Daily Briefing, May 7
Count Jamba Juice as another company abandoning California because of the high cost of doing business.
The smoothie cafe chain said in a regulatory filing that it will move its headquarters and support center from Emeryville to the Dallas suburb of Frisco, Texas.
About 120 employees will be affected by the move, which the company said was prompted in part by an expected rent increase when its lease expires at the end of the year.
The publisher has partnered with Chef’d, a meal kit delivery company, to ship boxes of uncooked food based on recipes from the New York Times Cooking site and app.
Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, having become a true believer in autonomous vehicles now that the automaker has signed an agreement with Google to add self-driving technology to 100 Chrysler Pacifica minivans that Google will use in its test program.