Asian Americans are the best-educated, highest-income earning, and fastest growing racial group in the United States, according to a Pew Research study. UC Berkeley graduate student activists, Emma Gee and Yuji Ichioka, first used the phrase “Asian American” in 1968 to bring together the diverse groups that fell under the Asian diaspora. The term “Asian […]

Harlem Capital, a New York City venture capital firm based in — you guessed it — Harlem, was originally founded in 2015 as an angel syndicate. However, in 2019, the VC firm raised over $40 million for its inaugural fund, with half of the fund’s individual LPs being women or people of color. Fund I […]

There is a new trend in the world of finance: after crypto tokens, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) appeared in the cluster of digital assets spurred in recent years. These tokens are effectively certificates of authenticity– non-fungible- for a digital asset. The digital asset could be a photo, video or even a tweet and the token verifies […]

In December 2020, following the last-minute block of Ant Group’s November IPO, which was set to be the largest IPO in world history, China’s market regulator (the State Administration for Market Regulation) opened an antitrust investigation into the e-commerce giant Alibaba. This investigation reflected China’s increased scrutiny of large, deep-pocketed conglomerate corporations. But while the […]

Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a piece titled With Shopify, Small Businesses Strike Back at Amazon. WSJ Reporter Christopher Mims described Shopify as the emerging “third option” for retailers to use instead of “list[ing] their goods on marketplaces run by giant companies, or sell[ing] to consumers directly, hoping they’ll make more on each […]

Congress passed the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 stimulus bill on Wednesday in a 220-to-211 vote, which is projected to boost the U.S. economy and extend financial relief to many Americans. President Biden signed the bill on Thursday as part of his American Rescue Plan of 2021, an expansive and sweeping economic recovery plan that will likely […]

Since last March, most major companies such as Salesforce have switched to a remote work model. This surge in employees working from home, driven by safety concerns during the pandemic, emptied previously clogged city streets of traffic and boosted the usage of cloud tools such as Zoom videoconferencing, Google Docs’s suite of productivity tools, and […]

What do you get when you combine pop culture’s new favorite buzzword with celebrity endorsements? SPACs. The use of special purpose acquisition companies has been on the rise for several months, but now that celebrities are involved, the SEC is finally paying attention. On Wednesday, the SEC issued an alert warning against investment decisions based […]

Have you ever wanted a nice winter coat that was outside of your price range? You could put it on a credit card, but that would demolish your budget for the month. You could purchase it through a layaway program, but that means you will have to wait to get that warm, fashionable look. Or, […]

“Going green” has officially permeated the automobile industry – and there’s no sign of the environmentally-conscious trend slowing down anytime soon. Within this industry dominated by the internal combustion engine, Tesla has been heralded as the leader of electric cars. However, General Motor’s (“GM”) recent announcement—stating they will cease production and sales of all gas-powered cars by […]