The hidden game: discover the sports business Career climbers / April 28, 2025 L. Felipe Monteiro A nail penalty shooting. A Sprint title decided by mere milliseconds. A championship that is reduced to the cable. From baseball to bádminton, sport has a remarkable ability to unite millions of people around the world and leave them on the edge of their seats, whether they are observing the action in person or tune from far from afar. Behind the scene, the sports business is much more intricate than many fans can imagine. It is a fixed and complex industry that extends far…
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Ventures launches a 12 -week accelerator program to boost the new climate and industrial technology companies Entrepreneurs / May 1, 2025 The ventures firm of $ 1B+ Agnostic stage backed by Schneider Electric, has announced the launch of its new accelerator program, a 12-week initiative designed to help PRE-SEDUPS in climatic and BACELERTHAL growth. This program will equip the founders with capital, industry experience, global customer information and market strategies necessary to navigate technical complexities and address specific market challenges. “As a specialized VC, Ventures provides a deep domain experience to our portfolio companies, and our global team launches sleeves…
Spring beauty trends are in full force on LTK. Chief among those dominating the creator commerce app, which generates $5 billion in annual sales of beauty, fashion and home products, is “glowy makeup,” searches for which spiked more than 1,400 percent in March. This surge drove subsequent traffic for products like Milk Makeup’s Hydro Grip Hydrating Gel Skin Tint, which launched in February as a counterpart to the brand’s bestselling primer of the same franchise, as well as Makeup by Mario’s Hydrating SuperShine Lip Gloss. That launched last December and was the single most-shopped beauty product on LTK in March. “The three key trends we’re seeing across the top-performing…
Bitcoin dropped under the $80,000 level on Monday, dragged by the continued selling pressure in the equities market. Earlier, the price of the flagship cryptocurrency fell as low as $77,396.43, its lowest level since November, according to Coin Metrics. Shares of companies linked to the crypto space also slid. Coinbase ended the day down 17.6%. Robinhood lost 19.8%, and bitcoin proxy play Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, declined more than 16%. Bitcoin exchange-traded funds are coming off their fourth week in a row of outflows. They logged $867 million of outflows last week, bringing the four-week total to $4.75 billion, according to CoinShares. Continued bearishness pushed…
Liz Earle is returning to the U.S. The brand, founded by botanical beauty expert Liz Earle in 1995, is reentering the U.S. market on Thursday via its launch on Amazon. The assortment includes the brand’s bestselling products, like its Cleanse & Polish Hot Cloth Cleanser, $59, one of which is sold every 20 seconds, according to the company’s website. Industry sources estimate the brand’s sales to be around 41 million pounds in the U.K. “We are thrilled to bring Liz Earle and the products I personally have fallen in love with back to the U.S. market,” said Melanie Cappella, chief marketing officer of No7 Beauty Company…
The price of Bitcoin has doubled since the start of the year in signs of a resurgence of investor confidence in the cryptocurrency after its value tumbled last year. Bitcoin rose more than 3% today to touch the $34,500 mark. It is up 29% in the past month and up 104% since January, though it remains well down on the $64,400 peak it hit in November 2021. Ethereum has also seen a bounce-back, with its price up 13% in the past month and 49% since the start of the year. A combination of economic and regulatory factors are thought to be behind the lift in investor…
by Christopher Bing, Avi Asher-Schapiro and Annie Waldman ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When President Donald Trump announced his marquee government cost-cutting initiative, he left no doubt about whom he intended to run it: Elon Musk. Still, questions about the scope of Musk’s authority have hounded the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency ever since. As DOGE began to order massive budget cuts and layoffs, and those affected by the moves began to raise questions in the press and in court about their…
SpaceX’s Crew-10 launched into space Friday to bring home two NASA astronauts who have been stuck at the International Space Station (ISS) since June 6. The crew of four geared up in the “suit-up room” amid photos of the Apollo crew, before driving to the launchpad in multiple Teslas adorned with “LIF10FF” license plates — an ode to the mission number. Each astronaut received a medical check before being briefed by SpaceX and NASA. Later, they partook in various traditions, including a card game to eliminate any bad luck. SPACEX MAKES HISTORY WITH SUCCESSFUL TEST OF ‘MECHAZILLA ARMS’ The launch…
Bitcoin has built-in scarcity, and a definitive “full stop” by design. There will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin, and roughly 19.6 million have already been mined. It is expected to take until 2140 to generate those last 1.4 million Bitcoin, because Bitcoin production slows down over time. This is part of a system designed to generate scarcity and increase Bitcoin’s value. The slow-down is managed through a process called Bitcoin halving. It’s one of the key ways Bitcoin is unlike a traditional fiat currency, and is more of an investor’s asset than anything else.
Delta Air Lines is partnering with aerospace startup JetZero on its development of a sustainable blended-wing-body aircraft. The blended-wing-body design of the planned JetZero plane is expected to make it “up to 50% more fuel efficient than conventional tube-and-wing airframes on the market,” the carrier said. Delta intends to lend its operational expertise to JetZero, now a member of the carrier’s Sustainable Skies Lab, as the California-based startup develops the jet. Through the partnership, JetZero will have access to the “right maintenance and operational footprints to prove out and accelerate the commercialization” of the blended-wing-body aircraft, according to Delta. DELTA…
