Buying a Franchise This Family-Owned Iced Tea Chain Generated $147 Million in Sales By Obsessing Over Its Water While rivals fight over espresso and energy drinks, HTeaO built its whole brand around iced tea and purified water.
Business News Ernst & Young Is Paying Employees $100 Million in Bonuses Just for Being Human In a refreshing twist, the professional-services giant wants employees who can do the things AI still can't do.
Business News This Silicon Valley Billionaire Requested a Root Canal Without Novocaine — Here’s the Wild Reason Why Doug Leone has spent decades chasing fear on purpose. He wasn't going to let a little shot make him late for a meeting.
Buying a Franchise Pizza Hut Just Went Private in a $2.7 Billion Sale — Here’s the Turnaround Plan After 30 years under Yum Brands, Pizza Hut has a new owner, and a plan built on nostalgia instead of another remodel.
Business News This NFL Star Walked Away From Millions to Run a Sweet Potato Farm: ‘The Toughest Decision I’ve Ever Had to Make’ Jason Brown was the highest-paid center in the NFL. But his brother's death in Iraq changed everything he wanted out of life.
Buying a Franchise Taco Bell Abandoned This Market 14 Years Ago — Here’s Why It’s Going Back Now Taco Bell walked away from the UAE without explanation in 2012. Now it's betting the market is ready for some Cheesy Gorditas.
Business News While Fans Mourn Messi’s Retirement, He’s Quietly Running a Venture Capital Fund The soccer legend is stepping from one pitch onto another, with a Silicon Valley-style portfolio waiting for him.
Buying a Franchise Pumpkin Spice Fatigue Is Real — These Flavors Are Stealing the Spotlight This Fall Pecan orders are up 28% year over year, and chains from Dunkin' to Dairy Queen are catering to Pumpkin Spice burnout.
Business News Hiring Managers Are Going to Extremes to Weed Out Fake AI Applicants: ‘Wave Your Hand in Front of Your Face’ From waving at your webcam to proving your IP address matches your resume, job interviewers are running a whole new kind of background check.
Buying a Franchise McDonald’s and Taco Bell Are Fighting Over Your 3 P.M. Pick-Me-Up — Here’s Who’s Winning Both chains launched new energy drinks just days apart. The real fight is over who can stand out in a category getting crowded fast.
Business News How This $45 Million Golf Startup Lost a Major Sponsor Over a 15-Second Viral Clip: ‘It Was a Huge Mistake’ Good Good spent years building a family-friendly brand. One commercial undid a chunk of goodwill in a matter of days.
Business News Snoop Dogg Will Pay You $10,000 a Month to Eat Ice Cream. Here’s How to Apply. The rapper's ice cream brand, Dr. Bombay, is going global, and he wants your tastebuds on the team.
Business News Uber Just Green Lit Live Video for Teen Rides. Parents Can Watch, But Uber Can’t. The new feature lets parents check in on their teen's ride in real time. Uber says the footage is encrypted and deleted after two weeks.
Business News One Franchisee Said He’d ‘Die With His Locations’ — Here’s Why Yogurtland Operators Refuse to Cash Out The frozen yogurt chain's stores pull in close to $1 million a year each, and its franchise owners keep renewing.
Business News This Company Was Hacked by Rogue OpenAI Agents. Now Nvidia Wants to Buy It for $12.9 Billion. Hugging Face is the open-source AI platform whose security got breached by an OpenAI model earlier this summer.
Business News This Festival Gathers 1,000 Founders and Dealmakers to Connect, Pitch and Get Discovered — Getting In Isn’t Easy Founderland is an invite-only event for entrepreneurs, operators and investors to connect and make on-the-spot deals.
Buying a Franchise Wendy’s New CEO Has a Five-Point Plan to Get Back in the Burger Chain Fight — Here’s What’s in It Bob Wright says Wendy's chased cost savings over quality, and lost its No. 2 spot to Burger King. Now he's rolling out a five-point fix.
Business News OpenAI Shocked the World When Its AI Agents Hacked Another Company. Now, It’s Explaining How It Happened: ‘Pandora’s Box Is Open’ A 37-page report walks through exactly how OpenAI's own models broke out of a testing environment and breached Hugging Face last month.
Business News How Meta’s $17.1 Billion Settlement Will Change Social Media The company decided to settle rather than go to trial against four states who claim the platform endangers children.
Buying a Franchise Papa Johns Sales Are Down in the U.S. — But It Just Found a New Growth Partner on the Other Side of the Border KM Capital is taking over 44 Papa Johns locations in Mexico, with plans to grow from there.
Business News Amazon’s New Robotaxi Looks Like a Toaster and Has No Steering Wheel. Riders Say It Feels ‘Like Science Fiction.’ Zoox just started charging for rides in San Francisco and Las Vegas. Riders face each other in a box-like carriage.
Buying a Franchise ‘The Script Is Flipped’: This Chain Is Shrinking Its Restaurants to Grow Faster Founder Brandon Landry spent two decades proving Walk-On's needed big restaurants. Now he's betting the opposite is true.
Business News Watch: Houston Police Officers Jump Into an Uber Driver’s Car to Chase Down a Suspect Uber driver Anthony Baines was just looking for his next fare. Instead, he got two Houston police officers, chasing down a perp.
Business News The Owner of the 49ers Was Arrested in Ohio For ‘Possessing Criminal Tools’ — Here’s What We Know Jed York was booked in Ohio on disorderly conduct and possessing criminal tools charges. The NFL says it will review the matter.
Business News Universal Thought They Built the World’s Quietest Roller Coaster — But Neighbors Say It’s a ‘Bloodcurdling Scream’ Machine Universal Studios spent three years engineering Hollywood Drift to be nearly silent for its neighbors. Then people started riding on it.
Business News Apple’s Vision Pro Was Supposed to ‘Revolutionize’ Work. Now the Company Is Cutting the Team Behind It. The company is cutting jobs to turn its focus on other new devices and AI.
Buying a Franchise Pizza Hut Is Dropping ‘Pizza’ From Its Name for 25 Weeks — Here’s the Reason Why The chain will go by "Hut" through the NFL season. Meanwhile, Yum! Brands is finalizing a deal to sell Pizza Hut to two different buyers.
Buying a Franchise A&W Is Redesigning Its Restaurants for the First Time in Years — Here’s How It’s Trying to Avoid What Happened to Cracker Barrel The new "modern heritage" prototype goes retro, leaning into A&W's roadside root beer stand roots.
Business News This Founder Started Selling Muffin Mix From Her NYC Apartment. Her Company Just Sold for $850 Million. Elizabeth Stein sold Purely Elizabeth to Ferrero, the company behind Nutella. Unlike most exits, she's staying on as CEO.
Business News Apple’s New AirPods Will Have Cameras. Why Is the Internet Calling Them ‘Pervertpods’? The earbuds with AI-powered cameras are scheduled for release in 2027. Some on social media say the cameras will record people unknowingly.