After closing, Centerbridge intends to form […]
NEW YORK — Dow Inc. (NYSE: DOW) is going to replace DowDuPont Inc. (NYSE: DWDP) in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) effective prior to the open of trading on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. The Dow Inc. name is not related to the Dow Jones name, which was originally created by journalist Charles Dow, who also founded The Wall Street […]
NEW YORK — Viacom is expanding its streaming TV business with a deal to acquire Pluto TV, the leading free streaming television service in U.S., for $340 million in cash. Viacom operates cable channels including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET and CMT. It also owns digital studio AwesomenessTV. Founded in 2013, Pluto TV is headquartered in Los Angeles […]
NEW YORK — Le Macaron French Pastries, a French patisserie with 50 locations, is planning to open more than 20 locations in NY in the next five years. The chain offers guests authentic French macarons and pastries. Already in the NY market is franchisee Frank Kelly whose Yonkers Le Macaron location has been in operation […]
ARMONK, NY — Inventors at IBM received a record 9,100 patents in 2018, marking the company’s 26th consecutive year of U.S. patent leadership. IBM led the industry in the number of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, security and quantum computing-related patent grants. “IBM is committed to leading the way on the technologies that change the way […]
NEW YORK — MetLife has named Michel Khalaf, president, U.S. Business and EMEA, will become MetLife’s president and chief executive officer on May 1, 2019. Khalaf also has been appointed to the MetLife board effective May 1. Steven Kandarian, who is retiring, will continue to serve as chairman, president and CEO through April 30, 2019. […]
Ginni Rometty — Chairman, President and CEO of IBM — will deliver the opening keynote at CES 2019 on Tuesday, Jan. 8 in Las Vegas. CES (formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show) is the largest and one of the most influential technology events in the world. Rometty will speak on how technologies like artificial […]