Author: EconLearner

Wellness creator and entrepreneur Melissa Wood-Tepperberg visits Harvard Business School, sharing … [+] information from her case study with students.Photo courtesy of Melissa Wood-Tepperberg Melissa Wood-Tepperberg’s journey from wellness creator to thriving entrepreneur has earned her recognition from one of the most prestigious institutions in the world – Harvard Business School. Her entrepreneurial journey is now the subject of a three-year case study at Harvard, reflecting a growing trend among top business schools to incorporate the fast-growing creator economy. A $250 billion industry— in their syllabi. As creators continue to influence various industries, we can learn from their success. Here…

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The potential ban on TikTok could drastically change the social media landscape in the USAFP via Getty Images In a move that could reshape the American social media landscape, TikTok faces a possible ban in the United States on January 19 unless Chinese parent company ByteDance sells the platform. The ban stems from a bipartisan law passed by Congress in April 2024 and signed by President Biden, giving ByteDance nine months to find a US-approved buyer or face shutdown. Described by the US Department of Justice as “a national security threat of enormous depth and scale”, there are concerns that…

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Portable EV charging stations created by technology company L-Charge. L-Charge It’s hard to keep a battery electric vehicle on the road and make money if there’s no power available to keep the cars charged. But that problem is being solved for one company through a partnership with a tech startup that’s literally putting juice into power-hungry EVs. To accelerate its transition from cars with internal combustion engines to vehicles with batteries, rideshare platform Contralto has partnered with the charge-as-a-service company L-Charge. The Dallas, Texas-based company provides off-grid power through units carried on trailers that only require a 30-foot by 8.5-foot…

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Joshua Raphael’s art helps redesign Anicnet Red Dragon for a new era of Dungeons & Dragons.Wizards of the Coast His fans Dungeons and Dragons know that there are three basic books vital to everyone’s library: Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide and Monster Manual. The first release for D&D in 2025 he will complete the trilogy of new core books. Monster Manual 2024 is expected to be released next month, in February 2025. Wizards of the Coast gathered some members of the press for a virtual preview to highlight what has changed and what has remained the same. It will be…

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Tom Coughlin at CES 2025Coughlin Associates Digital storage and memory enable all of our consumer devices and applications, whether running on-premises or from the cloud. My next few blogs will look at various digital storage products and some AI-related technology that I saw at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. This article talks about CES announcements from SanDisk, Kioxia, SK hynix, Micron, Samsung and Macronix. Let’s start with Western Digital and the SanDisk brand, which will soon be spun off as a separate company. The first of these products is the SanDisk Creator Phone SSD, part of the company’s Creator line…

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Better to make career mistakes than have career regretsgetty What if your biggest career regret isn’t quitting—it’s staying? Everyone knows that person—the one who hates their job but deals with it by planning the next big trip. They distract themselves with vacations and leisure activities, easing the emotional burden of career regret. It might be the role they didn’t leave, the raise they didn’t ask for, or the passion they put aside. If this sounds like you, you’re not alone. Sadness is something that many of us deal with. A recent survey by Continue now found that 66% of workers…

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