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While we’ve barely put away the sunscreen and summer gear, the holiday season “creep” is slowly making its way into stores and online. And for many people, it’s not only the most wonderful time of the year, but also the most expensive. Whether you expect to spend on gifts, holida...
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- Passengers flying into Las Vegas are noticing higher airfares since March, according to new data from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. The LVCVA is expected to talk about the issue in a presentation titled 'Economic Forum Tourism Trend Update" ...
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Anthropic says it has blocked multiple accounts that used the company’s artificial intelligence models in ways that could support the development of biological weapons. In a report published Thursday, the AI company known for its Claude model sai...
In a video clip that has ricocheted across social media about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a retired high-level leader chastises fellow members considering departing the faith, admonishing, “Darth Vader could be your bishop,” he states, “the culture could be l...
A Texas House committee will hold a hearing Sept. 30 to examine the legal, economic and constitutional implications of adding one or more New Mexico counties to Texas....
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Omaha Steaks, the pioneering meat delivery company, has been around for over a century. But if it wants to survive amid record-high beef prices, the company has to become speedier, leaner and offer cheaper cuts. That’s the direction CEO Na...
Running a small business is thrilling, but navigating sales tax means crunching numbers and understanding regulations. You must calculate and charge sales tax for each purchase when your business sells something. The sales tax rates vary by state and by location within the state....
Affordability pressures are driving aspiring homebuyers to make significant tradeoffs on their path to purchase, according to an annual TD survey of Americans planning to buy their first home in 2026. With elevated interest rates, broader economic uncertainty, and limited invento...
Bill Gates has been one of the world’s richest people for decades, and his business jet fleet is the envy of other high-net-worth individuals. With an all-in estimated value of $194 million , it’s reasonable for conversations to focus on the financial reality of operating such a ...
Many small business sales teams have a wealth of data stored in their sales software. Teams with access to CRM reporting tools can turn that data into useful reports that provide genuine insight and improve decision-making. CRM reporting is the use of customer relationship manage...
You’re the finance leader at a scaling company with 50-500 employees, and your CFO wants a number that justifies the accounts payable automation return on investment (ROI). The figure has to be defensible and grounded in the current accounts payable (AP) process cost. The problem...
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- Thousands of customers are experiencing no power in El Paso's Lower Valley, East and far East El Paso areas, according to El Paso Electric's Outage Map on Wednesday, Sept. 9. According to the map, over 7,000 customers have been affected by what the utilit...
By Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Cupertino, CA (CNN) — The iPhone is getting the biggest change in its nearly 20-year history: a screen that can bend in half. Apple on Wednesday announced the iPhone Duo, the company’s first foldable smartphone, signaling a major revamp of its most importan...
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Oil prices shot past $100 a barrel Wednesday as fighting between the U.S. and Iran escalated, threatening to increase costs for consumers and businesses worldwide....
By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — The White House has removed from its website an arcade-style “Build the Wall” game closely styled like Tetris, which comes after the gaming company warned of copyright infringement. The White House last week launched a series of games on its website to t...
Costco appears to have ended a longtime program that allowed members to shop for sale items at select partner retailers.
President Donald Trump's escalation of the trade war with Canada is coming at a bad time for Senate Republican candidates, who are being put in the awkward place of having to defend the administration's economic record while having to push back against Trump's targeting of critic...
By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Suzanne Schiltz was hungry. Cleaning is exhausting business, especially as a hotel chambermaid in Paris — one of the most visited cities in the world, even in 1926. So when she saw an apple in the suitcase of two young men one December while neatening u...
(TestMiles) - Toyota offers 11 gas and hybrid Tacoma trim levels, turning one midsize pickup into everything from a work truck to a factory overlander. A TACOMA FOR ALMOST EVERY KIND OF TRUCK BUYER Shopping for a 2026 Toyota Tacoma now involves a surprisingly important question: ...
(TestMiles) - Hyundai plans for electrified vehicles to reach 60% of global sales by 2030, with hybrids and EVs playing different roles by market. Hyundai Motor Company has put a large number on its 2030 plan: 60 percent. The easy interpretation is that six out of every 10 Hyunda...
By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — OpenAI on Tuesday said its artificial intelligence technology has cracked one of the Millennium Problems –– seven famously difficult and unsolved questions in mathematics that have stumped even the world’s brightest minds. In a release of its findings,...
A purchasing card, known as a p-card, is a company-issued charge card built for routine procurement, paid in full each cycle, with pre-spend controls that block out-of-policy purchases at the register. A business credit card is a revolving line of credit built for flexibility, wi...
For e-commerce brands, peak season is no longer a single, isolated surge centered around Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the weeks leading up to New Year’s. In 2026, that Q4-focused approach is becoming less reliable. Economic pressures, consumer expectations, trade regulations, ...
Keeping a buyer has always cost less than replacing one, yet retailers often put the relationship under pressure after payment clears. Harvard Business Review has reported that acquiring a new customer can cost five to 25 times more than keeping an existing one . The same math ma...
Excel was released in 1985. Forty-one years later, here you are, still using it to run your shop. Spreadsheets are wonderful. Your schedule is on there. Your techs’ repair orders (RO) and updates for the day are found on it. Your service advisors use it to track customers. It’s g...
Access to cash and credit is a small business’s lifeline. Your business’s credit rating shows lenders, suppliers, and other vendors how financially stable your business is, as well as how well you’ve been able to manage your cash and pay your business debts on time. Establishing ...
Entrepreneurs are using AI tools for insurance research at rates comparable to insurance agents and peer networks, according to a new ERGO NEXT survey of small business owners. Of those who have used AI, most trust the information they receive, signaling that entrepreneurs are be...
Comedian and satirist Nathan Fielder is preparing to publish a documentary on Elizabeth Holmes, the former business executive convicted of defrauding investors in connection with health technology company Theranos....
Corduroy pants are back! Shop these on-trend picks, just in time for fall.
(NEXSTAR) – It's not just chicken chains and massive travel centers that are expanding. Warehouse giant Costco is on track to open more than a dozen new stores in the next few months, many of which will be throughout the U.S. With these new warehouses will undoubtedly come the po...
The Elmo teether was sold from January 2025 through March 2026 at Carter's stores, online, and at www.skiphop.com.
By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — One company has a simple-sounding plan to help save the planet: take a food additive and the mineral that makes eggshells hard, produce tiny particles out of them, spray them into the atmosphere and cool the world. Stardust Solutions, an Israeli-US ...
A new film featuring restored footage of Juan Gabriel's historic 1990 performance at Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes is scheduled to begin showing in U.S. theaters on September 15....
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- The Shoppes at Solona has announced "Fiesta De La Cultura", a free event that organizers say highlights the Borderland culture, heritage, and community. The event is scheduled at the Shoppes at Solona on Saturday, September 12, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and...
By Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — A Volkswagen car plant in northwestern Germany is to be converted to defense production, the company said Monday, as Europe’s biggest economy ramps up military spending amid a continent-wide push to rearm. Volkswagen said in a statement that it ...
Backlash to Flock cameras has been growing in recent months, but the surveillance equipment company isn't the only one that may be operating in your neighborhood....
By Lisa Eadicicco, CNN (CNN) — When Apple holds its annual iPhone event on September 9, it’ll be the first time in more than a decade that Tim Cook won’t introduce the company’s latest products. Instead, John Ternus will debut as Apple’s new chief executive during the company’s m...
By Rachel Siegel, CNN (CNN) — Canada said it had been attacked. The US said it had been ripped off for years. And on the exact border between the two, Louis Patenaude had boxes to sort. In the throes of a heated trade war, Half-Way House Freight Forwarding was still open. Patenau...
By Steve Contorno, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Charlie Kirk sat before a Salt Lake City audience of restaurateurs last September 10, dispensing business advice drawn from his own unlikely rise. The conservative activist argued that a company needed a deep connection to the founde...
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- The City of El Paso’s Adopt-A-Street pilot program has completed its first phase and is now open to the public, inviting community groups, businesses, and individuals to select a street segment and organize cleanups. Through the program, participants sign...
By Maureen O'Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: Top food destinations in Asia, America’s best town to visit in 2026, and the special dishes that have for centuries powered London’s oldest restaurant. English elegance During its 228 years of existence, t...
Donal Gooch is not pleased about the trash on his arena floor. “It’s pitiful,” he says, speaking with the The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian . Donal leans back against the stage of the Gooch Sports Arena, the centerpiece of a family-held 12-acre plot in Eagl...
For years, the used market served as a reliable alternative for first-time buyers, consumers looking to avoid steep new-car depreciation, and shoppers priced out of the new-car market. But second-quarter 2026 data from Edmunds shows a used market that has fundamentally repriced i...
The last time an online order showed up late or wrong, the brand probably took the blame before the carrier did. From the shopper’s side of the screen, the order came from the retailer, so the delay feels like the retailer’s problem. And McKinsey & Company research supports that ...
Every company wants to lower transportation costs. For many, that starts by negotiating better freight rates. While competitive pricing matters, it’s only one piece of a much larger puzzle. The most successful shipping operations know that meaningful savings come from improving t...
As a controller at a growing company, you spend a disproportionate share of your close week on invoice coding. You assign general ledger (GL) accounts, cost centers, and dimensions to vendor bills that move through accounts payable (AP). The work is mechanical, but it carries rea...
Flock Safety has poured more than $2 million into federal and state lobbying since 2025 as the fast‑growing surveillance company faces mounting scrutiny from lawmakers in both parties and privacy advocates over its ever-expanding network of license‑plate‑tracking cameras. The com...
Not too long ago, buying something online meant doing all of the work alone, hunting through site after site until the right product finally turned up. But that routine is changing now that artificial intelligence assistants have started absorbing work that used to fall entirely ...
By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week instructed diplomats around the world to tell their host countries they must “systematically identify and sever” ties to Iran , and those with branches of Iranian banks must shut them down immediately. O...
By Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — For a decade, Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt has been ensnared in the tentacles of a sprawling Justice Department probe into a sophisticated billion-dollar money laundering scheme that US prosecutors allege embezzled fund...
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(TestMiles) - Tesla’s purpose-built robotaxi arrives as ride-share giants race to make autonomous cars partners before they become competitors. Tesla is about to make its autonomous-vehicle ambitions much harder to dismiss as a side project. On September 3, the company is holding...
Running a business cost more than planned for most founders this year. A recent survey of 1,500 early-stage founders and builders from Mercury , a fintech platform that offers business and personal banking services*, found that 75% of respondents said their costs came in higher t...
If you lead finance in a growing company, your current card may have been picked when travel was your biggest expense. Today, most of the spending runs through software subscriptions, online ads, cloud hosting, and contractor payments, and travel is just one line among many. Comp...
By Caleb Hellerman and Laila Johnson-Salami (CNN) — The small business owner was diagnosed with appendicitis. The university lecturer and the government clerk, both struggling with stomach pain for more than a year, were told they had ulcers. In each case, the real problem turned...
By Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN (CNN) — The enormous investments that the US and Venezuela have promised from their new oil production deal have brought cautious optimism that Venezuelans face a new period of prosperity after more than a decade of economic and social turmoil. As the coun...
