Qualcomm made investors smile when it reported expectation-topping earnings late Wednesday. The company is widely known for its mobile processors, but also makes chips destined for internet of things devices, and for auto makers—two segments that grew revenue by 83% apiece in the fiscal-third quarter. Executives in the earnings call said the company would have been able to report even better results if it could secure more manufacturing capacity. The company said it is working to acquire it. Evercore ISI analyst C.J. Muse wrote late Wednesday that the company’s emphasis in its earnings call

Sacred Heart University alum to compete in para-taekwondo for Team USA in 2020 Tokyo Paralympics A Sacred Heart University alum will represent the United States in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. Brianna Salinaro is the first female athlete to compete in para-taekwondo. Salinaro was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when she was 1-and-a-half years old. "It's basically shaped my life, like I'm growing up as a kid, I'm always wondering why I had it. Why me?" Salinaro says. YOURURL.com She had two surgeries when she was young to correct how she walked, and hours of occupational and speech therapy as

Some 22,000 residents of South Lake Tahoe were ordered to evacuate, creating a massive traffic jam that lasted for hours. But just two days later — as crews staved off flames from reaching the communities of Christmas Valley and Meyers — a favorable shift in winds arrived before the fire could explode farther northeast, giving more than 4,500 firefighters the chance to clear new firebreaks with dozens of bulldozers, strike down dry trees, lay hoses near homes and drop 500-gallon buckets of water on hotspots. By Saturday, with 13 large wildfires burning across California, nearly a third of personnel,

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For Shepherd, the construction market is its target, an industry that it intends to carve into starting with excess liability coverage. The company’s co-founder and CEO, Justin Levine, told TechCrunch that contractors in the construction space have a number of insurance requirements, including general liability, commercial auto and so forth. But construction projects often also require more liability coverage, which is sold as excess or umbrella policies. Targeting the middle-market of the construction space — companies doing $25 million to $250 million in projects per year, in its view —

“Once these changes are complete, employers will have to train affected managers, supervisors and employees.” Some stakeholders have opposed the amendments. California’s Division of Industrial Relations Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA), for example, has expressed a fear that the proposed amendments will limit protections for workers. Cal/OSHA submitted comments with the federal agency contending that the amendments will reduce the amount and quality of chemical hazard information available to workers, asserting this is because it discounts chemical evaluations from the

W&M Agricultural Engineering relocates to new site in Oswestry An established firm of Shropshire agricultural engineers is relocating to a new site. Established in 2003 by John Mottram and Michael Worthing, W&M Agricultural Engineering has announced its relocation to a purpose-built site located just on the outskirts of Oswestry at unit 10 Old Port, Gobowen Road, half-a-mile from the main A5 Oswestry bypass. With an ever expanding franchises and customer base, this seemed a logical move, said John Mottram. "Service is key to our business and the move to the new location with modern, fully