Hurricane live streams were riveting on TikTok. It was the best place to watch.
Residences evacuated Florida as Hurricane Milton approached — and some people caught part of the action on TikTok live streams. As Hurricane Milton approached Florida this week, my TikTok “For You” Page was full of videos of people battening down windows, piling up sandbags, and livestreaming their surroundings as the weather grew more ominous by…
Home Depot is requiring its corporate employees to do shifts at the company’s stores
Home Depot corporate employees will be required to complete an eight hour shift four times per year. The next orange-aproned employee who helps you match a paint swatch at Home Depot might spend their typical work days programming hex code colors for the retailer’s app. Beginning in the fourth quarter of this year, Home Depot…
Chipotle’s prices vary across the US. Here’s how to see the difference.
Adam Cohen created a map showing prices at Chipotle restaurants around the US. Chipotle was often the first stop for Adam Cohen and his teammates after ultimate Frisbee games in college at Binghamton University in New York. “Me and my friends loved going to Chipotle,” Cohen said. “We would get it after tournaments. It was…
Europe’s richest person is about to buy a soccer club with Paris FC deal
Barnard Arnault’s family is poised to acquire a 55% majority stake in French football club Paris FC. Bernard Arnault’s family is set to invest in Paris FC football club alongside Red Bull as the billionaire LVMH CEO further embraces the world of sport and its lucrative sponsorship opportunities. Sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg…
Stock market today: Indexes close lower after CPI shows sticky inflation in September
Stocks fell on Thursday from records reached in the previous session, as traders took in a sticky inflation reading for September. All three benchmark indexes fell, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down TK points, a 0.40% fall, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell 0.% and 0.%, respectively. The declines follow rises across the…
Substack is ramping up in-person events. Here’s how it fits into the startup’s strategy to expand beyond newsletters.
Sophia Efthimiatou and Matt Starr are behind Substack’s latest IRL events. I’m sitting on a foldable metal chair lined up in a gymnasium, the marching band is blaring, and cheerleaders are being tossed in the air. No, I’m not a high-school pep rally. I’m at a Substack event. In September, Casey Lewis — Gen-Z expert…
PayPal enters the ads game, led by an architect of Uber’s $1 billion advertising business
Mark Grether helped Uber build a $1 billion ads business. Now he wants to grow PayPal Ads. PayPal is set to announce the official launch of PayPal Ads on Thursday. This new advertising business looks to help marketers tap into data on the billions of transactions that take place across its payments platforms. Starting this…
My family spent Hurricane Milton at Disney. We weren’t allowed to leave our hotel rooms at night, but meals were discounted.
Sandra Guadarrama-Baumunk enjoyed time at Disney with her family before the park was shut down by Hurricane Milton. I was already in my pajamas when the fire alarm at our Disney Resort hotel went off at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Hurricane Milton was predicted to strike in the early hours of the morning, and guests…
A 49-year-old dermatologist has never used filler, despite industry pressure. Here are 3 ways she maintains glowy skin.
Dr. Noreen Galaria. Filler injections are increasingly popular, with over 3.4 million treatments performed in the US in 2023. They’re often used to address antiaging concerns by plumping areas of the face that have lost collagen. While she offers filler treatments to her clients, Dr. Noreen Galaria, a dermatologist in Virginia, has never used them…
