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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Aditi Bharade |Henry Blodget
Labubu's parent company, Pop Mart, saw its stock price slide after China issued a warning on the addictive nature of blind boxes. Pop Mart's stock dropped by more than 5% on Friday and by about 14% in the past five days. The slump comes after People's Daily, a publication run by the Chinese Communist Party, published an article on Thursday warning about the blind box sales strategy, saying its addictive nature can hook children.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Aditi Bharade |Henry Blodget
The newest sneaker trend is a lovechild of a chunky sneaker and a corporate loafer. The result is a sleek and comfortable — if geriatric-looking — shoe. The biggest names in the sneaker world, like Nike, New Balance, and Converse, have released or are set to release loafer-sneaker hybrids this year. The creative director of Atmos, a Japanese sneaker retailer, posted a picture of the new Nike Air Max Phenomena on Instagram on Monday, saying it is set to be released soon.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Aditi Bharade |Henry Blodget
Gucci's parent company just got a new boss to steer it through a rough patch. Kering, which also owns YSL, Bottega Veneta, and Balenciaga, announced in a news release on Monday that Luca de Meo, the former CEO of Renault, had been appointed CEO. The luxury retail company said that de Meo will officially start the new role in September, subject to the approval of Kering's board of directors during its shareholder meeting in that month.
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2 weeks ago | 
aol.com | Pete Syme |Lauren Edmonds |Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert |Aditi Bharade
An Air India Boeing 787 crashed less than a minute after takeoff on Thursday. The crash comes as both Boeing and Air India are trying to turn themselves around. Attorneys and aviation experts said no conclusions could be drawn until the investigation ended. Thursday's fatal crash of an Air India Boeing 787 shortly after takeoff comes as both the airline and Boeing try to revive their public images.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.de | Aditi Bharade
Adam Mosseri, Chef von Instagram, kündigte neue Änderungen an der Plattform an. INDRANIL ADITYA/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images Instagram will bald ermöglichen, still und heimlich im Feed zu posten, ohne direkt alle Follower darüber zu informieren. Die Nutzer werden auch in der Lage sein, die vorhandenen Beiträge in ihrem „Grid“ neu anzuordnen.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.es | Aditi Bharade |Daniel Alonso Viña
En dos semanas, el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, enviará cartas a los países con los que mantiene una relación comercial para informarles de los aranceles unilaterales. "Podéis aceptarlo o dejarlo", dijo, porque Estados Unidos no puede mantener negociaciones con más de 150 países. El presidente Donald Trump ha afirmado que enviará cartas a sus socios comerciales en aproximadamente dos semanas para informarles de que Estados Unidos va a imponer aranceles unilaterales.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.de | Aditi Bharade
US-Präsident Donald Trump will sich die Verhandlungen mit 150 Ländern mit den „Nimm es oder lass es“-Zöllen erleichtern. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Trump sagte, er werde in etwa zwei Wochen Briefe an Länder verschicken, um sie über einseitige Zölle zu informieren. „Ihr könnt es annehmen oder ablehnen“, sagte er bezüglich der möglichen Reaktion der Handelspartner.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Aditi Bharade |Henry Blodget
Starbucks is piloting a tool that'll help its baristas remember drink recipes. The Seattle-based coffee chain launched a new AI tool called Green Dot Assist, created with OpenAI. This tool, available on an iPad behind the counter in Starbucks stores, will work as an in-store virtual assistant for baristas.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Aditi Bharade |Henry Blodget
Two giants of Asia — K-pop band Seventeen and viral doll Labubu — are joining forces. Seventeen, one of K-pop's biggest acts du jour, is set to release a new song on June 11, "Bad Influence," produced by Pharrell Williams. Leading up to the release, Williams' online auction site, Joopiter, launched a collaboration with Chinese toymaker Pop Mart to make 14 custom Labubu dolls with Seventeen branding.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.com | Meghan Morris |Aditi Bharade |Henry Blodget
Starbucks is serving up cheap drinks in China this summer. Starting Tuesday, the coffee chain is lowering the prices of more than 20 drinks in its Frappuccino, iced shaken tea, and tea latte product lines, Starbucks representative Kok Kuan Tan told BI. He said the company hasn't determined an end date for the promotion. The chain said in a Monday post on Chinese social media site Weibo that prices will be brought down to as low as 23 yuan, or about $3.20, for the summer.
