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Beyond Meat got off to a sizzling start when it made its IPO debut in 2019. As the company and others in the plant-based meat industry developed better-tasting products, sales boomed and stock prices Soared. Growing partnerships with restaurants and retailers generated greater acceptance among consumers. “Everybody wanted a piece of them. Everybody wanted to […]

People gather in a protest outside a Tesla dealership in Lisbon against Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on March 9, 2025. Patricia de Melo Moreira | AFP | Getty Images Tesla’s sell-off on Wall Street intensified on Monday, with shares of the electric vehicle maker plunging 15%, their worst day on the market since […]

Published Mon, Mar 10 2025 2:07 PM EDT Updated Mon, Mar 10 2025 2:28 PM EDT […]

Elon Musk’s social media platform X experienced several outages on Monday, leaving some users unable to load the site. Nearly 40,000 users reported problems with the platform around 10 a.m. ET,  according to the analytics platform Downdetector, which gathers data from users who spot glitches and report them to the service. Around 28,000 people were […]

US President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt relief at Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wisconsin, April 8, 2024. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images The U.S. Department of Education says it will pause millions of student loan borrowers’ payments while it defends its relief plan against legal challenges. Borrowers enrolled in […]

Crowds are seen building up at Suvarnabhumi Airport as a global IT disruption caused by a Microsoft outage and a Crowdstrike IT problem combine to affect users on July 19, 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand. Mailee Osten-tan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Several airlines halted flights on Friday, while others warned of delays and […]

Microsoft users around the world are experiencing an error screen known as the “blue screen of death,” amid persisting widespread tech outages. The U.S. technology giant was impacted by an update from cybersecurity firmCrowdStrikewhichled to a major IT outage.Many other businesses have also been affected. “We’re aware of an issue with Windows 365 Cloud PCs […]

Leading happiness expert Arthur C. Brooks has a lot of knowledge about how to improve your well-being and outlook on life. In addition to his happiness course at Harvard UniversityBrooks shares many of the lessons he’s learned throughout his career as a social scientist in his weekly newsletter called, “The Art and Science of Happiness.” […]

A person walks past the entrance to a Google building in Dublin, Feb. 15, 2023. Artur Widak | Anadolu | Getty Images After landing internship offers from Amazon , Meta and TikTok, computer science student Chungin “Roy” Lee has decided to move to San Francisco. But he won’t be joining any of those companies. Instead, Lee […]

Ellen Pompeo’s favorite part about her 20 years on “Grey’s Anatomy” has nothing to do with the show itself. In an interview with Peoplethe TV star said the financial security that portraying Meredith Grey affords her has been the best part of being on the long-running show. Pompeo in 2017 became the highest-paid woman on […]