The holidays are over, but 2026 is already ushering in a new season of savings. Presidents' Day, the first major sale of the year, brings discounts on home goods, tech and lingering seasonal items as retailers such as Walmart, Costco, Amazon and Best Buy clear old stock and introduce

Every Super Bowl takes on the culture of its host city — South Beach in Miami, the French Quarter in New Orleans, Hollywood in Los Angeles. This Sunday’s game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, an hour’s drive south of San Francisco, will reflect Silicon Valley and draw

Investors and analysts pressed Nintendo during its earnings Q&A over whether the company will raise the price of the Switch 2 because of spiking memory prices amid AI-fueled shortages. RAM is through the roof and graphics cards are getting delayed, but Nintendo says it is keeping a cool

Elon Musk this week combined SpaceX, his rocket and satellite company, with xAI, the artificial intelligence and social media business he controls. He says the merger will let SpaceX move A.I. data centers into orbit to tap abundant solar power and sidestep terrestrial bureaucracies — a vision that many found

Saudi Arabia announced sweeping investments in Syria’s telecommunications, energy and aviation sectors on Saturday, unveiling deals at the presidential palace in Damascus. The package includes the creation of a joint airline, the rehabilitation of Aleppo’s international airport and a $1 billion investment to develop the country’s telecommunication

Cerebras Systems this week raised $1 billion at a $23 billion valuation, nearly three times its value six months earlier. Tiger Global led the round, and a large share of the new capital came from early backer Benchmark Capital, which invested at least $225 million, according to a person familiar

Liberty Tiny Village is a resort-style, 55-and-older tiny-home community in Aubrey, North Texas, founded in 2022 on 7.5 acres between master-planned subdivisions and family farms. Owned by Melissa Hayes and her husband, Phillip, the village has 11 occupied lots and markets itself to retirees and soon-to-be retirees looking to

HR teams often drown in spreadsheets, payroll runs slip, and compliance headaches pile up. Those problems can lead to real risks: regulatory exposure, dissatisfied employees, and operational breakdowns. Picking the right HR platform can simplify global hiring, steady payroll, and improve employee experience. Top pick Deel addresses global complexity by

In eight years sports gambling in the United States has grown from an illegal enterprise to a business that processes $220 billion in bets each year; this weekend alone some $1.8 billion is set to be wagered on Super Bowl LX. That expanding pool has intensified competition among FanDuel,

Tech stocks were slammed this week as new fears of AI disruption swept Wall Street, dragging the broader market after a software-led sell-off. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was down 2% for the week, despite Friday's comeback, while the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF fell more than 12%. Some

Last May Epic introduced a revenue-share plan that gives third-party developers the first $1 million in annual Epic Games Store sales before reverting to the platform’s standard 88%/12% split. The move has been an incentive for many studios, but Epic’s storefront hasn’t seen a large financial

A reader who has been with his partner for nearly ten years says their personal finance paths have diverged. He spent six or seven years learning to manage money—handling debt, saving, and investing—while his partner has largely stayed in the same place, avoiding conversations about future goals, deflecting,

Bank of America says investors should favor Main Street plays as the US midterms approach, arguing a "[F]lip from asset-light to asset-heavy business model suggests major threat to 2020s market leadership of Big Tech/Magnificent 7," analysts led by Michael Hartnett wrote, adding that AI capex means

Y Combinator briefly removed Canada from its list of acceptable countries of incorporation, prompting criticism from Canadian investors and founders. The accelerator has since reversed that decision and restored Canada to the list. The change was first noticed last week, after a site that once listed the US, Canada, Singapore,

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency approved a newly created national bank, allowing Erebor Bank to operate nationwide. It is the first new national bank charter granted during President Donald Trump’s second term. Erebor launches with about $635 million in capital and aims to serve startups, venture-backed

I've had a Costco executive membership for almost 10 years, and I love buying groceries there. The $130-a-year executive membership comes with perks like 2% back on all purchases (distributed as an annual check) and earlier access to the store. Ground beef is a mealtime staple in our

Arc Raiders had sold over 12 million copies as of January 12, and Embark CEO Patrick Söderlund pointed out, "you don't have to be a math professor to realize that the game has done well for us." Speaking to IGN, Söderlund said the game had been

Five years on, the PlayStation 5 remains a strong seller. The PS5 moved 8 million units last quarter, outpacing the Switch 2’s 7 million; Sony leaned on steep holiday discounts—$400 for the PS5 Digital versus $450 for the Switch 2—though Nintendo sold an additional 1.3 million

Maddi Thimont spent years building a legal career with long hours in private practice and then as in-house counsel at a Big Tech firm. After having two children she began to question whether she could have both a high-level legal role and time with her family, and in 2024 she

Stocks rallied on Friday, with the S&P 500 rising 2 percent — its biggest one-day gain since May — as some beaten-down technology shares stabilized and investors shifted toward more traditional companies. The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 50,000 points for the first time, finishing at 50,115.

Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation to increase the US’s low-tariff imports of Argentine beef, a move economists say will likely have little effect on consumer prices. A White House official said in October that Trump would make such a move, a prospect that evoked fury from the

Amazon disclosed that its stake in Anthropic is now worth $60.6 billion, comprised of $45.8 billion in convertible notes and $14.8 billion in nonvoting preferred stock. The company has invested $8 billion in the AI startup since late 2023, a roughly seven-fold increase in value. The two

President Donald Trump this week launched TrumpRx, a government-backed platform aimed at lowering prescription drug prices for Americans paying out of pocket. TrumpRx is a drug discount website, not a price-control regime: it targets cash-paying and uninsured patients without changing insured or Medicare pricing. Financial markets reacted calmly. Major pharmaceutical

Mr. Karp resigned as chairman of Paul Weiss after senior partners met to decide his future. His name had surfaced in documents from the Justice Department’s trove on Jeffrey Epstein, which at first did not alarm many partners because Mr. Karp had long represented Leon Black. As more material

US stocks jumped on Friday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied more than 1,100 points to close above 50,000 for the first time, finishing at 50,115.67. Tech stocks climbed broadly, the Nasdaq rose about 2%, and bitcoin bounced after its sharp decline earlier in the