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While there may be great appeal in starting a short-term rental business in popular tourist destinations like Destin, Florida or Vail, Colorado, a new report suggests that some small to medium-sized cities across the country may be a good place to start.AirDNA, a company that collects short-term rental data from both public and proprietary sources, released a report in January ranking the best places to invest in short-term rentals, and many small and medium-sized cities made the list.Overall in 2026, investing in short-term rentals will be more accessible than in recent years, the report said. This is primarily due to…
Amazon shares plunged Thursday night after the tech giant unveiled $200 billion in capital spending plans for this year. Additionally, management’s missed earnings forecast for the current quarter overshadowed an otherwise generally positive final quarter of 2025. According to estimates compiled by LSEG, sales rose 14% year-on-year to $213.39 billion, exceeding expectations of $211.33 billion. LSEG said generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) earnings per share rose 5% to $1.95, below expectations of $1.97. Operating profit rose 18% year over year to $24.97 billion, beating the consensus estimate of $24.77 billion. Amazon’s operating profit included three special charges, which had a…
Essences are the hidden gems that are missing in your skin care routine. These lightweight products are made primarily of water and are packed with additional powerful ingredients to moisturize and soothe skin immediately after cleansing. At first glance, adding yet another product to your skin may seem like overkill. But we would argue that using too much product on your skin is exactly what Essence is trying to prevent. It is meant to enhance hydration and prepare the face for proper absorption of remaining products. There’s a lot of confusion about the difference between essences and toners, and even…
President Donald Trump made the announcement on November 6, 2025, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.Jonathan Ernst | ReutersPresident Donald Trump announced the launch of TrumpRx on Thursday. TrumpRx is a direct-to-consumer website that is key to the administration’s efforts to reduce prescription drug costs in the United States. The president said millions of Americans will be able to save money through this platform. But it remains to be seen whether all patients, especially those with insurance, will see more cost savings by using the site to purchase drugs than through existing methods. TrumpRx targets people…
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman (R-Ark.) said he “feels very strongly” about reaching a deal in the Senate on a virtual currency market structure bill (possibly by the end of the year), even after Democrats withdrew support for the bill the committee proposed last week.”Everyone is working really hard right now and I think it shows that we can build some momentum by getting it through committee, so that’s a good thing,” Boozman said in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday.Mr. Boozman’s committee has worked to create a national regulatory structure for the burgeoning industry under the Commodity Futures…
With jarring regularity, the gates of an Indian high-security prison swing open for a prominent guru jailed for life for murder, freeing him to preach virtue to the millions of followers he holds in his thrall. A flashy preacher with rock-star taste, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was first jailed in 2017 on rape charges and convicted of murder two years later. Yet, he has been freed 15 times on parole, and so far has spent more than 400 days outside prison. Indian history is filled with charismatic – and often controversial – figures who commanded huge devotion. But Singh’s recurring…
The sport incorporates a certain kind of shenanigans: running headfirst on a small sled down a winding road at speeds of 90 miles per hour. But Lowe, the first American athlete to medal in skeleton in 12 years at the 2025 IBSF World Championships, admittedly didn’t think it was for her at first. “My coach walked me to the line and let me go, and all of a sudden I was going so fast I couldn’t see anything, I couldn’t process anything,” she told The Athletic in December, recalling her first taste of the sport in 2016 when she was…
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman delivers the keynote address at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas on December 2, 2025.Noah Berger | Amazon Web Services | Getty ImagesAmazon announced Thursday that its cloud division’s revenue rose nearly 24% in the fourth quarter, beating analyst expectations.Amazon Web Services had revenue of $35.58 billion, the statement said. Analyst estimates compiled by Street Account were for $34.93 billion. AWS accounted for approximately 17% of Amazon’s total revenue in the quarter.Operating profit within AWS was $12.47 billion, beating the StreetAccount consensus of $11.91 billion and accounting for the majority of the parent…
On Monday, OpenAI launched Codex, an agent coding tool sold to software developers. Today, OpenAI also announced a new model designed to turbocharge Codex: GPT-5.3 Codex. The company says this model transforms Codex from an agent that simply “writes and reviews code” to one that can do “almost everything developers and professionals do on a computer,” expanding the number of people who can build software and how they work. After testing the new model against numerous performance benchmarks, OpenAI claims it can “build highly capable and complex games and apps from scratch in days.” OpenAI says the GPT-5.3 Codex is…
Online retailer Amazon’s logo and lettering can be seen on the facade of Amazon’s German headquarters. Sven Hoppe | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Amazon Following in the footsteps of the same tech giants microsoftand not in a good way. Shares of the e-commerce and cloud giant fell more than 11% in after-hours trading after the company reported lower-than-expected fourth-quarter results.But the bigger shock comes from Amazon’s huge projected capital spending of $200 billion, far higher than the $146.6 billion expected by analysts and significantly higher than the roughly $131 billion in 2025.That number also dwarfs Alphabet’s expected capital spending…