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Paramount Skydance’s agreement to delay its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery might have a simple explanation: CEO David Ellison can afford to wait.After months of trying to fast-track its WBD mega-deal, Paramount agreed on Friday not to close it until June 2027, or until five days after a trial ends.Attorneys…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ben Mutz, 39, a retired Air Force officer who bought a home that wasn’t originally for sale in Oakwood, Ohio. Mutz used Unlisted, an app that allows prospective buyers to waitlist themselves on homes that are not yet on the market.…
Two startups with the goal of keeping couples in love got hitched.Arya, a relationship wellness AI startup, recently acquired Flamme, an app with activities for couples like quizzes and milestones, Business Insider has learned exclusively.Arya and Flamme “complement each other,” Arya’s CEO, Offer Yehudai, told Business Insider.While Flamme is for…
After work each day, I found myself feeling mentally exhausted and burned out. Seemingly endless emails and a phone that buzzes long after 5 p.m. left me craving a more balanced lifestyle, particularly one that didn’t make me feel constantly available. However, I was struggling to find activities and plans…
It’s possible that AI will bring us all kinds of amazing things in the future.In the present, AI is making things more expensive.And Apple just showed us how much more expensive: It is raising prices on some of its Macs and iPads by at least 15% and directly attributing the…
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is so determined to buy eBay that he’s taken his own $35 billion pay deal off the table.Cohen has withdrawn the proposed compensation package because he wants to fully focus on revitalizing GameStop’s business and acquiring eBay, GameStop said in a press release on Tuesday.Cohen has…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maahir Sharma, a 24-year-old software engineer based in Dublin. It has been edited for length and clarity.”Are you an AI?”That wasn’t a question directed at me. It was directed at an AI agent I’d built to call hotels and negotiate room…
Pizza Hut is getting a new owner after years of weak sales and growing questions about the future of one of America’s best-known pizza brands.Yum! Brands said Tuesday it entered into agreements to sell Pizza Hut for $2.7 billion, splitting the business between two buyers. LongRange Capital, a private equity…
Microsoft was recently in talks with Oracle about leasing the company’s cloud infrastructure, but the deal fell through due to security and compliance concerns, according to people familiar with the matter. One of the people said that the deal could have been worth more than $3 billion.The failed talks highlight…
Flyers hoping for cheaper flights this summer may be disappointed.Oil prices — airlines’ second-largest expense after labor — have tumbled below $80 a barrel from highs above $100 after the US and Iran announced a preliminary agreement to end the nearly four-month war that closed the Strait of Hormuz, a…
