Apple Music is on track to outpace Spotify in the U.S. According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple Music has been growing its subscriber base by 5% every month, while competitor Spotify has only been growing by 2% per month. If both companies continue to grow at the current pace, Apple Music will overtake Spotify by this summer.
We dive into what's behind the latest ups and downs in the stock market. The Dow set a record for the largest two-day drop since the Brexit vote in June 2016. Chad Morganlander, Portfolio Manager at Washington Crossing Advisors, believes it would be healthy for markets to continue to pull back.
Sean Black, co-founder and CEO of Knock, tells Cheddar about his plans to take his company public in 2020. Knock is a start-up company that allows homeowners to sell or trade their homes for better ones.
Plus, we break down the Super Bowl advertising wins and losses. Amy Avery from Droga5 and Jeanine Poggi from Ad Age weigh in on their favorite commercials of the night. Overall, they say Tide ran a very successful ad campaign, while Ram's ad campaign sparked criticism from many viewers.
Joe Cecela, Dream Exchange CEO, explains how they are aiming to form the first minority-controlled company to operate an exchange in U.S. history. Watch!
A Michigan judge is putting sponges in the hands of shoplifters and ordering them to wash cars in a Walmart parking lot when spring weather arrives. Genesee County Judge Jeffrey Clothier hopes the unusual form of community service discourages people from stealing from Walmart. The judge also wants to reward shoppers with free car washes. Clothier says he began ordering “Walmart wash” sentences this week for shoplifting at the store in Grand Blanc Township. He believes 75 to 100 people eventually will be ordered to wash cars this spring. Clothier says he will be washing cars alongside them when the time comes.
The State Department had been in talks with Elon Musk’s Tesla company to buy armored electric vehicles, but the plans have been put on hold by the Trump administration after reports emerged about a potential $400 million purchase. A State Department spokesperson said the electric car company owned by Musk was the only one that expressed interest back in May 2024. The deal with Tesla was only in its planning phases but it was forecast to be the largest contract of the year. It shows how some of his wealth has come and was still expected to come from taxpayers.
At 100 years old, the Goodyear Blimp is an ageless star in the sky. The 246-foot-long airship will be in the background of the Daytona 500 — flying roughly 1,500 feet above Daytona International Speedway, actually — to celebrate its greatest anniversary tour. Even though remote camera technologies are improving regularly and changing the landscape of aerial footage, the blimp continues to carve out a niche. At Daytona, with the usual 40-car field racing around a 2½-mile superspeedway, views from the blimp aptly provide the scope of the event.
You'll just have to wait for interest rates (and prices) to go down. Plus, this deal's a steel, the big carmaker wedding is off, and bribery is back, baby!
