Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It’s been 10 years since Instagram changed the wordmark at the top of the app, but Instagram head Adam Mosseri said, “it was time for a refresh.” He called the new script font “cleaner and more modern.” Thousands reacted within the first hour. Some gave it a thumbs up. “Modern and clean but fun too,” one commenter wrote. But the dominant reaction was that the new logo actually reads “Instagzam.” The gag spread fast enough that outlets like Variety covered it as the story in itself. Other critics called the lettering hard…
Author: Staff Writer
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Netflix said “game over” to two gaming studios this week, shutting down Night School Studio, the developer behind horror game “Unhinged,” and Moonloot, a Helsinki-based studio, according to Variety. Night School released “Unhinged,” backed by David Fincher and Zach Cregger, less than two months ago. “We are incredibly grateful to the talented colleagues we’re saying goodbye to today,” a Netflix spokesperson said. “We thank them for all their contributions to Netflix, and wish them the best.” Netflix hasn’t given a specific reason for the closures, but the company has steadily shrunk its…
Key Takeaways The 2023 Barbie movie grossed $1.4 billion worldwide at the box office, breaking records. New details have emerged about star Margot Robbie’s payday for playing Barbie in the film. Talks for a sequel have reportedly stalled because the core Barbie team has not been able to agree with Warner Bros. on pay. The 2023 Barbie movie grossed $1.4 billion worldwide at the box office, making it the highest-grossing film in Warner Bros. history. Now new details have emerged about Margot Robbie’s payday as the movie’s titular character. According to Variety, Robbie reportedly made a staggering $50 million from…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The playbook that worked for Google doesn’t move AI engines, and understanding why is the strongest business case for PR in twenty years. ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity build their answers from earned media — the one channel you can’t buy, automate or publish yourself. That quietly changes what PR is for, and who needs it. Try a quick experiment. Open ChatGPT or Perplexity and ask it to recommend the best companies in your category — the exact question a prospect might ask. Then ask what your company does and who…
We have sold out of this book. We are having another printing ordered and it should be here by September 15th. I never considered myself an academic economist. I was a trader. That distinction has led me around the world with a front-row seat all because the floating exchange rate was born on August 15th, 1971 and even then it was supposed to be just temporary. Foreign Exchange futures just began trading in 1972. That only emerged when it was becoming obvious that what was intended to be temporary was becoming permanent. Consequently, none of this was ever taugt in…
The word “agentic” is being pushed by every AI company right now, and—for the most part—it’s unclear what “agents” can do. I’ve seen ads for things like “sales agents” (automating outreach) or “coding agents” (deploying software bug fixes). To a solopreneur, that type of agentic work seems irrelevant. Part of the confusion is that many of the examples are targeted at enterprise companies. The messaging paints a picture of hundreds of autonomous agents working around the clock. But an agent can be much smaller than that. It can handle a specific task, in the background or on a schedule, while…
Jack in the Box is continuing to close stores this year as it reports another quarter of declining same-store sales. Alongside the release of its third-quarter earnings report this week, the fast food burger chain shared that it has shuttered 40 restaurants so far in 2026, with another 10 to 20 set to close during its final quarter. Is Jack still on track? The update on restaurant closures comes over a year after the company announced “Jack on Track,” a financial plan that included closing 150 to 200 “underperforming” restaurants. However, in a post-earnings call, Jack in the Box CFO…
In the current landscape of corporate reputation, the old playbooks are failing. After two decades of falling trust in institutions, government, and companies, AI has accelerated this trend and traditional measurement metrics like “trust” aren’t measuring the full impact. Bully Pulpit International’s second annual Reputation Resilience Index reveals a sobering reality. The onset of artificial intelligence is posing two threats to corporate reputation. As AI increases the prevalence of misinformation, consumers are more mistrustful than ever, making positive brand stories harder to drive. Furthermore, every employer is suspected of using technology to replace workers and disempower consumers. The result is…
Hello again and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. Most obsolete technologies are gone forever, and thankfully so. I will never again buy a new computer with a floppy disk drive, CRT display, or FireWire, and neither will anyone else. We’re all better off for it. But there’s something about tiny, plasticky, defiantly tactile keyboards that speaks to a dedicated minority of smartphone users. In theory, their countdown clock to irrelevance started the moment the iPhone arrived almost 20 years ago. But they’ve refused to die altogether. At any given moment, there have been a few Android phones with…
You might think that the information-security professionals who show up in August at the annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas would know to bring their A game to that gathering. But every year, the administrators of the show’s Network Operations Center (NOC) see a different, messier reality play out over the conference Wi-Fi. And at last week’s Black Hat, AI played an even larger part in that drama—as a tool and a threat. Agentic triage AI has delivered the biggest overall boost to NOC staffers in threat assessment, both by spotting suspicious behavior on the network and by helping…