Digital Gems

The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a toll. The pressures that mothers of young children (defined throughout as having a child under the age of 13 in the household) have faced over the course of the CO…

The company’s stock market arrival establishes Bitcoin and other digital currencies in the traditional financial landscape. It also elevates a technology with astonishing environmental costs.

The economic toll from the pandemic has been tough to measure, but new estimates from the Federal Reserve suggest it wasn’t as bad as feared for smaller businesses.

The long read: In 2019, the body of a man fell from a passenger plane into a garden in south London. Who was he?

Coinbase, the most valuable U.S. cryptocurrency company, has faced many internal complaints about discriminatory treatment.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warned people not to use Peloton's Tread+ treadmills with children or pets around, citing dozens of incidents.

Health concerns, expanded jobless benefits and still being needed at home are among the reasons would-be workers might be staying away.

The Samsung dynasty’s personal art collection may be worth $2.7 billion.

Even as the oldest millennials turn 40 this year and approach middle age, student debt continues to follow them.

It’s the airline’s first campaign aimed at the hub.

There were about 107,000 white men living in Denver in 1920. Documents suggest close to 30,000 of them were registered members of the Ku Klux Klan.

The contextual ad-tech company raised $75 million in new funding from Goldman Sachs

Technology will make it possible to compensate each person according to their economic value. That’s pretty bad news for most people, and very good news for some.

Chris Crocker, the creator of the "Leave Britney Alone" viral video published in 2007 on YouTube, sold it as an NFT for over $41,000.

On new creator platforms, individuality is a feature, not a bug.

For years, physicians have assumed they can treat both genders the same way. But it's costing women their lives.

Why we view companies like sports teams and their leaders like star athletes

Chloé Zhao’s film about the damaged American dream won best picture, best director and best actress. The late Chadwick Boseman, who was considered the frontrunner for best actor, was beat out by Hopkins.

The Great Stagnation

With immigration leveling off and a declining birthrate, the United States may be entering an era of substantially lower population growth, demographers said.

Pressures on global supply chains are increasing and disruptions are likely to only get worse as summer approaches and the economy booms.

I don't know what a goose looks like and you can't describe one

Some people deserve to be fired and some people don't

Coinbase has come as far as it has because of the talented, passionate people we attract. I’ve written before about the importance of…

Social media companies and other organizations are looking out for themselves.

More employers are actively recruiting job candidates, even for low- and middle-level white collar jobs as fewer answer ads during COVID crisis.

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Restaurants and bars in Colorado Springs saw a 35 percent drop in sales last year during the pandemic, but there now are small signs of an economy in recovery according to an annual report released Wednesday by the Downtown Partnership.