The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has repeatedly said that “the safest way to celebrate Thanksgiving this year is to celebrate with people in your household.” Potential alternatives include a virtual Thanksgiving meal with friends or loved ones and contact-free delivery of safely prepared traditional dishes to family […]
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Inside, Joanie’s condition deteriorated. It seemed like an endless, cruel thing, the waiting game of death. Then one night we were awakened by a loud thud. Joanie had slipped out of bed and fallen onto the living room floor. We rushed downstairs, a few steps behind Elettra’s stepfather, hurriedly turning […]
Robert F. Smith, a billionaire private-equity executive and the richest Black person in the U.S., has bought a pair of North Palm Beach, Fla., properties from energy drinks entrepreneur Russ Weiner for $48.19 million, according to three people familiar with the deal. The deal closed last month, around the same […]
According to the World Travel and Tourism Council, 174 million jobs and $4.7 trillion worldwide could be lost this year unless travel opens up. Those numbers are almost too great to visualise so I turned to Phil Nuttall, the CEO of Blackpool’s Travel Village Group, for a personal view. He […]
For Danielle Vincent, the path to a business started with a honeymoon and some well-timed sniffs. After her wedding in December 2012, she and her husband, Russ, traveled to Paso Robles, Calif. While there, she stopped at a farm store and picked up two bars of handmade goat-milk soap. Over […]
Katherine Homuth is on a mission to prove Sheertex is unbreakable. In fact, every order of the pantyhose comes with a break-proof test kit. “So customers can kind of go crazy experiencing the strength [of the material] and testing its limits before they wear their pair,” Homuth told WWD. “They’re […]
Rokt Pte Ltd., an eight-year-old e-commerce marketing software provider, has raised $80 million in Series D funding. The round, which was led by investment firm TDM Growth Partners, Rokt’s largest backer, raises the company’s valuation by 42% to more than $450 million, the company said. The investment in Rokt comes […]