BENSON IBEABUCHI/AFP via Getty Images ABUJA, Nigeria—On October 3, a horrific video went viral on social media, which showed officers from Nigerian police force’s notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) dragging two young men from a hotel in Lagos and executing one of them in the street. The video was a […]
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Nonstore Sales (Think Amazon) The chart shows nonstore retail sales / retail sales excluding restaurants, gasoline, grocery stores, and motor vehicles and parts. Those categories are things one does not normally buy online. Some do purchase non-perishable grocery items from Amazon or other nonstore retailers, but not generally and not […]
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(Logo images courtesy of VidCon) After a summer-long virtual version of its sprawling influencer conferences, ViacomCBS-owned VidCon announced plans to shift to a hybrid online and live model beginning in the second half of next year. It also will begin creating online programming year-round, reshaping the events-driven company into an […]
Blima Ehrentreu is the founder and CEO of The Designers Group, an interior design firm with offices in Toronto, New York, and Miami. She spoke to Doreen Lorenzo for Designing Women, a series of interviews with brilliant women in the design industry. Doreen Lorenzo: Have you always been interested in […]
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Demolition of the Reardon block to make way for Riverside Place in 1990. (Photo provided) Demolition of the Reardon block to make way for Riverside Place in 1990. (Photo provided) Demolition of the Reardon block to make way for Riverside Place in 1990. (Photo provided) Demolition of the Reardon block […]
© LUCAS BARIOULET Team Europe (right) and Chinese team FPX (left) compete in the 2019 League of Legends world final in Paris. This year’s event will be held later this month in Shanghai, bucking a grim trend of cancellations because of the coronavirus pandemic ESports has bucked a grim trend […]
According to Travel Weekly News, 90% of people do all their holiday research online, while 80% of people book online. And out of those who book hotels, research published in Forbes Magazine shows that 70% of hotel bookings online come from OTAs. The greater insight hoteliers have on their position […]
Farhad Azima Photographer: Jill Toyoshiba/The Kansas City Star via AP Photographer: Jill Toyoshiba/The Kansas City Star via AP A years-long legal dispute between an Iranian-American businessman and the Investment Authority of Ras Al Khaimah, one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates, has now entangled a […]
October 19, 2020 7 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In the span of a few short weeks, the coronavirus pandemic completely reshaped shopping and left many retailers struggling to survive. Neiman Marcus, JCPenney, J. Crew, and other popular chains filed for bankruptcy. According to a […]