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2025-10-27T12:40:38Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. AI is transforming the advertising and marketing industries. Startups developing tools such as AI agents and AI-generated video platforms are raising millions. Take a look at the pitch decks of 11 media and advertising AI startups shared with Business Insider. AI is reshaping the media and marketing industries at…
Buckle up: Roughly $15 trillion of market cap is set to report earnings in a span of less than 36 hours.This Wednesday and Thursday are setting up to be an absolute whirlwind, with Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple all checking in on Wednesday and Thursday.It’s not just the size of the companies reporting. They’re also in the middle of the ongoing AI debate, meaning a good or bad earnings report will be felt well beyond their share price.With so much on the line, I had to bring in the big guns.I asked five of my esteemed colleagues who follow…
2025-10-27T09:59:02Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Zohran Mamdani is on the cusp of being elected mayor of New York City, with polls showing him in a healthy lead. Mamdani has said he thinks billionaires shouldn’t exist and proposed raising taxes by 2% for those earning over $1 million. Several billionaires have poured money into trying…
SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China’s Innovent Biologics said on Monday its GLP-1 injection led to more weight loss and better control of blood sugar in patients with diabetes than injectable semaglutide, the active ingredient in Novo Nordisk’s diabetes and weight-loss medicines.The late-stage head-to-head trial compared different doses of the two drugs in patients with diabetes and obesity to assess glycemic control and weight loss. One group received a 6 mg dose of the mazdutide drug that Innovent develops and the other a 1 mg dose of injectable semaglutide.Innovent, which secured exclusive development and commercialisation rights in China for mazdutide from Eli Lilly…
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali closed schools and universities nationwide starting Sunday due to a fuel scarcity caused by a blockade on fuel imports jihadi militants imposed on the capital.Education Minister Amadou Sy Savane announced on state television classes would be suspended for two weeks “due to disruptions in fuel supplies that are affecting the movement of school staff.”Militants from the al-Qaida-backed Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin group announced a ban on fuel imports from neighboring countries into Mali in early September, squeezing the landlocked country’s fragile economy and leaving hundreds of fuel trucks stranded at the border.Mali, along with neighboring…
The countdown is almost over — tomorrow’s the day! In less than 24 hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes over Moscone West. From October 27–29, 10,000 founders, investors, and innovators will flood San Francisco for three days of building, connecting, and deal-making. We’re just days away from live demos of never-before-seen tech and high-stakes pitches as startups compete for the $100,000 prize. The stages are being set. Booths are lighting up. Founders are fine-tuning their pitches. Investors are clearing calendars. When the excitement kicks off, the nonstop conversations, demos, and deals will begin. These are your final hours to save up…
Have you heard of Reg A? Neither had Austin Allison — until he used it to fund Pacaso, a real estate startup for luxury vacation homes.Allison, Pacaso’s cofounder and CEO, started the company with Spencer Rascoff. They were both veterans of the real estate and consumer technology industries when they launched Pacaso in 2020.Pacaso is a platform for fractional ownership of luxury vacation homes. The company facilitates the sale of properties in vacation destinations like Jackson Hole, Tuscany, and Napa, which are acquired through property-specific LLCs. Unlike timeshares, which allow multiple users the right to use a property for a…
The countdown is almost over — tomorrow’s the day! In less than 24 hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes over Moscone West. From October 27–29, 10,000 founders, investors, and innovators will flood San Francisco for three days of building, connecting, and deal-making. We’re just days away from live demos of never-before-seen tech and high-stakes pitches as startups compete for the $100,000 prize. The stages are being set. Booths are lighting up. Founders are fine-tuning their pitches. Investors are clearing calendars. When the excitement kicks off, the nonstop conversations, demos, and deals will begin. These are your final hours to save up…
Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. It’s gotta be the shoes! Why else would people be willing to drop at least $1,100 on a pair of sneakers? I’d never shell out that much but I am tempted to go try on Wall Street’s favorite pair of kicks.On the agenda today:But first: Are you leaving the money on the table?If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Download Business Insider’s app here.This week’s dispatchGolden handcuffed Getty Images; Rebecca Zisser/BI Imagine you work for a company…
Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, both 23, are turning heads with Phia, their AI fashion app that’s drawing interest from investors and trendsetters.Phia, an AI-powered shopping assistant, went live in April and said it has since amassed over 600,000 users. The free app and browser extension compare prices on fashion items across around 40,000 linked sites to help users find deals. It’s the pair’s first business, and it’s making waves with investors.Gates and Kianni raised $8 million in seed funding in September. The round was led by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and included investors like Kris Jenner, Hailey Bieber,…