Costco Isn’t Facing Devastating Surges in Theft Like Target and Walmart — and the Reason Is Very Simple
The retailer’s CFO revealed its strategy during a fourth-quarter-earnings call.
ALS stole this musician’s voice. AI let him sing again.
There are tears in the audience as Patrick Darling’s song begins to play. It’s a heartfelt song written for his great-grandfather, whom he never got the chance to meet. But this performance is emotional for another reason: It’s Darling’s first time on stage with his bandmates since he lost the ability to sing two years…
Netflix Is Mailing Out Its Last DVD Today. I Got the Very First One 25 Years Ago.
Netflix co-founder and founding CEO Marc Randolph tells the story of the first Netflix DVD that got sent in the mail — and one he wished never went out the door.
5 Ways for Business Leaders to Invest in Themselves During Retirement
Retirement. Everybody wants it. Many people work hard to achieve it. But once you get there, it can be hard to know what to do with it. Leaders can have…
Elon Musk’s X headed for ‘rule of law’ clash with EU, warns Twitter’s former head of trust & safety
The former head of trust and safety at Twitter has warned the platform now known as X is charting a collision course with the European Union’s rebooted digital rulebook, the Digital Services Act (DSA) — which carries penalties of up to 6% of global annual turnover for confirmed breaches of the online governance regime. Speaking […]
Three Arrows Capital co-founder Zhu arrested in Singapore airport, sentenced four months in prison
The liquidators behind Three Arrows Capital (3AC), the now-defunct crypto hedge fund, shared that the firm’s co-founder Su Zhu was arrested in Singapore at the Changi Airport while trying to leave the country. Teneo, a financial advisory firm controlling the liquidation and management of affairs for the defunct crypto hedge fund, said it got a […]
There is ‘A Crisis of Trust in Leadership’ in Business Today. Here’s What We Should Do About It
Today’s poor and ineffective leadership demands a course correction.
What Should Investors Do With Apple (AAPL) Stock End of September?
Apple (AAPL) witnessed the third straight quarter of falling sales amid an industry-wide slump that has dampened demand for its products, and it predicted another drop in sales in the…
Pitch Deck Teardown: Point.me’s $10M Series A deck
I like a good airline points flight just as much as the fuzzy feeling you get from knowing you’ve “beaten the system,” but does Point.me solve a “real” problem?
YC, OpenAI and the trough of disillusionment
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Friday show, and we’re talking about the week’s biggest startup and tech news. Consider it a full-throated recap of sorts. This week, Mary […]
Discord is working to resolve a widespread outage caused by ‘unusual traffic spikes’
Discord is currently down for many users, the instant messaging service confirmed on Friday morning. The company says the outage is due to the platform experiencing “unusual traffic spikes.” The issues began at around 6 AM ET/3 AM PT, according to third-party web monitoring service Downdetector. “We’re experiencing unusual traffic spikes that lead to users […]