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☆ Squeezed by inflation, families are tightening their holiday budgets
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Gabe Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Anya Remy is Christmas shopping for her family on a stricter budget than ever before. Remy, a human resources professional in Maryland, has felt the pain of high inflation in recent months. The same poll found 42% plan to spend less on gifts this season and only 8% plan to spend more. Overall holiday spending hasn’t slowed yet, according to the National Retail Federation, but many families are making sacrifices to buy presents for their loved ones. “I don’t want them to be upset.”Recession concerns are also impacting family spending.

☆ If You Love Fire Pits and Wood-Fired Pizzas, Get Ready
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +4 min

By Leslie YazelWhen I first heard about the Solo Stove Pi Fire pizza oven, I scoffed. You use semolina or cornmeal on the oven’s pizza stone for easy sliding in and out, and in about 8 minutes, you have great tasting wood-fired pizza. It’s perfect for the crucial rotation of the pie and it’s sized exactly for the Pi oven. That tool, combined with the wide “mouth” of the oven, makes rotating the pie easier than with tabletop pizza ovens I’ve tried. If you’ve read this and you’re still thinking, eh, too much time commitment for me, then this wildly-popular, high-quality pizza oven may be a great fit for your needs.

☆ Elon Musk has criticized Apple for years. Apple has mostly ignored him.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Kif Leswing | Lora Kolodny | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

This week, Musk claimed in a tweet that Apple had mostly stopped advertising on the Twitter platform. Apple is not alone in reducing its campaigns on the social media platform since Musk took over. If the so-called “Apple Car” ever came to market, Tesla and Apple would be direct competitors. Cook and MuskHave Apple CEO Tim Cook and Musk ever spoken in depth? Around 2016, according to the book, Musk and Cook spoke about Apple potentially acquiring Tesla.

☆ Elon Musk claims Apple has ‘threatened to withhold’ Twitter from its app store
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN Business —Elon Musk on Monday claimed that Apple has “threatened” to pull Twitter from its iOS app store, a move that could be devastating to the company Musk just acquired for $44 billion. He also criticized Apple’s size, claimed it engages in “censorship,” and called out the 30% transaction fee Apple charges large app developers to be listed in its app store. Parler was returned to Apple’s app store three months later after updating its content moderation practices. “If you’re looking to shock and offend people, the App Store isn’t the right place for your app,” the guidelines state. Roth said the company’s failure to adhere to Google and Apple’s app store rules could be “catastrophic.”And last weekend, the head of Apple’s app store, Phil Schiller, deleted his Twitter account.

☆ Jeff Cook, co-founder of country band Alabama, dies at 73
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

1 songs on the country charts between spring 1980 and summer 1982, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame. “They showed a kid in a T-shirt that country music could be rock, could be real, could be someone who looked like me. He entered the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005 as a member of Alabama. “After I got the Parkinson’s diagnosis, people would quote the song to me and say, ‘No bad days,’” Cook told The Tennessean in 2019. “They write me letters, notes and emails and they sign ‘No Bad Days.’ I know the support is there.”Survivors include his wife, Lisa.

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