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FIFA Is Selling Pieces of the World Cup Field for $450. Not Everyone’s Thrilled
From record concession sales to cut up pieces of turf as souvenirs, the 2026 World Cup found plenty of ways to cash in.
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Costco Ran Out of Room for Gas Pumps, So It’s Building Entire Gas Stations Without a Store
The first stand-alone Costco gas station opened on a former Bed Bath & Beyond site in Southern California.
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As Threats Against AI Executives Surge, Tech Giants Are Beefing Up Security: ‘People Go for the Pitchfork’
Days after a firebombing at Sam Altman's house, an intruder snuck into Anthropic's lobby to warn of a threat.
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Prozac Maker Eli Lilly Just Bought a Psychedelics Company for $2.8 Billion — Here’s What It Could Mean for Mental Health
Big pharma is making a big bet that a DMT nasal spray could succeed where daily Prozac pills fall short.
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An Explosive Parasite Outbreak Has Americans Skipping Salad. The Lettuce Industry Is In Full Panic Mode.
Restaurants are swapping salads for cooked vegetables, and growers say the $3.79 billion industry could spin out of control.
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He Got Hooked on SweatHouz as a Customer. Now He’s CEO of More Than 100 Studios.
Nico Varano used to evaluate businesses for a living. Then a boxing injury led him into SweatHouz's private suites — he never left.
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Hasbro’s First Attempt at Adult Play-Doh Smelled Like ‘Mom Jeans.’ Here’s Its New Plan.
The toy company's fix includes a brand-new name and zero traditional advertising, with 200 creators doing the selling instead.
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Stripe Wants to Buy PayPal for $53 Billion — Here’s What the Merger Would Mean
The merger would create one of the world's largest global online payments company, processing $3.7 trillion a year.
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A Startup Says It Shrunk an AI Model by 93%. Apple Wants to Talk.
PrismML's AI model is small enough to run entirely on an iPhone, potentially reducing Siri's dependence on the cloud.
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‘Landmaxxing’ Is the New Flex for Billionaires — Here’s What It Is
Luxury land searches are up 97% this year as the ultra-wealthy race to buy out their neighbors and create high-end compounds.
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Bojangles Added EV Chargers to Help Sell More Fried Chicken. Now the Chain Plans to Build 85 More.
Georgia Foods, one of Bojangles's largest franchisees, wants chargers at every location it can get them.
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Chipotle’s Next Big Bet Is Selling Burrito Bowls in Mexico. One Rival Already Flopped There.
The American chain is heading south of the border to sell Mexican-inspired food to Mexican customers, starting in Monterrey.
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The Altman-Musk Feud Is Back: Musk Says Altman ‘Takes Scamming to a Whole New Level,’ Altman Mocks His SpaceX IPO
The tech moguls took to X to rip each other apart again, this time over Apple's lawsuit and Musk's SpaceX IPO.
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Customers Are Now Using ‘Friendly Fraud’ to Get Free Stuff — Small Businesses Are Paying the Price
Some shoppers have found a shortcut to not paying for items: skip the return, just dispute the charge. It's sneaky, and it's technically fraud.
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They Raised Hogs on an 89-Acre Farm and Couldn’t Get Out of Debt. Then a Data Center Made Them a $22 Million Offer.
The AI data-center gold rush is turning overlooked rural land into gold, minting an unlikely class of millionaires.
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McDonald’s Secretly Built a See-Through Restaurant in a Chicago Warehouse —Here’s What’s Inside
The fast food giant showed off the new concept to franchisees at its Worldwide convention in Las Vegas.
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He Grew Up Eating at Hot Dog on a Stick. Decades Later, He Bought the Struggling Chain for $8 Million: ‘It’s a Diamond in the Rough’
After shrinking from more than 100 locations to 44, the 80-year-old franchise has a new owner with plans to move beyond the mall.
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This Venture Capitalist Is Paying a Record $9.6 Billion for an NFL Team
Billionaire Vinod Khosla has to give up his stake in the 49ers to close the deal, and NFL owners still have to approve.
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Getting Hired at This Company Is Harder Than Getting Into Harvard
Italian startup Bending Spoons received 800,000 job applications last year. It hired only 286 people.
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San Francisco Home Sellers Don’t Just Want Cash Anymore. They Want OpenAI and Anthropic Stock: ‘There’s a Bit of Gold Rush’
Ahead of potential OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs, some Bay Area homeowners are asking buyers to pay with private AI shares.
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This Costco Cashier Started Gathering Carts in the Parking Lot for $5.85 an Hour. Now He’s a Millionaire: ‘This Is My Calling’
Tony Barzar has worked at Costco for 40 years. That loyalty has paid off big time for his family's finances and health.
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Mark Zuckerberg Is Spending Hundreds of Billions on AI. His New Strategy in the Race Against OpenAI Is Surprisingly Simple.
Meta’s new developer AI model will reportedly cost far less than rivals as Zuck looks to turn his massive AI investment into a business.
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Google Just Broke the Biggest Search Record in Its History Thanks to This One World Cup Moment
AI chatbots were supposed to render Google Search extinct. But Argentina and Lionel Messi had something to say about that.
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Jersey Mike’s Started As a Single Sandwich Shop. Now It Says It Can Become a 15,000-Location Giant.
The franchise says it has room for 15,000 restaurants worldwide as it prepares to go public following its acquisition by Blackstone.
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Taco Bell Is Replacing Drive-Thru Workers With AI. Why Are Employees Happy About It?
Taco Bell's voice AI is now taking drive-thru orders. The employee response is nacho what you think.
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Two Brothers-in-Law Started a Small Strawberry Farm in 1904. It Now Supplies a Third of the World’s Berries.
Driscoll's figured out how to sell berries year round — without growing most of the berries itself.
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Smucker’s CEO Said Buying Twinkies ‘Tastes Like Growth.’ Three Years Later, It Tastes Like a $5 Billion Mistake.
The jam giant thought it was buying a snack empire. It didn't realize that Twinkies last 65 days — a small fact that would cause big problems.
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What’s the ‘Mini Effect,’ and How Are Brands Like Trader Joe’s Cashing In?
From tiny canvas Trader Joe's bags to pint-sized versions of Lowe's plastic bucket, brands are shrinking popular items for the "mini effect."
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He Left TGI Fridays to Run a Small Breakfast Franchise. Now It’s the Biggest in the Country.
Under CEO Ricky Richardson, Eggs Up Grill has quadrupled in size — and become the largest actively franchising breakfast brand in U.S.
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Toyota Is Spending $3.6 Billion to Move Tacoma Truck Production From Mexico to Texas
The world's largest automaker is building a second assembly line at its San Antonio plant, creating more than 2,000 jobs.
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