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☆ 5 hot beauty trends shaping the future of the industry, according to an influencer who advises companies and an investment fund
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Nhari Djan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The fund, called BrainTrust Founders Studio, invests in Black beauty and wellness companies. Newby scouts for the BrainTrust Founders Studio, which helps fund Black founders of beauty and wellness brands, incubate, and scale their businesses. "That would not have been enough time for a brand to to basically create an entire slugging product," Newby said. "I believe, contrary to many, that red carpet and Fashion Week beauty trends still drive a lot," Newby said. Black skincare brands are evolving their formulas, and will lead the clinical skincare industryAs an investor in Black founders, Newby has noticed that Black skincare brands are developing more advanced formulas.

☆ An influencer who scouts for VC firms breaks down 5 beauty industry trends to watch in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Nhari Djan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The fund is the part of VC firm BrainTrust that invests in Black beauty and wellness companies. Newby shared her top five trends to watch in the beauty industry in 2023. "That would not have been enough time for a brand to to basically create an entire slugging product," Newby said. "I believe, contrary to many, that red carpet and Fashion Week beauty trends still drive a lot," Newby said. Black skincare brands are evolving their formulas, and will lead the clinical skincare industryAs an investor in Black founders, Newby has noticed that Black skincare brands are developing more advanced formulas.

As the influencer industry continues to grow, so does the demand for talent managers and agents. Managers and agents help creators make money and choose which business opportunities to pursue. Like traditional stars, creators have built up teams with managers and agents to help them expand and run their businesses, and those supporting players have raced to sign the next generation of stars. "I felt that most brands were not seeing the value of diverse creators and the audiences they serve. Some influencers have both a talent manager and an agent.

☆ The top breakout TikTok stars of each year since 2019 show how the app has evolved over time
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Amanda Perelli | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

When TikTok first gained popularity, it was known for lip syncing, dancing, and viral challenges. We used data from Famous Birthdays to see the breakout TikTokers each year since 2019. TikTok's first homegrown influencers, like Charli D'Amelio and Addison Rae Easterling, grew in popularity with dancing and lip syncing videos filmed from their childhood bedrooms. It identified Addison Rae Easterling, who now has 88 million TikTok followers, as a breakout creator when she first gained momentum on TikTok, contacting her when she had just 300,000 followers, she told the LA Times. Here were the rising stars on TikTok each year since 2019, according to data from Famous Birthdays:

☆ TikTok's rising stars every year since 2019 show how much the app has changed — and stayed the same
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Amanda Perelli | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

When TikTok first gained popularity, it was known for lip syncing, dancing, and viral challenges. We used data from Famous Birthdays to see the breakout TikTokers each year since 2019. TikTok's first homegrown influencers, like Charli D'Amelio and Addison Rae Easterling, grew in popularity with dancing and lip syncing videos filmed from their childhood bedrooms. From analyzing searches on its platform, Famous Birthdays is able to identify which creators are rising in real time. Here were the rising stars on TikTok each year since 2019, according to data from Famous Birthdays:

☆ Analysis: US lawsuit to block JetBlue-Spirit merger casts chill over future airline deals
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Rajesh Kumar Singh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

CHICAGO, March 7 (Reuters) - A U.S. federal lawsuit to block JetBlue Airways Corp's (JBLU.O) purchase of Spirit Airlines (SAVE.N) has raised hurdles for future airline deals, making it harder for companies to pursue growth and manage costs. Mergers and acquisitions are a time-honored way for companies to both boost revenue and profit through cost cutting. But the DOJ lawsuit could send a chill through airline boardrooms, said Addison Schonland, partner at consulting firm AirInsight. American Airlines (AAL.O), United Airlines (UAL.O), Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) and Southwest Airlines (LUV.N) control 80% of the domestic market. The lawsuit against the JetBlue-Spirit deal was widely expected because of the Biden administration's crackdown on large deals between publicly listed companies, analysts said.

☆ NHL roundup: Wild's Kirill Kaprizov caps hat trick in OT
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Sabers 7, Capitals 4Dylan Cozens delivered his first career hat trick, and Buffalo defeated visiting Washington. Vinnie Hinostroza had a goal and an assist for Buffalo, while Cozens added an assist for the first four-point game of his career. T.J. Oshie scored his fourth goal in three games and added an assist, and Dylan Strome had a goal and an assist. Nick Schmaltz had a goal and an assist, and Shayne Gostisbehere also scored a goal for Arizona. Trocheck added an assist, and Mika Zibanejad and Artemi Panarin each had a goal and an assist.

☆ Why Pizza Hut’s red roofs and McDonald’s play places have disappeared
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

As fast-food chains spread across the US after World War II, new roadside restaurant brands needed to stand out. So restaurant chains turned to architecture as a key tool to promote their brand and help create their corporate identity. Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesBut the fast-food architecture of today has lost its quirky charm and distinctive features. Googie style fell out of fashion in the 1970s as fast-food style favored dark colors, brick and mansard roofs. But in the effort to modernize, some say fast-food design has became homogenized and lost its creative purpose.

☆ Pressure Mounts on CIOs to Build More AI Apps (and Faster)
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Isabelle Bousquette | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +5 min

Magesh Sarma, chief information and strategy officer for AmeriSave Mortgage Corp., said his team has been inundated with requests to build AI apps aimed at tackling various cost issues. But the AI team, which consists of 76 employees, has been one of the least affected because of its business value. Ms. Anderson has a system for evaluating the priority level of different possible machine-learning projects that come to her department via a request pipeline, she said. Photo: ERIC GAILLARD/REUTERSOne area she hasn’t been able to fully tackle is machine-learning algorithms to help with customer retention. “With AI, it’s an incremental sort of approach.”Adding to the pressure is the exploding popularity of ChatGPT and other generative AI applications.

The difference with TikTok is that the app has kept out of the crosshairs of commercial interests in Europe. "The user base of TikTok is a lot bigger than a lot of people in Europe think," he said. More than half of people aged 16 to 24 in France and Germany use TikTok, according to data.ai. He is worried the platform poses "several unacceptable risks for European users," including "data access by Chinese authorities, censorship, [and] tracking of journalists." Why Europe's tone is changingLast month, ByteDance admitted to using two journalists' TikTok data to locate their physical movements, according to a widely-reported internal memo.

☆ Podcast listeners prefer video over audio alone, according to a new survey, giving YouTube a big edge. Here are more key takeaways.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Shriya Bhattacharya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A survey by Morning Consult found that listeners now prefer podcasts with video than those without. While platforms like YouTube and Spotify have offered audio podcasts for years, another format has been gaining steam recently: video. The poll, which surveyed 2,202 US adults in October, found that 46% of podcast listeners said they prefer consuming podcasts with video. As a result, podcast hosts might be more inclined in the future to invite star studded personalities onto their shows to improve ratings. Live events allow podcast hosts to record episodes in front of in-person audiences and connect with fans after the recording ends.

☆ Sephora is dropping the beauty lines of TikTok stars Addison Rae and Hyram Yarbro
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Madeline Berg | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Influencer brands Item Beauty and Selfless by Hyram are being pulled from Sephora. Addison Rae launched Item Beauty in 2020, while Hyram Yarbro launched Selfless in 2021. Insider has confirmed from a well-connected industry source that Sephora will be pulling Addison Rae's Item Beauty and Hyram Yarbro's Selfless by Hyram from its shelves. Item Beauty was launched in August 2020 by Rae, who shot to internet fame by replicating viral dances on TikTok. There are bright spots among celebrity-backed brands, like Selena Gomez's Rare BeautyThat isn't to say that all celebrity-founded beauty brands have fared poorly.

☆ CFB roundup: No. 16 Tulane stuns No. 10 USC in Cotton Bowl
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

16 Tulane scored 16 points in the final 4:07 to notch a dramatic 46-45 victory over No. 10 Southern California to win the Cotton Bowl on Monday at Arlington, Texas. Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams did all he could for USC (11-3), completing 37 of 52 passes for 462 yards and five touchdowns. He completed 8 of 21 passes for 95 yards, one touchdown and one interception and rushed for 47 yards on 10 attempts. Bulldogs quarterback Will Rogers completed 29 of 44 passes for 261 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions.

☆ How many TikTok followers you need to start making money
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

But you don't need to have millions of fans to start making money on TikTok. Read more about how TikTok creators make money from brand deals:Jalyn Baiden. Emmanuel BaidenMaking money through sponsored song challengesOne common way for TikTok creators to make money is by promoting songs in videos. Music marketers and record labels pay TikTok creators to include tracks in posts in an effort to make a song take off on the app. Read more about how TikTok creators make money from song promotions:

☆ Clarence Gilyard Jr., ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ and ‘Die Hard’ star, dies at 66
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Clarence Gilyard Jr., an actor best known for starring in “Walker, Texas Ranger” and his supporting performance in “Die Hard,” has died. Gilyard had been working as a film and theatre professor at UNLV College of Fine Arts. “Professor Gilyard was a beacon of light and strength for everyone around him,” UNLV film chair Heather Addison said. Gilyard returned to academia later in life, joining the department of theatre at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as an associate professor in 2006. Gilyard also worked as a producer and director, helming an episode of “Walker, Texas Ranger.”Gilyard was previously married to Catherine Dutko.

☆ Clarence Gilyard, ‘Die Hard’ and ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ star, dead at 66
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Toyin Owoseje | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Clarence Gilyard, the actor best known for playing computer hacker Theo in “Die Hard” and naval flight officer Marcus “Sundown” Williams in “Top Gun,” has died at the age of 66. His death was announced on Monday in a statement from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), where he had been working as an associate professor at the College of Fine Arts. Gilyard played Theo, the heist crew's hacker, in "Die Hard." According to UNLV, Gilyard ventured into acting after studying Theatre Arts at California State University. Despite his accomplished acting career, Gilyard stepped away from acting in 2006 to start teaching at UNLV and directing productions at the university’s Nevada Conservatory Theatre.

☆ Herschel Walker supporters dismiss the GOP nominee's scandals and say they're focused on boosting Republican control of the Senate: 'We all have our issues'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

At a Saturday rally in Georgia, Herschel Walker supporters dismissed his campaign's controversies. Walker repeatedly blasted his Democratic rival for what he said was an embrace of Biden's agenda. Amid reports that Walker allegedly paid for the abortions of at least two women, rallygoers were largely unfazed by the developments. Frank said it was "more than too important" for Republicans to regain control of the Senate next week. Georgia GOP lieutenant governor nominee Burt Jones speaks before a Herschel Walker rally at The Classic Center in Athens, Ga., on November 5, 2022.

☆ NHL roundup: Alex Ovechkin, Caps overtake Canucks
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

With 7:16 remaining in regulation, Ovechkin slid the puck onto the stick of Sheary, who converted the go-ahead goal. Ovechkin, who had one assist in the first three contests, added some tip-in insurance with 2:58 left to play. Tyler Seguin, Jani Hakanpaa, Joel Kiviranta and Miro Heiskanen each scored a goal and Mason Marchment added two assists for Dallas. Anze Kopitar and Adrian Kempe each had a goal and an assist for the Kings, who earned their second win in a row. Linus Ullmark made 37 saves for his second win of Boston's three this season.

Marilyn Monroe is well remembered for her iconic movies from the 1950s. Below, we rounded up some of Marilyn Monroe's best movies, along with details on where you can stream them online. Marilyn Monroe has a supporting role as Claudia Casswell, a beautiful aspiring actress who doesn't have the talent for the industry. 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'A shot of Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Two of the Donahue children end up joining a show starring Victoria Parker, a successful performer played by Marilyn Monroe.

☆ A leaked Hype House contract reveals the 'rules' influencers have to follow and terms they agree to, which lawyers say are extremely restrictive
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Tanya Chen | Amanda Perelli | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Hype House, one of the longest-running TikTok groups, has several house rules — 11 to be exact — that new members must agree to when they join. Members live in a Spanish-style mansion located just outside of Los Angeles, and in exchange for housing, they're asked to make content with other Hype House members. "Most contracts would say, 'Hype House has the following duties...' but none of the standard provisions of Hype House and their obligations are in the contract at all. This includes anything that is a "result of accident, casualty or event or in connection with the Hype House Group." The 11 'House Rules' of Hype HouseHere is what the leaked contract says about Hype House's "rules":

☆ ‘Quantum Leap’ reboot brings a rare Asian American lead to network television
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Max Gao | Max Gao Is A Freelance Journalist Based Out Of Toronto. He Has Written For The New York Times | Nbc News | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

When Raymond Lee first received an offer to star in “Quantum Leap,” a sequel to the beloved sci-fi series that aired from 1989 to 1993, he thought the show’s producers had made a mistake. “I got to play the lead in theater, [but] I didn’t know if the landscape was there for me to do it in television, let alone network television,” Lee told NBC Asian America. Raymond Lee as Dr. Ben Song in "Quantum Leap." “I’ve always considered the way I look and my background to be a superpower,” said Lee, who is Korean American. Caitlin Bassett as Addison and Raymond Lee as Ben in "Quantum Leap."

☆ I tried a café that uses Delta-8, a popular semilegal weed compound. The high was as good as the price.
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-24 | by ( Helaine Krysik | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Wake-N-Bakery is one of the first cafés in Chicago to use Delta-8, a semilegal weed compound. In case you're unfamiliar with Delta-8, it's the quasi-legal, hemp-derived cannabinoid that's less potent than regular THC but can still get you high. She also recommended using a benchmark of roughly eight milligrams of Delta-8, equaling five milligrams of regular THC, and that dosing should be based on how much and how well you tolerate regular THC, so that's what I stuck with. Delta-8 can be just as potent as regular THC, even though you need to take it in slightly larger quantities to get the same effect. That means it's just as easy to overindulge on Delta-8 edibles as it is on edibles containing regular THC.

☆ How Tom Ward's YouTube side hustle became the go-to interview for influencers and YouTubers
▼ + stars: | 2021-12-01 | by ( Kat Tenbarge | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But in 2015, determined to take his career in a new direction, Ward started blogging on his personal website. By early 2017, Ward started blogging about influencer marketing for Forbes, although he didn't follow YouTubers or YouTube culture at the time. When Paul tweeted Ward's article and Ward's Twitter handle, Ward said his phone started "blowing up." After he published his interview with Paul, Ward started interviewing even bigger YouTubers and influencers, like Shane Dawson and Lele Pons. Now, Ward's YouTube channel has more than 5.3 million views, and his easy rapport with influencers has led to even bigger opportunities, like co-hosting a branding-focused podcast with TikToker Griffin Johnson.

☆ NYC's cutthroat rental market — Noom users dish — TikTok stars' fav gym
▼ + stars: | 2021-09-24 | by ( Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

This week, we're giving you a look inside NYC's booming rental market, taking you along for a workout at a celebrity gym, and showing you what users really think of the anti-diet app Noom. In a conversation with Insider, Aubrey told us stylists are being silenced, isolated, and manipulated by the company — and shared why she's happy she quit. Here's what Aubrey told us about Stitch Fix. Crystal Cox/Business InsiderNoom markets itself as an anti-diet lifestyle app — but this writer found it's a diet just like any other. DogpoundDogpound, the hot LA gym where Justin Bieber and TikTok stars like Addison Rae go to sweat it out, is notorious for its grueling personal-training sessions.

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