Why Apple TV+ is offering a free weekend of binge-watching Posted February 1, 2025 Apple TV+ was hoping people would make a dent in the Strategic Popcorn Reserve by bingeing its streaming TV and movies for free in what experts are calling a canny
Senate report alleges Amazon rejected warehouse safety recommendations due to productivity concerns Posted January 26, 2025 At least two internal Amazon studies found a link between how quickly the online retailer’s warehouse workers perform tasks and workplace injuries, but the company rejected many s…
Butter becomes a luxury for some Europeans as price shoots up Posted January 23, 2025 Pastry chef Arnaud Delmontel rolls out dough for croissants and pain au chocolat that later emerge golden and fragrant from the oven in his Paris patisser…
A Mississippi company is sentenced for mislabeling cheap seafood as premium local fish Posted January 19, 2025 The largest seafood distributor on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and two of its managers have been sentenced on federal charges of mislabeling inexpensive imported seafood as local p…
Sale of UK’s Observer, world’s oldest Sunday newspaper and a bastion of liberal values, is agreed Posted January 12, 2025 The sale of The Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper and a bastion of liberal values in Britain’s media landscape, was approved despite two days…
Hong Kong will display 2,500 panda sculptures to capitalize on a local bear craze Posted January 9, 2025 Thousands of giant panda sculptures greeted residents and tourists in December 2024 in Hong Kong, where enthusiasm for the bears has grown since two cubs were born in a local them…
Is Enron back? If it’s a joke, some former employees aren’t laughing Posted January 6, 2025 An elaborate parody appears to be behind an effort to resurrect Enron, the Houston-based energy company that exemplified the worst in American co…
Nearly 30% of US drugstores closed in one decade, study shows Posted January 4, 2025 Nearly three out of 10 U.S. drugstores that were open during the previous decade had closed by 2021, new research shows. Some neighborhoods were most vulnerable to the …
Campbell’s shareholders approve the company’s new, soupless name Posted December 30, 2024 Campbell’s is ditching the soup—at least in name. And the change has now received the shareholders’ green light. Campbell Soup Co. announced its intention to c…
Cyber Monday shoppers were expected to set a record on the year’s biggest day for online shopping Posted December 27, 2024 Even though e-commerce is now part and parcel of many people’s regular routines and the holiday shopp…