Mobile GIF platform Tenor is out with the list of its top 5 gifts this year. The company's co-founder and CEO David McIntosh explains what they say about sentiment in 2017.
The top five GIFs of 2017 are the guy blinking, baby crying, Jonah Hill's "yay," Shaq laughing, and Obama's "Oh yeah." McIntosh says negative emotion searches went up 31 percent in 2017. Meanwhile, positive emotions decreased 18 percent.
"We can get a great sense of how people are actually thinking and feeling," says McIntosh. Though GIF searches were more negative overall, searches for "laughing" nearly doubled since 2017.
Kathryn Finney, founder of DigitalUndivided, wants to help minority entrepreneurs gain access to venture capital money for their start-ups.
Apple casts a long shadow, and that's never more apparent than after a new product launch. John Vinh, equity research analyst at KeyBanc, ticked off the companies that, as part of Apple's supply chain, stand to benefit from the latest iPhone launch.
Boutique fitness classes are taking on traditional gyms as the workout of choice for millennial fitness buffs. Sarah Larson Levey, founder of Y7, said that she initially started a new yoga studio to appeal to people like her who weren't feeling fulfilled in other yoga classes.
To get more television viewers, the Emmys, and all award shows for that matter, need to "honor the past" and get big names to show up and make people nostalgic, said Sean O'Connell, managing editor at Cinemablend. This year's ceremony takes place Monday night.
Robert Fairchild, star of the new stage-to-screen adaptation of "An American In Paris," tells Cheddar how revivals can work for audiences in a modern age.
The couple told Cheddar about how they balance screen time in their house, and why it's so important that they show their kids on social media.
Natural disasters, hurricanes especially, were once opportunities for administrations to flex their leadership and empathy muscles. When they failed (see: Bush, Katrina), the results were politically devastating. When they succeeded (see: Christie, Sandy), they launched runs for office. Those days appear to be over.
At its annual event in Cupertino, Calif., Apple announced three new iPhones and a new Apple Watch Series 4. With new features such as bigger screens and an EKG monitor on the watch, Apple hopes to reach audiences that may have not bought into the last edition of its products.
Hurricane Florence made a shift toward the southeast and is now likely to bring potentially catastrophic rain to a large swath of the southeast. Colin Hackman, a reporter and meteoroligist for WECT, reported for Cheddar from the North Carolina coast.
Diana Henriques, financial journalist and author, said that a decade after the financial crisis, the country is not even close to prepared for another economic collapse of similar magnitude or whatever could follow.
