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Employers have long understood the value of protecting the physical and financial well-being of their team. That’s how healthcare benefits and employment became linked in the first place.  But as premiums and deductibles have increased, the effectiveness of medical benefits alone to […]

Like a number of companies that went public during the pandemic, 23andMe has for months been trying to manage a terrible case of SPAC-itis, an inflammation that causes plunging stock values due to the business being, as one analyst put it, not “ready for prime time.” 23andMe, the […]

It’s a great day to be a Taylor Swift fan: The singer’s 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, drops at midnight, and you’d better believe Swifties are watching the clock. But on the other side of the pond, some unfortunate fans, who were burned when trying to buy […]

Hundreds of thousands of tech workers have been culled from payrolls over the past year or so, but several areas around the country remain hubs for tech workers. That includes such cities as Austin, Seattle, and New York City, according to a new report from venture firm SignalFire. To crunch the […]

The Tortured Poets Department saw a big membership boost Wednesday night as the much-anticipated new album by Taylor Swift allegedly leaked online. While Swift and her label have not commented on whether the files were legitimate, clips of that audio that were posted to X (formerly Twitter) have […]

An effort to force TikTok‘s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the social media app or face a ban in the U.S. was gaining steam in Congress on Thursday, with the House of Representatives setting a vote for Saturday and a key Senate Democrat voicing support for the move. The […]

Whether you’re hoping to explore ancient cities or lounge on the beach, summertime travel is about to be top-of-mind for just about everyone. And if you haven’t heard of Yvelines, it’s about to be on your radar. Expedia just released its summer travel outlook, which compares […]

In an email obtained by CNBC Wednesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk informed staffers that the severance packages sent to some of the 14,000 workers laid off this week were “incorrectly low.” Musk apologized for the mistake, stating that the problem is being “corrected […]

Google recently made headlines globally because its chatbot Gemini generated images of people of color instead of white people in historical settings that featured white people. Adobe Firefly’s image creation tool saw similar issues. This led some commentators to complain that AI had gone […]

Inboxes can be crowded, chaotic spaces, full of voices competing to get your attention. The best email marketing cuts through the noise to reach consumers in ways that feel personal. To celebrate the companies on the leading edge of email marketing, Intuit Mailchimp, in partnership with Fast […]

Booming sales of cold drinks at Starbucks have created a problem: growing amounts of plastic waste from the single-use cups that Frappuccinos, Refreshers, cold brews and other iced drinks are served in. The coffee giant said Thursday it plans to alleviate some of that waste with new disposable […]

Nashville-based independent music company Concord has agreed to buy Britain’s Hipgnosis Songs Fund for $1.4 billion, the companies said on Thursday, to gain rights to the catalogues of artists including Shakira and Neil Young. Hipgnosis, a music rights investment company founded by […]

Former star of The Office Rainn Wilson is starting a new small business, and he invited some old friends from the hit show to join in. “Dream With Rainn” is a luxury pillow with an embedded speaker that plays calming, snooze-inducing vocalizing from the man who gave us Dwight Schrute. […]

Maqroo, an Arabic word for “readable,” is also the name of the first-of-its-kind Arabic font for readers with dyslexia. “Arabic is a complicated writing system,” says Abdo Mohamed, founder of the type foundry Boharat and an art director at Leo Burnett Dubai, who led the […]

Mexico’s federal government, under pressure from the U.S., is keeping Chinese automakers at arm’s length by refusing to offer such incentives as low-cost public land or tax cuts for investment in EV production, three Mexican officials familiar with the matter said. The last meeting […]

In response to a surge in demand, Zepbound, the weight loss drug manufactured by Eli Lilly, is facing a shortage of certain doses in the United States, as highlighted in a recent warning issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). “For the near term, we are going to be in this […]

Texas farm groups warn of a disastrous season ahead for citrus and sugar as Mexican and U.S. officials try to resolve a dispute over a decades-old water treaty that supplies U.S. farmers with critical irrigation. The neighboring countries have tussled over the 1944 treaty before, but the current […]

The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to avoid the confusion early in the COVID-19 pandemic that some scientists have said cost lives. The Geneva-based U.N. health agency released a […]

A California lawmaker wants to require business owners and landlords to disclose their identities under legislation aimed at cracking down on opaque ownership structures that have enabled some companies to skirt state laws without facing consequences.Limited liability companies and similar […]

Today, another tech company is going public. This time it’s Ibotta Inc, a digital marketing platform that offers cash-back rewards when customers shop in a retail store or via that retailer’s app. Here’s what you need to know about Ibotta’s initial public offering (IPO): […]