November 19, 2026.
Everyone with the slightest interest in gaming knows what happens that day. Grand Theft Auto VI, the most anticipated entertainment release of all time, ends a thirteen-year wait that spans nearly two console generations.
The weight of that date has little to
On this day, fifty-two years ago, a supermarket cashier in Ohio scanned the very first barcode. That single beep began a technological revolution that would reshape retail and global trade.
But the story started more than two decades earlier, with a beachside epiphany and
In 2009, The New York Times had $1.1 billion in debt and $46 million in cash.
To stay alive it borrowed $250 million from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim at 14% interest.
Then it made a bet most of the industry expected to fail.
The story of how the Times saved itself:
10/ The bet worked. In 2025 the Times generated $2.8 billion in revenue, with subscriptions about 70% of it, at a 15.7% operating margin.
The company ended the year with 12.8 million digital subscribers and is targeting 15 million by 2027.
11/ A paper that nearly went broke is now one of the strongest businesses in media, and survived by returning to the idea it was founded on in 1851: journalism worth paying for.
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In December 1979, the man who controlled Cartier was hit by a car in Paris and died. He had acquired the company a few years earlier with a small group of investors, and after his death one investor slowly took it over.
That investor was a South African named Anton Rupert, and
