The previously announced revamped Starbucks Rewards program launched on March 10. When users open their Starbucks app, they can now see whether they qualify as a Green, Gold, or Reserve tier status ...

Richmond paused Operation Vaporize after Richmond Police say the Department of Planning and Review requested more time to process paperwork. The city says proactive inspections will resume in April.

On February 16, 2026, in South Tangerang, Java, Indonesia, security footage captured a laptop exploding and emitting a large amount of smoke inside a shop. In the video, the device appears to spark ...

Every now and then, a new brand pops up on our radar that we feel compelled to tell you about immediately. This isn’t one of those times, and Beams isn’t a new brand. It is, however, newly available ...

Yemeni cafés have long been places where patrons gather over coffee, shuffling playing cards and settling into conversations that stretch past nightfall. In these spaces, coffee is a ritual — a ...

TikTok isn’t just feeding social media addiction. It’s now enabling shopping addiction, too. Between January and October, the 170 million Americans who are on TikTok spent more than $10 billion on ...

American shoppers turned to artificial intelligence (AI) in unprecedented numbers this Black Friday, helping push online spending to a record $11.8 billion as many consumers chose to avoid crowded ...

TikTok is moving into luxury retail, part of an effort to expand its TikTok Shop marketplace into a high-end shopping destination for purses and watches that can fetch thousands of dollars. Once ...

Perplexity announced a free agentic shopping product for U.S. users next week. The startup partnered with PayPal ahead of the launch. Perplexity previously released a shopping offering called "Buy ...

Despite tariff chaos and rising grocery costs, consumers are more willing than ever to impulse-buy Swedish candy, embroidered sweatshirts and Korean skin care on TikTok — lifting the company to a ...

Google is rolling out a suite of AI shopping updates just ahead of the holiday season. The company on Thursday unveiled a host of new tools and features, including conversational shopping in Google ...

The web-based App Store browser Apple introduced Tuesday had some rookie mistakes in its implementation, which has led to the front-end source code getting published on GitHub. The result is a set of ...