The Smiths are a dog family. The dog bone bumper sticker on their car confirms it. After their Bichon Frise passed away, Patty and Scott Smith searched for a new furry addition to the family. Due to Patty’s allergies, the couple was looking for a hypoallergenic dog. After what she described as a difficult experience finding
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General Motors Co. (GM) Chevrolet vehicles are displayed for sale on the lot at Phillips Chevrolet car dealership in Frankfort, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images The strike against General Motors by 48,000 United Auto Workers Union members is set to enter its second week unless negotiators break through a series of reported
Shane Gillis performs onstage at the 2019 Clusterfest on June 21, 2019 in San Francisco, California. Jeff Kravitz | FilmMagic, Inc | Getty Images Four days after it was announced that Shane Gillis would join the cast of “Saturday Night Live” for the show’s 45th season, Gillis was fired. The backlash came quick after a
Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry on Friday shrugged off any worries of stiff competition from rival Palo Alto Networks. “You know, when paradigm shift takes place, incumbent and legacy vendors are often displaced,” Chaudhry said in a one-on-one with “Mad Money’s” Jim Cramer. “They feel the pain and they try to attack everyone.” Earlier this month,
CNBC’s Jim Cramer is bullish about Apple‘s iPhone potential in China. The tech titan has been a focal point of the trade war between the United States and China, but the dispute reportedly has not damped Chinese consumer interest in the latest iPhone launch that hit stores worldwide on Friday. Demand for the cheaper of
Walmart will stop selling e-cigarettes amid “regulatory complexity” and “uncertainty” around the products, the retailer said in a memo Friday. “Given the growing federal, state and local regulatory complexity and uncertainty regarding e-cigarettes, we plan to discontinue the sale of electronic nicotine delivery products at all Walmart and Sam’s Club U.S. locations,” the company said.
McLaren Chief Executive Officer Zak Brown looks on from the pitwall during final practice for the F1 Grand Prix of France at Circuit Paul Ricard on June 22, 2019 in Le Castellet, France. Dan Istitene | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images The chief of Britain’s McLaren Racing says the team is ready to be
Rivian delivery truck for Amazon Amazon handout 2019 Jeff Bezos said Amazon has ordered 100,000 electric delivery vehicles from start-up Rivian Automotive in a push to make the company’s fleet run entirely on renewable energy. The order which was confirmed via tweet by David Clark, Amazon’s senior vice president of operations is the largest order for electric
Do you prefer reading an e-book or a physical version? It might be a surprise, but for most people, old school print on paper still wins. Publishers of books in all formats made almost $26 billion in revenue last year in the U.S., with print making up $22.6 billion and e-books taking $2.04 billion, according
CNBC’s Jim Cramer says it’s a positive sign that bank stocks rallied after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced the central bank would issue a quarter-point cut in the federal funds rate. The “Mad Money” host tries to make sense of trouble that appears to be on the horizon for Adobe and FedEx. He goes one-on-one
Singer John Legend at the PLUS launch event in New York City Tom Vickers Casper, the bed-in-a-box start-up that reached a $1 billion valuation selling mattresses over the internet, is getting more serious about providing customers better sleep. This week it launched a new line of melatonin and CBD-infused gummies in partnership with Plus Products,
Fans of hit TV series Downton Abbey now have the opportunity to live like a “Lord or Lady” for a night at the prestigious stately home. To mark the release of the “Downton Abbey” movie, the owners of Highclere Castle — the set of the BBC’s iconic period drama — have listed their home on
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds her weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol June 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Democrats should focus on making improvements to Obamacare instead of trying to reinvent the wheel with “Medicare for All,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday. “God bless” 2020
Source: VENN Gaming is getting its own network. The Video Game Entertainment and New Network, or VENN, has raised $17 million in seed round funding to launch a network that will focus on gaming and esports entertainment. VENN will launch in 2020 with two live studios, one in New York and one in Los Angeles.
Children pose for pictures with Santa Claus at a shopping mall in Torrance, California. Patrick Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Retailers could be in for a jolly jump in sales this holiday season, despite headwinds like the U.S.-China trade war and the threat of another economic slowdown. Holiday retail sales for 2019 are forecast
Ola Kaellenius, CEO of German car maker Mercedes, stands in front of a Mercedes Vision EQS car as he addresses a press conference on September 10, 2019 on the fair grounds in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, where preparations are under way for the International Auto Show (IAA). Daniel Roland | AFP | Getty Images
Smoke billows from an Aramco oil facility in Abqaiq after drone attacks sparked fires at two Saudi Aramco oil facilities. AFP | Getty Images The attacks on critical oil production facilities in Saudi Arabia over the weekend will “effectively” wipe out the world’s spare oil capacity, an expert from S&P Global Platts said on Monday. Drone strikes attacked
Grounded Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are seen parked in an aerial photo at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington Lindsey Wasson | Reuters A committee is set to deliver its findings to Boeing’s board this week on how the company can design and build safer airplanes after the fatal crashes of two 737 Max jets, The
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Drew Angerer | Getty Images New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday announced an emergency executive action ban on the sale of flavored electronic cigarettes in the state, amid a surge of vaping-related illnesses and deaths across the country. “Vaping is dangerous. Period,” the governor said. “No one can sit
On their first trading day in May 2019, shares of Beyond Meat soared 163%. It was the best performance for an IPO in nearly two decades. At one point in 2019, Beyond Meat was bigger than 25% of companies in the S&P 500. Beyond Meat shares rode a perfect storm. Beyond Meat was the first