Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, home fitness represented roughly a quarter of the $11.5 billion global fitness equipment market. As millions of people find themselves confined to their homes, they are embracing modes of exercise that have roots that stretch back much further than the exercise tape and home yoga mat.
One of the more intriguing elements of Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey’s much-discussed wellness routine are his regular 30-minute visits to a tent in his garage.
Father’s Day is June 16 in most countries and you know what that means—the Amazon Father’s Day Gift Shop is open for business!
Several years ago, when I lived in New York, I met a woman who casually mentioned that she and her husband of decades had never lived together. They kept separate apartments directly across the hall from one another in their Manhattan building. The ease with which she described this astoundingly expensive arrangement was deliciously glamorous.
Chris Carlier started seeing the creatures almost immediately after moving to Japan in 2002. They were adorable and blindingly colorful, each with an origin story more confounding than the last.
The story of bookseller Barnes & Noble became increasingly dark over the past decade, as branches closed, employees were fired, and various strategies to save the chain in the post-Amazon landscape failed.
Representatives from US law enforcement agencies appeared before a House committee June 4 to defend their use of facial recognition technology in investigations.
In the 1970s, an American psychologist named Herbert Freudenberger was working overtime at both a thriving private practice on New York’s Upper East Side and an addiction clinic in the Bowery. After months of increasing stress and exhaustion, he woke up one morning unable to move from his bed.
When police in Virginia Beach announced the name of the person who killed 12 people at a public works office May 31, they did so with a caveat: they would never repeat it again.
After reintroducing millions of people to the experience of going outside and walking around, the Pokémon Company has set its giant, doe-like eyes upon a new target: sleep.
Reviewing the history of recordings on your Alexa-enabled device can be a useful exercise. In my own family’s case, a month of Alexa commands reveals intergenerational conflicts:
Apple’s newest iPhone game—only the second the company has ever developed for its own App Store—appears to be targeted at a very small and specific demographic: Omaha-area billionaires aged 85 and up.
In March 2007, Spain introduced a national policy granting most new fathers two weeks of fully paid paternity leave. The policy proved exceptionally popular, with 55% of men eligible in the first year opting to take the paid time. The amount of leave covered by the program was doubled in 2017 and expanded to five weeks in 2018, with additional increases expected between now and 2021.
If you think you, a frequent flier, could deliver an airline safety speech by heart, imagine how well Brian Van Buren knew it after 20 years as an international flight attendant. As the chief attendant, he’d made thousands of announcements to passengers and crew in that familiar airline cadence.
Liquid Death is a startup that just announced $1.6 million in seed funding. Liquid Death was founded by a former Netflix executive who sees a market for people that eschew soda and alcohol, yet who also want the experience of drinking water from some kind of disposable receptacle. Liquid Death is a startup that sells water in tallboy cans.
Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett fielded a question from an unusual place at today’s annual shareholders meeting—the UK House of Lords.
Delayed gratification is the foundation of financial planning. Forgo the immediate pleasures of spending and set aside money in a bank account or investment vehicle, the thinking goes, and you’ll have more money—and, by extension, more happiness—later on.
Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting, taking place today in Omaha, Nebraska, is often likened to a Woodstock festival for capitalists, with parodies of “Empire State of Mind” and “Uptown Funk” praising Berkshire managers blasting over speakers in a packed arena full of khaki pants and zip-up fleece vests.
Berkshire Hathaway bought $1.7 billion of its own stock back last quarter. In absolute terms that’s a lot, especially added to the $1.3 billion the conglomerate purchased in the last half of 2018.
There are a few ways to get into Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting, which takes place this year on May 4 in Omaha.
If you have a smartphone, you have had this unnerving experience at some point: After having a face-to-face conversation with a friend or a partner in a private setting, you pick up your phone and see ads on social media that echo the details of your chat to an uncanny degree—ads for picnic baskets after a discussion of weekend barbecue plans, or a sale on flights to a place you just mentioned wanting to visit.
At a recent panel on the US economy at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, Fox Business Network host and presidential booster Maria Bartiromo touted first-quarter GDP growth before turning to panelist Aaron Klein, an economist at the Brookings Institute.
On stage today at the Milken Institute Global Conference with Fox Business host Mario Bartiromo, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney lamented the extent of Donald Trump’s unfavorable press coverage.
In a panel at the Milken Institute Global Conference about challenges facing the modern CEO, Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO David Solomon was asked why he’d adopted Instagram as his social-media platform of choice. (His predecessor Lloyd Blankfein was an enthusiastic Twitter user.)
