Many marketing organizations spent the last couple of years watching their budgets carefully as interest rates rose and VC money dried up. As a result, many companies invested less in technology than they had in previous years. Dotdigital’s CMO Tracker survey asked 750 CMOs from the U.S., U.K. and Australia about their spending priorities. In…
Etsy’s revenue has more than tripled, from $818 million in 2019 to $2.75 billion in 2023. And as its revenue rises, so does the platform’s investments in technology. Etsy spent $470 million last year for research and development — a record high. “I think Etsy is uniquely positioned to benefit from AI,” Etsy CFO Rachel…
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he supports children and prisoners who are incapable of making decisions for themselves getting mandatory, involuntary drug and psychiatric treatment. That comes after the parents of a 13-year-old girl from B.C. testified at a parliamentary committee about her mental health struggles before her overdose death in an encampment of homeless people…
When the Tropicana opened in 1957, it was a stylish, opulent hotel that attracted Hollywood celebrities like the Rat Pack. It was also featured in various films, from Elvis movies to the 1971 James Bond flick, “Diamonds Are Forever.” Like many hotels from Sin City’s early days, however, as The Strip continued to modernize, the…
Prince William, Kate Middleton, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Kate Middleton is no longer mediating between Prince William and Prince Harry amid ongoing family tensions, according to royal experts. Christopher Andersen, author of The King, shared with Fox News that the Princess of Wales has stopped trying to reconcile the brothers and is focusing on…
“I run a small insurance agency. Last fall some of my staff asked to dress up at Halloween in costumes, but I said no. However, I noticed some tellers at our community bank dressed up. And now my employees have asked again whether they can wear costumes this year on October 31st. Should I allow…
Add Paramount Global co-CEO George Cheeks to the list of executives weighing in on the fallout of the CBS Mornings interview between co-anchor Tony Dokoupil and author Ta-Nehisi Coates. In a memo to staffers, Cheeks expressed support for CBS News executives while also saying that there needed to be “further substantive dialogue” about news division’s…
The leaders of Egypt, Somalia and Eritrea – countries which all have strained relations with Ethiopia – have been meeting in the Eritrean capital, Asmara. An Eritrean statement wrapping up the summit made reference to “respect for the sovereignty… and territorial integrity of the countries in the region”. This could be taken as a pointed…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. A recent report from the Charles Butt Foundation clearly indicates that many experienced and novice educators are leaving the profession due to a myriad of factors. For instance, today’s educators face strict scrutiny about what they teach, how they teach it and what materials they assign, especially…
It’s one thing to ramp up content production, but is the added productivity pumping out waste? This week, digital content experience company Siteimprove acquired MarketMuse, a content strategy and intelligence company. The aim of the acquisition is to connect content creation with content strategy capabilities, including research, planning and execution. This, in turn, cuts down…
