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Amazon Pharmacy to expand same-day delivery to nearly 4,500 US cities — TechCrunch

Amazon Pharmacy to expand same-day delivery to nearly 4,500 US cities

Amazon Pharmacy plans to offer same-day prescription delivery to almost 4,500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of this year, adding nearly 2,000 new communities and expanding into states such as Idaho and Massachusetts. The online pharmacy launched in 2020, two years after Amazon’s $753

How Did Pat McGrath Cosmetics Go From Billion-Dollar Brand to Bankruptcy?

Taylor Swift’s bright red lip during the Eras Tour sparked online speculation that she was wearing Pat McGrath Labs LiquiLust in Elson 4. The chatter intensified after Pat McGrath appeared in Swift’s “Bejeweled” video, and yet the lipstick was out of stock for much of the nearly two-year

Ford Says Electric Vehicle Losses Will Continue for 3 More Years — NYT > Technology

Ford Says Electric Vehicle Losses Will Continue for 3 More Years

Ford Motor reported a big loss for 2025 tied to its electric vehicle division, which it has significantly scaled back. Including the 2025 loss, the EV business has lost more than $16 billion since 2022. The company said the EV unit lost $4.8 billion in 2025 and is expected

What Executives Are Saying About the ‘K-Shaped’ Economy — NYT > Business > Economy

What Executives Are Saying About the ‘K-Shaped’ Economy

The U.S. economy is growing, but not evenly. What began as an uneven rebound from the Covid pandemic has hardened into a “K-shaped” pattern, in which higher-income households pull ahead while lower-income households fall further behind. High interest rates, rising costs and the rapid growth of artificial intelligence could

U.S. hiring starts the year at a strong pace — NYT > Business

U.S. hiring starts the year at a strong pace

The U.S. economy opened 2026 with stronger hiring: employers added 130,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent. The Labor Department released the report on Wednesday after a short government shutdown delayed its publication, and annual benchmark revisions sharply lowered 2025’s job

How the Ultra-Rich Travel — NYT > Travel

How the Ultra-Rich Travel

Today’s super-rich travelers want luxury, personalized attention and experiences that aren’t cookie-cutter. They demand private villas with butlers, hotels with impeccable service and, above all, never having to wait or be shephered with other people. Carlo Nocella said they want “to feel that they have something that other

Trump Wants to Revive Shipping. Investors Are Slow to Back Him. — NYT > Business

Trump Wants to Revive Shipping. Investors Are Slow to Back Him.

President Trump welcomed Rodolphe Saadé’s announcement that CMA CGM would invest $20 billion in the United States, but a year into his second term only a fraction of those funds has arrived. CMA CGM, a family-owned company based in Marseille and the world’s third-largest shipping line, said it

Fed Policy in Focus With 70,000 Nonfarm Payrolls Increase Expected — Beincrypto

Fed Policy in Focus With 70,000 Nonfarm Payrolls Increase Expected

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the delayed January Nonfarm Payrolls on Wednesday at 13:30 GMT. Economists expect payrolls to rise by 70K, the Unemployment Rate to remain at 4.4%, and Average Hourly Earnings to slow to 3.6% year-on-year from 3.8%. The release was

Governments are hoarding commodities beyond gold — fueling price swings — Businessinsider

Governments are hoarding commodities beyond gold — fueling price swings

Gold's rally is part of a broader shift in how governments and investors treat commodities, Goldman Sachs says. Central-bank buying has helped drive gold's surge as governments seek to hedge geopolitical and financial risks, and similar "insurance"-style strategies are now appearing across other

Britney Spears Sells Her Song Catalog — NYT > Arts

Britney Spears Sells Her Song Catalog

Britney Spears has sold her music catalog. The rights were acquired by Primary Wave, a New York-based music and marketing company that specializes in catalog deals, a person familiar with the matter said. Spokespersons for Spears and Primary Wave declined to comment, and TMZ reported the news earlier. Details of

Britney Spears sells her iconic music catalog in 'landmark' 9-figure deal — Pagesix

Britney Spears sells her iconic music catalog in 'landmark' 9-figure deal

Britney Spears has sold the rights to her music catalog, releasing her shares to Primary Wave, a private New York City music publisher, on Dec. 30, documents show. The transaction has been described as a "landmark" nine-figure deal. The sale was estimated to be around $200 million, and

Lyft stock falls 16% after disappointing Q4 earnings — Businessinsider

Lyft stock falls 16% after disappointing Q4 earnings

Lyft's stock fell 16% in after-hours trading after the company missed expectations with its fourth-quarter results and a weak 2026 outlook. Revenue rose 3% to $1.59 billion, below the $1.76 billion analysts expected, and the company forecast first-quarter adjusted EBITDA of $120 million to $140 million.

Uncle Nearest Faces Deep Debt as Founder Seeks to End Receivership — NYT > Business

Uncle Nearest Faces Deep Debt as Founder Seeks to End Receivership

In August a federal judge in Tennessee placed Uncle Nearest into receivership after the company defaulted on $108 million in loans. The receiver, Philip Young, wrote in a recent court filing that many records before 2024 were deleted, the company owed an additional $50 million to vendors and other creditors,

Presidents' Day sales: Everything you need to know — Latest news

Presidents' Day sales: Everything you need to know

Presidents' Day falls on Feb. 16 this year and the long weekend runs Feb. 14-16, closely following Valentine's Day. The holiday has become one of the first major sales events of the year, with retailers offering discounts across tech, home goods and larger items like mattresses and

NLRB Dismisses Case Over Firing of SpaceX Employees — NYT > Business

NLRB Dismisses Case Over Firing of SpaceX Employees

The National Labor Relations Board has dismissed a case accusing SpaceX of illegally firing eight employees who criticized the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, saying the agency lacked jurisdiction and deferring to the National Mediation Board. The dispute traces to 2022, when employees circulated a letter asking SpaceX to

Viral forecast argues gold could rise to $12,595 an ounce — Businessinsider

Viral forecast argues gold could rise to $12,595 an ounce

A forecast by Dan Oliver, founder of Myrmikan Capital, has gone viral online by arguing that central-bank demand could justify gold trading as high as $12,595 an ounce. Gold was trading around $5,060 per ounce on Tuesday, up 72% over the past 12 months. Oliver frames gold as

JPMorgan: software sell-off presents a buying opportunity — Businessinsider

JPMorgan: software sell-off presents a buying opportunity

JPMorgan says the dramatic plunge in software stocks last week is a buying opportunity. The sell-off began after Anthropic unveiled new AI tools, wiped roughly $2 trillion of market capitalization and produced the sector's largest 12-month drawdown in more than 30 years, reducing its S&P 500

Goldman CEO says 2026 will be a big year for dealmaking — Businessinsider

Goldman CEO says 2026 will be a big year for dealmaking

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said the bank has moved out of a defensive stance after several difficult years marked by weak private-equity activity and volatile trading. After a strong 2025, he said Goldman enters 2026 with the wind at its back. Solomon pointed to a shift in Washington toward

Lorwyn Eclipsed becomes Magic: The Gathering’s fastest-selling original set — Polygon

Lorwyn Eclipsed becomes Magic: The Gathering’s fastest-selling original set

Lorwyn Eclipsed is now the fastest-selling original Magic: The Gathering set of all time, a milestone that underscores the game's continued growth and shows it can thrive without relying on Universes Beyond crossovers. On a Feb. 10 earnings call presenting Hasbro's Q4 and full-year 2025 results,

What I buy at Costco for two people to save money — Businessinsider

What I buy at Costco for two people to save money

I've been a Costco shopper for as long as I can remember. As a kid I often went there with my parents on weekends to buy bulk food, books, clothing, and Barbie dolls — and enjoy a $1.50 hot dog and soda. Now I shop for a household

Shift in Chinese durian taste leaves Malaysian farmers in turmoil — NYT > World News

Shift in Chinese durian taste leaves Malaysian farmers in turmoil

Soaring Chinese demand brought Liew Jia Soon home in 2018 and helped his father’s farm expand, but the spectacular earnings have evaporated. “We farmers have seen a 60 percent drop in profits during this season,” he said while looking over hundreds of unsold durians at a collection point near

Plug-in hybrids were meant as a bridge to EVs — now they're fading — Businessinsider

Plug-in hybrids were meant as a bridge to EVs — now they're fading

Plug-in hybrids were sold as a middle ground: a cord-chargeable battery for short electric trips and a gasoline engine for longer drives. Unlike mild hybrids, PHEVs plug in and can run on electricity alone for short distances, but consumer interest has waned — "Consumers really don't seem to

Bond investors bet on another 100 years for Google — Businessinsider

Bond investors bet on another 100 years for Google

Alphabet is offering a rare 100-year bond as part of a borrowing push to finance its massive AI spending, a move that suggests investors are betting on the company's long-term prospects. The firm has sold tens of billions of bonds recently across a range of currencies. It has

Paramount sweetens WBD bid without raising $30-per-share price — Businessinsider

Paramount sweetens WBD bid without raising $30-per-share price

Paramount Skydance adjusted its all-cash offer for Warner Bros. Discovery but left the $30-per-share top line unchanged. The move marks founder David Ellison's ninth bid after eight previous offers were rejected, and it comes as Netflix pursues a separate $27.75-per-share cash deal for WBD's streaming

Strategy (MSTR) Rises 33% After Earnings and Bitcoin Recovery — Beincrypto

Strategy (MSTR) Rises 33% After Earnings and Bitcoin Recovery

Strategy Inc, also known as MicroStrategy, climbed roughly 33% after forming a local low on February 5, a move that followed an about 11% recovery in Bitcoin and renewed institutional interest in the company’s Bitcoin-linked business model championed by Michael Saylor. The surge raises the core question: is this