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☆ Fashion icon Iris Apfel dies at 102
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Apfel died on Friday at the age of 102, according to a post on her verified Instagram page. “I go at it full, I’m very passionate about what I do,” Apfel told CNN in an interview in 2018. Jemal Countess/WireImage/Getty Images“(Styling the White House) was a relatively easy job actually, because everything had to be as close as humanly possible to the way it was,” Apfel told the Guardian in 2015. The exhibition, “Rara Avis (Rare Bird),” was the first time the museum had paid tribute to a living woman who was not a fashion designer. Apfel front row at New York Fashion Week with model Karolina Kurkova in 2016.

Persons: Iris Apfel, Apfel, Stu Loeser, “, ” Apfel, Iris, Samuel, Carl Apfel, ”, Estée Lauder, Greta Garbo, Jemal, WireImage, Jackie Kennedy, Harold Koda, Koda, “ Rara, Karolina Kurkova, Michael Stewart, Kate Spade, Kloss, Joan Smalls, Chrissy Teigen, Bella, Gigi Hadid, … Organizations: CNN, New York Times, Guardian, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Met, “ Rara Avis, New York, MAC Cosmetics, Home Shopping, Vogue Italia, IMG Locations: Palm Beach , Florida, Queens , New York

"I'm thinking about marketing myself as a TikTok Shop creator," Jayy told BI in July. Outside its in-house team, TikTok also deputizes official third-party TikTok Shop agency partners to work with creators and merchants on e-commerce strategies. And the company offers advice to all affiliate creators on its website via its TikTok Shop Academy. Someone who is not popular or famous going on TikTok Shop and offering products, or someone who is very popular and famous now getting products?" "I think the shortest path to more volume through TikTok Shop is really that second group."

Persons: D'Amelio, TikTok, Remy Beaumont, it's, Joy Mangano, Beaumont, playbook, Rick Watson, Sharon Jayy, Jayy, Watson Organizations: Business, Shop, Z Media, intel, Training, RMW Commerce Consulting, TikTok Shop, Shop Academy Locations: London, China, Douyin, TikTok's Culver

☆ TikTok is pissing everyone off right now. Here's how its brute-force tactics could pay off — or backfire.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Dan Whateley | Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. The move was an about-face for the president, whose administration had spent years calling it a national security risk. AdvertisementIt’s been deep in a public spat over music licensing with one of its most important partners, Universal Music Group. Some users have said it’s ruining the app by promoting shopping over the funny skits and dancing videos that first made TikTok popular. For leaders at ByteDance, who often have the final say over product decisions at TikTok, copying ideas from Douyin to TikTok is part of their playbook.

Persons: —, TikTok, Joe Biden, Biden, Brandon, TikTok isn’t, it's, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, UMG, ” TikTok, it’s, TikTok's, ByteDance, It’s, Meghana, Pissing, ” Michael Huppe, Katie Notopoulos, ” Dhar Organizations: Service, White, Business, Universal Music Group, Music, Black, Facebook, Google, Big Tech, ”, YouTube, Shopping Network Locations: TikTok, Washington, Meghana Dhar, China, ByteDance

Not only does it mean an additional game on Prime Video that Amazon hopes to make into a yearly tradition, but it comes on the busiest shopping day of the year. Hans Schroeder, the executive vice president of NFL Media, said the league had been exploring the possibility of adding a game on Black Friday for a while. Adding a Black Friday game gives the NFL another day to take over. According to Nielsen, the most-viewed Amazon game came in Week 2 this season when the Philadelphia Eagles hosted the Minnesota Vikings. NFL games are averaging 17.1 million viewers through 11 weeks, which is a 6% increase over last season.

Persons: We’re, Jay Marine, Hans Schroeder, ” Schroeder, “, Amazon, Garth Brooks, “ I’m, ”, Al Michaels, Kirk Herbstreit, there’s, Tim Boyle, Aaron Rodgers, Tua Tagovailoa, Hill, ___ Organizations: Miami Dolphins, New York Jets, NFL, NFL Media, Amazon, Shopping Network, Nielsen, Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, Jets, AFC East, Dolphins Locations: X’s

☆ MLB All-Star Game, baseball cards, are first big test of Fanatics livestream shopping experience
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Ian Thomas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

(Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images)Fanatics' first livestream shopping event will feature collectors opening baseball trading card packs on the field during this week's Major League Baseball All-Star Game events in Seattle. The sports platform's new business division, which is called Fanatics Live, is centered around live shopping experiences during which users will be able to buy trading cards and other collectibles on the Fanatics Live app while watching streams of hosts and other collector sellers. "Our intention is to have Fanatics Live be the leader in the live commerce space," Bell said. Livestream shopping, which got its start in China and across Asia, has grown into a $512 billion market, according to Coresight Research. Bell acknowledged the challenges for livestream shopping in the U.S. but said he sees them as an opportunity.

Persons: Justin Berl, Nick Bell, Bell, — Bell, —, Chris Lamontagne, Scott Rogowski, Michael Rubin, – Bell Organizations: Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Brewers, PNC Park, Major League Baseball, Google, Mobile, Research, eBay, Facebook, QVC, U.S, Meta, CNBC Disruptor Locations: Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, Seattle, U.S, China, Asia

☆ TikTok is subsidizing shipping and hawking 30% discounts as it races to onboard US sellers for its social-shopping service
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Sellers told Insider that TikTok Shop is driving real sales, but still has some bugs to work out. Thus, when TikTok emailed her in March to join the US rollout of its e-commerce initiative TikTok Shop, she decided to give it a shot. Unlike with some other e-commerce platforms such as Amazon, TikTok sellers in the US need to handle their own order shipping and fulfillment. TikTok assists in generating shipping labels for new orders, the sellers told Insider. FancyCube is leaning heavily into working with influencers on TikTok Shop, sending them free products and offering them between 10% and 15% commission when their TikTok videos convert into makeup sales.

☆ Sellers testing TikTok's shopping program say it's offering big discounts and driving sales as the company tries to jumpstart its US e-commerce business
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Sellers told Insider that TikTok Shop is driving real sales, but still has some bugs to work out. Thus, when TikTok emailed her in March to join the US rollout of its e-commerce initiative TikTok Shop, she decided to give it a shot. "We're seeing a ton of sales through TikTok Shop," Davison told Insider. Unlike with some other e-commerce platforms such as Amazon, TikTok sellers in the US need to handle their own order shipping and fulfillment. Because the program is still in its testing phase, sellers told Insider they've encountered a few hiccups.

☆ I'm a cruise director for Holland America. Our crew lives in its own little world that passengers don't see.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Brooke Morton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

As cruise director, Wells often hosts the evening entertainment. I was quickly connected with Holland America, who flew me out to audition for a cruise director role in April 2020. Now, as of 2022, I'm the cruise director for Holland America, working aboard several ships, including most recently on Zuiderdam. A day in my life as a cruise directorAs the cruise director, I'm the first and last face that any guest sees on any sailing. What most people don't realize is that cruise ship workers don't ever have a day off during their contract.

☆ Livestream shopping took China by storm. Now Amazon, TikTok and YouTube are betting the QVC-style pitches will take off in the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Katie Tarasov | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Livestream shopping took China by storm over the past three years. In the U.S., TikTok, Amazon, Walmart , Shopify and YouTube are all getting in on the game. On Amazon Live, influencers pitch products live from the intimacy of their own homes. Tiana Young MorrisTiana Young Morris first went viral in 2020 for videos in which she tried on wigs and then reviewed them. Amazon continued its live-shopping investments with the launch of Amazon Live in India in September.

☆ 'Big Short’ Michael Burry bought a slew of stocks last quarter, including two Chinese internet names
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Michael Burry, known for calling the subprime mortgage crisis, picked up a slew of stocks in the fourth quarter including two Chinese internet giants, according to a new regulatory filing. The famed investor bought $9.3 million worth of mortgage data vendor Black Knight last quarter, as well as $5.3 million worth of Coherent , a manufacturer of optical materials and semiconductors. Burry also bought into a duo of Chinese e-commerce leaders — Alibaba and JD.com — during the fourth quarter. Burry was depicted in Michael Lewis' book "The Big Short" and the subsequent Oscar-winning movie of the same name. It's also unclear if Burry took any bearish bets last quarter, as short positions are not disclosed in these reports.

☆ Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ bets on a home shopping network stock and a rocket engine maker
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Yun Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Famed investor Michael Burry, known for calling the subprime mortgage crisis, jumped back into the market to pick up a few stocks in the third quarter, according to a new regulatory filing. Burry has been in and out of this private prison operator as well as GEO Group the past two years. In February, Lockheed Martin tabled plans to acquire the rocket engine maker amid opposition from U.S. antitrust enforcers. Burry was depicted in Michael Lewis' book "The Big Short" and the subsequent Oscar-winning movie of the same name. It's also unclear if Burry took any bearish bets last quarter as short positions are not disclosed in these quarterly reports.

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