The Royal Pop watches from Audemars Piguet and Swatch. Courtesy: Swatch When the famed luxury watch brand Audemars Piguet announced a collaboration with Swatch last month, some Audemars collectors feared the worst. Rapper DDG said he would sell his $180,000 Audemars Piguet if the collaboration grew too big and cheapened the brand. Members of the
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Could it be “SaaSpocalypse Never?” Software stocks are surging back from an artificial intelligence-driven sell-off that saw the group shed almost 40% from highs last year, rallying about 6% Monday in a surge that brought the year-to-date performance in the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) into positive territory for the first time. The fund
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Image Credit: Peacock A new group of singles is heading to Fiji in search of love. Love Island USA returns for Season 8 on Peacock, bringing back fan-favorite host Ariana Madix, daily episodes, and plenty of twists, recouplings, and dramatic villa moments. Following a record-breaking seventh season, anticipation is high as viewers prepare to meet
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Berkshire Hathaway agreed Sunday to acquire homebuilder Taylor Morrison Home in a $6.8 billion deal, deepening the conglomerate’s bet on the U.S. housing market after a prolonged downturn. The Omaha, Nebraska-based company will pay $72.50 per share in cash for Taylor Morrison, according to a statement. The offer represents a 24% premium to the homebuilder’s
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares skyrocketed 30% on Monday after the tech company posted blockbuster second-quarter results that blew away estimates. Here’s how the company did compared to LSEG estimates: Earnings per share: 79 cents adj. vs. 53 cents expected Revenue: $10.68 billion vs. $9.79 billion expected It was the company’s biggest EPS beat since February
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July 10 Gloorp: Gloorp Life [Jolt] Kelela: New Avatar [Warp] Panda Bear and Sonic Boom: A ? of When [Domino] Rolling Stones: Foreign Tongues [Capitol] Show Me the Body: Alone Together [Loma Vista] July 14 Eartheater: Heavenly Body: If I’m the Bottle You’re the Message [Chemical X] July 17 Helado Tropical: Helado Tropical [Psychic Hotline]
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Matthias Balk | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Five years ago, venture capitalists were pouring money into American startups selling everything from lingerie subscriptions to scheduling software, anointing them with billion-dollar valuations before most even turned a profit. It was a frothy era for startups, fueled by a combination of cheap money and pandemic-boosted demand.
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If you’re looking for a work of fiction that’s charming from start to finish, Villa Coco is the book for you. It’s seductively entertaining from the get-go, with a luscious opening line: “The little Tuscan train station, brown shutters against yellow paint, seemed so fanciful you might unwrap it and find it was chocolate.” Indeed,
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It’s for good reason that the Galapagos Islands appear on many a travel bucket-list. Nowhere else in the world can travellers expect to enjoy such intimate and unusual encounters with this staggering range of wildlife. Isolated from human society, the creatures of this volcanic archipelago show little fear toward their curious human visitors, facilitating close-up
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David Fletcher has been promoted to chief executive of Katharine House Hospice after four years at the charity. Fletcher, who joined the Stafford-based charity in 2022 as its director of care, will succeed Richard Soulsby. Soulsby left the charity earlier this month after 27 years in charge to take up the top job at the
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the stories we covered ourselves on Book Riot this week. Every month, the American Booksellers Association put together a list of the top 25 new book releases of the upcoming month as their
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