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The Big Winner at the World Cup This Year Is Beer: ‘There’s a Brew For Every Kind of Fan’
On-premise beer sales are up 15% in World Cup host markets and nearly 30% in Massachusetts. Scotland fans nearly drank Boston dry.
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America Is Producing 1,200 New Millionaires Every Day — Here’s What They Have In Common
The U.S. minted more than 440,000 new millionaires in 2025 — and the money they're banking has little to do with their day jobs.
Buying a Franchise
NBA Finals MVP Jalen Brunson Is Now an Equity Owner of a Salad Chain: ‘I’ve Been a Fan for a Long Time’
Fresh off an NBA championship win, the Knicks' star guard Jalen Brunson is hoping to make more green with Just Salad.
Buying a Franchise
When a Popeyes Franchise Empire Went Bankrupt, Five Savvy Buyers Picked Up 97 Restaurants for a Steal
Sailormen Inc. built one of Popeyes' largest franchise operations, but when it filed for bankruptcy in January, opportunistic buyers swept in.
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He Got 77 ‘Nos’ Before a ‘Yes’. How This Founder Raised $85 Million to Transform Communication for the Deaf.
Tomer Aharoni, CEO of Rylo, believes Deaf and hard-of-hearing people deserve the same private communication as everyone else.
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Starbucks Employees Were Already Going Viral on TikTok. Now the Company Is Paying Them to Do It.
Starbucks baristas post three times more than employees at similar chains, giving the brand an opening to build a rev-share program around it.
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WhatsApp Is Finally Giving Its 3 Billion Users a Way to Message Without Sharing Their Phone Number
Starting next week, the Meta-owned messaging app will let all its users reserve a unique username they can share instead of a phone number.
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Remote Work Was Supposed to Help Recent Grads Find Jobs. It May Be Hurting Them Instead.
A new study of 400 million job postings found entry-level hiring has fallen 14% since 2019. Researchers say remote work is to blame.
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Comcast Paid $23 Billion for NBCUniversal. Now It’s Spinning It Off Because the Strategy ‘Was Not Working.’
The spinoff announcement sent Comcast's stock up 23% — and may have turned NBCUniversal into a takeover target.
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Ford Tried to Fix Its Quality Problems With AI. It Didn’t Work. So They Brought Back a Squad of Human ‘Gray Beards.’
The automaker leaned on AI to solve its quality woes and got worse results. So it rehired 350 veteran engineers.
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This Startup Is Challenging Waymo and Tesla With Its ‘Off-the-Shelf’ Self-Driving Technology
While Tesla and Waymo are building self-driving cars for themselves, Wayve wants to sell its AI to everyone else.
Buying a Franchise
These 3 Innovative Ideas Seemed Like the Future for Restaurant Franchises — Here’s Why They All Failed
Dynamic pricing, restaurant subscriptions and hot food vending machines had promise a year ago but went south.
Buying a Franchise
Their Parents Owned 22 Subway Franchises. Now These Brothers Are Using That Playbook to Cook Up a Golden Chick Empire.
The Korpal brothers just set a Golden Chick sales record and signed a 13-unit deal to take over Houston. Here's what they're doing right.
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Novak Djokovic Has Won 24 Grand Slams. Now He’s Going to Work on Wall Street: ‘I Like to Disrupt’
The tennis legend just signed on as a global strategic adviser to General Atlantic, a $126 billion private equity firm.
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FIFA Clumsily Tried to Hide the Logos of These Banned Brands at the World Cup. It Put Them in the Spotlight Instead.
FIFA covered the Levi's logo, taped over Heinz bottles and masked Beats headphones. The strategy backfired badly.
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Apple Raised Mac Prices by Up to $300 Overnight. iPhones Could Be Next.
The price hikes Tim Cook warned about last week are here. MacBooks are up $100 to $300, iPads up $150 to $200. iPhones may be next.
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Reddit Decided to ‘Save Wendy’s’ and Its Stock Jumped 42% in ‘Abnormal Retail Buying’
Wendy’s joins GameStop as a meme stock after surging in value following a Reddit post urging fans to boost the brand.
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New Cars Cost Too Much. Jeff Bezos Is Backing a $24,950 EV Truck With Hand-Crank Windows to Fix That.
The Slate has hand-crank windows, no radio and no paint job. It also costs half the price of the average new car in America.
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Forget Forty Thieves — Anthropic Says Alibaba Used 25,000 Fake Accounts to Steal Its AI
Anthropic sent a letter to Congress accusing Alibaba of running 28.8 million fake conversations with Claude to train a competing AI for free.
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Restaurant Franchises Have Found One Ingredient That Makes Customers Switch Brands. New Data Proves It Works.
McDonald's, Arby's and Zaxbys are all piling on the protein in a market where customers just can't get enough.
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The CEO of Dave’s Hot Chicken Says Speed Is No Longer the Point of Fast Food: ‘It’s Not 1999’
Jim Bitticks of Dave's Hot Chicken says speed is dead in fast food. Here's what really matters to customers.
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Saying ‘Please’ and ‘Thank You’ to AI Sounds Crazy. It Might Actually Work.
A new survey finds 86% of office workers are being polite to their AI tools — and most say it actually changes what comes back.
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Snap Bet $2,195 on the Future of Smart Glasses. Meta Answered With a $244 Version.
A week after Snap launched its pricey $2,195 AR glasses, Meta is going the opposite direction with a $244 version.
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Mountain Dew Is Charging 5 Cents for a Can — Here’s the Strategy Behind the Stunt
The iconic soda brand is dropping 1,948 commemorative bundles for a nickel each — a nod to its 1948 origins.
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The World’s Largest Franchisee Just Revealed His Playbook for Scaling. These Are His Rules.
Greg Flynn built a $5 billion empire spanning 3,000 restaurants across eight brands. Here's how he did it.
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Beer Sales Are Going Flat Everywhere But Guinness Keeps Growing: ‘It’s a 267-Year-Old Overnight Success.’
Since taking over the helm, Gráinne Wafer has turned a 267-year-old brand into one of the fastest-growing in the world.
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Who Will Be the Next Trillionaire After Musk? Here’s What the Prediction Markets Say.
Prediction market traders give Mark Zuckerberg the best shot at joining Elon Musk in the 13-digit club — but put his odds at just 32%.
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Tide Owns 40% of the Detergent Market — So Why Is P&G Reinventing It With Something Industry Experts Say Nobody Needs?
P&G already dominates the $25 billion laundry market. Rather than wait for a rival to disrupt it, the company reimagined its own bestseller.
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For 11 Years Chick-fil-A Ruled the Roost In Customer Satisfaction. Jersey Mike’s Just Dethroned It.
The New Jersey sandwich chain edged Chick-fil-A by a single point, ending an 11-year reign just as it races toward a $12 billion IPO.
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Mars Is Spending Millions to Make M&M’s Without Synthetic Dyes. These Two Colors Didn’t Make the Cut.
Candy maker Mars is responding to pressure to remove synthetic dyes from its candy coating. It's easier said than done.
