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During the pandemic, the world learned the word for what you get when the lines between the real world and the internet blur: The metaverse. In...
Walmart is giving store managers an $11,000 reason to cheer in the new year.Read more...
“India has already seized the moment,” Hardeep Singh Puri, India’s minister of petroleum and natural Gas and minister of housing and urban...
British Airways (BA) is literally doubling down on serving Chinese travelers.Read more...
A federal judge blocked low-cost carrier JetBlue’s $3.8 billion takeover of ultra-low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines this week, putting the smaller...
Sheryl Sandberg will soon be leaving Meta’s board after 12 years.Read more...
Uber is pulling the plug on Drizly.Read more...
One of Substack’s most prominent writers is quitting the newsletter platform over its moderation decisions, citing that it is platforming and...
US officials have a good reason for asking citizens visiting Colombia to refrain from using dating apps in the South American country.Read more...
Hindi music is taking a bigger bite of the global music streaming pie with each passing year.Read more...
Several crypto apps are no longer appearing in Apple’s App Store in India, including the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance.Read more...
On Jan. 9, the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s X (formerly Twitter) account made a highly-anticipated announcement: That it had approved...
Most Harlan Coben novels-turned-TV-series shoot to the top of Netflix’s chart upon release, and the latest adaptation is no different. Read more...
3M will freeze its US pension plans for non-union US employees in five years.Read more...
Starbucks is starting to brew Indian stores faster and faster.Read more...
A growing diplomatic rift between India and its closest neighbor, the Maldives, could change how Indian beach-lovers travel in 2024.Read more...
India is rooting for an incumbent as Bangladesh goes to the polls on Monday (Jan. 7).Read more...
AMC Entertainments’s stock is in freefall, with no signs of bottoming out yet.Read more...
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Stanley’s limited edition Valentines Day-themed insulated cups have more than doubled their value on the resale market.Read more...
A Texas police department wondered out loud—in a post on X (formerly Twitter)—if it should swap out its old vehicles for Tesla’s Cybertruck this...
Fighter video game Tekken 8, set to release later this month from game publisher Bandai Namco, plans to offer several color vision options to increase...
When a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane collided with a coast guard aircraft and caught fire at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Jan. 2, five out of six people...
The very first version of Mickey Mouse, featured in Walt Disney Co.’s 1928 short film “Steamboat Willie,” entered the public domain for the...
Greta Gerwig delivered Hollywood’s biggest movie of 2023 with Barbie, which amassed almost $1.5 billion at the worldwide box office. The Mattel...
India’s chai tapri (tea kiosk) culture at bus stops, railway stations, and seemingly every other street corner has persisted for decades, even as...
Lei Jun, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, unveiled the company’s maiden electric car today (Dec. 28). Jun did...
Private equity has pumped more than $1 trillion into the US healthcare sector in the last decade, with over 8,000 deals completed. But it isn’t...
This holiday season, returns are up and so is the cost of making them. More than four in five merchants now charge customers a fee to ship back or...
Elon Musk said in June he was “looking forward” to bringing Starlink to India. And now it’s likely he will be able to do just that, thanks to a...
Meta’s oversight board does not agree with the company’s decision to take down two videos pertaining to the Israel-Hamas war—one of hostages...
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Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio just got a $2.2 billion funding boost from Abu Dhabi–based CYVN, even as its stock struggles to breach the $10...
The fallout from the Israel-Hamas war is reverberating in the Red Sea.Read more...
“Like every human has a unique fingerprint, every chemical or material has a unique spectral fingerprint,” Awais Ahmed says. But traditional...
Twitch has streamlined its sexual content policies to make them less confusing–especially for women on the platform. Read more...
Shein and Temu are in a battle to conquer the US fast-fashion world, and the war has—once again—reached the courts. Over the last year, the Asian...
BP’s ex-chief Bernard Looney is paying a hefty price for keeping things from the board.Read more...
Luck Combs said it “makes me sick” to learn that a woman from Florida who sold unofficial tumblers with his likeness was sued by his team.Read...
SpaceX’s star satellite business is skyrocketing everywhere, and so are the threats it brings.Read more...
Since 2021, Netflix has been sharing weekly top 10 and most popular lists, giving a window into the content being consumed on the streaming platform....
Amazon may be responsible, at least partly, for a man spying on an underage girl using a clothes hook hidden camera, a US judge ruled less than two...
Fortnite maker Epic Games’ antitrust trial win against Google has leveled up the fight to democratize app stores.Read more...
Spotify chief financial officer Paul Vogel is leaving his post on Mar. 31, 2024, the company announced yesterday (Dec. 7), saying he is no longer the...
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and US senator Elizabeth Warren have sparred over financial regulation for more than a decade. But in a rare occurrence...
Every time Apple has looked for an alternative to China for production, it has turned to India–this time, it’s for battery production. Read...
Breathe: Blackpink is not breaking up.Read more...
Streaming site Twitch has hit its Korean community with a whirlwind of bad news.Read more...
In the US, Tesla’s Model 3 still qualifies for the full $7,500 federal tax credit on electric vehicles—but not for long.Read more...
Harvard University’s Kennedy School stands accused of muzzling a researcher and then muddling the facts around her dismissal in a bid to appease...