#corporate-relocation

#corporate-relocation

Last week, news broke that Meta is buying Chinese AI startup Manus for around $2 billion. The company is known for its AI agent that can handle everything from job interviews to stock analysis. Meta plans to integrate Manus' AI agent into its own products. Now, the Financial Times reports that China's Ministry of Commerce has decided to review the purchase to determine whether the deal violates the country's export control rules for technology.

For years, In-N-Out maintained that its slow-growth approach was a direct result of its operational chain, saying that the company would only open in locations that could be reached from one of its distribution warehouses in less than a day's drive. For decades, that meant California only - until Texas came a-calling in 2011. Since then, the brand has steadily grown its footprint across the Western U.S., using North Texas as a new hub for distribution of its famously never-frozen, butchered-in-house beef.

Drive-thrus will open in Lebanon and Antioch on Wednesday, Dec. 10 and Murfreesboro on Friday, Dec. 12, according to a news release. News agencies in Tennessee are not yet reporting what kinds of crowds are expected, but In-N-Out's debut in the Southeast has been eagerly anticipated. The expansion will bring the total number of In-N-Out restaurants to 431 and officially put the chain in 10 states: California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Tennessee.

SynQor, which makes power converters for the military, industrial, avionics, rail transportation, medical, and telecom markets, told state officials they expect the move will occur between Feb. 1 and April 1, 2026. All positions and jobs at the company's Boxborough headquarters will be transferred to the new facility in Salem, New Hampshire, during the same timeframe, SynQor general counsel John Cancellara wrote in a Nov. 21 letter to the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

"We frankly didn't want to be in a place where rules could be subverted by an activist judge," she said.

"There are people who are committed to their communities and their families and aren't interested in a move. . . . And then there are people who are very excited to be a part of this."

We don't want to see them go. Our city is nostalgic for them.