FedEx's new #SupportSmall business grant program is accepting applications through June 12. Winners will receive $5,000 grants and $500 in print and business services.

Classes will be a combination of face-to-face and online; in some cases, double occupancy will be possible in dorms.

AutoZone chairman, president and chief executive Bill Rhodes said he's "quite bullish" on the Memphis-based auto-parts retailer's future, despite short-term headwinds from COVID-19.

Across the Memphis area, new and amended commercial real estate leases are reflecting the pandemic and what such a "force majeure" can do to a business's ability to pay rent.

The Memphis-based bank has processed more than 700 Paycheck Protection Program loans, totaling $90 million in loan volume.

The director of the Shelby County Health Department started her career with a two-year nursing degree. Now she has initiated a partnership with Southwest Tennessee Community College to provide paid Health Department residencies for associate-degree nurses.

Beef supply has been hampered by some processing plants closing temporarily or reducing capacity for coronavirus-related issues.

Tennessee College of Applied Technology will now add a 20,000-square-foot building to its Downtown campus, even while construction continues on its new Bartlett campus.

To date, the EDGE committee has awarded $179,000 to 32 businesses throughout the NEED grant program.

FedEx Logistics joins FedEx Office and FedEx Freight as entities of Memphis-based FedEx Corp. that have implemented temporary, unpaid furloughs because of business conditions arising from COVID-19.

The company's 937 employees in Memphis have worked from home during the pandemic, but a number reconvened Thursday to donate food and money for the Mid-South Food Bank.

Supply of the experimental drug is so limited, physicians must apply to a committee at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for approval to treat patients who meet specific criteria.

Graceland Holdings managing partner Joel Weinshanker said the tourist attraction has permanently laid off less than 20 people whose jobs couldn't be justified during lean times for tourism.

The battery-operated suction device is designed to replace the bulb or accordion-style pumps that have been the standard for 50 years.

Tennessee's unemployment rate in April was the highest on record, eclipsing a low-water mark that had stood since 1983.

Memphis International Airport passenger traffic fell 95% in April and appeared to start rebounding in May, while cargo activity strengthened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Judges noted The Daily Memphian "had the best user interface in the category and the most balanced design with graphics and text" in awarding first place for best website.

The venue also has become "home" to 901Wrestling, which hopes to resume live matches around mid-June when the Rec Room plans to reopen.

Tennessee reported 6,081 new jobless claims from the Memphis area, raising nine-week total to 86,080 in southwest Tennessee and likely pushing it to more than 103,000 in the metro area.

Training researchers in the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital style at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is one way the hospital is transplanting itself. 

Two manufacturers and an apartment builder received tax incentives from the EDGE Board.

The historic, renovated building housing the sophisticated designer-clothes and lifestyle store has been sold to real estate investors who plan to find another business tenant.

Memphis River Parks Partnership and its design team, led by Studio Gang and Scape, announced a new, improved concept for a $60 million overhaul of Tom Lee Park. 

Nordstrom Rack among the local businesses ready to reopen doors this week.

Kelsey Mankel, PhD student in Communication Sciences & Disorders (Neuroscience concentration) at the University of Memphis, was recently awarded an NIH F31 NRSA fellowship from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders for her project “Neural bases of successful auditory learning.”