Month: February 2025
Pinterest shares rocket 19% on strong revenue and user growth
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Pinterest shares surged 19.1% after the company beat Wall Street’s fourth-quarter sales estimates and showed robust user growth from a year ago. The image-sharing company reported revenues of $1.15 billion, ahead of a $1.14 billion estimate from analysts surveyed by LSEG. The figure represented 18% year-over-year growth. Along […]
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Many workers would take a pay cut to work from home — some would forgo at least 20% of their salary
Key Points Many workers say they’d take a pay cut to be able to work from home at least a few days a week, according to academic studies. They see work-life balance as the biggest advantage of remote work. Others say they feel less connected to co-workers and see fewer opportunities for mentoring. Employers also […]
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Frontier Group CEO: Focus on loyalty and ‘premiumization’ has enabled us to exceed expectations
Barry Biffle, Frontier Group CEO, joins ‘The Exchange’ to discuss if the company’s efforts are helping to add premium offerings, the company’s offer to Spirit, and much more. Source
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Watch live: Trump and Japanese prime minister hold press conference
[The stream is slated to start at 2:00 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba are set to hold a joint press conference at the White House on Friday. The presser in the East Room […]
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San Francisco 49ers president touts AI as key to next-generation scouting
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy, the last pick in the 2022 National Football League draft, has become synonymous with flaws in NFL player evaluation. The team’s president, Al Guido, hopes his organization can lean on artificial intelligence to improve talent assessment, both for football and for soccer. Purdy, who led the 49ers to the […]
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AEW CEO Tony Khan says he wants to keep company private to pass it down to his kids
All Elite Wrestling, the upstart professional wrestling league, will remain a privately-held family business instead of pursuing an initial public offering, according to founder and co-owner Tony Khan. Khan told CNBC Sport he had no interest in going public because he wants to pass the league down to his kids — who haven’t been born […]
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Trump delays cancellation of de minimis trade exemption targeting China imports
Employees package and sort express parcels at an e-commerce company on Nov. 1, 2024, around the Double 11 Shopping Festival in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province of China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that puts a pause on his closing of the de minimis trade […]
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One of tax return filing season’s biggest financial risks isn’t an IRS audit
Tax season has officially started, so you should prepare to file your 2024 tax return, and prepare for the scammers who are already prowling. Don’t get baited and hooked. Many people are lax about protecting their personal information online, and there’s more reason than ever to be wary given widespread hacks such as the massive […]
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Amazon scrubs DEI mention from its annual report
A person walks by The Spheres at the Amazon.com Inc. headquarters in Seattle, Washington, on Nov. 14, 2022. David Ryder | Getty Images News | Getty Images Amazon has removed any references to diversity and inclusion from its most recent annual report. The company filed its report for 2024 on Friday following the release of […]
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Elon Musk’s X faces criminal probe in France over algorithm manipulation concerns
French prosecutors on have opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over allegations that it distorted its algorithms to manipulate discourse taking place on the social media platform. The Paris public prosecutor’s office said it received a report from a French lawmaker on Jan. 12 criticizing X over “biased algorithms” that were “likely to have […]
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