By Sara Rathner The Covid-19 pandemic forced credit card companies to make dramatic changes in 2020, some of which will continue into 2021. Many issuers tightened their underwriting, leaving consumers with fewer card options to choose from if they had less-than-good credit. Balance transfer cards all but disappeared, with some […]
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Employees inside the casino prepare for the opening of MGM Cotai in Macau, China February 13, 2018. HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) – There’s a new gamble worth taking for MGM Resorts International. One of its Asian investors, Snow Lake, wants the U.S. casino operator to sell a fifth of its […]
(FOX 2) – The American Red Cross is partnering with the NFL in hopes of encouraging donors to come forward this winter. Those who donate blood, platelet or plasma will be automatically be entered to win two tickets to the NFL’s biggest game in 2022 that’s taking place Los Angeles. […]
T-R FILE PHOTO A Garling Construction crew of Belle Plaine at work on the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Marshalltown saw some big projects either start, finish or make heaps of progress in 2020. Never a city to be held down by a natural disaster, let alone a global […]
As part of our annual year-end coverage each year, WSJ Pro asks members of the private-equity community to share their thoughts on the past year and reflect on challenges and opportunities they see in 2021. Alok Singh is the co-founder and chief executive of Bridge Growth Partners, a New York-based […]
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Refinery29 Your Horoscope This Week Feel like taking a walk on the wild side? We’re feeling more comfortable expressing our eccentricities on Sunday, when the ego-ruling Sun forms a trine with enigmatic Uranus. We can make the most of this transit by escaping routine and exploring a different side of […]
With the launch of PS5 and Xbox Series X now behind us, we’re turning our attention toward what we’ll be playing on our shiny new hardware — as well as last-gen consoles, Switch, and PC — in the months ahead. From flagship console exclusives like God of War: Ragnarok and […]
Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Sumo Digital have released the online multiplayer update for 3D platforming adventure Sackboy: A Big Adventure. The update also adds the option to transfer save data from PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5. Here is an overview of online multiplayer and save data transfer, via […]
Yields are close to as low as they have ever been. Should you be loading up on debt to pour into stocks, property and other things that might produce a return above the cost of repaying the loan? One notable investor shows how getting everything right can deliver fat returns—but […]
(CNN) — For decades, Liao Shou-fang has been hawkishly presiding over his turkey rice eatery — Rou Bo — to make sure every dish is served exactly the same way. And then along came CNN Travel, and everything changed. In a good way. That was five years ago. Today, what […]
Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn is back — or, at least, the lodgings portion of the historic property is. According to general manager Matt Glazer, Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn started renting is famous rooms again in a “slow opening” that began Nov. 22. Reopening the hotel’s popular restaurant could happen by […]
Mytheresa is going public. Or at least that seems to be its intention after its Netherlands-based parent company said this week that it had filed paperwork for a proposed initial public offering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. According to market reports, Mytheresa aims to IPO in early 2021 […]
President Donald Trump’s legal team on Tuesday announced a state Senate hearing on election issues in Pennsylvania featuring former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is an attorney for the president. But MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow found the event ― like so much else involving the Trump legal effort ― isn’t […]
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TREXLERTOWN, Pa. – After 6 months and 8 feet, you’d never know the building was once a Bon-Ton. Now it’s a 64,000-square-foot Urban Air. It’s an indoor, interactive amusement park. Matthew and Nichole Pitz are the owners. They say their kids loved their local Urban Air so much, they wanted […]
The Big Ten released its 2020-21 conference schedule on Wednesday, seven days before opening day. Better late than never. It gives Rutgers and its conference colleagues a month to map out what surely will be a chaotic winter in more ways than one. The schedule also makes good fodder for […]
The arrival of the PlayStation 5 brings with it the return of beloved PlayStation mascot Sackboy for a new, big adventure, unsurprisingly titled Sackboy: A Big Adventure. This latest entry in the LittleBigPlanet franchise tweaks the format slightly, going from 3D graphics on a mostly 2D plane to a fully […]
As he thought about returning to take over the Rutgers football program last fall, Greg Schiano envisioned running out of the SHI Stadium tunnel to 50,000 screaming fans. That dream will have to wait. “You don’t envision running out to an empty stadium as a coach — that’s just not […]
RCEP Representatives of signatory countries are pictured on screen during the signing ceremony for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade pact at the ASEAN summit that is being held online in Hanoi on Nov. 15, 2020. Credit – Nhac Nguyne—AFP/Getty Images When 15 nations across the Asia-Pacific region inked […]
E!: Do you think what you’re experiencing in COVID, with virtual and electronic collaborations, will enable more collaborations in the future and make it easier for artists to collaborate? B: I would say so. I kind of realize how easy it is to get someone to send you a track. […]
COVID has turned online travel from a game of inches to one of millimetres, said Timothy Hughes, vice president corporate development of Agoda, paraphrasing an oft-quoted phrase of former Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. Speaking during WiT Seoul, Hughes said, “A lot of the breakout tech is just your ability to […]