How Med Spas Conquered AmericaRevenue is growing at double-digit rates, fueled by surging demand for Botox, lip fillers and weight-loss drugs.
5 Reasons Why Live Music Stays Thriving During RecessionsGoldman Sachs finds that people are willing to prioritize going to concerts, even when pinching pennies elsewhere.
Sponsors Drop San Francisco Pride As Festival Decries ‘Rights Backtracking’Comcast, Anheuser-Busch and others cancel funding as US becomes increasingly hostile toward LGBTQ+ communities.
Stanford Professor Who Co-Founded 4 Startups: How to Use AI As a ‘Force Multiplier’ to Start a Business“You don’t want to compete with someone who has an AI at their shoulder,” says Steve Blank. He has co-founded four startups, one of which sold for $329 million.
Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want You to Read This BookMeta got an emergency arbitration ruling to stop the memoir’s author from talking about her time at the company.
Waymo is now available exclusively on Uber in AustinResidents of the Texas capital can now hail a driverless Waymo vehicle — as long as they’re within the 37-square-mile service area. Residents of the Texas capital can now hail a driverless Waymo vehicle — as long as they’re within the 37-square-mile service area.
Behind the ‘Sickening’ Collapse of Technicolor and Why Its Failure Is Sending Shockwaves Through the VFX Industry Disney’s first feature-length color animated movie, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” opened in Technicolor in 1937, and the company came full circle when Technicolor’s flagship visual effects company MPC was called upon to create effects on Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of the
Will Trumpian Uncertainty Knock the Economy Into a Recession?Economists have long recognized that when the future is foggier than usual, consumers and businesses may put off making big purchases.
Ride Out the Market Turmoil? Not These Investors.After the dot-com bubble burst in the early 2000s, Lars Staack decided to play it safe and invest his retirement savings in S&P 500 index funds, which are diversified and carry lower risk than owning individual stocks.
DOGE wants to lay off the ‘vast majority’ of CFPB workers, employees sayThe Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to fire the “vast majority” of employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), agency employees — some using pseudonyms for fear of retaliation — told a federal court in sworn declarations.
Into theWild Worldof TemuHow the world’s biggest online dollar store got sucked into Trump’s trade war. Jiaxing is a thriving manufacturing hub located near the mouth of the Yangtze River.
London Is a Local-News Desert. What Comes Next?On a recent foul, late-winter London morning—the sort when you can smell the river and almost taste the greasy sheen on the sidewalks—I had breakfast with Jim Waterson, the one-man operation behind London Centric, a six-month-old newsletter attempting to fill the void left by the collapse of loc
Stocks Tumble Into Correction as Investors Sour on TrumpThe world’s most widely followed stock-market benchmark slid into a correction on Thursday, a drop that underscores how the two-year-long bull market is running out of steam in the early days of the Trump administration.
Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour on AI, press freedom, and the future of newsThe Wall Street Journal publisher’s thoughts on what it takes for journalism to thrive in 2025. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement.
Trump Is Unleashing a Chaos EconomyBusinesses cannot thrive under this much uncertainty. Americans hold all sorts of views on tariffs. Some are opposed on free-market grounds. Others are in favor for reasons of national security or to bring back American manufacturing. Those debates are part of a normal democratic process.