Business News A SpaceX Rocket Just Crashed Into the Moon. Nobody’s Actually Seen It Happen Yet. This wasn't the moonshot Elon Musk was hoping for. By Jonathan Small
Buying a Franchise McDonald’s Profit Beat Expectations. But Its CEO Is Still Unhappy With How Sales Grew: ‘We Simply Didn’t Execute’ By Jonathan Small
Business News You Could Get a $24,000 College Scholarship — Without Even Applying to Any Schools By Sherin Shibu
Business News This Live-Shopping App Made $1 Billion Last Year. Some Users Say It Works Like an Illegal Lottery: ‘I’m Totally Addicted to It’ By Jonathan Small
Business News Apple Is So Overwhelmed With AI-Generated Bug Reports That It’s Turning Away Security Threats. One Big One Almost Slipped Through the Cracks. Apple is so flooded with AI-generated bug reports that it capped how many researchers can submit. Some cybersecurity companies are concerned. By Jonathan Small
Business News Gen Z Says This Is the Main Reason They Don’t Date: ‘Feels So Unattainable’ Gen Z increasingly chooses to stay home instead of go on dates, and more than half say this is the reason why. By Sherin Shibu
Business News This New Field of Study Is Giving College Students an ‘Edge’ in the Job Market Colleges are adding degree programs in this emerging field. By Sherin Shibu
Business News Myspace’s Owners Say They’re Bringing It Back From the Dead. They’ve Already Lost $150 Million Trying. Brothers Chris and Tim Vanderhook, whose company bought Myspace in 2011, confirmed in a documentary that they plan to bring it back. By Jonathan Small
Business News SpaceX Stock Is Down Nearly 50% From Its High — Here’s Why It Could Get Worse Later This Week Hundreds of millions of SpaceX shares that have been off-limits since the IPO become tradable for the first time. That's not great news. By Jonathan Small
Business News This Netflix VP Confessed to Ketamine Therapy at a Company ‘Trust’ Retreat. He Was Fired a Few Months Later. Kevin Baillie is suing Netflix for wrongful termination, disability discrimination and lost severance. By Jonathan Small
Buying a Franchise Flo Rida Won $82 Million in a Contract Dispute. Now He’s Bringing His Name to a Juice Chain’s South Florida Expansion. The recording artist is becoming an equity partner in Beyond Juicery + Eatery, known for its juices, smoothies and health-conscious menu. By Jonathan Small
Business News ‘Everybody Wants That Money’: AI Companies Promise Blue-Collar Workers Salaries Up to $280,000 Tech giants like Google are pouring millions of dollars into trade apprenticeships and training programs. By Sherin Shibu
Building a Business He Created a Toy That ‘Took on a Life of Its Own’. Now He’s on Track to Sell 100 Million of Them. Toymaker Goliath turned the adult trend of mechanical keyboard customization into a kid-friendly, sensory collectible. By Sherin Shibu
Business News OpenAI Exec Says Job-Seekers Should Stop Following This Common But ‘Bad Advice’ OpenAI’s chief economist goes against conventional career advice. By Sherin Shibu
Business News This 24-Year-Old Hedge Fund Prodigy Was Called the ‘Nostradamus of AI’— He Didn’t See a 73% Drop Coming. Leopold Aschenbrennerm raised $100 million to launch the fund in 2024. This week he sold $20 billion in stock to survive. By Jonathan Small
Building a Business This Former Coinbase CTO Spent Millions Building a Utopia for Tech Founders. Then Malaysia Shut It Down. Balaji Srinivasan left Silicon Valley to create an alternative tech community. Residents complained of moldy rooms and not enough women. By Jonathan Small
Buying a Franchise Jersey Mike’s Went Public at a $7.3 Billion Valuation. It All Started With a 17-Year-Old and One Sub Shop. The sandwich chain's IPO was more than 10 times oversubscribed. By Jonathan Small
Buying a Franchise This Franchisee Owns 112 Restaurants and Gives Ownership Stakes to His Staff: ‘It Helps Them Know It’s a Team’ Wade Oney, President of Bam-Bamy Pizza, gives his managers, supervisors and executives a piece of the business. By Jonathan Small
Business News The Billionaire Behind Louis Vuitton and Dior Spent Millions Trying to Fix His ‘Ruthless’ Image. A Snarky Tweet Worked Better. Bernard Arnault, LVMH's chairman, has been called "the wolf in cashmere" for over a decade. Then he went viral for being funny. By Jonathan Small
Business News Meta’s Stock Just Took an Unexpexted Hit. Here’s Why Investors Are Spooked. The tech giant's free cash flow crashed from $8.55 billion to $784 million, and next year's AI bill could be even bigger. By Jonathan Small
Business News All 55 European Football Federations Voted to Boycott FIFA Over Its $20 Billion Investment Plan: ‘Football Belongs to the Fans, Not Billionaire Investors’ All 55 UEFA nations voted unanimously to boycott FIFA events if the $20 billion World Cup stake sale isn't scrapped entirely. By Jonathan Small
Building a Business How a Self-Published Vampire Romantasy Novel Took Over BookTok — and Made Its Author a No.1 Bestseller Romantasy author Carissa Broadbent on turning “bad” first drafts into a bestselling career and her new novel “The Lion & The Deathless Dark.” By Dan Bova
Business News Personal Bankruptcies Are Up Nearly 50% Over the Past Three Years, But Is That a Bad Thing? ‘People Don’t Understand How Good a Deal It Is’ More than half a million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy last year, and researchers say the stigma is fading. By Jonathan Small
Buying a Franchise How Cereal Milk Matcha and Pink Mermaid 7 Fizz Are Fueling 7 Brew’s Biggest Growth Yet: ‘The Industry Hasn’t Been Disrupted in a Long Time’ 7 Brew didn't exist in 2017. It's now closing in on 1,000 locations with customer volume one franchisee calls 'insane.' By Jonathan Small
Business News This Startup Wants to Build the Weirdest-Looking Passenger Jet Since the Concorde. The U.S. Government Just Invested $3 Billion In It. With four aisles and no windows, the airliner would be the first real challenger to Boeing's U.S. monopoly in decades. By Jonathan Small
Business News This Struggling Restaurant Chain Went Back to the Basics. Now Its Stock Is Up 500% in 4 Years: ‘Nothing Short of Remarkable’ Instead of focusing on AI, this chain is fixing its foundation. By Sherin Shibu
Business News This 83-Year-Old Entrepreneur Is Rejecting a $400 Million Payday: ‘I Don’t Need a 200-Foot Yacht’ The businessman said he's “really happy” in eastern North Carolina and didn’t need to spend winters in the Mediterranean. By Sherin Shibu
Business News The Best Cities For Entrepreneurs to Start a Business, According to This Banking Pro The top 20 metro areas were determined by several factors, including income and number of businesses created. By Dan Bova
Business News Mark Zuckerberg Says Concentrating AI Power in a Few Companies Is ‘Dangerous’ In a new Wall Street Journal op-ed, the Meta CEO argues that concentrating AI power in a few hands is dangerous. By Jonathan Small
Business News A Cincinnati Father Collapsed Alone at His House. His Apple Watch Saved His Life. The Apple Watch's fall detection feature dialed 911 for the unresponsive man. By Jonathan Small