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One of our favorite meme stocks is up more than 9%, but this time it’s for legit business reasons.BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB) saw its shares sharply rise Thursday morning following the release of its 2026 fourth-quarter and fiscal year results. The stock has previously been volatile due to BlackBerry’s place in the meme stock craze a few years ago. The Canadian company, once a leader in the mobile phone industry, reported $156 million in revenue for quarter four, a 10% increase year-over-year (YOY). Its adjusted net income also rose by a whopping 92% YOY.On a year-long scale, BlackBerry saw its revenue…
April is off to a bruising start for people working in Hollywood. Since the month began, two major studios and one of Hollywood’s most high-profile production companies have announced layoffs totaling more than 1,000 jobs combined. The job cuts come at a time of great volatility in the movie and television industry, which is facing disruption from AI while also experiencing a rapidly changing business landscape and consolidation. Here’s what you need to know. Bad Robot to cut jobs as it leaves L.A. for New York The April layoffs began with an unexpected announcement from one of Hollywood’s most successful…
Leadership and management lessons aren’t always figured out off the bat. Making some mistakes and realizing that what works for you doesn’t work for everyone else is valuable. It’s impossible to go back and change the past, but you can think through how you manage now and see if it’s still effective. We asked our Fast Company Impact Council members about their staff management lessons and how their approach has evolved. Their insights can help you lead your staff better without having to make those same mistakes yourself. Here’s what nine Impact Council members shared—hard earned pearls of wisdom. 1.…
GoPro’s announcement that it plans to cut 23% of its workforce this week didn’t come as a complete shock to anyone who’s been following the wearable camera maker over the past few years.Once a leader in the action camera market, the company has seen its stock fall from highs of more than $93 in 2014 to just 80 cents today. The $10 billion valuation it once boasted is a distant memory. (GoPro’s current market cap is just under $122 million.) Now it’s betting on an ongoing turnaround plan to stabilize the business.Part of that plan involves becoming an even leaner…
A study of hundreds of hikers and runners reveals a dangerous gap between how safe we feel and the gear we actually carry. Here is what you really need to survive a day in the mountains.Listen to this articleListen (Photo: SeanXu / Getty)Published April 9, 2026 03:41AMA few years ago, while running down a gnarly trail outside of Tucson, Arizona, I caught my toe on a rock and went flying. The landing was ugly and left me in very rough shape, alone in the mountains several miles from the trailhead, just after sunrise, with nothing in my pockets except my…
The company announced this week that it’s beginning to roll out an option for users to stack their tabs in a panel on the left side of the browser instead of horizontally at the top.For tab hoarders like me—who get lost in a million tabs while trying to remember which favicon went with which website, or who have multiple websites open with the same favicon—vertical tabs will give us more information to determine which tab is where. It even works when you have so many open that you have to scroll to reach the end.The vertical tab interface has two…
Published April 9, 2026 04:00AMImagine you’re browsing the gently used gear at an REI Re/Supply and come across a sleeping bag. It’s in good shape and priced right. You need a new sleeping bag anyway for camping this summer, but what if this one’s teeming with the previous owner’s germs? Ick.But wait—alongside the price tag, you notice another tag certifying it has been cleaned by a company called Tersus Solutions. The ick-factor fades, and you head straight to checkout. (Photo: Courtesy Tersus Solutions) Tersus Handles the Dirty Work That little tag? It means your new-to-you sleeping bag wasn’t just cleaned…
We talk a lot about visionary leadership. You know, the ability to see around corners, spot emerging patterns, and imagine futures that don’t yet exist. These are all very important activities for strategic work. But something we rarely consider is what happens when the physical instrument of vision itself is under siege. Said more bluntly, what happens when our eyes succumb to the daily assault of screen time?I recently spoke with Dr. Valerie Sheety-Pilon, SVP of clinical and medical affairs at VSP Vision Care, whose organization has spent three years tracking the state of vision health in the American workforce.…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways HR must evolve from support role to strategic driver of measurable business outcomes. Companies that unify people, data and decisions will outperform slower, siloed competitors. Generational threats have a way of forcing people inside companies to find different — and better — ways of working together.We saw it during Covid, when HR, IT and finance teamed up to manage the transition from office life to remote teams. It wasn’t easy — but with no other choice, companies found new ways to collaborate and get work done, more efficiently than before.In…
On the heels of a two-week ceasefire in the Iran war—which requires reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil passageway—benchmark U.S. crude oil prices sank to $94.98 a barrel on April 8, down 16%. That’s left many Americans wondering when fuel prices—and therefore airline ticket prices—might come down.The answer: probably not anytime soon.First, let’s take a look at gas prices. On Wednesday, the day after the ceasefire was announced, gas prices went up 2 cents, not down, hitting an average of $4.16 a gallon nationwide.Why aren’t we seeing prices fall? There are a few reasons. For one, reopening the Strait of Hormuz is only…