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Get Mike Santoli's Market Memo in your inbox first. SUBSCRIBE HERE It's a ripe summer in the American economy, and the AC thermostat hangs in the hottest room in the house, the kitchen, where the sun streams in and the oven is always set to broil. The thermostat in this case is t

Running an advertising campaign often requires marketers to switch between multiple tools for planning, creative development, execution, and performance tracking. This fragmented setup can slow down campaigns and make it difficult for teams to act on insights quickly. The launch

Millions of people roll money from a workplace retirement plan to an individual retirement account each year — and mistakes can prove both costly and irreversible. Federal law allows for tax-free "rollovers" at various trigger points, such as a job change or upon retirement. Roll

US-based defense firm Powerus is manufacturing drone interceptors in the UAE, the latest sign of the Gulf looking for new ways to defend itself against Iranian drone attacks. The firm has provided training, components, and software to assemble its Guardian interceptor to an Emira

Saudi Arabia is considering a plan to establish a new state-backed insurance program for ships in the region as it looks for ways to keep trade flowing. The plan would aim to provide cheaper cover for vessels transiting the Gulf or Red Sea, with as much as 700 million riyals ($18

Undersea cable to Antarctica through Drake Passage is viable, researchers find — 1,600km route to Chile could spell an end to research data leaving in 'suitcases full of hard drives' The $370 million to $620 million system would double as a seafloor sensor array. A fiber-optic ca

The News Kenyan brewers see an antitrust decision to impose conditions on Asahi Group’s $2.3 billion acquisition of Diageo’s East African Breweries as a potential opening to reshape market dynamics in their favor. The Competition Authority of Kenya recently set a number of condit

Tom's Hardware Verdict The ZenScreen OLED (MQ16FC) offers a compelling combination of color performance and features, with an attractive price tag. Pros - +Vibrant OLED panel - +Attractive design with aluminum unibody - +Integrated kickstand and tripod mount Cons - --No integrate

For a startup, selling to another startup isn’t the classic exit strategy. However, data shows it is a common path, especially as of late with the rise of deep-pocketed, ultra-high-valuation unicorns. So far this year, more than 500 seed- or venture-backed private companies acros

In another time, the MacBook Neo could have caused a substantial realignment of the lowish-end laptop business. Sure, it has shortcomings compared to the MacBook Air, but it could have at least encouraged PC makers to start shipping consistently decent keyboards, screens, and bui

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Cat Gioino here. Everyone wants safer neighborhoods, right? That was Flock CEO Garrett Langley’s pitch to VCs after he built Flock’s first prototype. The Georgia Tech electrical engineer was not yet 30 when a string of break-ins in his own Atlanta neighborhood convinced him local

Valve was founded 30 years ago today — changed PC gaming forever with Half-Life, then Steam Microsoft veterans Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington founded the company on August 24, 1996. Today marks Valve’s 30th birthday. The company was founded on August 24, 1996, by Gabe Newell and

Kyoto University builds transistor that survives 600C temperatures, compatible with standard fabs — Standard ion implantation and bottom-gate design fix leakage and voltage drift The bottom-gate JFET holds its threshold voltage to within 0.1V at 400°C. A research team at Kyoto Un

Huge $2,200 discount makes this RTX 5090 gaming PC cheaper than the GPU's standalone price — epic HP Omen Max 45L rig ships with 64GB DDR5 and a 2TB SSD for just $4,799 4K gaming with Nvidia's flagship GPU A simply incredible discount from HP means you could pick up an RTX 5090 g

Bring your ideas to life with epic savings on Flashforge 3D printers — Flashforge joins the AliExpress 828 mega-sale AliExpress’s annual 828 sale is live, and one of the standout deals is from the Flashforge brand. Whether you are looking for high-quality filaments like HS PLA or

Missiles crossed the Gulf in February, and hackers armed with artificial intelligence followed. The United Arab Emirates has detected and contained coordinated cyberattacks on the aviation, energy, and education sectors since February, when fighting began between Iran, Israel, an

Nintendo takes down over 400 GitHub repositories for Switch emulators in one go — Relentless DMCA strikes tied to piracy concerns over illegal cryptographic keys Fork found in kitchen. Nintendo has just issued DMCA takedowns against seven GitHub repositories hosting Switch emulat

Dear SaaStr: How Long is a Venture Round Supposed to Last? I think like many venture axioms, founders get often get bad advice here out of good solid rules. The classic rule was “18-24 months”. In boom times, it’s still true … it’s just the frenzy to get into hot deals means most

Diagnostic and pathology services chain Sterling Accuris’ revenue growth slowed to 16% year-on-year during the fiscal year ending March 2026, compared with in FY25. Meanwhile, the Ahmedabad-based firm also saw its losses widened by 38% during the year. Sterling Accuris’ revenue f

AI startup WATER Robotics has secured $2.5 Mn (about ₹24 Cr) in a fresh funding round led by Endiya Partners, with participation from India’s national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand, Darwinbox cofounder Rohit Chennamaneni and Swiggy cofounder Nandan Reddy, among others. Most o

Digital and AI-native bank slice has appointed Samir Sawhney as Executive Director and Ramesh Kumar as Independent Director to its board. Both appointments have been approved by the slice board, while the Reserve Bank of India has also approved Sawhney’s appointment as Executive

At first glance, a slow-selling item on a store shelf looks like an easy markdown call. But with a connected inventory view, that same item may be helping fulfill online demand in another market, giving planners room to hold price. That’s the promise of one pool of inventory. As

When it comes to accounts receivable, there are manual approaches — and then there’s how Peak Design used to do it. The premium travel gear maker’s entire AR process essentially ran through a single physical mailbox at its San Francisco headquarters: Peak’s VP of finance opened e

Marijuana use in the US is at a record high, while cigarette smoking sits at a record low, according to new polling from Gallup. Seventeen percent of American adults say they smoke marijuana, tied with the high notched in 2023. That’s a big shift from 2013, the year Gallup starte

President Donald Trump’s nomination of Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration spurred pushback from some Make America Healthy Again advocates, setting up a fight between the administration and part of the base that helped propel Trump to his second term. Turning P

South Carolina Republicans could nominate Rep. Ralph Norman on Tuesday for Senate, denying Sen. Darline Graham six more years in the seat held by her late brother. Graham campaigned with President Donald Trump in Myrtle Beach on Friday, and promised to vote to Lindsey Graham’s ri

Troy Jackson is taking the positive route as Republicans sink money into negative ads in Maine. In a new ad running statewide and shared first with Semafor, the Democratic Senate nominee appears alongside his mom, who talks about his upbringing by teenage parents. “We struggled a