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.
Rob Marvin, associate features editor for PCMag, discusses the biggest announcements from Microsoft's Build conference. Marvin weighs in on Microsoft introducing AI for Accessibility, an integration between its digital assistant Cortana and Amazon Alexa.
Designer Diane Gilman created a line of jeans for older women and has so far sold 10 million pairs. Her success, she says, is driven by her brand's focus on an under served market.
In a bid to regain its lost ground in the U.S., the Swiss company behind Nespresso and Nescafé will give Starbucks $7.1 billion to sell its packaged goods.
Gotham Chopra and his Religion of Sports media company may have just entered the filmmaking scene a few months ago, but it has already snapped up an Emmy nomination, which Chopra says feels like "an affirmation."
Warren Buffett isn't betting on bitcoin anytime soon. Over the weekend at the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting, Buffett said the digital currency is "probably rat poison squared." Buffett has long been skeptical about cryptocurrencies. At the conference, Buffett also made headlines when he said he regretted not investing in Amazon and Alphabet.
Starting Monday, Tesla will start kicking out contract workers unless a fulltime employee can vouch for them. In an email to employees, Elon Musk said Tesla employees will need to send HR a note affirming the character of the contractor, or else that person will be denied access to Tesla's facilities. Tesla employs around 40,000 people worldwide.
And we speak to Shan-Lyn Ma, co-founder and CEO of Zola, about the company's latest funding round. Zola has worked on improving the wedding registry process for couples. With this new funding, Ma says Zola will work to ensure every part of the wedding planning process is seamless, from budgeting to the honeymoon.
The rapper's public support for President Trump has helped raise the profile of West's sneaker line, says Cam Wolf, a fashion reporter at GQ.com. He adds that many of West's fans see his outspokenness as a sort of performance art in services of his personal brand.
Mr Bing CEO Brian Goldberg brought the lessons he learned from starting a food chain in Hong Kong to New York City, where he launched his Chinese crepe business by starting with pop-ups and trendy food hall locations.
Joel Peresman, president and CEO of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, talks about how the organization decides who will be inducted each year and who will present the inductees during the ceremony.
Kareem Burke, who founded Roc-A-Fella Records with Jay-Z, produced two films at the Tribeca Film Festiva that he hopes will encourage a discussion of prison reform.
Kareem Burke, who co-founded Roc-A-Fella records and claims to have "personally launched" Kanye West's career, says he's disturbed by the rapper's recent comments and that it doesn't sound like the Kanye he knows.
