Prince Harry's interview with Barack Obama aired on the BBC's Radio 4 on Wednesday. The royal sat down with the former president to discuss social media's effect on society. While Obama did credit social media to part of his political success, he acknowledged a bubble phemonenon, saying one of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities.
What do you get the Kardashian who has everything? Stock - and lots of it. Kanye West gave his wife Kim Kardashian hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stocks for Christmas. including Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Disney, and Adidas.
Americans are expected to send back approximately $90 billion dollars worth of goods, according to reports from Optoro, a firm that tracks the business of return shipments. The firm notes that January is peak time for all returns, but 40 percent of holiday returns happen immediately after Christmas, between December 26th and 31st.
Microsoft reported a 20% spike in quarterly profits Tuesday, helping to fuel its battle to get ahead of rivals like Google, Amazon and Facebook parent Meta in selling the latest artificial intelligence technology.
Visa Inc. said its adjusted third-quarter profits rose by nearly double digits, as the global payments company continues to benefit from the broad shift by consumers to using credit and debit cards instead of cash.
Even after inflation has steadily eased this year, the Federal Reserve's policymakers still think prices are rising too fast and are almost certain to lift their key interest rate by a quarter-point on Wednesday.
