Buying a Franchise
McDonald’s to Donate Meals to the Homeless in Vatican City
It seems that the controversial McDonald's location is trying to get on its new neighbor's good side.
By Nina Zipkin
Controversies | Page 3
Business Branding
JetBlue Defends Decision to Ask Passenger to Replace Booty Shorts Before Boarding Flight. Will the Incident Affect Its Brand?
The airline stands by its old-fashioned stance on attire, but experts say it doesn't have to. Here's why.
Business News
Facebook Changes Policies on ‘Trending Topics’ After Criticism
The world's largest social network said in a blogpost that it was introducing several changes, including elimination of a top-10 list of approved websites, more training and clearer guidelines to help human editors avoid ideological or political bias.
By Reuters
Business Branding
Seeing a Brand ‘Probortunity,’ Tinder Awards Scholarship to Sorority Girl Penalized for Using the Viral Dating App
'When we found out what Shannon was going through, we wanted to help and turn the experience into a positive one,' co-founder and CEO Sean Rad tells Entrepreneur.
Human Resources
Snapchat Exercises Poor Judgment With 4/20 Bob Marley Blackface Filter
After sparking outrage with a truly stupid feature on National Weed Day, the media-sharing service hasn't gotten around to snapping an apology.
Business News
Target to Allow Transgender People to Use Bathroom of Their Choice
The retailer says that it stands for inclusivity and equality.
By Phil Wahba
Business News
Apple iPhone Unlocking Maneuver Likely to Remain Secret
The company that helped the FBI unlock a San Bernadino shooter's phone legally owns the method used to gain access.
By Reuters
Business News
Should Amazon Succumb to Pressure to ‘Dump Trump’ Products?
Women's rights group UltraViolet has organized a petition with 13,000 signatures asking Amazon to remove the controversial figure's menswear line from its offerings.
Building a Business
Gap Apologizes for ‘Racist’ Ad
In the image, an African-American girl is posing next to a taller Caucasian girl that is propping her arm on the younger girl's head.
By John Kell
Building a Business
Air France Offers Compromise After Flight Attendants’ Outrage at Headscarf Rule
Those who aren't comfortable wearing a headscarf in Tehran can fly to other locations, the company said.
Tech
Sean Penn, Hot Off El Chapo Interview, to Talk Cybersecurity at San Francisco Conference
The controversial actor will have a one-on-one interview with RSA President Amit Yoran.
By Nina Zipkin
Building a Business
Apparel Maker Lands’ End Puts Itself in Tough Spot After Removing Gloria Steinem Interview
A profile of Steinem in the spring catalog led to vocal protests from customers who disagree with the feminist icon, but now more people are angry after the company's apology.
By Nina Zipkin
Business News
Elon Musk Personally Cancels ‘Super Rude’ Customer’s Tesla Model X Order
Don't cross the Bel Air billionaire. He has the power to ban you.
Building a Business
Fans React Angrily After Popular YouTubers File to Trademark ‘React’
The Fine Brothers claim the filing was about protecting their brand, but the pair have since announced that they will withdraw the application.
By Nina Zipkin
Business News
Mark Cuban Slams Y Combinator Co-Founder for Dissing Shark Tank in Ugly Twitter Feud
Don't swim with sharks, not if you can't bite back.
Building a Business
This ‘Smart Wallet’ Found Success on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. So Why Didn’t It Deliver?
Crowdfunding is all about the numbers, but the humans behind the risky campaigns are often hard to calculate.
Marketing
With Orgying Models and Public Breastfeeding, Are Equinox’s Latest Ads a Desperate Ploy or Pure Genius?
The campaign, shot by fashion photographer Steven Klein, features the tagline, 'Commit to something.'
By Geoff Weiss
Building a Business
Stingy Company Ordered to Pay $1.75 Million to Workers It Forced to Choose Between Pay and Bathroom Breaks
'No worker should have to face the choice: Do I take a bathroom break, or do I get paid?'
Business News
Chipotle Cooks Up New, Stricter Food Safety Rules Amid E. Coli Fiasco
A dash of DNA testing here and a sprinkle of scalded onions there, and Chipotle just might save face yet.
Business News
Video Containing Allegations Dan Price Abused His Ex-Wife Won’t Publish and Has Been Deleted
The University of Kentucky, which hosted the TEDx talk in question last October, says it made its decision after being contacted by Price's representatives.
By Geoff Weiss
Entrepreneurs
The Seriously Unsexy Origins of the Graham Cracker
The dry, plain crackers were invented to cool certain urges. You know the ones.
Building a Business
The 5 Worst Marketing Fails of 2015
From sickeningly sexist ads to a QR code that accidentally directs to a porn site, here are the gnarliest marketing sins of the year.
Business News
Dan Price Says Reports He Abused His Ex-Wife Are False
Kristie Colón reportedly recorded a TEDx talk where she accounts physical and mental abuse at the hands of the Gravity Payments CEO, according to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek.
By Geoff Weiss
Thought Leaders
Tinder CEO Sean Rad Makes Veiled Threat to Vanity Fair Reporter Ahead of IPO
The off-color comments come just days before the Match Group, Tinder's parent company, plans to raise a reported $466 million in its IPO.
By Geoff Weiss
Marketing
3 Lessons from Starbucks’ Red Cup ‘Controversy’
The coffee giant new annual holiday design lit up the Internet -- for the wrong reasons.
By Peter Gasca
Business News
Safeway Seeks to Dissolve Secret $350 Million Deal With Beleaguered Blood Startup Theranos
The partnership, code-named project 'T-Rex,' called for Theranos blood test facilities to be built in 800 Safeway stores nationwide.
By Geoff Weiss
Online Presence
‘Yelp For People’ Co-Founder: Your Hate Only Fuels My Resolve to Launch Peeple
Our exclusive Q&A with Julia Cordray, the brassy CEO behind the Internet's most hated app.