In The Headlines ESPN Bets that Drone Race is Next Big Thing in Sports Is drone racing the next NASCAR? ESPN announced a deal this week that will bring competitive drone racing to the network starting in August in hopes of tapping into the sport’s small but growing following. Drones, which [...]

In The Headlines Kings of the Road Again: RVs Make a Comeback Winnebago, General Motors, Airstream, Travco and other motor-home makers popular in the 1960s and 1970s are making a comeback, driven in part by people who are snapping up decades-old models and restoring them to their kitschy glory, which often [...]

In The Headlines The Dark Side of e-Commerce for Department Stores However much Amazon.com is pulling away from most of its brick-in-mortar rivals in the e-commerce wars, department stores have been able to increase their e-commerce revenue. According to an analysis by Credit Suisse published recently, some 14% of revenue at [...]

In The Headlines Despite Cheap Oil, World Energy Markets Shift to Renewables According to the International Energy Agency and independent researchers such as Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BENF), power plant developers will be selling renewables in a developing nation in the decades ahead—even with fossil fuel prices hovering at historic lows. [...]

In The Headlines Millennial Homebuyers Head for the ‘Burbs It was only a matter of time. As millennials grow older, get married, have children, they are seeking out bigger houses and better schools. That means the suburbs. They are also weary of paying higher urban rents and watching those rents rise. [...]

In The Headlines GM Gets Serious About Driverless Cars General Motors (GM) recently announced that it will acquire Cruise Automation, a San Francisco-based developer of autonomous vehicle technology. No financial terms were disclosed, but sources close to the situation estimate that the deal is valued at “north of $1 billion,” in [...]

In The Headlines Sports Authority, a Faded Brand, Falls into Bankruptcy Once the world’s largest sporting goods retailer, Sports Authority has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and said it will close 140 stores, nearly a third of its locations, over the next three months. Customers and others had long complained that [...]

In The Headlines What’s in Your (Digital) Wallet? An increasing number of people who used to use bank cards to pay bills and buy merchandise are seeing mobile payment services as a handy alternative. That attitude concerns financial institutions, which believe services such as Venmo and Apple Pay could erode loyalty, [...]

In The Headlines The Gig Economy Keeps Growing On-demand work helps Americans offset losses or boost pay according to a new study by the JPMorgan Chase Institute. An estimated 10.3 million Americans earned income through web-based platforms like Uber and Airbnb between 2012 and 2015, demonstrating that there is a job [...]

In The Headlines Under One Roof: Multigenerational Homes Grow in Popularity Miami-based builder Lennar is offering a new type of house these days called a “NextGen” home. The brand is doing very well for Lennar, which has made a heavy push into the multigenerational housing segment. Year-over-year, sales of NextGen grew [...]