Mark Zuckerberg may see the world through AI-powered Ray-Bans, but Wall Street just sees it through his company’s ad dollars. And while he’s trying to look beyond the feed to a future with talking glasses and immersive virtual worlds, investors are hoping he’ll stick with what his company does best. The Meta CEO continues to deliver
Apple delivered solid second-quarter earnings — but you wouldn’t exactly know it from the mood on Wall Street. Despite Apple beating expectations for the fifth straight quarter, investors were less focused on what the company just reported and more on what lies ahead: a turbulent macroeconomic horizon, slowing margins, and a looming $900 million tariff hit. The elephant
Loss prevention experts say the best solution for retail crime would be to have a police officer stationed at every shelf in every convenience store in every city in every state. The next-best solution? Well, that’s a bit more complicated. Shoplifting is up around the country—some of the biggest stores and companies are citing retail
I joined Jeff Lenard, NACS’ vice president of strategic industry initiatives, on the “Convenience Matters” podcast to talk about name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals in the convenience industry — based on my October 2023 cover story on the same topic.
It’s hard to escape the headlines about the Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) deals in college sports. “LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne makes $500,000 in NIL money for one Instagram post.” “Bronny James has record-breaking NIL deals, is worth $7.2 million.” “Arch Manning has highest NIL valuation in college football.” The names are recognizable—and the dollar
Our lives have a soundtrack. Sometimes, the soundtrack is by choice—the playlist we put on during our commute, the vinyl record we play while cooking dinner, the podcast we listen to while getting our 10,000 steps. Sometimes, it’s by happenstance—the alarm clock blaring, the rooster crowing, the neighbor’s dog barking, the tea kettle whistling. And
When you hit your 100-book reading goal for the year in September, the rest of the year feels a bit like a free-for-all. I am chaos, destroyer of TBR piles everywhere! So December was basically me reading a few books here and there in between time spent decorating a Christmas tree (that then took a
At the start of every month, I make a list of books of I want to try to read in that particular 30-ish days. There were 19 books on my list for November. I read one of them. Oops! That book, “Legends & Lattes,” was one of my favorites this month, but it was a
Well, I finally broke out of my reading slump — and I did so in a rather big way. As in: I read 18 books this month. Yeah, I’m not quite sure how I did that, either. Helps that I basically have no life, I guess! I tried to mostly pick ~spooky~ books for the
Reading slumps are the worst. August was a weak month for me (“weak” being relative, of course), and I had high hopes for September. I thought “My Cousin Rachel” would put me in a sufficiently fall mood (Another Daphne du Maurier book, “Rebecca,” is one of my favorite classic novels), but it took me ages
I only read 10 books this month — lol at “only” — because I found myself overwhelmed with all the options at my fingertips. I just didn’t know what book I wanted to read. And so, for about the first two weeks of the month, I essentially read nothing. But one night I realized I’d
Two things happened this month that simultaneously increased and decreased my reading productivity. On one hand, I was asked to dogsit, which meant I had access to an absolutely perfect little porch where I could sit with my tea — both at morning and at night — and fly through pages as I was enveloped
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