Back to school shopping is in full swing, which means the holiday shopping season is right around the corner. One in five U.S. consumers will likely be making their first holiday purchases in October or earlier (compared to one in ten shoppers globally), according to Facebook’s holiday shopping survey. It’s also likely more than half …
American Express is reporting a profit hike of more than 8% from the second-quarter. The company on Friday posted net income of $1.76 billion, or $2.07. That’s a 2-cent beat on Wall Street projections, according to a survey by Zacks Investment Research. Revenue of $10.84 billion also edged out expectations. in the period, also beating …
Great innovations have contributed to making our lives longer and shrinking the world as we know it. User experience has played a great part in it, making online content accessible to most. To reach full accessibility though, UX should go the extra mile and focus on an age group often overlooked: the users over 65. …
Asian shares rebounded Friday on hopes for progress in trade talks between China and the U.S., extending overnight gains on Wall Street. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.9% to 21,449.27 while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng climbed 1.1% to 28,772.46. The Shanghai Composite index rose 1% to 2,930.58, while in South Korea, the Kospi added 1.2% …
Two of the hottest trends in investing are working in tandem to steer billions of dollars toward companies seen as the best corporate citizens. The first trend, sustainable investing, is nothing new. Funds focused on companies seen as doing well on environmental, social and governance issues have been attracting ever increasing dollars for years. Their …
Google is beefing up Chrome’s Incognito Mode. The company confirmed in a blog post on Thursday that it is closing an API-related loophole that made it possible to detect when people were privately browsing in Chrome. The change has been in the works for several months but will take effect on July 30. Chrome has …
Progetto. COURTESY JAMIE SNEIDER Last year, artist Jamie Sneider launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund a residency program and exhibition space she hoped to open in Lecce, a rural city in the Puglia region of Italy. The campaign may have seemed like a moonshot, but it yielded $16,715, and in January, the artist, then …
Southwest Airlines is again pushing back the date it expects to be able to fly the grounded Boeing 737 Max jet, meaning more flight cancellations. Southwest said Thursday that it was taking the plane out of its schedule through Nov. 2, a month longer than before. Without the plane, Southwest says it will drop about …
Once a primary differentiator, reliable customer service has now become a mandatory commodity. With rising consumer expectations and automated technologies, experience has replaced this long-heralded advantage. Brands positioned with a customer-first, always-on experience optimization approach and those who build for personalization are poised to be market leaders. Becoming an experience-focus brand has been painted as …
The Apollo 11 tapes. COURTESY SOTHEBY’S The art world travelled to infinity and beyond this week as Heritage Auctions continued its three-day sale of the Armstrong Family collection Space Exploration Signature Auction, which dovetails with the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20. The sale began Tuesday in Dallas, Texas, …