Economy

Fanatics founder & CEO Michael Rubin at his office in downtown NYC, Dec. 7, 2022.The Washington Post | Getty ImagesFanatics’ splashy $150 million acquisition of PointsBet’s U.S. business wasn’t the only deal in gambling in recent days — and it could be a sign of more to come.Fanatics on Sunday announced it has agreed to… […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during an Iowa GOP reception on May 13, 2023 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.Stephen Maturen | Getty ImagesFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis appears to be putting the final pieces in place before he announces a bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.The governor’s political operation started moving out of its Tallahassee offices… […]

Amazon is increasingly using robotics in its fulfilment centers to carry out repetitive tasks such as lifting heavy packages.Nathan Stirk | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAmazon is focusing on using artificial intelligence to speed up deliveries — by minimizing the distance between its products and customers, a top executive told CNBC.Stefano Perego, vice president… […]

Satya Nadella, CEO of MicrosoftSource: MicrosoftMicrosoft announced Monday that the latest version of Phone Link for Windows 11 PCs can receive notifications, send texts and answer calls from a user’s paired iPhone.Most Americans use iPhones, and Apple’s integration across its products has helped its Mac business take market share from Windows PCs in recent years.… […]

Special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the prosecution of former President Donald Trump in two federal cases, was the target of an attempted swatting at his Maryland residence on Christmas Day. Ricky Carioti | The Washington Post | Getty Images Special Counsel Jack Smith resigned Friday from the Department of Justice as President-elect Donald […]

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg slammed rival tech giant Apple for lackluster innovation efforts and “random rules” in a lengthy podcast interview on Friday. “On the one hand, [the iPhone has] […]

On her quest to better understand how factors like when we eat and how much sunlight we get affect our ability to feel rested, happy and balanced, Lynne Peeples went 50 feet below ground for 10 days. Peeples, a science journalist and author of “The Inner Clock: Living in Sync With Our Circadian Rhythms,” found […]

In 2020, Isaac French, 27, and his family purchased a train car that had been sitting abandoned on a neighbor’s farm in Deary, Idaho. They paid just $3,000. Train car number 306 was built in the 1900s and originally ran on the Washington Idaho & Montana Railway from 1909 until the 1950s. When the family got […]

An exchange-traded fund provider is helping investors make more bets on Wall Street’s most profitable momentum trades. GraniteShares, which debuted its first installment of single-stock ETFs in 2022now manages 20 of them. It includes the GraniteShares YieldBoost TSLA ETF (TSYY)which launched last month. The fund gives investors exposure to Tesla. “This is about more and […]

The push for legal, recreational marijuana is sweeping across America. Delaware just became the 22nd state to legalize recreational cannabis — and four more states could join the party in the coming years.In the densely populated Tri-State area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, the rollout of legal weed has been called slow and… […]