An Xpeng booth at the 2025 Spring International Auto Show in Qingdao, Shandong province, China, on March 7, 2025. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Xpeng shares jumped as much as 6% in premarket trading in New York, after the Chinese electric vehicle upstart reported first quarter earnings that were ahead of expectations. The…
Barbie maker Mattel says it will put up the prices of some of its toys in the US as President Donald Trump’s tariffs increase its costs. The firm also says it will cut the number of products it makes in China for the American market. At the same time, car making giant Ford says the…
It’s very easy for me to feel overwhelmed when I’m shopping for food-related gifts online — and even easier to distract myself with side quests. The simple task of finding a Mother’s Day gift, for example, can turn into an hours-long debate between an increasingly complex amount of options, including plenty of DIY baked goods…
Watch: ‘It’s frustrating’ – How Trump’s tariffs are being received in Canada Canadian provinces pulling US alcohol off store shelves in response to Trump trade policy is “worse than tariffs”, the boss of Jack Daniel’s maker Brown-Forman has said. Several Canadian provinces, including Ontario, which is by far the most populated, took action this week…
Elon Musk will withdraw his $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI’s non-profit arm if the ChatGPT maker stops its conversion into a for-profit entity, according to a court filing. “If OpenAI, Inc.’s Board is prepared to preserve the charity’s mission and stipulate to take the ‘for sale’ sign off its assets by halting its conversion, Musk…
Pictured here is the Grand Indonesia shopping mall in Jakarta on Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Huawei spinoff Honor announced Tuesday it plans to launch smartphone sales in Indonesia by the end of March, becoming the latest Chinese company to enter a market that has banned Apple’s iPhone…
Chinese car maker BYD saw sales jump at the end of last year, leaving it closer to claiming the title of the world’s best-selling electric vehicle (EV) maker of 2024. The company says it sold 207,734 EVs in December, taking its annual total to 1.76 million, as subsidies and discounts helped attract customers. It comes…
Shrek is a movie, but it is also a lifestyle. In the 23 years since the film’s release, there have been numerous sequels, a musical, a festival (RIP, Shrekfest), and a bottomless swamp of merchandise beloved by both the chronically online and Al Pacino. Shrek is the great unifier, and today, we behold its staying…
Drugmaker Novo Nordisk is taking action to curb the massively popular compounded semaglutide industry, which provides copies of its blockbuster weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy to patients—often for much lower prices. The Danish pharmaceutical company is lobbying the US Food and Drug Administration to add semaglutide to the agency’s Demonstrable Difficulties for Compounding (DDC) lists,…
