Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival, "Squid Game" star Lee Jung-jae talks about his directorial debut "Hunt." (May 23)
Miss United Continents Brazil 2018 Gleycy Correia died on Monday after having been in a coma for over two months
There is a prayer Tanya Britton has said in the hazy first moments of morning and in the stillness of the night. “Whatever I do, let it be for the end of abortion,” 70-year-old Britton prays. Until Friday came and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.
At 22 years old, Michele Romanow, now chief executive officer of investment firm Clearco, was running a caviar brand – selling what she has called one of the “world’s most unnecessary luxury products” – when the Great Recession hit in 2008. “I had done all this planning for a caviar business… and then it was like, ‘Okay wait a second. The market is not going to want this’,” Romanow said at an interview with Yahoo Finance Canada at the 2022 Collision Conference. “I had to say, look, no one is going to buy caviar. I’m going to have to figure out something else.” Romanow had to shut down that business, but she said it taught her that the companies that are able to change and adapt the fastest to changing market conditions are the ones that will ultimately succeed. It’s a lesson that may prove useful to entrepreneurs in 2022 who are facing an economy that includes persistently high inflation, rapidly rising interest rates, and ongoing geopolitical tensions that have created worldwide impacts. Romanow says while it may seem like a “super scary environment”, there are opportunities to build great companies through challenging times. “My advice is remember that great companies were built during recessions,” she said. “Uber, Airbnb, Groupon all came out of the last recession. So it’s actually a really good time to build, it’s just a time where you’re going to have to think about doing a lot more with a lot less.” Romanow says in recessions the cost of talent and goods typically declines, making it possible to build at a lower cost. She also points to other funding opportunities, such as partnering with private equity firms, that could open up in a downturn as the amount of venture capital dollars available declines. Alicja Siekierska is a senior reporter at Yahoo Finance Canada. Follow her on Twitter @alicjawithaj. Download the Yahoo Finance app, available for Apple and Android.
OSLO (Reuters) -Terrified revellers at a gay bar in Oslo hid in a basement and desperately called loved ones as a gunman went on the rampage, killing two people and injuring 21 on the day the city was due to celebrate its annual Pride parade. The attack took place in the early hours of Saturday, with victims shot inside and outside the London Pub, a longstanding hub of Oslo's LGBTQ scene, as well as in the surrounding streets and at one other bar in the centre of the Norwegian capital. "Everything indicates that this has been an attack by an Islamist extremist," Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told a news conference.
A die-hard Avalanche won't be at Ball Arena for Game 5 of the Cup final after he was banned from Colorado's home rink for the rest of 2021-22.
"I've been battling some body image issues, and when I really think about it, I probably always have," she wrote.
Netflix just issued another round of job cuts.
The moment Stephanie Moore, 31, saw the positive line appear on her home pregnancy test in 2019, she fell to her knees and sobbed. She had recently graduated from college and knew she was not ready for a baby. Then, she picked herself up, opened Google on her phone and typed: “Abortion near me.” Moore quickly found a site for the Grapevine Women’s Clinic, just a short drive from her suburban Dallas home. “Take Control. Start with a Free Abortion Consultation,” the site read. Sign up for The Morn
Everleigh Victoria McCarthy was born three months premature at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and weighed a little over 2 pounds. Soon after her birth on July 25, 2020, she developed massive bleeding in her brain. Still, her parents, Alana Ross and Daniel McCarthy, remained hopeful that they would be able to bring her home. They held her, read her “Little Red Riding Hood” and told her they loved her. But on Aug. 6, when Everleigh was less than 2 weeks old, doctors told the couple that sh
It looks like the Blackhawks have finally found their new head coach.
Rep. Elissa Slotkin wants her party to consider reconciliation. It's a long shot that risks setting off a confrontation with centrists like Manchin.
Following the SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, Thomas said the court should consider rulings on same-sex marriage but not interracial relationships.
The CEO of Boston Dynamics says more warehouse operators are considering a robot workforce after COVID-19 exposed health vulnerabilities at logistics hubs. His comments come as Amazon (AMZN) warns it could run out of workers by 2024. “They have almost 100 per cent turn-over in logistics jobs like picking and packing boxes,” Robert Playter told Yahoo Finance Canada at the Collision tech conference in Toronto. “We’ve definitely seen [with] our industrial or warehouse customers [that] interest in robotics has only increased during the pandemic.” Boston Dynamics has shown its “Stretch” robot is smart enough to react to a stack of boxes suddenly falling over, and clean up the mess. The company plans to release a new robot every three-to-five years aimed at mastering a new workplace task. But Playter says the key is Boston Dynamics looks for the sweet spot between what the labour market needs, and what its robots are capable of doing. “The next robot, which we hope will come out in a few years, will probably be pushing in the direction of more dexterous manipulation tasks, perhaps in a manufacturing environment,” he said. Late last year, the Hyundai Motor Company (HYMTF) acquired an 80 per cent stake. Playter says the new majority owner will help commercialize its robots with its expertise in large-scale manufacturing. “They're going to help us create these things more efficiently, and lower the cost,'' he said. “By the end of this year, we'll have about 1,000 robots out with customers. So we're seeing strong interest.” Asked if robots will push human labour out of warehouses, he said, “I think a lot of the manual work will be done by robots. But robots aren't as smart as people yet, and you have to deal with unexpected circumstances.” Playter says he envisions an “up-skilling path” for workers to become robot operators. “The robot, its intelligence, handles a lot of the complexities. You just give it very high-level commands about what to do, sort of point it in a direction, or lay down a route. And it will autonomously do that work on its own,” he said. “It won’t take a college degree to operate them.” Jeff Lagerquist is a senior reporter at Yahoo Finance Canada. Follow him on Twitter @jefflagerquist. Download the Yahoo Finance app, available for Apple and Android.
Earlier this week, regulators in the United States ordered Juul to pull its vaping products from the market, dealing a major blow to one of the most powerful players in the industry. The company is appealing the decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), asking a federal court to block a government order to stop selling its electronic cigarettes. While the attempted ban in the U.S. doesn't directly affect Canada, some health advocates say it raises questions about the slow pace of
The teacher’s hand hovers over the gun in her holster. Coiled like a spring, she waits for the command.
The Avalanche are only one win away from slaying the Lightning dynasty and capturing their first Stanley Cup since 2001.
In sharp and somber remarks from the White House, President Biden criticized the Supreme Court’s decision to deprive millions of women across the country of the federal right to terminate a pregnancy.
Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said on Saturday that a booster dose of updated versions of their COVID-19 vaccine, modified specifically to combat the Omicron coronavirus variant, generated a higher immune response against that variant. Advisors to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are scheduled to meet on Tuesday to discuss whether to update COVID-19 vaccines for the fall. The updated shots are likely to be redesigned to combat the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, experts say.
Shams Charania: Sources: 76ers moved Danny Green and No. 23 to Memphis as part of trade to acquire Melton. Source: Twitter @ShamsCharania What's the buzz on Twitter? Mark Giannotto @ mgiannotto Dwight Howard, Rajon Rondo, Patrick Beverley, Kyle ...
They got sick every Monday for over 2 months but never knew why.
