Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to acquire cannabis businesses for up to $185M

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award onstage during the 2022 BET Awards at Microsoft Theater on June 26, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Kevin Winter | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Hip-hop mogul and businessman Sean “Diddy” Combs is venturing into the world of cannabis. Combs has agreed to acquire licensed cannabis operations…

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to ‘ignore’ Web3: ‘Web3 is not the web at all’

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, co-founder and chief technology of Inrupt, speaking at Web Summit 2022. Sam Barnes | Sportsfile via Getty Images LISBON, Portugal — The creator of the web isn’t sold on crypto visionaries’ plan for its future and says we should “ignore” it. Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist credited with inventing the World…

The new European vacation? Travelers are returning for trips that are all about food and wine

When Colin and Jenoa Matthes left their home state of Utah to embark on a world tour in 2019, they found themselves drawn to the food scenes in places like France and Italy. “We really loved, especially, the food in all of these different countries … and how local and specialized they were in different…

Layoffs are picking up. These are the first 3 steps to take after losing your job

In this article UAL AAL TSLA NFLX SHOP-CA LYFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Wanan Yossingkum | Istock | Getty Images The labor market is still strong, but layoffs are picking up. This year Peloton, Netflix, Shopify, Lyft, and, most recently, Twitter, all announced significant staff reductions. Meanwhile, executive outplacement firm Challenger, Gray &…

Retailers have a new holiday headache — people are spending their money on travel

Getty Images Retailers have a new threat this holiday season: wanderlust. Americans are returning to the skies, filling hotels, swarming theme parks — and they’re showing a willingness to spend more of their money on trips. That is setting up the fiercest holiday season battle for consumers’ wallets since before the Covid pandemic, with persistent inflation already straining…

Shonda Rhimes is among the creators unhappy with Netflix’s mid-video ads, sources say

In this article NFLX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Shonda Rhimes attends 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 4, 2018 in Beverly Hills, CA.  Presley Ann | Patrick McMullan | Getty Images Shonda Rhimes, the high-powered producer behind “Bridgerton” and “Inventing Anna,” is among a number of showrunners, creators and writers who have…

Atlassian plummets more than 20% on weak earnings report and disappointing forecast

In this article TEAM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Scott Farquhar, co-founder and co-CEO of the software company Atlassian, speaks during a jobs and skills summit at Parliament House on September 1, 2022 in Canberra, Australia. The Australian government is bringing together political, business, union and community group leaders at Parliament House to address…

DoorDash stock surges after sales beat expectations

In this article DASH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A bike messenger carries a DoorDash bag during a delivery in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of DoorDash popped more than 14% in extended trading Thursday after the food delivery company posted better-than-expected sales and total…

Fed officials Barkin and Collins see possibility for slower rate hikes ahead

Two Federal Reserve officials indicated Friday that they expect further interest rate increases but will be looking closely at whether those moves need to be as aggressive as they’ve been this year. Regional president Thomas Barkin of Richmond and Susan Collins separately said that the Fed is moving into a new phase that will be…

Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Starbucks, Twilio, Carvana, DoorDash and more

In this article SBUX FNKO PYPL BABA 9626-HK BILI 9618-HK JD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A customer holds a drink inside a Starbucks coffee shop in San Francisco, California, on Thursday, July 28, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Starbucks —…

Fidelity, ForUsAll now offering 401(k) investors access to cryptocurrency

Justin Tallis | Afp | Getty Images Retirement savers in some 401(k) plans are starting to get access to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. Fidelity Investments, the largest provider of 401(k) plans by total assets, began offering a Digital Assets Account to clients this fall, a spokesperson confirmed. Employers sponsoring a 401(k) plan through Fidelity can choose…

Powerball’s jackpot is $1.6 billion, the largest lottery prize ever. If you win, here’s how much would go to taxes

Jonathan Alcorn | Reuters If you manage to beat the odds stacked against hitting the Powerball jackpot, don’t forget you’ll have a silent partner in the win: the taxman. The jackpot for Saturday night’s drawing is now the largest lottery prize ever at an estimated $1.6 billion — pretax — if you were to opt…