COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Andrea Lyn Events, a local Columbia business is hosting a Holiday Makers Market event that is focused on helping small businesses while celebrating the upcoming holidays. Some small businesses have had to make adjustments during the past holiday season due to the pandemic. According to Score.org, 35% of small business owners have
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business For travelers getting ready to make their first holiday trips since before the pandemic: prepare for sticker shock. Airfares are way up. US gas prices are higher than they’ve ever been at this time of year. Rates for hotel rooms and rental cars have jumped 12% and 46% respectively from
Continue Reading By Rachel Metz, CNN Business As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly popular for generating images, a question has roiled the art world: Can AI create art? At bitforms gallery in San Francisco, the answer is yes. An exhibit called “Artificial Imagination” is on display through late December and features works that were created with or inspired
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Former US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been reinstated on the platform. The account, which Twitter banned following the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, was restored after Twitter CEO and new owner Elon Musk posted a poll on Twitter on Friday night asking the platform’s
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Former US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been reinstated on the platform. The account, which Twitter banned following the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, was restored after Twitter CEO and new owner Elon Musk posted a poll on Twitter on Friday night asking the platform’s
Continue Reading By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Len Edgerly, a 72-year-old podcaster from Cambridge, Massachusetts, has spent the last 14 and a half years talking about his favorite tech product of all time: the Kindle. Edgerly, who records a weekly podcast called “The Kindle Chronicles,” has spoken to authors, readers, publishing industry experts and Amazon executives
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Americans are getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving. But investors in the United States (and the rest of the world for that matter) don’t have much to be grateful for in what is turning out to be a rotten 2022. The S&P 500 has plunged 17% this year, and
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Former US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been reinstated on the platform. The account, which Twitter banned following the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, was restored after Twitter CEO and new owner Elon Musk posted a poll on Twitter on Friday night asking the platform’s
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Snoop Dogg is reaching out to new customers: actual dogs. The rapper and entrepreneur is expanding into pet fashion with Snoop Doggie Doggs, his new brand of pet accessories. “If my dogs ain’t fresh I ain’t fresh,” Snoop said in a news release published on Thursday. “These dogs and their apparel
Continue Reading By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Ticketmaster apologized to Taylor Swift and her fans late Friday night after a ticketing debacle this week that made it difficult for consumers to buy tickets to the pop star’s new tour. “We want to apologize to Taylor and all of her fans — especially those who had a terrible
Continue Reading Story by Nathaniel Meyersohn, Video by John General, CNN Business Way in the back of the grocery store, at the end of the sleepy baking aisle, sits a brand decades past its prime: Jell-O gelatin. Today, Jell-O is served to patients at hospitals. Or schoolchildren throw it around during food fights at lunch and college
Continue Reading Story by Nathaniel Meyersohn, Video by John General, CNN Business Way in the back of the grocery store, at the end of the sleepy baking aisle, sits a brand decades past its prime: Jell-O gelatin. Today, Jell-O is served to patients at hospitals. Or schoolchildren throw it around during food fights at lunch and college
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN This might just be the best Black Friday deal we’ve heard yet. Denny’s is selling a $5.99 T-shirt which will grant wearers access to free breakfast for a year, according to a news release published Wednesday. Each T-shirt has a unique QR code sewn directly onto the sleeve, making it easy
Continue Reading By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison on Friday following her conviction in January for defrauding investors while running the failed blood testing startup Theranos. Judge Edward Davila imposed a sentence of 11 years and three months in prison, with another three years of supervision after
Continue Reading By Gabe Cohen, CNN As the first frigid weather of autumn chills the Northeast, many people are faced with a tough decision: deal with the surging costs of heating their homes or live without it. Home heating prices are skyrocketing yet again this winter, up 18% nationwide on top of last year’s 17% spike, according
Continue Reading By Gabe Cohen, CNN As the first frigid weather of autumn chills the Northeast, many people are faced with a tough decision: deal with the surging costs of heating their homes or live without it. Home heating prices are skyrocketing yet again this winter, up 18% nationwide on top of last year’s 17% spike, according
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN Eight former SpaceX employees filed labor-law complaints, alleging that Elon Musk’s space company unlawfully fired workers after they wrote company management a letter begging them to publicly condemn Musk’s “harmful” behavior on social media. The former workers allege that SpaceX terminated their employment for participating in “concerted protected activities.” Those protected
Continue Reading By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN Shipping giant Maersk has settled a lawsuit filed by a former US Merchant Marine Academy student who says she was raped while working on the company’s ship when she was 19 years old. The company’s US subsidiary Maersk Line, Limited (MLL) announced the settlement with USMMA graduate Hope
Continue Reading by Reuters Used-car retailer Carvana Co. is cutting 1,500 jobs, or 8% of its workforce, the company said on Friday, amid waning demand for used cars on the back of sky-high prices and supply shortages. Demand for used cars has been negatively impacted by hybrid-working models and higher costs caused by rising interest rates, as
Continue Reading By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Employers are planning to increase their salary budgets by 4.6% next year, the highest expected annual jump in 15 years. That’s according to the latest international survey from consulting firm Willis Towers Watson, which included responses from 1,550 US employers. The survey was conducted from October 3 to November 4.
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