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GameStop’s ousted CFO got a $2.8 million severance package — but that's probably not why the stock just went nuts again

GameStop CFO Jim Bell has been fired by the board in a shakeup, despite the company saying Bell resigned.

Ivan De Luce

2.24.21 9:00 PM in People

Snap stock reaches record high as investors bet on e-commerce and AR tools

Julia Gray

2.24.21 5:00 PM

Social media saw the collapse of Fry's Electronics coming a long time ago

Ivan De Luce

2.24.21 5:00 PM

Markets

Macy's sales and job listings plummeted in 2020, but data shows the retailer was struggling before COVID

Julia Gray

2.24.21 8:30 PM

Markets

Jael Goldfine

Why Richard Branson gave 23andMe billions to go public

The company made home DNA testing an obsession. But its ambitions are bigger than fun facts and holiday gifts.

Tilray is lowering prices, increasing inventory, and merging to build the largest weed company in the world

Julia Gray

2.17.21 9:45 PM

Are "Buy Now Pay Later" startups the new payday lenders?

James Ledbetter

2.17.21 4:46 PM

Opendoor price data shows the real estate crunch isn't going away this year

Julia Gray

2.12.21 1:00 PM

What does the r/wallstreetbets boom-and-bust mean for AMC and Robinhood?

Jael Goldfine

1.28.21 3:30 PM

Peloton is desperate for workers in New York and California

Julia Gray

1.21.21 3:30 PM

Tech

Danny Konstantinovic

Even under Biden, alt-right media continues to thrive on Facebook

Since September, posts from conservative media figures, news outlets and pages in support of Donald Trump made up for 68% of the top performing links on Facebook.

The bossware boom is upon us: a look inside the employee monitoring software market

Julia Gray

2.10.21 1:00 PM

Coinbase, now valued at $77 billion, is about to go public. Here’s what you need to know.

Ivan De Luce

2.18.21 9:00 PM

David Dobrik's Dispo app wants to put the 'social' back in social media, but can it rival Instagram?

Julia Gray

2.16.21 9:30 PM

TikTok, YouTube, and Snapchat are fighting to pay creators for their loyalty

Julia Gray

2.1.21 5:00 PM

Stacker’s “No Code” take on app-building raises $1.7 million in seed funding

Henry Englert

1.27.21 5:00 PM

Innovation

Julia Gray

Here's why Shopify's weekly user count soared 184% over the last year

Shopify is no longer just a back-end tool. It’s an e-commerce staple. But can the company's big focus on small businesses rival Amazon?

Go viral or go home: "TikTok leggings" raise the stakes as athleisure brands battle it out

Julia Gray

1.25.21 10:00 PM

CryptoPunks pixelated portraits are changing hands for $760,000

Joon Ian Wong

2.2.21 8:20 PM

Rights are the holy grail of the music industry — and more valuable than ever

Ivan De Luce

12.18.20 5:11 PM

These companies are turning the humble house plant into a multimillion-dollar industry

Lucy Dean Stockton

12.16.20 5:30 PM

Here's how Allbirds sparked an eco-fashion battle with a pair of wool sneakers

Jael Goldfine

10.28.20 5:00 PM

Features

Three r/WallStreetBets GameStop investors explain why they did it, what went wrong, and how much they made

“I just wanted to be a part of it." Regrets, Robinhood, and what people are getting wrong about the trade of a lifetime.

COVID vaccine tracker: Here's which states are the worst at delivering vaccines

Julia Gray

2.24.21 2:42 PM

COVID vaccine tracker: Here's which states are administering vaccines the fastest

Julia Gray

2.24.21 1:00 PM

Zillow is coming. (For your old home, new home, real estate agent, mortgage lender, moving company, handyman...)

Karen Fischer

2.18.21 4:56 PM

The biggest haters on Elon Musk's Tesla Bitcoin buy are his fellow techies

Joon Ian Wong

2.12.21 12:00 PM

People

Ivan De Luce

Why the founder of digital identity platform Persona feels a ‘looming sense of dread’

Persona CEO Rick Song saw that online identity verification was lacking. Persona wants to fix that, especially as data breaches and identity theft cost us billions each year.

Moov wants banking to eat the world

Ivan De Luce

2.11.21 1:00 PM

How housing startup Zeus Living won a ‘mad fight for survival’ as COVID threatened to shut it down

Ivan De Luce

2.18.21 4:00 PM

Kin Euphorics CEO is reinventing happy hour in the growing non-alcoholic market

Andrew Hirschfeld

2.8.21 4:00 PM

Vice Ventures wants good companies in "bad" industries

Julia Gray

1.6.21 8:00 PM

Forget Silicon Valley. You can make millions running a “sweaty startup” according to Nick Huber

Ivan De Luce

9.30.20 4:57 PM

Videos

'I raised $15 million practically overnight. It was straight downhill from there.'

Former Goldman Sachs CFO Marty Chavez on building startups, surviving the crash of '87, the dot-com bubble of 2000, and dealing with "ruthless" valedictorians who "wanted to kill me."

12.28.20 5:00 PM

Mahbod Moghadam on leaving Genius: ‘I had started getting on people's nerves after we raised our Series A.’

12.30.20 11:00 AM

Latest Articles

Cannabis jobs jumped 32% in 2020 — these 11 companies are hiring and growing fast

LinkedIn and hiring data for top US cannabis firms reveals which marijuana companies are driving job growth across the country and niches of the industry.

Jael Goldfine

2.23.21 7:46 PM

Spotify is entering the creator economy and cementing its podcast dominance

Spotify is a bite away from eating the podcast industry, but the relationship between audio and the creator economy is in flux.

Julia Gray

2.23.21 7:00 PM

Microsoft is teaming up with lobby groups to undercut Google and Facebook in Europe

While the EU gets ready to charge Google and Facebook for publishing news, Microsoft is waiting to take over should the tech giants bow out of Europe.

Ivan De Luce

2.23.21 4:00 PM

Lucid Motors set to go public via SPAC in a $11.75 billion deal

With its public offering, Lucid Motors represents a chance to invest early in what many perceive as the future of car manufacturing.

Danny Konstantinovic

2.23.21 12:00 AM

Walmart, Costco, and Walgreens to become COVID vaccination centers— This map shows which areas will benefit

Walmart, Kroger, and Walgreens began administering COVID vaccines earlier this month. Now, Costco is joining the list of retail chains supporting the biggest vaccination campaign in history.

Julia Gray

2.22.21 7:00 PM

777 engine failure brings yet another blow to Boeing

The 777 is just the latest in a string of scandals for Boeing, from the infamous 737 Max crashes to laying off thousands and taking on millions in debt to survive the pandemic.

Ivan De Luce

2.22.21 4:08 PM