#market-competition

#market-competition

Dorothy Kilroy has seen her company's smart ring on some very famous fingers. Mark Zuckerberg wears one. So does Jack Dorsey. Prince Harry, too. But when Oura's chief commercial officer sat down at Toronto's Elevate conference with this editor last week, she surprised me, saying the company's fastest-growing user segment isn't tech billionaires or wellness-obsessed execs. It's women in their early twenties.

The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize for Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to three researchers who have shown how technological and scientific innovation, coupled to market competition, drive economic growth. One half of the prize goes to economic-historian Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and the other half is split between the economic theorists Philippe Aghion of the Collège de France and the London School of Economics and Peter Howitt of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. "I can't find the words to express what I feel," Aghion said. He says he will use the money for research in his laboratory at the Collège de France.

The real estate industry is changing faster than ever, fueled by innovation, rising consumer demands and fluctuating market conditions, said Toby Schifsky, vice president of Kaplan Real Estate Education. Kaplan's inaugural Real Estate Survey of Trends shows that success today requires more than passing exams it demands continuous learning, market expertise, and strong client skills. We're committed to giving agents the tools and training to leverage AI, generate leads, and thrive, helping them turn industry change into opportunity and sustainable career growth.

As the creator of ChatGPT, OpenAI recently attracted 78% of daily unique visitors to core model websites, with six competitors splitting up the rest.

Target customers will soon lose the price matching policy, which has been a way to ensure the lowest prices by matching competitors' prices.

Sales of the Cybertruck plunged 51% year-on-year in Q2 to just 4,300 vehicles, according to Cox Automotive, showing significant declines in demand for Tesla's electric pickup.

Perplexity's CEO Aravind Srinivas stated, "I reached out to Chrome to offer Perplexity as a default search engine option a long time ago. They refused. Hence we decided to build [the] Perplexity Comet browser."

Chick-fil-A first opened its doors in 1967 and has become a beloved fast food destination for its consistently great-tasting chicken sandwiches.

Whoop's fitness tracker differentiated itself by focusing on sleep and recovery, lacking a screen, and utilizing a subscription model that charged $30 per month.

In melding Omnicom and IPG, the deal will create the world's largest advertising group, potentially dominating media-buying markets globally.