The Wall Street Journal’s Ben Kesling looks into the secretive world of Tootsie Roll Industries. You wouldn’t think a profile on a candy company would be deeply fascinating, but then you would be dead wrong. There’s some Willy Wonka shit going down at this company. The 116-year-old company, run by one of America’s oldest CEOs, has [...]
Would you check your smartphone at the door of a restaurant for the duration of your dining experience in exchange for 5% off your bill? It’s a proposition owner and chef Mark Gold, of Eva Restaurant in L.A., is making available to his patrons, which he estimates about half take him up on the offer. [...]
Farhad Manjoo looks at the dismal earnings by Groupon and offers a harsh truth: On Monday, it reported its second-quarter earnings results. The numbers were dismal. They paint an unmistakable picture of the future of Groupon and other similar sites: The daily deals industry is drying up. Groupon reported that its customer growth slowed substantially [...]
Let’s not fool ourselves. Nobody reads the “terms of service” when signing up for anything on the web. The small and long blocks of legalese text are constructed in a manner to purposefully get people to blindly click on the accept box. However, a new service from a group of technologists and lawyers launched this [...]
Just when you thought insurance companies couldn’t be any more reprehensible, comes this story of Progressive Insurance defending a policy holder’s killer in court so they wouldn’t have to pay out. In hopes that a jury would hang or decide that the accident was her fault, they refused to pay the policy to my sister’s [...]
As The LEGO Group celebrates its 80th Birthday, the brand take a stroll through its history with this animated film. Whether you grew up or not playing with the iconic building bricks, this is a fantastic 17-minutes. It perfectly encapsulates the wonder and joy the brand has delivered to millions of kids around the world.
Adweek looks at the latest food truck trend of chain restaurants like Sizzler elbowing their way to the curb. Don’t tell that to Sizzler. Or to Applebee’s, Taco Bell, Red Robin, Jack in the Box or any of the other national restaurant chains aiming to crack the code of food truck culture. Even companies that [...]
Hypervocal puts it best: “Pro tip: If a potential employer asks about your ‘passion’ and says ‘Any color you can add to your application would be appreciated,’ don’t do this. That mistake is so funny it overshadows even his Comic Sans use.” Business Insider got the scoop. And you know you’ve been working on the [...]
This seems like a significant move for the video game company: Valve is opening up Steam to non-gaming software, the company announced today, bringing applications ranging from “creativity to productivity” to the digital distribution platform. The first software titles will be released on September 5th. Non-gaming software sold via Steam will take advantage of the [...]
From Shortformblog: “In what may prove to be a pivotal breakthrough for the mobile payments space, Square has signed up Starbucks for its platform, a deal that will allow you to use Square to pay for your mocha, yes, but will also make Square the processor of credit and debit card transactions for the coffee [...]
