Apple thinks you might want a screen in your kitchen or bedroom. It’s nearly a decade late to the party, with its $299 HomeView, announced on October 13, arriving nine years after Amazon unveiled the Echo Show, and eight after Google came out with its own Home Hub. But that tardiness doesn’t matter for the Cupertino tech giant, which has made its name by arriving with technology others have already developed, then doing it better—and making it a more enviable object to own. It’s a playbook Apple has honed, one that bets big on its design chops to differentiate its…
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Kroger Co. plans to cut more than a third of its corporate workforce in the next three years under new CEO Greg Foran, according to an internal memo obtained by Fast Company. Foran joined the grocery giant in February to succeed interim CEO Ron Sargent. The Cincinnati company’s corporate workforce is around 8,200 people, which means nearly 3,000 roles will be cut. The layoffs will only impact corporate roles, not store or distribution jobs. “Simplifying means making faster decisions and deploying more resources where they matter most,” Foran wrote in the memo. “Our company has more lawyers, more handoffs and…
Controversial chatbot platform Character.ai is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the wake of mounting legal challenges and runaway operating costs, the four-year-old startup said in a surprise announcement on Monday. The move comes as the Menlo Park, California, company has faced a number of lawsuits in recent years, including some that say its AI companions have encouraged users harm or kill themselves. In its announcement, Character.ai said it has reached an agreement with Disney Worldwide Services, an affiliate of the Walt Disney Company, to sell some of its intellectual property for $20 million and “transition services” that will help…
It’s a liberating time to be a graphic designer. You would think so, anyway, after reading Jarrett Fuller’s new book, Graphic Designers After Graphic Design, published this fall by Princeton Architectural Press. Fuller, a designer, writer, podcaster, and professor at North Carolina State University, makes an optimistic case for an expansive definition of graphic design. Through conversations with practitioners working across publishing, research, changemaking, performance, and artistic practice, he argues that graphic design is much more than the production of posters, logos, and websites. Coinciding with the 10th anniversary of his podcast, Scratching the Surface, which highlights practitioners overlapping with…
It was in the quiet of the summer when a new president at Louisiana State University said the school would lay off 25 administrators, including several who were high in the campus hierarchy, and shift the savings to faculty hiring and research. “Transformational change,” the president, Wade Rousse, called it. He was “streamlining operations and finding efficiencies so the university can focus on” its faculty. The move got limited attention outside Baton Rouge. But similar layoffs have been happening at universities and colleges nationwide in what may be a little-noticed tipping point in U.S. higher education. A decades-long increase in…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), a cyberattack can disrupt operations, damage customer trust and even threaten the company’s survival. The most successful businesses won’t just be the ones that respond effectively when an attack occurs. They’ll be the ones that build resilience into the way they operate from the beginning. Many SMEs don’t have the resources to employ dedicated cybersecurity teams. They need guidance that is practical, actionable and integrated into tools they already use every day. When security is accessible and integrated into the tools they already use,…
For what it is worth, it appears that diesel fuel/heating oil will rise with a final high next March. This can be accelerated by a cold winter, but also the damage that Ukraine has already done to Russia’s refineries has been massive. Diesel impact food dramatically. In Asia, ships need diesel to bring back food. Farmers cannot harvest their crops without diesel. Trump is correct that Zelensky is impacting the entire world and he has openly said he does not give a damn. In the case of wheat, we had a Directional Change in 2025 and that has been correct.…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Direct admission and holistic review aren’t rivals. Automate the clear-cut eligibility calls; save human judgment for selective programs and students whose records need context. Direct admission needs reliable data-sharing, clear program rules and staff time. For decades, college admissions has largely followed the same process. Students identify universities, complete applications, submit academic records and personal essays, and wait for a decision. Direct admission is beginning to reverse that relationship. Instead of waiting for students to apply, universities can proactively offer admission to those who meet predetermined eligibility criteria, removing some…
Hackers have demonstrated that you do not need to destroy a farm or stop a delivery truck to destroy food. There was recently an overnight attack on supermarket refrigeration systems in France that forced temperatures as high as 50 C or 122 F across 150 stores. Food had to be discarded after six hours in high temperatures. Every aspect of life that operates online is fair game in cyberwarfare. Updated Reuters reporting says Carrefour identified 80 affected supermarkets, while Monoprix said roughly 5% of its approximately 490 stores were hit. Intermarché’s chief executive estimated nationwide losses in the tens of…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Before you respond to a bad performance review, stop and really listen to what your manager is saying. You can listen without agreeing to everything in the review. Assess your company’s review culture; do they prioritize development after a poor review, or is it the first step to your exit? Launch what I call an “internal PR campaign.” It might feel unnatural and uncomfortable to talk about your accomplishments at first, but internal visibility is important. Read the writing on the wall. If your company has a history of laying…