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What We Lose When Malls Shut Down
As of the end of 2025, the nationwide mall vacancy rate was 112 percent higher than the overall average retail vacancy rate from the prior year. Analysts project that up to 87 percent of large shopping malls may close over the next ten years. As…
Meta lays off more than 2,000 from Menlo Park HQ
New records show thousands of Bay Area employees are on Meta's chopping block, all part of a 10% layoff announced last week expected to affect 8,000 worldwide. Three WARN filings released Thursday reveal a larger swath of engineers laid off as the…
Meta eyes AI pendant as part of its ambitious new hardware strategy
Meta Platforms is preparing a broader push into AI-focused consumer hardware. A new internal memo reportedly outlines plans that include smart wearables, upgraded AI devices, and a possible artificial intelligence (AI)-powered pendant. According to…
Seismic Attitude Shifts
Art-watchers in Santa Barbara understand that one reliable time and place for finding more challenging, mold-breaking, and potentially trailblazing work is out at UCSB, come the end of each academic year. In the current short-run 2026 MFA Thesis…
I tested Bose's new Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar. It delivers immersive Atmos sound, but there's a catch.
The Bose Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar is the company's latest flagship home theater speaker. It's part of the brand's renewed focus on whole-home audio, and it joins the recently released Lifestyle Ultra Speaker and Ultra Subwoofer. All three devices…
The Eataly of Asian food is about to open in the Bay Area
An ambitious restaurant at a scale rarely seen in the Bay Area — clocking in at 15,000 square feet, with 350 seats, 200 employees, live cooking stations, a retail store and eventually a rooftop with panoramic views — is nearly ready…
Tony Blair is back and he's seriously serious about getting serious
HAMISH Morrison is away this week participating in CarrionCamp, a new AI-powered virtual reality experience which allows you to experience what it would be like to be trapped in a gibbet and picked apart by buzzards.* Instead, we have a guest…
Tiny liquid-metal pump could power the next generation of soft robots
Engineers have developed a tiny liquid-metal pump that could help make future soft robots, wearable devices, and medical technologies smaller, lighter, and more flexible. The new invention is so compact that it is about the size of a pea, yet it…
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) Insider Curtis Mahoney Sells 2,079 Shares
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META - Get Free Report) insider Curtis Mahoney sold 2,079 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Wednesday, May 27th. The shares were sold at an average price of $609.92, for a total transaction of…
Beloved Walt Disney World Attraction Is Getting A Massive Makeover
Fans of Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress might want to make the trek to the Magic Kingdom in Florida pretty soon: the company said it's shutting the attraction down in July for a major overhaul. Currently, the show takes the audience on a tour of…
Capstone Capital Management Ltd Takes $545,000 Position in Meta Platforms, Inc. $META
Capstone Capital Management Ltd purchased a new stake in Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META - Free Report) during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The fund purchased 826 shares of the social networking…
Harvest Portfolios Group Inc. Acquires 54,907 Shares of Meta Platforms, Inc. $META
Harvest Portfolios Group Inc. boosted its holdings in shares of Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META - Free Report) by 43.0% during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The institutional investor owned…
PNC Financial Services Group Inc. Increases Position in Meta Platforms, Inc. $META
PNC Financial Services Group Inc. lifted its position in Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META - Free Report) by 0.8% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The…
Maj Invest Holding A S Grows Position in Meta Platforms, Inc. $META
Maj Invest Holding A S raised its holdings in Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META - Free Report) by 22.2% during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor…
Hartford Funds Management Co LLC Has $3.11 Million Position in Meta Platforms, Inc. $META
Hartford Funds Management Co LLC lifted its stake in shares of Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META - Free Report) by 77.5% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 4,707…
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