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Movie Theaters Are Now Charging $50 for Tickets — Here’s Why They Sold Out in Minutes

Regal Cinemas charged $50 for opening-night tickets to Dune: Part Three, as part of a new strategy catering to premium buyers.

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Why Airlines Are ‘Bullish’ About Keeping Prices Sky High — Even If Fuel Prices Drop Down

United and American CEOs told investors they expect higher fares to stick because demand is still strong despite price hikes.

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They Borrowed $40,000 From Friends and Family to Open a Coffee Kiosk — Now Their Franchise Is Worth $1 Billion

Don and Linda Eckles started Scooter's Coffee in a tiny, renovated Chinese restaurant. Today, they have 912 franchises.

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This Airline CEO Was Banned From Casinos for Card Counting — Now He’s Making His Biggest Bet Yet

Scott Kirby went all-in on premium cabins, faster Wi-Fi, and brand loyalty — lifting United into direct competition with Delta.

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For the First Time, Microsoft Is Offering Voluntary Retirement to 7% of Its Workforce — Here’s Why

The tech giant is downsizing while ramping up AI investments as companies claim smaller teams can accomplish more with AI tools.

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This Shoe Company Hit $3.8 Billion in Sales —Here’s How It Plans to Avoid ‘Pitfalls’ That Battered Allbirds

The Swiss startup is at a critical juncture: How does it stay a brand for serious athletes while also going mainstream?

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Little Caesars Just Made ‘History’ With Drone Delivery — Now You Can Get 2 Pizzas and Drinks in 4.5 Minutes

The pizza chain partnered with Flytrex to fly full family meals through the air, with big plans to eventually reach 100 million people.

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Apple’s New CEO John Ternus Inherited One of the Toughest Jobs in Tech. Here Are His Biggest Challenges.

Ternus takes over in September facing App Store antitrust battles, AI competition, China risks and a $4 trillion legacy.

23.04.2026 8

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Bank of America’s CEO Told Employees ‘You Don’t Have to Worry’ About AI Replacing Jobs — Four Months Later, He Cut 1,000

Brian Moynihan told employees not to worry about AI. Then he credited the technology with eliminating jobs "through attrition."

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Starbucks Is Building a $100 Million Nashville Office. But Seattle Employees Don’t Want to Move There.

The coffee chain is pushing 2,000 jobs to Tennessee, but its first relocation effort is meeting resistance from Pacific Northwesterners.

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Jeni’s Ice Cream Just Scooped Up the CEO Who Was Fired From Ben & Jerry’s — He’ll Oversee Its Franchise Expansion

David Stever was pushed out of Ben & Jerry's over social activism tensions. Now he's leading rival Jeni's in its franchising efforts.

23.04.2026 10

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Chicken Salad Chick Just Had a Record Quarter With Nearly 50% Growth — This Is What’s Driving It

The franchise awarded 52 new restaurant locations in Q1 2026, up nearly 50% from the same period last year.

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Says Rumors of the ‘SaaSpocalypse’ Are Greatly Exaggerated

Wall Street thinks AI will decimate enterprise software. Benioff says AI is making Salesforce more valuable than ever.

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Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Landed Perfectly. Then Things Went Off Course: ‘The Altitude Is Too Low.’

Blue Origin successfully re-flew and landed a reusable rocket — but it placed a satellite in the wrong orbit.

21.04.2026 10

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Jersey Mike’s Is Going Public After Blackstone Bought It for $8 Billion. Here’s What’s Next.

The sandwich chain confidentially filed for an IPO less than two years after the private equity giant acquired it.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Just Announced He’s Stepping Down. Here’s Who’s Taking Over the Top Spot.

Cook will move into a new role as executive chairman in September after nearly 15 years running the company.

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Adidas Made an Ultralight Running Shoe Built to Break Records. When You Hand Someone the Box, ‘They Think It’s Empty’

Adidas is about to release a shoe that seemed impossible just a few years go: a chunky super shoe that weighs almost nothing. The Adizero Adios Pro...

20.04.2026 10

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Fraudsters Staged Fake Bear Attacks on Luxury Cars Wearing a Costume. They Bilked Insurers Out of $141K — Until a Wildlife Expert Watched the Videos.

Three brazen California residents dressed someone in a bear suit to scratch up cars with meat claws, then collected insurance payouts.

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This Career Coach Charges $50,000 to Help College Kids Land Jobs — And Business Is Exploding

Christopher Rim, founder of Command Education, offers industry-specific career coaching starting at $50,000 — some clients begin working with him...

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A Jury Said Ticketmaster Is a Monopoly That ‘Robbed Fans Blind’ — And Hit Them With a $280 Million Settlement

Live Nation and Ticketmaster were found guilty of operating as a monopoly after controlling virtually every aspect of live music.

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Amazon Just Made a Big Space Play. Should Elon Musk Be Nervous?

The tech giant is buying a little-known satellite company that could help turn phones into lifelines far beyond the reach of cell towers.

15.04.2026 10

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This App Hit No. 2 on the App Store — Then Apple Banned It

Freecash's rise to the top of the App Store was an impressive feat, until Apple labeled it a scam.

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Coffee Consumption Just Hit a 14-Year High — So Why Are Coffee Shops Struggling?

Americans are drinking more coffee than ever, but 85% are brewing at home instead of visiting coffee cafes.

15.04.2026 10

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Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Sit Down and Talk to All 79,000 Meta Employees. So He’s Building an AI Version of Himself.

The AI clone is being trained on his mannerisms, tone and public statements so workers can feel more connected to Meta's CEO.

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More Taxpayers Are Cheating. Here’s Why ‘The IRS Isn’t Going to Catch Me’ Is the New Strategy.

With a quarter of IRS auditors gone and enforcement at its lowest in 20 years, tax lawyers say they're seeing a shift in taxpayer behavior.

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In-N-Out’s Owner Says the Chain Will Never Offer Online Ordering. Here’s Why.

The burger chain's owner says preserving her grandparents' legacy means saying no to what competitors embrace.

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This Major US City Will Pay You $15,000 to Move There

The "Make Detroit Home" program offers cash incentives to entrepreneurs, creatives, and small business owners willing to relocate.

13.04.2026 10

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A New Restaurant Rule Is Spreading Across 11 States — And Customers Love It

Bars and restaurants are banning phones to bring back real conversation. The policy is surprisingly popular.

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This Apple Product Has a 10-Week Wait Time — And It’s Been Around Forever

The Mac mini is flying off shelves as AI enthusiasts snap up the $599 desktop to run autonomous agents like OpenClaw.

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Disney Is Planning to Lay Off 1,000 Employees Under Its New CEO. Who’s On the Chopping Block?

The entertainment giant will cut positions primarily in its newly consolidated marketing department as CEO Josh D'Amaro begins restructuring.

10.04.2026 10

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Anthropic Warns Its New AI Could Enable ‘Weapons We Can’t Even Envision.’ Skeptics Aren’t Buying It.

The company says Claude Mythos could exploit critical infrastructure like power grids. Critics say it's all a big marketing ploy.

10.04.2026 10

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Blue-Collar Careers Were Supposed to Be AI-Proof. So Why Is Hiring Down 40 Percent?

For years, career advisers pointed young workers toward the trades as an AI-proof path to middle-class wages. The labor market had other plans.

10.04.2026 10

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A Nutella Jar Went Viral on NASA’s Artemis II Mission — and the Company Didn’t Pay a Cent

It was one small step for man, but a giant leap for Nutella, as an unexpected appearance on Artemis II caused the internet to go crazy.

09.04.2026 10

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Apple Is Launching an ‘Ultra’ Line of Products With New Capabilities — and Much Higher Price Tags

The company is building a foldable iPhone, touchscreen MacBook and AI-powered AirPods, according to Bloomberg.

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Delta Will Spend $2 Billion Extra in Fuel Costs — But Still Expects a $1 Billion Profit. Here’s How.

The airline's strategy involves three key moves to offset the Iran war-driven fuel spike, and CEO Ed Bastian says it's already working.

09.04.2026 10

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The ‘Sneaky’ Ways Companies Are Making You Pay More — Without Raising Prices

As fuel prices spike and supply chain costs surge, businesses are finding creative ways to offset the pain — and not all of them are obvious to...

08.04.2026 10

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This $500,000 Corporate Retreat to Honduras Went Horribly Wrong. ‘We Had to Eat a Dead Tarantula’

Plex flew 120 employees to a tropical paradise for team building. What followed was a comedy of errors and the CEO hospitalized with E. coli.

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Intel Just Signed On to Elon Musk’s Massive AI Chip Project — Here’s What They’ll Be Building

The partnership aims to produce 1 terawatt per year of compute power across two massive chip factories in Texas.

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Sam Altman Says AI Will Soon Cause Widespread Job Loss. His Solution Is ‘Robot Taxes’ and Wealth Sharing.

His 13-page plan proposes a national fund seeded by AI companies that pays citizens directly, four-day workweeks at full pay and taxes on AI.

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The Upper Middle Class Used to Be an Exclusive Club. Now Its Membership Is Booming.

The upper middle class has tripled since 1979, and it's transforming what businesses sell and who they sell to.

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App Store Submissions Have Surged 84%. Now Apple Is Declaring War on Vibe Coding.

Tools that allow anyone to build apps without coding skills is straining Apple's review infrastructure.

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Elon Musk Has a Strange Requirement for Banks Working on SpaceX’s IPO

If banks want a piece of one of the largest IPOs in history, they have to buy subscriptions to Grok, his controversial AI chatbot.

06.04.2026 10

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Gen Z Is Bringing the Mall Back From the Dead. Here’s How ‘Mallmaxxing’ Is Reshaping Retail.

Online brands like Edikted and Princess Polly are opening brick-and-mortar stores, fueled by teens who film social media videos there.

06.04.2026 10

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People ‘Hate’ AI Customer Service Chatbots. Here’s Why Companies Keep Using Them Anyway.

Nearly one in five consumers who've used AI for customer service saw no benefit — a failure rate four times higher than AI use in general.

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Mt. Everest Climbers Thought They Were Being Rescued. They Were Actually Being Scammed for $20 Million.

Guides poisoned terrified tourists, engineered fake helicopter evacuations and fabricated medical records in an extensive fraud.

03.04.2026 10

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OpenAI Just Raised a Record-Breaking $122 Billion to Build an ‘AI Superapp.’ Here’s What That Means.

The AI company pulled in $122B, making its valuation $852 billion as it generates $2 billion in revenue per month.

02.04.2026 10

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There’s Something on the Moon That Earth Desperately Needs — And It Could Be Worth Trillions

NASA's Artemis missions are laying groundwork for lunar colonies to mine helium-3 that could power fusion reactors and quantum computers.

02.04.2026 10

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Job Seekers Are Getting Ghosted in Record Numbers. One Person Got a Rejection Letter 11 Months After Applying.

A new report shows 53% of candidates were ignored by companies in the past year, hitting a three-year high as AI tools overwhelm recruiters.

02.04.2026 8

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Elon Musk Just Filed for Space X IPO That Could Make Him the World’s First Trillionaire

The confidential filing tees up a June blockbuster that could make SpaceX one of the most valuable companies ever — and Musk a 13-zero hero.

01.04.2026 10

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Oracle’s Stock Has Plummeted 25%. Now It’s Cutting Thousands of Jobs.

The tech company is dealing with a plummeting stock price, and analysts say the mass layoffs could free up $10 billion in cash.

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