‘Landmaxxing’ Is the New Flex for Billionaires — Here’s What It Is
Luxury land searches are up 97% this year as the ultra-wealthy race to buy out their neighbors and create high-end compounds.
The Download: perimenopause misinformation and China’s latest AI leap
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After an Hours-Long Commute Landed Her in the ER, She Started Her Own Local Business. It Now Has a Year-Long Wait List. Here’s How She Did It.
Cosee Home founder Kristina Leigh Johnson shares the mindset and tactics that took her from solopreneur to leading a home-building empire.
Bojangles Added EV Chargers to Help Sell More Fried Chicken. Now the Chain Plans to Build 85 More.
Georgia Foods, one of Bojangles’s largest franchisees, wants chargers at every location it can get them.
Spotify expands parent-managed accounts to users on its free tier
The feature was previously only available to paid subscribers.
India bets billions on breaking China’s grip on smartphone manufacturing
New Delhi announced a $6.5 billion smartphone manufacturing program and a $13.3 billion semiconductor push to deepen India’s electronics supply chain.
US charges Russian ‘bulletproof’ web hosts over cyberattacks that netted $62M from cybercrime victims
The 2024 indictment, now unsealed, accuses three Russians and two web hosts of aiding hackers and profiting from cybercrime.
Your Biggest AI Cost Isn’t the Technology — It’s the Hidden Debt Quietly Draining Your Budget
Hidden AI technical debt is quietly eroding ROI and making every new AI investment more expensive.
4 Ways to Build Influence at Work Without Waiting for a Promotion
After two decades and twelve corporate roles, one executive learned that influence — not authority — is what actually gets cross-functional teams to follow your lead.
The 3 Questions That Make Every Email Campaign More Profitable
The real reason your email campaigns underperform isn’t the copy — it’s a bloated, unverified contact list you’ve never cleaned up.
SEO Isn’t Dead — But Winning Search Now Requires a New Playbook
It’s clear, provocative and directly addresses the concern many marketers have while setting up the article’s argument about GEO.