It’s a shorter holiday season. Does that matter? There are five fewer days between Black Friday and Christmas Day compared to 2023. Here’s how retailers — and consumers — are preparing themselves. 11/19/2024 - 3:06 am | View Link
7 Holiday Side Gigs That Can Turn Into Part-Time Jobs for Retirees Taking just Social Security into consideration, the average retiree gets about $1,784 a month, or $21,408 a year. However, many retirees have additional income sources, such as retirement ... 11/18/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Here’s Who’s Hiring for the Holidays The holiday season is here. For workers, that means hundreds of thousands of opportunities for permanent and seasonal positions. In 2024, we calculated that more than 530,000 positions will be ... 11/14/2024 - 7:20 pm | View Link
Fastest growing jobs during the holiday season RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — There is a 236% growth in retail jobs during the holidays ... for everything from servers to restaurant hosts and even bartenders during the holiday season. 11/14/2024 - 1:40 am | View Link
Thousands seek holiday jobs in Piedmont Triad, with potential for full-time roles The holidays are just around the corner and thousands of jobs are open for people in the triad looking to put more money in their pockets.{Take vo}Employers ... 11/13/2024 - 10:38 am | View Link
Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn moreCarlos Sainz of Ferrari in Las Vegas. Clive Mason/Getty ImagesWe've been looking forward to this one, as Vegas hosted one of the most exciting races last year, with plenty of daring overtakes on the tight concrete wall-lined corners.
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says Elon Musk shouldn't use his relationship with Donald Trump to steer US policies that could boost the Tesla CEO's AI startup, xAI. Frederic J. Brown/AFP and Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesLinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman hopes a second Trump term can usher in an era of AI innovation.
7-Eleven stores are at the center of a multibillion-dollar bidding war. Getty ImagesSeven & i Holdings, owner of 7-Eleven stores, is at the center of a three-way bidding war. The company's management, its founders, and a Canadian convenience store company all want control. Depending on who ultimately prevails, the Japan-based company could go private.
If you're reading this, you're looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game. Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns.
Bluesky, the formerly Jack Dorsey-affiliated, decentralized answer to Elon Musk's X is closing the gap with Threads at breakneck speed. The browser version of Bluesky surpassed Threads in total usage weeks ago, but now the Bluesky app has exploded to 3.5 million daily active users, putting it just 1.5 times behind Meta’s Threads — an impressive feat considering the Threads app had 5x Bluesky's active users at the start of the month.
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The momentum shift has been nothing short of seismic, especially in the wake of the November 5 election.