January, 2025

January, 2025

Rent-A-Center Owner Targets Earned Wage Access With Brigit Acquisition
Upbound Group, owner of Rent-A-Center and Acima, has completed its purchase of Brigit. The deal, finalized Friday (Jan. 31), adds Brigit’s financial health technology to Upbound’s offerings, the ...

Concerts Still Strike Chord With Consumers Despite High Prices
This year’s concert season will feature several high-profile acts and increasingly high prices. The cost of seeing movies, plays and live music has jumped 20% since 2021, CNBC reported Friday (Jan. ...

ThinkAnalytics Think360 AI platform to power DISH Network and Sling TV to boost user engagement
ThinkAnalytics today announced that DISH Network, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar, has selected the Think360 content discovery platform, along with ThinkContentExplorer, to optimize it...

Netflix has canceled The Sandman
The Sandman. Tom Sturridge as Dream in episode 101 of The Sandman. | Image: Liam Daniel/Netflix © 2022 Though Netflix is planning to bring back a number of its ongoing series in the coming months,...

BioWare hit with layoffs as it shifts to next Mass Effect
BioWare now has fewer than 100 employees after laying off “around two dozen” staffers and shifting others to different projects at EA, Bloomberg reports. The changes follow BioWare’s own �...

Donald Trump’s data purge has begun
Key resources for environmental data and public health have already been taken down from federal websites, and more could soon vanish as the Trump administration works to scrap anything that has t...

Sid Meier’s Civilization VII: all the latest on the strategy epic from Firaxis Games
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII is the latest in the long-running 4X strategy franchise that first debuted in 1991 on MS-DOS. The new turn-based game from Firaxis Games and the titular, legendary d...

How to stop your MacBook from turning on when you open the lid
No, please stay off until I say so! In 2016, Apple started including an auto power-on feature for its new MacBook models that activated when you opened the notebook lid or plugged in USB-C power wh...

Apple reportedly gives up on its AR video glasses project
Apple’s N107 smart glasses would’ve connected to a Mac as a portable virtual screen. While Mark Zuckerberg and Me...

Common Side Effects’ creators see the US healthcare system as the show’s villain
In Adult Swimâs Common Side Effects from Joe Bennett (Scavengers Reign) and Steve Hely (American Dad!), the dis...

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