Peter Nowak

📈 The semiconductor giant yesterday reported strong quarterly results that came in above analysts’ expectations, despite headwinds to its China business.

🪙 Square, a point-of-sale system company serving 4 million sellers, yesterday launched a pilot of real-time bitcoin payments.

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🍿 Disney’s Lilo & Stitch outpaced Mission: Impossible — Final Reckoning to lead a record-setting Memorial Day box office.

💳 Buy now, pay later (BNPL) giant Klarna’s users are increasingly passing on the second part.

Regular Joe? Fanatics is offering you a chance to go up against the pros.

💰 The sports-centric company this week announced Fanatics Games, a skills competition between 50 NARPs and 50 pro athletes and celebrities with $2 million in total prizes.

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📱 Generation Lab, a youth polling company, yesterday launched Verb.AI, a new product that offers people $50 or more per month (depending on use and other factors) to download a tracker onto their phones.

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Elmo, Big Bird, & co. are moving to a new home—just down the street of streamer-shortcut buttons on your remote. Netflix yesterday signed an agreement that’ll see new episodes of Sesame Street hosted by the streamer. 

💻🧑‍🏫 Forget mom or dad: Alphabet-owned companies are increasingly teaching Americans the ABC’s of adulting.

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📜 Harvard University recently discovered it’s sitting on a parchment gold mine, after two British researchers verified a copy of the Magna Carta purchased by the university for $27.50 in 1946 is, in fact, an extremely rare original version.

🏘️ Turn the page: Airbnb is entering a new chapter. The company that started as a couch-surfing app this week announced a series of updates that will allow its ~150 million users to do more than just book a vacation stay at a cute condo in a walkable neighborhood.

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✈️ Spirit Airlines—like that one friend who came back with a new look after summer break—wants to shed its old image in favor of a new one.

🔥 It’s Wednesday, May 14th––and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🎬 Vinnie Chase, Ari Gold, and Billy Walsh walk into a theater: Hollywood’s who’s-who and up-and-comers alike are converging in France as the country’s fanciest film festival, Cannes, kicks off today.