Why Tech Billionaires Love the Author of Jurassic ParkAnd why Michael Crichton wouldn’t have loved them back.
To Quit Their Jobs, Sugar Workers Risk Kidnapping, Assault and MurderWhen his daughter turned 12, Gighe Dutta decided this would be the year that he and his wife quit cutting sugar cane in the fields of western India.
Why the Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner Shows the Weird State of InflationThe price of Thanksgiving dinner is down from last year — but still higher than 2019, before the latest round of inflation hit consumers.
These Retailers May Raise Prices If Trump’s Tariffs Take EffectConsumers could lose billions of dollars in spending power, per a National Retail Federation study.
Comcast to Spin Off Cable Networks As Subscribers Flee the BundleComcast on Wednesday announced the spinoff of its cable networks, including CNBC, MSNBC and E!.
Why China Won’t Give Up on a Failing Economic ModelIn late September, after months of missing post-pandemic growth targets, the Chinese government began rolling out a broad set of economic stimulus measures.
What Trump's mass deportation plan would mean for immigrant workers and the economyPresident-Elect Donald J. Trump won the White House based partly on his promises to rein in immigration, with targeted policies that range from sending criminals to their home countries to more sweeping ones like mass deportations.
The ‘Move Fast and Break Things’ AdministrationAs promised, Donald Trump has given Elon Musk a job in (or at least adjacent to) his second administration, in a brand-new extragovernmental organization named for a meme turned cryptocurrency: the Department of Government Efficiency, a.k.a. DOGE.
Inside Disney’s Race to Replace Bob IgerWith James Gorman’s elevation to chairman and desperate to avoid another Chapek debacle, the company is pursuing new ways to find its next chief. THR games out six succession scenarios. The Walt Disney Co. is betting that James Gorman can pull off a succession two-fer.
How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Explosive GrowthIn February 2023, a half-dozen techies introduced a social network prototype in an invitation-only launch. They deliberately debuted their creation, Bluesky, with little fanfare so that they could closely manage its growth. But lately, it has been anything but slow and steady.
The Crypto Betting Platform Predicting a Trump WinThe Web site Polymarket is something like a stock exchange for current events.
The rise of the product managerElle took a job in the tech industry about seven years ago, right when product management was "getting hot," she says. While the companies she's since worked for have had vastly different expectations of her, one thing has been consistent: clashes with other teams.
The Trump-Whim Economy Is HereExpectations of who will gain, and who will lose, from the president-elect’s second term are already moving markets.
Our democracy needs a different model for journalismThe plight of the news business has gotten steadily worse over the past decade. Cable TV networks are shedding audience share at an alarming rate. Increasingly, they seemed to have forgotten who their audience even is.