These companies are revolutionizing how people get paid
The majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and getting paid every two weeks can lead to problems when unexpected bills show up. But help is…
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Apple finally redesigns MacBook Pro keyboard after years of criticism
Apple is finally introducing a replacement to its butterfly keyboard after years of customer complaints. The company announced on Wednesday a large,…
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Mars is launching a vegan ‘milk chocolate’ bar
Mars is set to launch a new line of vegan chocolate bars in the United Kingdom, becoming the first major confectionery company to offer a plant-based…
Continue Reading This company is using mushrooms to reduce plastic waste
Our plastic addiction is spiraling out of control, but one company thinks it has a solution from a material found in nature. Humans have produced…
Continue Reading More tax cuts and negative rates: Trump reveals 2020 economy push
In his mostly scripted speech to the Economic Club of New York, the president revealed both his impeachment counter-programming and his re-election…
Continue Reading How Wegmans and H-E-B survived Amazon’s onslaught
Traditional grocery stores in America are struggling. But some regional grocers are using local expertise to maintain their cult-like appeal. Grocers…
Continue Reading AI has a bias problem. Barring African experts from a conference in Canada won’t help
Some of the leading artificial intelligence experts from Africa and South America have been denied visas to attend a major industry conference in…
Continue Reading ACLU and Michigan workers file sexual harassment suit against McDonald’s
Days after Steve Easterbrook was fired as McDonald’s CEO for engaging in what the company called a consensual relationship with an employee,…
Continue Reading Tesla is walking into the lion’s den
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Continue Reading Hong Kong stocks sink as unrest continues to grip the city
Hong Kong stocks tumbled on Wednesday as the city endured a third consecutive day of violent unrest. The Hang Seng Index ended the day down 1.8%. So…
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Disney+ launches Tuesday in the United States, Canada and the Netherlands. The streaming service represents Disney’s first charge into the…
Continue Reading Carl Bernstein’s advice for viewers watching the Trump impeachment hearings
A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. The impeachment of…
Continue Reading Former HBO chief Richard Plepler in talks for production deal at Apple
Richard Plepler, the executive who helped make HBO the cable giant that it is today, is in talks with Apple for an exclusive production deal. Under…
Continue Reading Facebook bug accesses iPhone’s camera while user scrolls through News Feed
Facebook says a bug that inadvertently accesses a user’s iPhone camera while they’re scrolling through the News Feed will be fixed…
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Supreme Court allows Sandy Hook families to sue Remington
The Supreme Court won’t stop a lawsuit brought by Sandy Hook victims’ families against Remington Arms Co., the manufacturer of the…
Continue Reading Here’s what one of Apple’s first investors thinks went wrong at WeWork
This is not the year for unicorns. In 2019 alone, WeWork imploded before it even went public. Shares of Uber, Lyft, Slack and other ballyhooed…
Continue Reading JetBlue is rolling out cheaper fares. But there’s a catch
JetBlue Airways is following its rivals by rolling out a new basic economy fare. The tickets are cheaper, but they lack the perks that come with more…
Continue Reading Facebook Pay aims to make it easier to send money across all of its apps
Facebook is taking another step to tie its massive social media applications more closely together at a time when there are mounting calls for the…
Continue Reading Disney+ review: It’s a lot like Netflix, but with a few twists
I’ve been using Disney products my entire life. I go to Disney World nearly every year — a tradition that started when I was three years old.…
Continue Reading Apple Card is accused of gender bias. Here’s how that can happen
Some Apple Card customers say the credit card’s issuer, Goldman Sachs, is giving women far lower credit limits, even if they share assets and…
Continue Reading Google is collecting health data on millions of Americans
Google has confirmed it’s collecting health data on millions of Americans through a new partnership with Ascension, one of the country’s…
Continue Reading Hyatt is eliminating travel-sized plastic toiletries
Hyatt is the latest international hotel brand to ditch travel-sized toiletries from its rooms, following Holiday Inn-owner InterContinental Group and…
Continue Reading Carl Icahn warns it’s ‘extremely dangerous’ to own shares in Occidental Petroleum, the oil giant he owns a big stake in
Carl Icahn is no stranger to risk-taking. But even the legendary investor is uncomfortable with his exposure to Occidental Petroleum’s giant…
Continue Reading Puppies and Venmo: How the biggest store credit card company is surviving the retail apocalypse
Synchrony, the nation’s largest issuer of retail credit cards, is branching out from its retail roots into businesses that didn’t exist…
Continue Reading Richard Branson apologizes after tweeting photo full of white people to announce a South African project
Richard Branson apologized Tuesday morning after tweeting out a photo full of white people to announce the grand opening of his new Centre of…
Continue Reading McDonald’s workers strike in London to demand higher pay
McDonald’s workers have walked off the job in the United Kingdom to demand higher pay and better working conditions. The workers are asking the…
Continue Reading They left Facebook to make an app that will spice up your Instagram Stories
The lead developers behind social media tools like Instagram Stories and Boomerang left their jobs to build new features for the very tools they…
Continue Reading Disney+ launches, then crashes
Disney+ launched to much fanfare on Tuesday, and then immediately hit some bumps. Disney fans looking to enjoy all the content the company’s…
Continue Reading Urgency grows by the day for a trade deal with China. Will Trump speech today deliver?
President Donald Trump will address the Economic Club of New York later today and investors want to know one thing: When can a so-called phase-one…
Continue Reading America’s largest milk producer files for bankruptcy
Dean Foods, America’s largest milk producer, is filing for bankruptcy. The 94-year-old company has struggled in recent years because Americans…
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