Published:Wednesday | December 24, 2025 | 12:06 AM
It’s shoppers like Quinn Kelsey who keep department store executives up at night. The 38-year-old Denver resident gets makeup ideas from TikTok videos and other social media content, not salespeople at beauty counters. She uses an AI chatbot to get...
Published:Wednesday | December 24, 2025 | 12:06 AM
Most Americans aren’t making end-of-year charitable giving plans, according to the results of a new AP-NORC poll, despite the many fundraising appeals made by nonprofits that rely on donation surges in the calendar’s final month to reach budget...
Accompanying Time’s annual Person of the Year selection Thursday is a magazine cover that resembles the “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” photograph from the 1930s, showing eight of the “Architects of AI” sitting on a beam. “This was the year when...
Stocks gained ground on Wall Street Friday for a second straight day, wiping away losses from earlier in the week. Technology stocks were once again the main force behind the market’s broader moves, especially companies with a focus on artificial...
Two Caribbean CEOs retired recently from similar sized companies. Marcus left with emotional tributes, his board praised his “collaborative leadership”, his team genuinely mourned his departure, and his farewell was attended by three cabinet...
Last week’s US announcement of a “permanent pause” on migration from several developing countries is more than a foreign policy headline, it is a wake-up call for Jamaica. Although we were not named, the precedent is unmistakable: immigration...
Sales of previously occupied US homes rose in November from October levels, but slowed compared to a year earlier for the first time since May, despite average long-term mortgage rates holding near their low point for the year. Existing home sales...
Hurricane Melissa might have wiped out more than 90 per cent of Jamaica’s sorrel crop, but at least one local company had the foresight to stockpile the product in anticipation of increased demand for Christmas. Learning from the experience of...
Warner Bros Discovery is recommending its shareholders reject an unsolicited buyout offer from Paramount Skydance in favour of a rival bid from Netflix it said will better serve their interests and the entertainment company’s audiences. The Warner...
Kingston-based Ian Randle Publishers (IRP) has entered into a partnership agreement with the renowned Johns Hopkins University in the United States that will see the publication of two new books each year on an open range of subjects. The first...
Blue Power Group, a leading soap maker, has announced a turnaround plan aimed at restoring growth and profitability after being hurt by Hurricane Melissa and the imposition of duties on raw materials. Chairman Jeffrey Hall said the plan rests on...
Global online forum Reddit on Friday filed a court challenge to Australia’s world first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world’s most popular social media platforms. California based Reddit Inc.’s suit...
Crypto.com was under siege. For more than a year, the firm had been investigated by President Joe Biden’s Democratic administration, part of an aggressive push to regulate the largely unregulated cryptocurrency industry. Financial regulators had...
Japan’s exports climbed 6.0 per cent in November from a year earlier, with shipments to the United States rising for the first time since March as uncertainties over tariffs abated following a trade deal with the Trump administration. The...
Writer Sophie Kinsella, whose effervescent rom com Confessions of a Shopaholic sparked a million-selling series, died on December 10, her family said. She was 55 and had been diagnosed with brain cancer. The family said in a statement on Kinsella’s...
A posthumous memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s best known accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, has sold one-million copies worldwide two months after its release. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Tuesday that more than half the sales for Nobody’...
A quarterly survey of major Japanese manufacturers released Monday shows business sentiment improving to its best level in four years, even after President Trump raised tariffs on goods from the United States ally to a baseline level of 15 per cent...
Illinois’ public transit systems got a US$1.5-billion annual infusion on Friday as Governor JB Pritzker signed a law overhauling Chicago’s web of buses and trains, sparing it from devastating service cuts and pledging upgraded performance and...
Poultry producer Jamaica Broilers Group (JBG) has returned to a positive capital position following an upswing in its assets, according to its latest second quarter financials. “The group completed the revaluation of its land and buildings, adding...
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator, placing him atop the agency after a months-long saga where President Donald Trump revoked his nomination as part of a feud with tech billionaire...
Private equity firm MFS Capital Partners Limited has completed a strategic portfolio clean-up, disposing of two dormant subsidiaries — Muse 360 Integrated Limited and Bar Central Limited — as part of its renewed focus on core financial services....
Tourism-related companies listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) have been dealt a blow from Hurricane Melissa which will impact them well into 2026, according to large brokerage firm NCB Capital in a notice to clients this week. “The outlook...
Proven Management Limited, investment manager of Proven Group Limited, announced plans to partner with Cornerstone Group, which indirectly holds the second largest stake in Proven through its subsidiary, Barita Investments. The collaboration is...
A private equity firm owned by President Donald Trump’s son in law, Jared Kushner, is no longer backing Paramount’s hostile acquisition bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the firm confirmed on Tuesday. Days after Warner agreed to be bought by Netflix...
