Potbelly Sandwich Shop is opening its newest Baltimore location Friday in the Blaustein building downtown.
Read More Linda Boff Is GE’s New CMO
The move comes after former CMO Beth Comstock was recently bumped up to vice chair.
GE just named Linda Boff its new chief marketing officer.
Amazon To Offer $67 Prime Memberships On September 25
After Transparent swept the Emmys, Amazon is offering a Prime discount.
Amazon is using its original show Transparent‘s sweep at the Emmys to offer sharply discounted Amazon Prime memberships. On September 25, Prime memberships will cost only $67. This is one-third off the normal $99 subscription fee for the service.
Today in Tabs: Trashbags & Chill
We have met the pizza rat, and he is us.
The internet was captivated yesterday by a video of a rat, headed home to Queens for some trashbags & chill with bae, trying to carry a whole slice of pizza onto the L train platform. Only fourteen seconds long, the video is nonetheless a masterpiece; a titanic struggle between the great American archetypes “vermin” and “unhealthy food”; a roller coaster of optimism, loss, defeat, and new hope, played out against a backdrop of authentic New York filth. It ends on an ambiguous note, the rat eyeing the pizza with… longing? Determination? Despair? It is impossible to say. Either way, the struggle itself is enough to fill a person’s heart. One must imagine pizza rat happy.
Edutech’s Monetization Problem
Everyone wants to learn online, but startups are trying to figure out how to get users to pay the bills.
A few years ago, MOOCs—massive open online courses—were all the rage. Publications, Fast Company among them, wrote about new startups like Coursera, EdX, and Udacity that offered the promise of free learning and professional development to anyone in the world who wanted them. However, in 2015, many of these companies and their compatriots in the edutech space as a whole discovered an unfortunate truth: It’s damn hard to make money from MOOCs.
Quirky Files For Bankruptcy, Agrees To Sell Smart Home Subsidiary Wink
Popular crowdsourcing platform Quirky is cutting its losses and giving up ownership of Wink.
Quirky, the popular crowdsourced invention platform, is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and selling Wink, its subsidiary specializing in connected home products. According to a Wink blog post, the electronics manufacturing firm Flextronics is likely its new corporate parent. Although Wink did not disclose any numbers, Flextronics is allegedly offering $15 million to acquire the company.
Most Instagram Users Are Outside The U.S.
More than 75% of Instagram’s users come from outside the United States.
Instagram just released its latest user numbers, and there’s big news for the global market: 75% of users of the Facebook-owned social network come from outside the United States. According to the company, more than half of the last 100 million users to sign up for the service come from Europe and Asia. Instagram added that Brazil, Japan, and Indonesia are among the countries that added the most users to the service.
Am I Hurting My Career By Never Answering My Phone?
Remember when you used your phone to talk to people? Could a text-only communication habit be hurting how others view you?
With everything we use our smartphones for, it can be easy to forget that the devices were once used for actually talking to other human beings. With our voices. Many of us have become accustomed to communicating with coworkers and clients almost exclusively using email and instant messages. But if you work in an office where people still talk to each other, could this habit hurt you professionally?
Could The U.S. Ever Adopt A Six-Hour Workday?
Sweden’s latest experiment with a six-hour workday is going well, but could reduced hours ever fly in our workaholic culture?
Fringe ideas are fringe ideas until they aren’t. When reformers started to push for child-labor laws around a century ago, it looked like an outside shot. So did a $15 minimum wage, before Vice President Joe Biden and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took up the cause a few weeks ago. (It still does—and some say it’s a bad idea in the first place—but it’s come a long way in a short time.) Not to be outdone, Berkeley, California, is now pressing to require a $19 hourly wage, and one CEO promised employees a $70,000 minimum salary earlier this year.
Why A PayPal Executive Is Being Mentored By His Millennial Employees
The higher you climb in your career, the less you understand the next generation of employees, which is why reverse mentoring is important.
Good leaders connect with employees, but the longer you’re at a company, the harder it can be to relate to a new generation of hires. Sri Shivananda, vice president of global platform and infrastructure at PayPal and former vice president of global platform and infrastructure at eBay, has resolved the issue through reverse mentoring—learning from his junior employees.
