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1 week ago | 
aol.com | Hayley Peterson |Nancy Luna |Alexandra York |Alex Bitter
Becoming a franchisee for a fast food restaurant is one road to running a business. But costs and requirements vary widely depending on the restaurant chain. Business Insider compiled a list of financial requirements to become a franchisee for 12 major fast food chains. A fast food franchise can be a lucrative business.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Hayley Peterson |Nancy Luna |Alexandra York |Alex Bitter
Becoming a franchisee for a fast food restaurant is one road to running a business. But costs and requirements vary widely depending on the restaurant chain. Business Insider compiled a list of financial requirements to become a franchisee for 12 major fast food chains. A fast food franchise can be a lucrative business.
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1 week ago | 
businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |James Faris |Henry Blodget
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Blake Silva, a 29-year-old Disney-focused content creator and influencer from Ventura, California. It's been edited for length and clarity. Disney isn't just the love of my life — it's also my livelihood. I can't remember a time when I wasn't obsessed with Disney. I always tell people that I loved Winnie the Pooh before I could talk. And now that I can talk, all I talk about is Winnie the Pooh.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Alistair Barr |Henry Blodget
About a week ago, I told you about an odd policy at one of the top AI companies. When you apply for a job at Anthropic, the startup won't let you use AI to write a required "Why Anthropic?" essay. That seemed a bit rich, coming from a company that's been warning us to adopt AI or face irrelevance. On Friday, an Anthropic executive said the startup is reversing this stance.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Katie Notopoulos |Henry Blodget
I'm as curious and excited as any gadget-lover to see what newfangled AI thingamabob will come from OpenAI's $6.5 billion purchase of ex-Apple designer Jony Ive's io company. But I have one request: please, for the love of God, do not make it a voice-controlled device. Here's what we know about the possible device that Ive and Sam Altman are teasing in a video about their new collaboration.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Katie Notopoulos |Henry Blodget
Imagine you're the CEO of a medium-to-large consumer tech company. You announce that you're going all in on AI — you are launching new AI features in your products, or maybe you're telling your employees they need to start using AI at their jobs more. Your investors love it. Your fellow CEOs applaud you. Thought leaders in Silicon Valley hail you. Wall Street loves it; your share price spikes. But your customers? They haaaaaaaaate it. You get absolutely destroyed on social media.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Alistair Barr |Henry Blodget
Technologist Luis von Ahn was recently asked if AI is a threat to the company he runs, Duolingo. He said many companies could be disrupted, including Netflix. "That's one of the things that is scary about the world that we live in," von Ahn said. "With AI and large language models, we're undergoing a platform shift.""I'm not super worried, but you just never know. And it's not just for Duolingo, it could be all kinds of things, right?" he added. "I mean, it could be a threat for Netflix.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Peter Kafka |Henry Blodget
Charter, one of the country's biggest cable and broadband companies, is buying Cox, a smaller cable and broadband company. If you're a customer of either company, you might be vaguely interested in what the deal means for you. And what might you think if you're the president of the United States? Well, Charter is hoping you'll think this is a deal that Makes America Great Again.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Katie Notopoulos |Henry Blodget
*Grabs chair, spins it around, and sits on it backward.*Hey teens, it's me. Your friendly local 44-year-old tech blogger at Business Insider, every high schooler's favorite website. And I'm here to say: setting your Chromebook on fire is "skibidi Ohio." Don't do it.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessinsider.com | Hayley Peterson |Peter Kafka |Henry Blodget
Remember when HBO used to be called HBO, and then it became HBO Max, and then it became Max? And how everyone except the people who owned the iconic TV brand thought it was a terrible idea to demote an iconic TV brand? Turns out everyone was right. Warner Bros. Discovery, the company that owns Max, now says it will rebrand the service and call it… HBO Max. That's the brand it operated under from May 2020 — when it had a different owner — through May 2023.
