Posts by Liam Redmond
Parents visiting Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s kids’ school issued ‘overkill’ warnings about taking photos of students
Parents at the upscale UK prep school attended by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s children — Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5 — have reportedly been warned against taking photos of students. According to the Mirror, “guidance” was allegedly given regarding parents and caregivers “conduct” at the school after Markle’s phone number was leaked…
Read MoreTraffic sign on 405 hacked to display pro-Iran website
A temporary traffic sign perched on the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles appears to have been hacked earlier this month to display a link to a pro-Iran website. Real estate broker Payam Shirazi said he spotted the sign by the Santa Monica Boulevard exit while driving north from his home in Irvine to L.A. for…
Read MoreChatGPT Ads Open a New Front for Small Brands
Quartile said Monday it now holds technology partner status for ads running inside ChatGPT, which puts the placement within reach of brands through software they already log into. The firm bills itself as the biggest retail media optimization platform anywhere. For anyone running growth at a small brand, ChatGPT ads mark the moment conversational AI…
Read MoreAgentic Commerce Fight: Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse
Amazon confirmed Sunday night that it has shut Meta’s Muse assistant out of shopping on Amazon.com, twelve days after the agent launched. The company says it asked Meta to exclude the retail site voluntarily and got nowhere. Shoppers using Muse now hit a popup instead of a checkout. The dispute is narrow on its face…
Read MoreCustomer Acquisition Tracking Separates Growing Firms
PYMNTS Intelligence published new SMB Growth Monitor findings on Monday showing that owners who formally log where each customer came from grew revenue at more than double the rate of owners who log nothing. The study carries the title The SMB Growth Gap, and it drew on 526 small and mid-sized American firms. If you…
Read MoreHumanoid Robot Market Reality: 5 Lessons for Founders
Reuters obtained the first humanoid tally ever compiled by the International Federation of Robotics, and the 2025 total came to about 7,000 machines. That count covers factories and professional services. After two years of viral demo clips, 7,000 is the whole commercial market. I have chased enough shiny technology to know what this number is…
Read MoreM&A Trends Point to a Recovery Only at the Top
Boston Consulting Group released its M&A Report 2026 on Monday, and the top-line figure reads well. Deal value from January through August came in 15% higher than the same stretch of 2025. It also ran 11% ahead of the ten-year average. One layer down, the m&a trends look far narrower. Almost every dollar of that…
Read MoreYankees could have greater need with destiny out of their hands in tall Rays task
What had the potential to be a juicy showdown this week in The Bronx may not be worth the squeeze for the Yankees. Even if they go all out to sweep the Rays in a four-game series, they still would need to keep winning and get some help on the final weekend of the regular…
Read MoreTeofimo Lopez’s Rise: From A Brooklyn Kid to a Florida-Based Amateur Boxer to World Titles and Takeover Promotions
Photo Credit: Zach Hirsch and Teofimo Lopez From Brooklyn to South Florida Teofimo Lopez was born in Brooklyn, New York, but his boxing foundation was built after his family moved to South Florida. As a youngster, Lopez spent countless hours in gyms from Miami to Palm Beach, often training alongside seasoned professionals under the watchful…
Read MoreFlexible Warehouse Space: 5 Moves for Product Founders
WareSpace announced Thursday that it spent $36.5 million on two industrial buildings, one in Miami Gardens and one in South San Francisco, which it will chop into more than 210 small units for small businesses. Together the purchases bring about 164,000 square feet into a portfolio that now spans 34 facilities and upwards of 3.2…
Read MoreAlternative Business Lending Now Reads Your Whole Footprint
Byzfunder said Thursday it has put a new underwriting system into production called TraceDataIQ, trained on the performance history behind more than $2 billion lent to over 35,000 businesses since 2019. The system evaluates court records, UCC filings and a company’s public web presence alongside the usual financial documents. If you have ever applied for…
Read MoreMedian Household Income Record Resets Your Pricing Math
Real median household income reached $87,460 in 2025, the strongest figure in Census Bureau records going back to 1967, the agency reported this week. Poverty on the official measure dropped half a point to 10.2%, and the rate among children set a record low at 13.4%. Every founder selling to consumers just got a new…
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