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These days, it seems like every celebrity wants to start their own brand. Just look at Robert Downey Jr., who raised venture money last year for a coffee company he co-founded, or the gamers-slash-boxers-slash-influencers launching their own energy drinks, men’s body wash and more.
But investors say they’re overwhelmed by pitches for undifferentiated or low-quality goods and are quickly souring on the sector. Four early-stage investors who previously backed celebrity brands said they are shifting focus to.
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The evolution of SEO has transformed from search engine to search everywhere optimisation, requiring brands to look beyond Google. Successful SEO strategies now prioritise business objectives over vanity metrics while integrating across multiple digital platforms. Remember when SEO simply meant getting your website to rank on Google? Those days are quickly fading into digital history.... Read more » Read more ›
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PowerA has partnered with Bandai Namco Entertainment America to create gaming gear for the 45th anniversary of Pac-Man. Read more ›
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The DOGE office on Wednesday released a memo announcing massive federal staff reductions, sending shockwaves across various agencies. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's men at HUD come from the real estate sector. They have access to vast stores of personal and financial data—and control over who can access which HUD systems. Read more ›
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The billionaire oligarch accidentally admitted it's all up to his whims during a cabinet meeting. Read more ›
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Apple says a speech-recognition model bug is causing the problem and that it will update iOS to address the issue. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: Starting in April, the Tokyo Metropolitan government, one of the country's largest employers, is set to allow its employees to work only four days a week. It is also adding a new "childcare partial leave" policy, which will allow some employees to work two fewer hours per day. The goal is to help employees who are parents balance childcare and work, said... Read more ›
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124 cases and 18 hospitalizations from measles have been reported in Texas and New Mexico, though the true tally is likely higher. Read more ›
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Elon Musk said DOGE will make mistakes. He said an example is how the team briefly cut USAID funding for Ebola prevention. Read more ›
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As his government "efficiency" initiative destabilizes Americans' federal benefits, Musk is benefiting mightily from the government. Read more ›
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Apple's entry-level iPhone 16e launches this Friday. Ahead of time, the first reviews of the device have been shared by select media outlets and YouTube channels. iPhone 16e features include a 6.1-inch OLED display with a notch, Face ID, an A18 chip, Apple Intelligence support, a USB-C port, an Action button, and a single 48-megapixel rear camera that offers 2x zoom with optical-like quality. The device is also equipped with... Read more ›
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President Trump nominated Lt. Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine as Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Military experts told BI it was an unusual choice. Read more ›
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A Chinese user has developed a prototype 16-pin connector that can determine if a certain pin is drawing too much current, preventing connector meltdowns. Read more ›
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Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz has previously given Vegas police some high-tech gifts. Read more ›
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Protests of various sizes over Elon Musk's recent political actions have cropped up in the US as some Tesla owners say their vehicles were vandalized. Read more ›
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Donald Trump's lawsuits — and threats — are very much about limiting what we're all allowed to say, write, or publish. The Supreme Court could decide. Read more ›
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Clint and Pam Legaspi tried to take a balanced approach when introducing their now-12-year-old daughter to technology. Her first device was an educational LeapPad tablet, not an iPad. Later, they ignored her requests for an iPhone and instead gave her an iPod Touch, but only after carefully curating its apps: giving her access to Pinterest, Messenger Kids and Roblox but not TikTok, Instagram or Snapchat. When her Bay Area elementary... Read more ›
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Facebook wants to be cool again—and it plans to revamp itself in large part by leveraging creators, as my colleague Sylvia and I detailed in a story on Thursday. Facebook staffers have been talking to the teams of prominent YouTubers including MrBeast and former NASA engineer Mark Rober to get their feedback on how to make the app better for creators, according to a person with direct knowledge of the... Read more ›
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To make Facebook cool again, Meta Platforms is asking some of the most popular creators on YouTube for advice, ranging from MrBeast to Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer who explains scientific concepts. The creators aren’t holding back. Facebook has a “big hill to climb,” said Rober, who has 64 million followers on YouTube and 5.3 million on Facebook, and whose team has been talking to Meta about Facebook for... Read more ›
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Uncertainty about the economic impact of President Donald Trump’s trade policies is dampening expectations for how consumer spending will hold up this year. Just look at Walmart, which today projected that its revenue growth this fiscal year would slow to between 3% and 4%, compared with 5% for the year that ended Jan. 31, 2025. Executives used variations of the word “uncertain” five times on a call with analysts. And... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is in talks to build a new data center campus for its artificial intelligence endeavors that would dwarf anything the company has done to date and would be among the biggest of its kind, according to two people who have spoken to Meta executives about it. Based on the number of chips and the amount of power the company is discussing for the campus, it could cost more... Read more ›
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New forecasts from OpenAI show the beginning of a dramatic shift in its alliances from Microsoft, its biggest shareholder, to SoftBank, its newest benefactor. The company has told investors in recent weeks that it expects Stargate, the fledgling data center expansion project to be heavily financed by SoftBank, to support three-quarters of the computing power it will need to run and develop its AI models by 2030. That would represent... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: How Apple and Qualcomm share tech’s rockiest marriage • Policy and Safety: New push for safety laws could lift parents fatigued by tech worries• The Top 5: Silicon Valley’s favorite snow toys • Shopping: Tech’s winter it item? The humble woolen ski sweater• Plus, our Recommendations: The podcast disassembling “Severance”; a godfather who gets another life; and the Hilary Duff show you... Read more ›
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has long been a vocal critic of Microsoft. A couple of years ago, he accused the company of violating antitrust laws in how it sells software bundles. More recently, he has slammed its artificial intelligence chatbot for giving inaccurate responses and being difficult to use. But that history hasn’t stopped Salesforce from including Microsoft in negotiations it is having with several cloud providers—also including Google and... Read more ›
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You don’t have to look far to find examples of artificial intelligence startups fetching wild valuations, as some in-the-works deals for robotics and startups founded by OpenAI alumni have shown. But such examples obscure changes in how investors are valuing AI startups. The biggest developers of foundation models, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are now cheaper than they were a year ago, based on their valuations as a multiple of... Read more ›
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These days, it seems like every celebrity wants to start their own brand. Just look at Robert Downey Jr., who raised venture money last year for a coffee company he co-founded, or the gamers-slash-boxers-slash-influencers launching their own energy drinks, men’s body wash and more. But investors say they’re overwhelmed by pitches for undifferentiated or low-quality goods and are quickly souring on the sector. Four early-stage investors who previously backed celebrity... Read more ›
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