Franchisors Have a Secret Weapon Against Rising Costs. Here’s How It Works.
Franchise strategist Nick Powills explains how franchisors buffer owners with scale purchasing, diversified sourcing and cost-cutting playbooks.
Canva acquires startups working on animation and marketing
With the new acquisitions, the company wants to bolster its position as a marketing solution by potentially adding video creation and more granular measurement.
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Adobe to bring its video editing app Premiere to iPhones
Adobe is planning to bring its video editing software Premiere to the iPhone. The company has listed the app on the App Store with a pre-order link and an expected release date of September 30.
Atlassian to buy Arc developer The Browser Company for $610M
Productivity software maker Atlassian has agreed to acquire The Browser Company, which makes the Arc and Dia browsers, for $610 million in cash.
The Most Dangerous Word in Entrepreneurship is “Try”
If you’re struggling to get things done or meet your goals, you need to ask yourself: Are you trying, or doing?
DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced models to it subscription plan
With DuckDuckGo’s $9.99 per month plan, users will be able to access newer models, including OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta’s Llama Maverick.
Madrid’s Orbital Paradigm aims to prove a cheaper path to orbital reentry
Orbital Paradigm is moving fast and cheap to industrialize low Earth orbit.
U.S. Billionaires Are Collectively Worth About $5.7 Trillion. Here’s How They Made Their Fortunes — And Surprisingly Most Are Not in Tech.
From banking to real estate, U.S. billionaires amassed their wealth in different ways.
American Parents Are Loaning Their Kids Money — Sometimes With Serious Strings Attached: ‘Even Generosity Comes With Boundaries’
Many young adults depend on financial assistance from family to make ends meet.
Mistral, the French AI giant, is reportedly on the cusp of securing a $14 billion valuation
The 2-year-old OpenAI rival, founded by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, develops open-source language models and Le Chat, its AI chatbot built for European audiences.
Scale AI is suing a former employee and rival Mercor, alleging they tried to steal its biggest customers
Scale is clearly concerned enough about the threat of Mercor, and the poaching of one of its employees, to pursue legal action