Pinterest CEO steps down, Google executive to take over in e-commerce push
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Pinterest said long-time Chief Executive Officer Ben Silbermann would step down, handing over the reins of the social media platform to Google commerce executive Bill Ready.
The news sent the company's shares 9% higher in extended trading on Tuesday and underscored a shift in focus at Pinterest to e-commerce initiatives from its advertising-based business model.
In Ready, 42, the company gets an executive who for the past two years ran commerce and payment operations at the Alphabet Inc-owned search giant. Ready has also held senior leadership roles at PayPal.
Deep within the Arctic Circle, pocketed between giant glaciers and beneath polar ice floes, photographer and content creator Cecilia Blomdahl finds extraordinary warmth.
The US Food and Drug Administration announced a proposal to remove oral phenylephrine – a common ingredient in many popular over-the-counter decongestants – from the market, citing evidence that it doesn’t work.
Researchers are uncovering deeper insights into how the human brain ages and what factors may be tied to successful cognitive aging ((is successful the best word to use? seems like we’ll all do it successfully but for some people it may be healthier or gentler or slower?)), including exercising, avoiding tobacco, speaking a second language or even playing a musical instrument.
Chanel presented its Cruise 2024-2025 collection in Hong Kong on Tuesday, with a mix of light tweed suits, chic diving hoods and summery white dresses transporting guests to what the French label described as an “underwater reverie.”
The holiday season is nearly upon us and it’s easy for a child’s sweet tooth go wild. However, new research shows that it may be beneficial to cut back how much sugar young children consume.
Kardashian debuted a cultural artifact at Saturday’s LACMA Art+Film Gala – a diamond-lined cross pendant, once a favorite of Princess Diana.
She has been a UNICEF ambassador, a special envoy for Japan’s Foreign Ministry and the subject of themed restaurants, cafes, two amusement parks and even a maternity hospital.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. waded into another scientific debate on Saturday by saying Donald Trump’s administration would advise that fluoride be removed from the country’s water supplies if the former president wins Tuesday’s presidential election.
Scientists say the fact that these cases were linked and solved so quickly makes it a noteworthy win.
The most hotly anticipated costume of the spooky season is here — and the “Queen of Halloween” didn’t disappoint.