Malena DeMartini doesn’t want to say that return-to-office mandates have been good for business because there’s nothing good about the prospect of dogs suffering. But as a dog trainer who specializes in separation anxiety, she’s recently been inundated with clients. After years of having their owners around all day, many pets aren’t accustomed to being…

Navigating conflicts at work can be awkward, but there are steps you can take to try to defuse these difficult situations. It’s an uncomfortable situation: having a conflict at work. How do you handle it? There’s not always an easy solution, but there are steps you can take to try to defuse difficult situations. When…

The author (not pictured) moved his family to Puerto Rico for a job. In 2015, I moved my family of four from Pennsylvania to Puerto Rico to pursue my dream job. Although I had lived on the island when I was young and vacationed there, I had never worked professionally or lived there as an…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Meta is planning to cut thousands of jobs in coming days as the social-media giant takes a tougher stance on under-performing employees and readies its finances for another year of heavy AI investment. The company has said it will eliminate roughly 5% of its workforce, which could mean almost 4,000 employees…

Thanks to AI, the robotics industry is getting a makeover, and VCs are clamoring to back startups in the space industry that are building robots that autonomously complete tasks for their human counterparts. If 2023 was the year of generative AI, and 2024 was the year of LLMs, VCs are expecting 2025 to be the…

Sony’s PlayStation Network went down for nearly 24 hours starting on Friday night.  Sony’s PlayStation Network went down on Friday, starting a daylong outage that outraged gamers, disrupted the digital economy surrounding the system, and knocked Sony’s stock. “PSN has been restored. You should be able to access online features without any problems now,” a…

The impact of DeepSeek is still reverberating on Wall Street in earnings calls. If there was a bingo card for company earnings calls this quarter, DeepSeek would deserve its own square. Stock market surprises have a way of echoing through subsequent earnings calls, and the impact of DeepSeek is reverberating on Wall Street. On recent…

Sundar Pichai playing cricket in India in 2017. Cricket has never quite captured the American audience, but it is fast becoming one of the hottest investments in the US. Billionaires and tech executives are just some of the investors spending big on the game as they eye up its huge global appeal and new tournaments…

The author (not pictured) had to learn to navigate dining with friends and family after being diagnosed with celiac disease at 18. “I’m sorry, but if you go to that restaurant, I cannot join you,” I said to my aunt over the phone. At the time, I knew the restaurant my aunt and the group…