Month: August 2018

One of last year’s most profitable trades is breaking apart, thwarting expectations for global investors betting on a handful of U.S. and Chinese technology titans’ enduring dominance.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he is giving up on taking the company private in the wake of shareholders’ objections, 17 days after he shocked the business world with a tweet announcing intentions to pursue the idea.

At the end of every summer, people from around the world create a temporary city in the Nevada desert–to make things, to burn things, to dress with elaborate costumes and to live for a week with a spirit of radical self-reliance and generosity. The gathering, Burning Man, will happen yet again this weekend and next…

On a weekday afternoon this spring, Bob Greenberg stopped in front of a bright red Ducati that he’d recently bought. It was a four-cylinder, with a top speed of 200 mph. Made of titanium and carbon fiber, it’s known as one of the fastest motorcycles on the market. And between its design, materials, high-tech GPS…

Facebook’s recent announcement of its advancement in pixel improvements is making waves in the sphere of online advertising. While the social network already boasts unparalleled trackability within a multitouch attribution model, its recent pixel enhancements were designed to help businesses drive even more conversions by automatically capturing website visitors’ information. At my agency, Drive Social…

TIL that P&G, the biggest name in CPG, filed a request with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to register LOL as a protected TM. OK, that was confusing AF … so let’s step back a minute. As AdAge first reported earlier this week, the world’s largest advertiser recently filed several applications with the…

If there’s one thing Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet has taught us, it’s that Realtors (not to be confused with real-a-tors) can roll with just about any situation. While for most that probably doesn’t include cannibal curses, there are still plenty of eccentricities to be found in the home-buying process. In Arnold’s new ads for the…

Modern San Francisco may be known as a hub of progressive thought (the city has, since 1975, had a Commission on the Status of Women solely dedicated to advocating for gender balance), but that doesn’t change the fact that many of its landmarks and streets are named in celebration of men. Only 27 percent of…