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Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. Benediktas Gylys, a Lithuanian artist and entrepreneur, had an optimistic vision for a technology...
View ArticleTech stocks today: Salesforce and Dell decline, ending a rough week for many...
Several major tech stocks have seen their share prices decline this week, with Salesforce and Dell taking some of the largest hits of all. This comes despite the Nasdaq Composite hitting a record high...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg gets dropped from a lawsuit blaming Meta for child exploitation
A New Mexico judge on Thursday granted Mark Zuckerberg’s request to be dropped from a lawsuit that alleges his company has failed to protect young users on its social media platforms from sexual...
View ArticleAmazon drone deliveries can now operate ‘beyond visual line of sight’
Federal regulators have given Amazon key permission that will allow it to expand its drone delivery program, the company announced Thursday.In a blog post published on its website, Seattle-based...
View ArticleThe IRS makes its free e-file program permanent
The IRS said Thursday it will make permanent the free electronic tax return filing system that it experimented with this year and is asking all 50 states and the District of Columbia to help taxpayers...
View ArticleHere’s how Elon Musk’s ‘unfathomable’ pay trial stacks up against other...
Tesla shareholders will vote on CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package on June 13 that a Delaware judge voided in January, calling the sum “unfathomable” and because she found the billionaire...
View ArticleNY truckers are suing the MTA over congestion pricing
Add truckers to the list of opponents seeking to block New York’s first-in-the-nation congestion fee for driving into Manhattan.The Trucking Association of New York filed a federal lawsuit Thursday...
View ArticleWhy business leaders need a trauma-informed approach
Leading with passion and a trauma-informed approach is a necessity in a world where experiences are getting more intense. In recent years, the world has been anything but stable. We’ve faced a...
View ArticleTruth Social is full of far-right fury over Trump’s guilty verdict
Posts in support of Donald Trump flooded Truth Social after the former President was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal, with some far-right activists...
View ArticleLab-grown meat faces bans before it’s even in stores
Lab-grown meat is not currently available in any U.S. grocery stores or restaurants. If some lawmakers have their way, it never will be. Earlier this month, both Florida and Alabama banned the sale of...
View ArticleThe heartland is transforming autonomous technology
A new technological revolution is upon us, and the heartland is leading the way. Technologies such as autonomous systems like self-driving cars, drones, and robotics are transforming the way America...
View ArticleExos CEO Sarah Robb O’Hagan believes a four-day workweek will soon be the norm
As a slew of execs embrace the quest to stay as young and fit as possible, Equinox recently announced a $40k longevity training membership. The company’s former president, Sarah Robb O’Hagan, now CEO...
View ArticleMcDonald’s tried to calm people’s concerns about menu prices. It just created...
Not long ago, a crisp $5 bill would get you an entire meal at McDonald’s, any day of the week. It’s not a reality in 2024, but the brand doesn’t want to let go of its Value Meal maker label—despite...
View ArticleVermont becomes the first state to make oil companies pay for climate change...
Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage...
View ArticleSimple steps to make doing good part of who you are
Companies that foster a culture of employee passion and purpose can unlock a powerful competitive advantage. By empowering employees to pursue their passions inside and outside the organization,...
View ArticleMerrill Lynch settles class action racial discrimination lawsuit for $20 million
Merrill Lynch has agreed to pay nearly $20 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accuses the Wall Street brokerage giant of racially discriminating against its Black financial advisers. The...
View ArticleNvidia is almost bigger than Apple—the world’s second-most valuable company
Nvidia could soon surpass Apple to become the world’s second-most valuable company, as the biggest beneficiary of the surge in adoption of AI applications takes on the iPhone maker that has been the...
View ArticleTrump Media stock falls after Trump’s conviction, but a MAGA meme coin is...
Wall Street doesn’t seem too happy with the guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s hush money trial, but the crypto world doesn’t seem to have a problem with the former president becoming a felon. The MAGA...
View ArticleGoogle’s bad AI search results went viral. It’s since made improvements
Google said Friday it has made “more than a dozen technical improvements” to its artificial intelligence (AI) systems after its retooled search engine was found spitting out erroneous information. The...
View ArticleModerna secures a second FDA vaccine approval as Spikevax sales plummet
Moderna announced on Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for adults ages 60 and older. This will be the only RSV vaccine...
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