Strategy

Uber’s personalized pricing could show you higher prices when you’re most desperate, such as when your phone battery is about to run out.

Kieran Ryan

Strategy

Coolkicks evolved into a media company to grow despite the razor-thin margins of the sneaker resale market.

Kieran Ryan

Markets

Last Thursday, the FDA reversed its ban on JUUL products; some consumers are already helping them market the product.

Kieran Ryan

Trends

Some brands like Lululemon and Olaplex are embracing the rise of #dupe subculture.

Kieran Ryan

Markets

A small, concentrated number of creators have all the audience and earnings within the creator class.

Kieran Ryan

Markets

Analysts predict Ozempic and other weight loss drugs will have ripples across many industries.

Kieran Ryan

Strategy

Barry's Bootcamp sale is expected to create a bidding frenzy due to strong profit margins and exciting expansion opportunities.

Kieran Ryan

Strategy

Erewhon made an estimated $171.4 million in profit in 2023 and built a really strong business with the help of celebrities and influencers.

Kieran Ryan

Startups

Apple has teams investigating a push into personal robotics for the home.

Kieran Ryan

Trends

Disney and Netflix increase investment in live experiences to match changing consumer preferences.

Kieran Ryan

Startups

The total cost of traffic exceeds $100 billion for U.S. cities. Several startups like The Boring Company, Regent, and Navier are working to solve it.

Kieran Ryan

Strategy

Netflix added 22 million subscribers in 2023 from its password-sharing crackdown.

Kieran Ryan

Strategy

Asian countries have spent millions to bring the Michelin Star guide to their cities.

Kieran Ryan

Markets

Consumers are fed up with Chipotle’s portion shrinkage, but the company’s financials show strong customer loyalty.

Kieran Ryan

Trends

More young people are ditching college and picking up skilled trades.

Kieran Ryan

Markets

An American woman and a Ukrainian man were arrested for helping North Korean IT workers infiltrate 300 American companies.

Kieran Ryan

Personal Finance

Americans are falling behind on monthly auto loan payments due to higher car prices and inflated interest rates.

Kieran Ryan

Trends

Job title inflation is rising, and the implications are not insignificant.

Kieran Ryan

Markets

A new survey shows some consumers are spending less on eating out at restaurants and ordering takeout.

Kieran Ryan

Personal Finance

Best Buy and other retailers crack down on retail return fraud through pay-to-return policies and software that quietly tracks your return behavior.

Kieran Ryan

Tech

An expanding number of businesses are selling the promise of ending loneliness through commercialized connections.

Kieran Ryan

Personal Finance

Federal student interest rates are expected to be the highest in over a decade.

Kieran Ryan

Trends

Nearshoring in Mexico is surging as U.S. businesses look to reduce reliance on China’s manufacturing.

Kieran Ryan

Personal Finance

Life settlements are a growing market and have garnered serious interest from prominent Wall Street firms.

Kieran Ryan

Sports

Life Time Fitness and other gyms are investing millions in pickleball to drive growth.

Kieran Ryan

Trends

Starbucks is the latest American restaurant chain to add boba to its menu - confirms boba-inspired drinks launch this summer.

Kieran Ryan

Trends

U.S. fast-food chains are opening thousands of stores in China’s smaller towns as its population ditches megacities like Shanghai.

Kieran Ryan

Trends

Restaurant-goers are spending thousands of dollars to snag reservations in New York on the secondary market.

Kieran Ryan

Markets

More women are working construction jobs as the national shortage of 500K construction workers forces the industry to recruit different populations.

Kieran Ryan

Strategy

American Express is seeing the benefits of new cards and increased marketing investments as it adds new millennial and Gen Z customers.

Kieran Ryan

Tech

Artists, game designers, and cybersecurity experts are teaming up to create new CAPTCHA prompts that balance user experience with bot prevention.

Kieran Ryan

Personal Finance

New rules order airlines to give full refunds instead of vouchers when flights are canceled or significantly delayed and to stop hiding fees.

Kieran Ryan

Personal Finance

Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck are tipping at an alarming rate to access part of their paycheck before payday.

Kieran Ryan

Trends

The top 1% are bored with standard supercars.

Kieran Ryan

Markets

Chipotle, Taco Bell, and Burger King have marked up prices since California’s $20 minimum wage for fast-food chains went into effect.

Kieran Ryan

Tech

Tinder’s “Share My Date” feature allows users to send a link to share their date plans.

Kieran Ryan

Markets

Luxury real estate sales increased more than 2% in the first quarter of 2024 – its largest year-over-year gain in three years.

Kieran Ryan

Trends

Several factors, including the significant risk of an orbital skirmish, are driving an increase in space activity.

Kieran Ryan

Personal Finance

Drivers are paying a lot more for auto insurance than they were last year. Here’s why.

Kieran Ryan

Trends

One in five shoppers have accidentally stolen items via self-checkout.

Kieran Ryan

Trends

Sales of new superyachts fell 17% last year.

Kieran Ryan

Startups

Panera Bread and Sweetgreen partner with Zipline to start delivering meals via drone.

Kieran Ryan

Tech

Amazon created a shell company to spy on rival e-commerce marketplaces like eBay, Shopify, and Walmart.

Kieran Ryan

Strategy

The family-run California chain is expanding as far east as Tennessee, but don’t expect it to open on the East Coast anytime soon.

Kieran Ryan

Personal Finance

A now-deleted video showed a RealPage executive saying in 2021 that the company’s software was driving double-digit rent increases nationwide.

Kieran Ryan

Tech

Hate speech continues flourishing on X – the FBI hopes criminals will tell on themselves.

Kieran Ryan

Markets

Taxpayers are on the hook for an estimated $6.2 billion in subsidies to fund private school education.

Kieran Ryan

Startups

Space’s microgravity profile presents an opportunity to create perfectly crystalized injectable immunotherapy drugs that couldn’t be made on Earth.

Justin Ryan

Markets

Target alone has seen $300 million stolen from customers due to card draining.

Kieran Ryan

Strategy

Clean energy companies are turning to sheep to keep their solar panels out of the shade.

Kieran Ryan