TheStreet aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. It’s hard to imagine being an efficient worker or an effective member of my household without my laptop computer. It’s just as difficult to envision myself fully relaxing and enjoying myself […]
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Your fixed-rate mortgage may feel like a financial anchor, but a growing share of homeowners are discovering that the costs layered on top of principal and interest are anything but fixed. Property taxes and insurance premiums have surged so sharply since the pandemic that most escrow accounts in the country are now running short. Cotality,
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While Netflix has operated primarily as a streaming service, it has also dipped into other areas of business. That has included forays into gaming, retail, and live experiences. These include, but are not limited to: Netflix cloud gaming: Netflix has begun testing cloud-streamed games playable on TVs and desktop browsers, moving beyond mobile-only gaming into
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Taco Bell has built its brand around innovation, consistently introducing bold new menu items while keeping prices accessible. That strategy has helped the fast-food chain remain culturally relevant, keep the brand fresh, and maintain strong customer interest amid rapidly shifting consumer trends. The approach has also helped Taco Bell outperform many competitors during a difficult
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A serial entrepreneur, Mark Cuban, moved from billionaire to famous person when he joined Shark Tank as a guest in 2011, then as a full-time panelist the following year. On the show, he invested in over 200 companies, but not all of those deals worked out well. “By Cuban’s own estimation, roughly one in four
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Annuities have earned a reputation for complexity and high costs, and this keeps millions of Americans from considering products that could strengthen their retirement plans. Total U.S. annuity sales climbed 7% to $464.1 billion in 2025, marking a fourth consecutive year of record-breaking demand, LIMRA reported. Yet even as more Americans turn to annuities for
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A funny thing happened to Boeing’s stock last week when an excited President Donald Trump revealed that Boeing had a deal to sell 200 new airplanes to China. The stock went down on three of the next five days, only because investors were expecting an order for about 500 planes. Boeing fell as much as
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Artificial intelligence has already disrupted search, software, and customer service. The next frontier is more consequential and less visible: the core infrastructure that moves money around the world. Governments and financial institutions are increasingly treating AI not as a tool to improve existing systems but as the foundation for building entirely new ones. That shift
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At the beginning of the Covid pandemic, meal kit deliveries saw a huge boom in sales — according to BroadBranch Advisors, the market value for the industry rose from $3.5 billion to $10.26 billion in just the first year of the pandemic. But as people’s eating habits and work lives have shifted closer to pre-2020
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Wall Street keeps a private list of records that almost never move. The biggest bank failure. The longest bull market. The most expensive IPO of all time. Most of those records are decades old. Saudi Aramco’s 2019 listing still holds the crown for the largest initial public offering on record, raising $35.4 billion at a
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