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Noom Inc., whose app is designed to help people lose weight by changing their behavior, raised $540 million in a new funding round as it seeks to expand into other realms of personal health.

A collection of essays documenting the financial challenges Millennials face.

Western consumers are starting to indulge in services that were off limits during the lockdown. Businesses, economists and policy makers are trying to discern whether that shift will mean a cutback in spending on goods.

A takeover almost certainly means job cuts at many of America’s most storied local papers.

The topline numbers hide important trends by race and political party.

New research finds a big rise in new businesses despite the pandemic, particularly in predominantly Black neighborhoods.

Meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder Kari Bowen said Sunday’s severe weather is not unusual for this time of year.

On May 17, Shein surpassed Amazon as the most downloaded iPhone shopping app in the US, something it had already done in Google Play downloads the week prior, according to analytics firm App Annie. The online-only retailer was formed in Nanjung, China, but ships its products, primarily inexpensive women’s apparel, to more than 220 countries worldwide. Researchers and consumers site innovative digital strategies and low-priced, trendy products that appeal to a Gen-Z mindset as key to the retailer’s success.

They have set out to change the image of their product lines with better ingredients, a more-appealing name and new packaging.

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In nineteenth-century New England, it was held to be essential to whisper to beehives of a loved one’s death.

More than 50 percent are urban, and two in downtown San Francisco attract more than a billion dollars each in venture capital.

Offices are not going back to the way they were pre-pandemic, and neither are the downtown neighborhoods that house them.

The expression gives its wearer the distinct and distasteful appearance of having dropped an anvil on their foot while tripping on ibogaine

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