ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 806.46 points or 1.26% to 65,020.94 • Shanghai decreased 11.972 points or -0.30% to 3,930.116 • Hang Seng increased 437.56 points or 1.74% to 25,650.87 • ASX 200 decreased 14.20 points or -0.16% to 9,005.90 • SENSEX increased 362.57 points or 0.48% to 76,515.43 • Nifty50 increased 24.25 points or 0.10% to 23,897.70 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD increased 0.00023 or 0.03% to 0.72030 • NZDUSD increased 0.00011 or 0.02% to 0.58811 • USDJPY increased 0.359 or 0.23%…
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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways After I left my secure job to pursue entrepreneurship, I learned that competence as an employee inside a large organization does not guarantee success in an entrepreneurial setting. Moving from employee to entrepreneur requires passing three tests: Can you survive the transition? Do you have the skills required to engage the market? Can you endure the uncertainty long enough to succeed? Understand that being good at a job and being prepared for entrepreneurship are two very different things. I landed in commercial nuclear power operations at the tender age of…
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The US Open tennis tournament is used to hosting big crowds that come to watch tennis players from around the world compete against one another. One group has grown and become more noticeable—content creators. On August 31, during Naomi Osaka’s first-round match against Anastasia Zakharova, a group of content creators loudly recorded a video. This drew attention from the court, causing the umpire to pause the game and ask the group to take their seats. This was one of the cringiest things I’ve ever seen live. The US Open used to be an actual tennis tournament https://t.co/1kAYND6VOe pic.twitter.com/c1jbi4lUlQ— Danny Singer…
Recently, I decided to build a customer relationship management system (CRM) for my solo business. It started as a simple list of my contacts. Then I integrated my Google Drive and my calendar. Then I decided to add a pretty interface in my brand colors, along with some behind-the-scenes automation. The problem? That was hours of time I hadn’t planned to spend. Nobody was going to use it except for me, and the first version would have served my original purpose. While it was certainly a fun project, it wasn’t necessary. Large organizations have project managers who set limits. Working…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI multiplies execution speed, but it doesn’t replace architectural judgment. The biggest gains come from automating boilerplate while giving AI enough context and human oversight to avoid simply hiding technical debt. As the COO of a software engineering firm that builds and maintains applications for enterprise clients, I don’t have the luxury of theorizing about AI. I must know, project by project, whether it’s working. So, I want to ask you something directly. When was the last time you measured what AI did to your development process, instead of just how it felt? Every tech leader today feels pressure to show…
While Dutch Bros, 7 Brew and even McDonald’s battle over espresso and energy drinks, HTeaO has quietly built a $147 million business doing something nobody else is fighting over: iced tea. The Amarillo, Texas-based chain generated over $147 million in sales in 2025, up 26.7% year-over-year, and finished the year with 178 locations across eight states, according to Restaurant Business. The family-owned brand, founded in 2009 by Justin Howe and his parents Gary and Kim Hutchens, just brought on industry veteran Brian Wise as CEO to lead its next phase of growth, backed by fresh investment from Crux Capital and…
We’re busier than ever. We have a million “urgent” things vying for our attention: constant notifications, an incessant stream of emails, and endless meetings. Throw AI into the mix, and the expectation is we should be increasing our output even further. But all this work hides a bigger question: how much of this is meaningful work? The truth is, not all tasks are necessary or productive, yet the eight-hour workday rewards the amount of time you spend at your desk and the visibility that comes with it. In an environment with fraught job security, many of us feel a fair amount of…
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This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. The U.S. Army has awarded defense contractor AV a $464.8 million contract for the production of high-energy laser weapons under the Enduring High Energy Laser (E-HEL) program, the service announced—the U.S. military’s first formal directed energy program of record and a major milestone for laser weapons after decades of research and development. The Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) will see AV equip the Army with 26 30-kilowatt LOCUST X3 laser weapons over the next five years to counter the urgent threat of low-cost weaponized drones, the company said in a statement…