Published October 9, 2025 U.S. beauty giant Estée Lauder announced on Thursday the appointment of actor, producer and author Nia Long as its first brand ambassador for the North America region. Nia Long – Courtesy In this role, the award-winning actor, producer and author will appear in campaigns across digital, TV, and print for the…
This post was written with Dominic Catalano from Anyscale. Organizations building and deploying large-scale AI models often face critical infrastructure challenges that can directly impact their bottom line: unstable training clusters that fail mid-job, inefficient resource utilization driving up costs, and complex distributed computing frameworks requiring specialized expertise. These factors can lead to unused GPU…
Published October 9, 2025 Designer Brands Inc. has announced that Jared Poff has decided to resign as executive vice president, chief financial officer and chief administrative officer, effective October 31. Jared Poff – Courtesy Mark Haley, the Columbus, Ohio-based company’s senior vice president, controller and principal accounting officer has been named interim principal financial officer, effective November 1. The company…
By Reuters Published October 9, 2025 Levi Strauss raised its full-year sales and profit forecasts on Thursday, banking on strong demand for wide-leg denim bottoms in Europe and the Americas despite higher tariffs. San Francisco, California-based Levi Strauss reported a 7% rise in net revenue for the quarter ended August 31 to $1.54 billion, beating…
Published October 9, 2025 Basque conglomerate Ternua Group is moving forward with its insolvency proceedings, announced in June, through the sale of its Ternua and Loreak Mendian brands. The Dikar co-operative, part of Mondragon Corporation, has acquired the group’s eponymous brand, following authorisation from Commercial Court No 1 in San Sebastián. The deal aims to…
Published October 9, 2025 Oakridge Park announced on Thursday a lineup of global brands making their Vancouver debut at the shopping centre, slated to open in Spring 2026. Oakridge Park to welcome lineup of global luxury brands. – Oakridge Park Among the luxury houses joining Oakridge Park are Loewe, Loro Piana, Valentino, Dolce & Gabbana, Thom…
Over the past decade, cost-sharing (the out-of-pocket portion of household health spending) has grown faster than both workers’ wages and general inflation for those with employer coverage. In recent years, that growth has reached a rate more similar to inflation. Since 2003, average out-of-pocket costs have increased by 37%. In 2023, a majority (66%) of…
Published October 9, 2025 Alice + Olivia by Stacey Bendet has reopened its Madison Avenue flagship, unveiling a new design vision that blends fashion, discovery, and community. Alice + Olivia reopens Madison Avenue flagship. – Alice + Olivia The transformation was designed in collaboration with Jess and Jonathan Nahon of Sugarhouse Design + Architecture to…
Health communicators face the persistent challenge of balancing correcting misinformation with the risk of amplifying claims that audiences might not have noticed otherwise. As KFF’s President and CEO, Drew Altman noted in a previous column, reporters and communicators “likely [have] no choice when [politicians] spread false information but to cover it and correct the lies…
With vulnerabilities growing faster than most organizations can keep up with, the need for a smarter, easier way to reduce risk has never been more urgent. That’s why in 2019 Qualys launched Patch Management—the first solution built to reduce risk, not just push software updates. Since then, the solution has evolved into full-scale vulnerability elimination,…
