Year: 2025

Spirit Airlines is on shakier ground after avoiding hard decisions in bankruptcy
Travel

Spirit Airlines is on shakier ground after avoiding hard decisions in bankruptcy

Spirit Airlines baggage tags are seen near a check-in counter at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on April 10, 2024 in Austin, Texas.  Brandon Bell | Getty Images In March, Spirit Airlines came out of bankruptcy protection in less than four months and entered a worsening landscape. Consumers were holding off booking flights and U.S. planes […]

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Google’s Pixel 10 launch wasn’t about the phones but the strategic AI play
Technology

Google’s Pixel 10 launch wasn’t about the phones but the strategic AI play

A person holds Google Pixel 10 Pro mobile phones during the ‘Made by Google’ event, organized to introduce the latest additions to Google’s Pixel portfolio of devices, in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., August 20, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters While Google made a big splash with its Pixel 10 series of smartphones, it was the […]

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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Walmart, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Instacart, Broadstone Net Lease and more
Finance

Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Walmart, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Instacart, Broadstone Net Lease and more

Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Walmart — The big-box retailer slipped more than 2% . Walmart fiscal second-quarter revenue beat analyst estimates . Adjusted earnings of 68 cents per share may not have compared with the LSEG consensus estimate of 74 cents. The country’s largest retailer raised its full-year earnings and […]

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Kansas City Fed’s Schmid shows hesitation about widely expected September rate cut
Finance

Kansas City Fed’s Schmid shows hesitation about widely expected September rate cut

Key Points Kansas City Federal Reserve President Jeffrey Schmid in a CNBC interview Thursday expressed doubt about lowering interest rates in September, saying there’s more work to do on inflation. Schmid is a voter this year on the rate-setting FOMC. Source

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Chipotle teams up with Zipline to test drone delivery
Business

Chipotle teams up with Zipline to test drone delivery

Chipotle is teaming up with drone delivery leader Zipline to test autonomous food delivery. Beginning Thursday, select customers in the greater Dallas area will have the option to use the so-called Zipotle delivery through an early access program in the Zipline app. Zipline’s autonomous aircraft will deliver orders to customers’ homes from a Rowlett, Texas Chipotle […]

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U.S. and EU spell out tariffs for autos, pharmaceuticals, and more
World

U.S. and EU spell out tariffs for autos, pharmaceuticals, and more

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen as he announces a trade deal with the EU at Trump Turnberry golf club on July 27, 2025 in Turnberry, Scotland. U.S. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.S. and European Union on Thursday revealed […]

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Disney’s new ESPN flagship streaming app launches Thursday. Here’s what we know
Business

Disney’s new ESPN flagship streaming app launches Thursday. Here’s what we know

The Disney+ website on a laptop, July 18, 2022. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Disney is launching its new ESPN flagship streaming app Thursday, just in time for the football season, bringing customers the full ESPN suite in one place. The entertainment company has been working on the launch of the direct-to-consumer app […]

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UK faces legal challenge for attempting to force through data center development
Technology

UK faces legal challenge for attempting to force through data center development

Erik Isakson | Digitalvision | Getty Images The U.K. government is facing a legal challenge from campaigners over its decision to override a local authority and wave through development of a new “hyperscale” data center. Last year, the local authority of Buckinghamshire, England, denied planning permission for proposals to build a new 90-megawatt data center […]

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Red carpet for Putin, trade relief for China, penalties on India: Inside Trump’s peculiar policy playbook
World

Red carpet for Putin, trade relief for China, penalties on India: Inside Trump’s peculiar policy playbook

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive for a press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Aug. 15, 2025 in Anchorage, Alaska. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images President Donald Trump is pursuing an unusual strategy — courting Russian President Vladimir Putin, holding fire on Beijing, all the while turning the screws on […]

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Starbucks expands test of coconut water beverages as it leans into health and wellness
Business

Starbucks expands test of coconut water beverages as it leans into health and wellness

Starbucks’ Coco Matcha and Coco Cold Brew drinks. Courtesy: Starbucks Starbucks will expand its test of coconut water beverages to hundreds of more stores, as it leans further into health and wellness. Starting Thursday, the coffee giant will test its Coco Matcha and Coco Cold Brew drinks in more than 400 stores across major cities […]

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