August 26, 2024
G Squared Raises $1.1 Billion Amid ‘Secondary Market’ Interest

Venture capital group G Squared has reportedly raised $1.1 billion for its latest fund. The firm aims to tap into increasing investor demand for G Squared’s strategy of buying pre-existing...

August 25, 2024
FTC Junk Fee Crackdown Leaves Restaurants Feeling Queasy

The Biden administration’s anti-junk-fee campaign is targeting the restaurant sector. But as CNBC reported Sunday (Aug. 25), restaurateurs are trying to avoid this fight. The report, citing data from the...

August 25, 2024
Restaurants Resist Regulatory Crackdown on ‘Junk Fees

Lawmakers are intensifying their efforts to curb “junk fees,” yet restaurants across the nation are striving to remain on the sidelines of this regulatory battle. In recent years, an increasing...

August 21, 2024
TalkShopLive Teams With NBCUniversal for Shoppable Video

Video commerce platform TalkShopLive has launched a partnership with NBCUniversal. The collaboration, set to kick off Thursday (Aug. 22), involves the two companies creating and streaming shoppable livestreams featuring entertainers...

August 20, 2024
Lowe’s Looks to Grow With Pros as Consumer Demand Dwindles

The home improvement market could use some improvement itself. That’s the latest from Lowe’s Companies Inc. During its second-quarter 2024 earnings call Tuesday (Aug. 20), the company revised its annual...

August 16, 2024
Exclusive: Mercado Pago CEO on Building Brazil’s Biggest Digital Bank

Most countries measure banking activity in terms of where and how it happens. Hence distinctions such as in-branch, ATMs, online and mobile. But in Latin America, for all intents and...

August 14, 2024
Consensus Raises $11.5 Million to Expand AI-Powered Scientific Search Engine

Consensus and its investors reportedly see an opportunity to use artificial intelligence (AI) to power a search engine focused on delivering information from scientific research papers to academics, students, doctors...

August 08, 2024
Rumble Teams Up with Elon Musk’s X in Antitrust Lawsuit...

Rumble, the social media platform known for its free speech stance, has teamed up with Elon Musk’s X (formerly known as Twitter) in a lawsuit against the Global Alliance for...

August 08, 2024
From “We gotta go now” to “Magnets, how do they...

Popular music and the antitrust laws governing mergers may seem like strange bedfellows. But the same tides that affect our attitudes towards popular music wash over antitrust merger law. When society is in a restrictive...