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Start Article Post Content Donald Trump will remain an exec producer on NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice,” which is returning Jan. 2 after a two-year hiatus with new host Arnold Schwarzenegger. MGM confirmed to Variety that Trump has retained his EP credit on the series. The president-elect’s status on the 15th season of the reality series that made…
2016 has been a hellscape. Everywhere. Even for those managing online video game marketplaces. Pub trivia and business development resource Steam Spy posted this chart earlier today, breaking down Steam’s catalogue by each game’s year of release. In 2012, for example, 379 games were released on Steam. In 2016, that number has leapt to 4207….
Here’s a second, supplementary video we made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEfQ_…And a new Twitter account about temp music we made: https://twitter.com/SoundsLikeTempWatch Dan Golding’s great response video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcXsH…Off the top of your head, could you sing the theme from Star Wars? How about James Bond? Or Harry Potter? But here’s the kicker: can you sing any theme from a Marvel film?…
The CEO of Carl’s Jr. Doesn’t Care If You’re Offended by the Chain’s Sexy Ads Samantha Hoopes stars in the patriotic new ad for the Most American Thickburger Image credit: Fab Fernandez and CKE Restaurants Kate Taylor Entrepreneur Staff Reporter May 20, 2015 The CEO of Carl’s Jr. doesn’t care if you find the burger…
File photo of an Airbus A350X WB passenger plane(Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images) Remember your last flight when you told yourself that at least flying couldn’t get any worse? Well, it’s about to get worse. United Airlines will soon start charging some customers for the privilege to use the overhead bins. United has announced a…
Image: Gizmodo Pebble, one of the best-known smartwatch brands, is dead. Rumors about the company’s demise have been swirling since The Information reported a potential Fitbit buyout last week. Today in a post on Kickstarter, Pebble confirmed that Fitbit was acquiring “key Pebble assets” and that Pebble would “no longer be operating as in independent…
Emily Youcis, better known as “Pistachio Girl” at Philadelphia Phillies games, has been fired from her vendor job by Aramark, because she couldn’t stop supporting white nationalism online. Pistachio Girl was known for her distinct singing as she hawked concessions, even after the park stopped selling pistachios: The 26-year-old Youcis talked about her firing in…
Image: Jim Cooke I was on the Jersey Turnpike when I saw it. I was driving my family to New York for Thanksgiving and there, along the shittiest stretch of road in the shittiest state in America, I saw the Williams-Sonoma fulfillment center: a vast hangar that seemed to stretch a mile long, with shipping…
Now YouTube is set to pay millions in royalties to songwriters, in its latest salvo in a campaign to make amends with the music industry. The platform will pay music publishers “millions of dollars” for unpaid royalties from songs used in YouTube videos that have been difficult to identify, the company said. The agreement follows…
President-elect Donald Trump intends to nominate as labor secretary Andrew Puzder, chief executive of the company that owns the Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. burger chains and who opposes raising the minimum wage, according to people familiar with the plans. Puzder, who served as an economic adviser to Trump during the campaign and is a major…