August 19, 2025 Home Depot reports Q2 sales are up, thanks to this lingering consumer trend BY Associated Press Home Depot’s sales improved during its fiscal second quarter as consumers remained focused on smaller projects amid cost concerns and economic uncertainty, but its performance missed Wall Street’s expectations. Revenue for the three months ended August 3 … Continue reading Home Depot reports Q2 sales are up thanks to this lingering consumer trend
October 06, 2024 ‘Oyster sommelier’ is now a job, thanks to this new oyster-education program Two bivalve experts have pried open a whole new line of work for the hospitality industry. BY Andrea Strong When Jeremy Benson approaches a restaurant table as a sommelier, he’s prepared to talk about what you might expect: flavor profile, geography, … Continue reading ‘Oyster sommelier’ is now a job, thanks to this new oyster-education program
May 23, 2024 160,000 more student loan borrowers will get $7.7B in debt relief, thanks to President Biden The amount of total debt relief is now $167 billion. BY Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced the cancellation of another $7.7 billion in student debt for 160,000 borrowers, bringing the total number of people to … Continue reading 160,000 more student loan borrowers will get $7.7B in debt relief, thanks to President Biden
May 03, 2024 Thanks to AI, we’re in the golden age of freelancing AI doesn’t help everyone, but it is turning elite tech workers into super builders. BY Raphael Ouzan As white-collar work gets increasingly automated, you might assume that freelancers would be the first to feel the impact. Indeed, researchers found a 21% decrease in … Continue reading Thanks to AI, we’re in the golden age of freelancing
May 01, 2024 Antitrust lawyers argue that Google and Apple’s innovations are thanks to epic 1998 Microsoft trial DOJ: ‘Thank us later.’ BY Associated Press The U.S. Justice Department’s double-barreled antitrust attack on Google’s dominant search and Apple’s trendsetting iPhone is reviving memories of the epic battle that hobbled Microsoft before it roared back to yet … Continue reading Antitrust lawyers argue that Google and Apple’s innovations are thanks to epic 1998 Microsoft trial
April 24, 2024 Overtime pay eligibility has been extended for millions more salaried workers, thanks to new Biden ruling The eligibility cap for salaried employees will go up to $58,656 in 2025. BY Associated Press The Biden administration has finalized a new rule set to make millions of more salaried workers eligible for overtime pay in … Continue reading Overtime pay eligibility has been extended for millions more salaried workers, thanks to new Biden ruling
March 17, 2024 Employees have a legal right to express support for Black Lives Matter at work, thanks to the NLRB A year after George Floyd’s murder, a poll found that 68% of Americans thought that employees ‘should be able to discuss racial justice issues at work.’ BY The Conversation A Home Depot store violated labor … Continue reading Employees have a legal right to express support for Black Lives Matter at work, thanks to the NLRB
March 17, 2024 Thanks to generative AI, advertising’s business models will be reinvented Agencies must embrace the opportunity to transform their revenue model. Value-based pricing could be a good option. BY Jeremy Lockhorn Advertising and disruptive technologies. In many ways, you can’t have one without the other. In past years, disruptive technology meant programmatic media buying, … Continue reading Thanks to generative AI, advertising’s business models will be reinvented
Click Arbitrage Is Alive And Well, Thanks To Automation by Janel Laravie , Op-Ed Contributor, April 13, 2022 Early in my digital career I learned the ropes of pay-per-click, which included things like the Overture Keyword Tool, bid jamming, affiliates and click arbitrage. It truly amazes me how cyclical paid search can be. Trends can … Continue reading Click Arbitrage Is Alive And Well, Thanks To Automation
By Moises Mendez II March 22, 2022 About four months after Britney Spears was freed from her conservatorship, former actress Amanda Bynes is now free. On Tuesday morning, a California judge ruled to end Bynes’ nearly nine-year conservatorship, after she filed to be released a month ago. A judge tentatively ruled to terminate it … Continue reading Thanks to #FreeBritney, another female entertainer is freed from conservatorship
