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Last summer, the smash hit of Amazon Prime Day wasn’t a tablet, a flat-screen, or fancy VR goggles… It was the Instant Pot, a multi-function electric pressure cooker, which also doubles as a rice cooker, crockpot, saute pan, steamer, yogurt maker, and stockpot. Dang. During the 24-hour online sale, the Instant Pot sold more than […]

CNN is shifting gears to reach to ‘cord-nevers’ with long-form original productions that are free to anyone, whether or not they have a cable subscription.

The company now faces criticism for its controversial employee ranking system.

Companies pay money for people posing as genuine users to promote their work or shift public opinion. Huh, ya think you know a site...

And no, we’re not talking about a movie.

The company is offering parents cash-free control.

See, Leafage is just one of the “ghost restaurants” created by the company Green Summit, each with its own unique menu and branding, all operating out of the same kitchen in New York.

Not your typical economy for a country of 600k people.

The wealth creation and compensation is gone. So is the mystique.

And it can create a bit of a sticky situation for directors.

Thanks to some legal jargon, if your app is on the App Store, it’s pretty much theirs.

Zuckerberg gets back to his roots and creates AI from scratch to run his home.

Whether he knows it or not, Ramdev’s company Patanjali is following the Virgin’s “challenger” brand philosophy to disrupt India's consumer market.

But so does Uber… Awkward.

When Patrick Doyle came on board as CEO of Domino’s Pizza in 2010 he vowed to transform the struggling pizza company into a “Technology-Enabled, Nimble, Category Disrupting Machine.” We’re not sure what that means either, but the company Doyle has re-built in the past 6 years is probably pretty close to that vision. It all […]

Donald Trump just appointed two long-time opponents to the FCC’s rules.

When Arizona Iced Tea came onto the scene in 1992, the family-owned company quickly toppled industry leader, Snapple, thanks to a simple formula: never raise prices. In fact, Arizona is so committed to its 99 cent price tag that “99¢” is still printed in bold on every can to keep retailers from charging more (though […]

Tristan Harris is trying to change the way companies design their addicting software and notifications

Stripe is a six-year-old tech company on a mission to make digital payments as simple as possible for all businesses. And yesterday, they made some serious headway with the launch of Instant Payouts — a service that allows marketplaces currently using Stripe’s payments API to pay contract workers “within minutes.” This isn’t new, it’s just […]

Getting rid of the pretzels is the first place to start.

And at least one online school is trying to get more of those people out into the workforce.

Not many companies have this luxury.

A recent shift in the types of leases WeWork is looking for shows the company is trying out new options.

According to a recent lawsuit filed by a former SKULLY employee, the whole thing was a sham, and the Weller brothers used corporate accounts as their “personal piggy banks.”

The ability to incorporate advertising into our future conversations makes them worth it.