Tax-take collapse, Alvin Bragg’s on trial, too and other commentary
“New York’s latest tax collection data indicate New York’s just-passed state budget was based on rosy assumptions about income tax receipts that are not materializing,” fumes the Empire Center’s Ken...
View ArticleElon Musk wants liberal hosts Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon to make Twitter shows
Elon Musk called on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and axed CNN anchor Don Lemon to start their own show on Twitter in an effort to get leftist voices on the platform.
View ArticleWatch NY’s ‘leaders’ steer the fiscal ship straight into the shoals
Just as the Legislature was wrapping up for the year came news that it's left New York with a ticking time bomb: budget deficits set to explode starting next year.
View ArticleDisney, Microsoft ads on Twitter show up next to neo-Nazi propaganda as...
During her research, Harvard Law School clinical instructor Alejandra Caraballo noticed that ads for the likes of Adobe, Harper Collins' kids division, Microsoft and Disney appeared adjacent to...
View ArticlePot revenues up in smoke: another Albany weed fiasco
The Empire State is set to make as much money from its first year of legal weed as did Montana — a state with one-twentieth the population.
View ArticleFord to ax at least 1,000 contract, salaried workers to offset billion-dollar...
Ford Motor has plans to fire at least 1,000 salaried and contract workers as the automaker looks to offset the billion-dollar costs of investing in the electric vehicle market.
View Article‘Misogynist’ Andrew Tate says he was paid $20K under Twitter’s creator plan
Andrew Tate shared that he was receiving $20,379 as part of Twitter's new content creator payment scheme months after Elon Musk lifted his years-long account ban.
View ArticleI couldn’t score Taylor Swift ‘Eras’ tickets, so I got a job at the venue
You have to have really good "Karma" to get hired.
View ArticleSeaWorld’s revenue sinks as ‘adverse weather’ saps attendance at theme parks
SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. -- the parent company behind SeaWorld, Busch Gardens and Sesame Place -- saw a decrease in foot traffic and revenue in Q2, which it attributed to "adverse weather."
View ArticleAnheuser-Busch profit in US sinks nearly 30% after Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney...
Bud Light owner AB InBev reported its second-quarter earnings on Thursday, and profits declined in the US due to "the volume decline of Bud Light."
View ArticleWhy ‘white noise’ podcasts are costing Spotify $38M per year in profits
“White noise” podcasts feature calm and relaxing sounds such as falling rain, crashing waves or just plain static.
View ArticleSpotify cracks down on white noise podcasts that cost $38M a year in profit:...
As of October 1, white noise podcasters will be ineligible to earn money through Spotify’s “Ambassador Ads” program.
View ArticleTravis Kelce could earn up to $10M thanks to ‘Taylor Swift effect’: sports...
The "Taylor Swift effect" could translate to as much as $10 million in off-the-field earnings for Kansas City Chiefs' Travis Kelce, said Bob Dorfman, Creative Director at marketing agency Pinnacle...
View ArticleCanadian publishers see traffic and revenue plunge as Meta blocks news over...
Local Toronto news site Insauga.com said it's "literally being completely handicapped from making revenue" after Meta blocked its news content from Facebook, where 30% of its traffic typically came from.
View ArticleWashington Post offers voluntary buyouts in effort to slash workforce by 240
In an email to the newsroom's workforce, interim CEO Patty Stonesifer said that the nearly 10% staff reduction comes after two years of being "overly optimistic."
View ArticleUS Postal Service reports $6.5 billion net loss as first class mail falls to...
The US Postal Service on Tuesday reported a $6.5 billion net loss for the 12 months ending Sept. 30 and said it will not breakeven next year as first-class mail fell to the lowest volume since 1968.
View ArticleYouTube sensation MrBeast made over $263K from first X video, but says it’s a...
MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, posted a video to X last week titled "$1 vs $100,000,000 Car!” to see how earnings from X compared to YouTube.
View ArticleNYC’s booming underground migrant economy exposes the true disaster of...
Open borders make a welfare state unworkable, warned America's leading Socialist, Sen. Bernie Sanders — before he started toeing the new Democratic Party line amid his 2016 presidential run.
View ArticleDream wedding shut down by cops after ‘10-minute ceremony’ over permit issue,...
“You plan your whole life for this special day, and then for somebody to take it away, it’s just really disheartening. I would never want this to happen to anybody else.”
View ArticleTikTok’s US revenue hit $16B as potential forced sale looms and earnings at...
The revenue surge could boost the value of TikTok’s US operations as high as $150 billion when applying a Meta-esque multiple to the app’s shares.
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