Penn Entertainment narrows Q4 losses as bets reshape strategy after costly partnerships Suswati Basu News Editor Penn Entertainment closed out 2025 with a noticeably smaller loss, buoyed by stronger showings at its brick-and-mortar casinos and a long-awaited breakthrough in its online division. For the quarter ending December 31, revenue climbed to $ 1.81 billion, … Continue reading Penn Entertainment narrows Q4 losses as bets reshape strategy after costly partnerships
Flutter doubles down on prediction markets despite investor worries about growth Suswati Basu Flutter Entertainment is leaning harder into prediction markets, even as some investors question how much upside the move will really deliver. In its fourth quarter earnings letter to shareholders, the parent company of FanDuel made clear that it plans to … Continue reading Flutter doubles down on prediction markets despite investor worries about growth
March 01, 2026 Two-thirds of Gen Z say they rely on self-taught skills to find a job BY Eve Upton-Clark “Do you want to know the biggest career hack I’ve learned in 25 years of recruiting?” That’s the opening of one TikTok video. The answer, the creator Elite Recruiter says, is “skill stacking”: … Continue reading Two-thirds of Gen Z say they rely on self-taught skills to find a job
AI agents, shared signals and fragmented identities are distorting marketing intelligence. Most brands do not know who is really acting. By AtData February 27, 2026 Somewhere inside your CRM is a customer who does not exist. They open emails at impossible hours. They redeem promotions with machine-like precision. They browse product pages across three … Continue reading The Data Doppelgänger problem by AtData
Former Home Depot employee sentenced for $4M gift card theft to fund gambling habit Suswati Basu A former Home Depot employee is headed to federal prison after prosecutors say she orchestrated a multimillion-dollar gift card scheme and spent most of the money on gambling. Federal authorities in Atlanta say 53-year-old Felecia Ingram used … Continue reading Former Home Depot employee sentenced for $4M gift card theft to fund gambling habit
Every vendor says they do real-time updates; here’s a real-world method to distinguish between platforms. By Pamela Parker February 27, 2026 Every CDP vendor says they’re real-time. But marketers don’t buy real-time. They buy outcomes: timely personalization, smarter lifecycle messaging, cleaner suppression, fewer awkward experiences and less wasted spend. In 2026, the gap between … Continue reading How to tell if your CDP is really real-time
February 28, 2026 3 affordable networking options that work better than LinkedIn BY Emily Guy Birken Networking as a solopreneur can feel impossible. LinkedIn is full of the sort of hustle-culture aficionados who think yoga at 4 a.m. is something to brag about and who want you to buy their online course. Joining a … Continue reading 3 affordable networking options that work better than LinkedIn
February 28, 2026 We need a ‘Stop, Drop, and Roll’ PSA for the AI age BY Jesus Diaz “We are cooked.” That’s the sentence I see with every AI-generated Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube short made with Seedance 2.0. And yes, we are. The walls of reality have finally vanished, sucked in by a … Continue reading We need a ‘Stop, Drop, and Roll’ PSA for the AI age
AI agents introduce probabilistic decision-making into deterministic stacks. Define intent, enforce guardrails and architect agents that scale. By Frans Riemersma February 27, 2026 • AI agents are spreading quickly across organizations. They’re replacing specific components, layering on top of existing systems and introducing something fundamentally new: probabilistic decision-making inside deterministic architectures. The question … Continue reading How to architect AI agents in your martech stack
Sacramento deputies dismantle sprawling illegal gambling network after lengthy investigation Suswati Basu Sacramento County detectives say they have broken up what they describe as a “large-scale illegal gambling network operating in our region and impacting residential communities,” the result of an investigation that stretched on for months and focused on a suspected criminal … Continue reading Sacramento deputies dismantle sprawling illegal gambling network after lengthy investigation
