Swipeby, a local tech startup housed at Winston Starts, offers an app to facilitate curbside pickup for restaurants. Over the past year, the company has grown from working with dozens of restaurants in the Winston-Salem market, to scaling regionally and nationally through partnerships with chains like Firehouse Subs. Suddenly, as the Coronavirus outbreak unfolded, the Swipeby app was no… Read More »
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Swipeby Expands its Curbside Pickup App to Small Businesses
Main Street Lending Program
The Main Street Lending Program (MSLP) is a new lending program being offered by the Federal Reserve (The Fed) to provide relief for businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying economic downturn. Unlike the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) funds, these programs are not administered by the Small Business Administration… Read More »
Social Distancing Actions for Retailers and Unemployment Guidance for Employers
Governor Roy Cooper took additional actions to the address the spread of COVID-19 in North Carolina by issuing stronger social distancing requirements and speeding up the process to get benefits to people out of work. The key provisions of the order are requirements that retail stores still in operation have to implement new social distancing… Read More »
Employment Law Q&A
We hosted a conference call on federal and state changes to employment law, paid sick leave, and FMLA due to COVID 19, led by Charlot Wood, an employment attorney with Bell, Davis, and Pitt. Listen Now The opinions expressed in this recording are for general information purposes and are not intended to be, and should… Read More »
Wellness for Yourself and Your Business During Covid 19
When you flip on the news, read through your social media, and even if you speak to your neighbors, it’s likely that they are all concerned about staying safe. They are anxious. Of course, you have to follow the official guidelines from the local health agencies to stay safe. But through all of these regulations… Read More »
British American Tobacco & Subsidiary Company Work to Develop COVID 19 Vaccine
British American Tobacco, the parent company of Winston-Salem based Reynolds American, is involved in COVID-19 vaccine research. BAT’s US bio-tech subsidiary, Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP), is developing a potential vaccine for COVID-19 and is now in pre-clinical testing. If testing goes well, BAT is hopeful that, with the right partners and support from government agencies, between… Read More »