Business and Boardrooms

Disney+ and Hulu just signed six iHeart podcasts, starting with the Jonas Brothers this Thursday, timed to a Camp Rock premiere — and if you still think of a podcast as an audio file in an open RSS feed, the

July inflation landed at 3.4 per cent this morning and one of America's best-known economists called the report benign — while energy prices are up nearly fifteen per cent in a year and the average pay packet has now

Hadrian just raised one point three seven billion dollars at a seven point eight seven billion valuation to build highly automated defence factories — part of a single week in which five startups raised over

OpenAI bought a slide-deck startup that is barely a year old, folded the team into ChatGPT, and disclosed no price — and inside that tiny, quiet deal is the whole uncomfortable truth about building a company on top of

The chairman of India's most consequential business house resigned this morning, six days before the annual general meeting, after six months of deadlock over his own reappointment — and the real story is not the man

Spotify is testing a button that lets listeners skip podcast advertisements — but only the ones Spotify did not sell — and that single design decision quietly reprices every independent show on the

Cracker Barrel hands the keys to a sixty-nine-year-old retired chief executive today — and the boards of America are quietly doing the same thing everywhere, which tells you something uncomfortable about the

America shed twenty-three thousand jobs in July when forecasters expected to add eighty-three thousand — and the stock market rose, because corporate profits are having the best quarter since 2021, and

Starboard Value took a stake worth hundreds of millions in Shake Shack and the shares jumped about nine per cent before a single demand was made — and the fact that it arrived after a good quarter, not a bad one,

Sequoia led a one billion dollar round into a nuclear reactor startup at a six billion dollar valuation, and attached a two hundred million dollar credit facility — and the debt is the more interesting half of