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☆ PayPal CEO's first year was praised by Wall Street, but hard part starts now for struggling payments company
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Analysts across Wall Street saw rising competition and a declining take rate, or the percentage of revenue PayPal keeps from each transaction. Fast forward to today, and the picture is dramatically brighter for the 26-year-old Silicon Valley company and its 47-year-old CEO. Analysts are projecting roughly 6% revenue growth when PayPal reports third-quarter results in about a month, according to LSEG. Venture capitalist Oren Zeev has seen Chriss work with small businesses in another capacity. "He obviously brought a lot to the table with his vast experience with small businesses," Zeev said.

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☆ Michaela DePrince, a Sierra Leonean American ballerina for Boston ballet, dies at 29
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

LOS ANGELES — Sierra Leonean ballerina Michaela Mabinty DePrince, who starred in TV show “Dancing with the Stars” and Beyonce’s “Lemonade” music video album, died on Friday at the age of 29, her family said. “It is with profound sadness we announce the sudden passing of our beautiful sister, Michaela Mabinty DePrince. She was an unforgettable inspiration to everyone who knew her or heard her story,” her family said in its statement. She was adopted in 1999 at the age of four by New Jersey couple Elaine and Charles DePrince, who enrolled her in ballet classes. Aged 14, DePrince was awarded a scholarship to attend the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School to study ballet.

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☆ Michaela Mabinty DePrince: Ballerina, 29, who starred in Beyoncé video dies
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Rosa Rahimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Michaela Mabinty DePrince, the ballerina born during a civil war in Sierra Leone who performed in Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ visual album, has died aged 29, according to an announcement posted to her official Instagram page. DePrince told the WSJ she thought it was a joke when she heard the singer wanted her for the video, who told DePrince in person it was an ‘honor’ to have her star. Ballerina Michaela DePrince teaches a ballet class at One World Observatory in New York City on April 26, 2017. “From the very beginning of our story back in Africa, sleeping on a shared mat in the orphanage, Michaela (Mabinty) and I used to make up our own musical theater plays and act them out. Michaela DePrince in Johannesburg, South Africa on July 9, 2012.

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☆ Lil Wayne says Super Bowl snubbed him for halftime show: ‘That broke me … it hurt a lot’
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Nearly a week after Kendrick Lamar was announced as the headliner of the Super Bowl Halftime show, New Orleans native Lil Wayne has admitted that not being chosen for the spot “broke me.”“That hurt, it hurt a lot,” he said in a video statement posted on Friday morning to Instagram. Almost immediately after Lamar, a Los Angeles native, was announced as the headliner for the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime show, uproar began online over him being chosen instead of Wayne. Complicating the situation further, Super Bowl entertainment is overseen by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation company, although the NFL and the city of New Orleans also played a role in the pick. Your words turned to arms and held me up when I tried to fall back.”“(Not being picked) hurt — it hurt a lot,” Wayne continues. “Kendrick Lamar is truly a once-in-a-generation artist and performer,” Jay said of Lamar in the Super Bowl Halftime announcement on Sunday.

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☆ The US Open is having a moment
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-07 | by ( Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

With nearly one million people attending the tournament in 2023, the US Open has long been popular. AdvertisementThe US Open is New York's event of the seasonThe US Open has been a celebrity hot spot for years. Chris Ivery, Tony Goldwyn, Bellamy Young, and Shonda Rhimes attend the US Open in August 2024. "The culmination of having beloved brands like Aperol at an iconic event like the US Open makes the experience a 'can't miss' event for the summer season, and it only gets more exciting every year we are there," Sengara added. Tennis is having a momentThough the US Open feels like a new level of cool for tennis, the sport has been gaining cultural capital for some time now.

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☆ Chipotle and Spirit Halloween are launching a costume collection
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-04 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Chipotle is already getting into the Halloween spirit. The fast-casual chain announced a costume collection with Spirit Halloween Wednesday, the seasonal Halloween costume store that pops up every year in abandoned storefronts. Two years ago, it posted a fake “Chipotle Fork” bodysuit with the caption “Found ur costume.” Then last year, another fake “Chipotle Napkin” costume showed up on its Instagram. The Chipotle Fork costume, for example, is just a plain black, polyester bodysuit. “Our popular Halloween tradition, Boorito, began with a burrito-themed costume contest and now we’re taking it to the next level with the launch of our first-ever costume collection in collaboration with Spirit Halloween,” said Chris Brandt, chief brand officer at Chipotle in a statement.

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The Food and Drug Administration’s “hands-off approach” to food additives, including those found in ultraprocessed foods and energy drinks, may allow unsafe ingredients to enter the nation’s food supply, according to the authors of an editorial published Thursday. While food manufacturers can request an FDA review of new ingredients before they are added to products — and they sometimes do — they are not required to do so. From 1990 to 2010, an estimated 1,000 substances were labeled GRAS by manufacturers and were used without notifying the agency, Pomeranz said, citing earlier research. Since then, she added, there have likely been many more ingredients added to the nation’s food supply without the FDA’s oversight. “We have no idea how many substances are in the food supply based on this self-GRAS mechanism,” Pomeranz said.

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At age 12, Bella Lin spent an hour every week "scraping, scrubbing and power washing" excrement off her two guinea pig cages. This year, GuineaLoft has brought in roughly $71,000 a month in revenue so far, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It. GuineaLoft's Amazon storefront sells hay feeders and no-drip water bottles for guinea pigs, but also acrylic cages and accessories for hamsters, rabbits and birds. While Lin considers herself to be a "veteran guinea pig owner," she's had to gain experience designing cages and products for the smaller pets. 'I'm kind of just the guinea pig girl'Outside of BizWorld, Lin's friend circle is void of other entrepreneurs: "To them, I'm kind of just the guinea pig girl," she says.

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☆ A food influencer in Chicago breaks down why the Windy City should be on every restaurant lover's bucket list
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Chicago was ranked third in Food & Wine's 2024 ranking of the best cities for food and drink in the US. It's such a food city." For Italian beef, you can go to Al's or Mr Beef, Noblecilla said. "There's a really great range in the kind of food that you see at the Michelin restaurants," Noblecilla said. AdvertisementAlfresco dining"Alfresco dining is such a huge thing here in Chicago," Noblecilla said.

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☆ Starbucks says its boba-inspired drinks have sold so well that it had to pull back on marketing because it was running out
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewStarbucks' boba-inspired "popping pearls" drinks have been selling so well that the coffee chain had to cut back on marketing after supplies ran low. The new lineup features three drinks — the Summer-Berry Lemonade Starbucks Refreshers Beverage, the Summer Skies Drink Starbucks Refreshers Beverage, and the Summer-Berry Starbucks Refreshers Beverage — but customers can also add the raspberry-flavored popping pearls to other beverages. They also contributed to overall sales of Starbucks' Refreshers drinks reaching an all-time high during the quarter. Dedicated boba stores offer a huge variety of flavors and toppings, like fruit, grass or coconut jelly, red beans, brown sugar, and pudding. AdvertisementThe success of Starbucks' boba comes as the chain continues betting on cold drinks, which made up 76% of its beverage sales in the quarter.

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☆ Starbucks Reinvented How It Runs Its Cafés to Cut Down on Wait Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Called the "Siren Craft System," it overhauls the workflow at some 10,000 of its coffeehouses in an effort to reduce inefficiency, speed up orders, and boost customer satisfaction. Every fast-food outlet, Starbucks cafés included, is a little factory. The new system instructs baristas to push cold drinks down in the queue in favor of hot ones. But the fact is, the cold drinks also take longer to make. The higher-grossing cold drinks take so long to make, in fact, that they're actually pretty low-margin.

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☆ ‘Purple Rain’ turns 40: The lasting impact of Prince’s musical film
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Kaila Nichols | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

According to people involved in the making of the film, it almost didn’t happen. The Purple Rain film and album won an Academy Award and two Grammys. “I was there,” Prince told Alan Light in his book “Let’s Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Pain.” “I did it, it was my baby. “I didn’t write ‘Purple Rain.’ Someone else did and it was a story – a fictional story – and it should be perceived that way and nothing else,” he said. And that starts at the very beginning with authenticity.”The film is set to become adapted into a stage musical as well, according to Playbill.

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☆ I've been to 48 states, but there's one US city I want to visit every summer
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Latifah Al-Hazza | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

After visiting 48 of the 50 US states, Chicago is my favorite place to be in the summer. Here's why I love Chicago summers. Latifah Al-HazzaThe city prides itself on being home to over 20 Michelin-starred restaurants and having a diverse food culture. The city's public Divvy bikes are easy to rent and a great way to see the city in the summer. The event offers incredible city views and access to the indoor aquarium, providing a cool respite from the heat.

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☆ A major shift at Starbucks has changed its personality
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Employees who brewed and served Starbucks coffee, whom Starbucks called baristas, handwrote customers’ names on their drink orders. But Starbucks’ business has transformed, and it has struggled to maintain its identity as that third place along the way. In some stores, customers complained online that Starbucks pulled out comfortable chairs and replaced them with hard wooden stools. Mobile ordering was another major step in Starbucks’ road to becoming primarily a take-away business. Starbucks also is opening 2,000 new stores, including traditional Starbucks locations, pick-up stores, delivery-only stores and drive thru-only locations.

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☆ Carlos Alcaraz defeats Novak Djokovic in straight sets to defend Wimbledon crown
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Aimee Lewis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

In defeating Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon men’s final in straight sets – a straightforward 6-2 6-2 7-6 (7-4) victory against one of the sport’s greats – Alcaraz became the first Spaniard to successfully defend his Wimbledon crown, a feat not even Rafael Nadal had managed. Not even the “Big Three” of Federer, Nadal and Djokovic had won as many grand slams at such an age. Nadal was 22 by the time he had won four, Federer 23 and Djokovic 24. Extraordinary tennisThe match started in Technicolor, a 14-minute opening game which ended with Alcaraz breaking Djokovic. Perhaps the achievement of reaching a major final after suffering a meniscus tear during the French Open should not be lost in the aftermath of this contest.

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“My cart looks ridiculous,” said Ms. Uhuru, 48, who supplements her hauls with vegetables grown in her garden. “People think I am a shift shopper.” Sylvia Jarrus for The New York Times, including previous image. Sawyer’s April Shopping Total shopping trips: 14 Impulse purchases: Castelvetrano olives ($5.99) and sparkling water (prices vary) Share of drinkable purchases: 70 percent What might a stranger notice if she peered into Sawyer Bonsib’s cart? “The old adage ‘Don’t go grocery shopping when you are hungry,’ applies triply during Ramadan,” he said. “Or my toddler will gnaw on a tortilla while I’m making dinner.” Jessica Attie for The New York Times, including previous image.

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☆ Starbucks' plan for stock gains includes more than just discounts and value combos
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

He needs to execute better," Jim Cramer stressed, referring to Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan, during the Investing Club's June Monthly Meeting . Then in mid-June, Starbucks launched its limited-time "Pairings Menu," which includes a $5 coffee-and-croissant combo and a $6 coffee-and-breakfast-sandwich deal. Order up Jefferies' Barish also raised questions about Starbucks' menu innovations, arguing its updated drink options are not driving sales as much as hoped. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio. If Jim has talked about a stock on CNBC TV, he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade.

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☆ Gen Z wants flavorful drinks. Here’s how Big Beer is trying to attract them
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

That’s a problem for Big Beer, which is dealing with flat sales, declining volume and a fickle generation of younger drinkers who are completely ditching the bottle or preferring anything but a regular beer. It’s a non-carbonated drink because “bloating that may come from carbonation is considered a top barrier” for younger drinkers and the trend of “decarbonizing” drinks is blowing up on the app. Last year, it acquired Blue Run Spirits, a cult favorite high-end bourbon and rye whiskey brand, in light of US spirit sales surpassing beer sales. Its aptly titled “Beyond Beer” category is currently a $1.5 billion part of its global business and is helping attract younger, legally aged drinkers. Despite younger drinkers’ hesitance with buying beer and flat sales, Big Beer companies aren’t facing an existential threat.

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☆ Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Files for Bankruptcy
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Sara Ruberg | More About Sara Ruberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, the parent company of the movie rental company Redbox, which is known for its distinctive red kiosks, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday. In the filing, Chicken Soup listed debts of about $970 million, and total assets of about $414 million. It owes millions to entertainment and media companies, including Universal Studios, Sony Pictures and BBC Studios Americas, as well as some retailers, such as Walgreens and Walmart, according to court filings. Chicken Soup for the Soul was founded in 1993 by two motivational speakers, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. Its original book, published more than 30 years ago, dispensed life advice and stories of overcoming obstacles with the hope that it would heal readers’ souls just as “chicken soup has a healing effect on the body of the ill.”

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☆ Salty cream in your morning brew? Why Vietnam’s specialty coffees are catching on around the world
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Maggie Hiufu Wong | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Ca Phe Muoi co-owners Ho Thi Thanh Huong and Tran Nguyen Huu Phong. Traditional Vietnamese coffee is brewed in a phin – a metal, filtered brewing device – that’s placed over a cup or pot. And salt coffee is just one of several distinctive Vietnamese coffee drinks that might raise a few eyebrows among those who’ve yet to sample them. In fruit shake coffee – sinh to ca phe – coffee is combined with banana or avocado to produce a smoothie. And though they serve both iced and hot versions of salt coffee, they think the former is the tastiest option.

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☆ Here's why your July 4th barbecue may be pricier this year
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Miodrag Ignjatovic | E+ | Getty ImagesAmericans firing up their grills for Fourth of July celebrations will likely pay more for some traditional barbecue staples this year. The average cookout for 10 people will cost $71.22 this year, up 5% from 2023 and about 30% five years ago, according to an American Farm Bureau Federation estimate. That said, consumers have seen prices fall for some specific barbecue items like chicken breast and potatoes, the Farm Bureau said. Meat (including ground beef, pork chops and chicken breast) accounts for 50% of the total cost of an Independence Day barbecue, according to the Farm Bureau. Two pounds of potatoes cost $1.53, down 17%, the Farm Bureau said.

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