Posts by Liam Redmond
Georgia town reinstates entire police force — 2 days after mayor fired them all for upsetting his wife
[ad_1] A town council in a small north Georgia mountain community passed an ordinance Friday reinstating the community’s police department and restoring the jobs of the police officers two days after the mayor fired them all. A standing room-only crowd of townspeople, news media and the police officers attended the special meeting of the Cohutta…
Read MorePutin attends scaled-back WW2 victory parade as worries deepen over Ukraine war
[ad_1] Russia held its most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years on Saturday due to the threat of attack from Ukraine, where victory for Moscow’s forces has proven elusive more than four years into the deadliest European conflict since World War Two. The May 9 parade on Red Square marks Russia’s most revered national holiday – a time to…
Read MoreBad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show blasted as ‘pornographic’ and ‘vulgar’ in wave of FCC complaints
[ad_1] Bad Bunny’s controversial Super Bowl halftime act triggered a wave of Federal Communications Commission complaints from outraged viewers, who blasted the performance as “pornographic,” “vulgar,” and inappropriate for children. More than 2,000 complaints were sent to the FCC after the game on Feb. 11, including more than 100 messages describing the Puerto Rican pop…
Read MoreEurope: Shares slide as Middle East tensions flare
[ad_1] Published Sat, May 9, 2026 · 11:15 AM [BENGALURU] European shares slipped on Friday (May 8) in broad-based losses as a flare-up in the Middle East conflict hit risk sentiment at the end of a week dominated by geopolitics. The pan-European Stoxx 600 closed down 0.7 per cent at 612.14 points, though it posted…
Read MoreUS: S&P 500 and Nasdaq notch records, boosted by AI and earnings optimism
[ad_1] Published Sat, May 9, 2026 · 10:57 AM [BENGALURU] The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq notched record highs on Friday (May 8), boosted by gains in Nvidia, Sandisk and other AI-related stocks, while a stronger-than-expected jobs report pointed to labour market resilience. Nvidia climbed 1.8 per cent, while memory and storage sellers Micron Technology…
Read MorePackers dump $15 million kicker Brandon McManus after awful playoff game
[ad_1] Brandon McManus swung and missed too many times last season. The Packers drafted a kicker in the sixth round in last month’s NFL Draft, and as a result, released McManus just one season after he signed a three-year $15.5 million contract — and following a playoff game in which he missed both of his…
Read More7 ways seasoned founders make hard personnel calls with empathy
[ad_1] You don’t realize how heavy leadership feels until someone’s livelihood is tied to your decisions. Early on, hiring feels like momentum. Later, you learn the other side of that coin. The missed expectations, the culture mismatches, the quiet underperformance you hoped would self-correct. Making a hard personnel call is rarely about one moment. It…
Read MoreStop Overthinking SMS Start With Cart Abandonment
[ad_1] Marketers keep staring at last quarter’s charts and miss what matters now. I’ve built companies on a different rule. Compare your performance to the market today, not your past. That mindset shift is the difference between spinning and scaling. It’s also why brands hesitating on SMS are leaving money on the table. Here’s my…
Read MoreCalifornia tech company Cloudflare to lay off more than 1,000 workers, cites AI
[ad_1] Cloudflare is laying off 20% of its staff, the latest technology company to announce big cuts as it uses more artificial intelligence-powered tools. The San Francisco web performance and cybersecurity company said it was getting rid of 1,100 people. “The way we work at Cloudflare has fundamentally changed,” co-founder and chief executive Matthew Prince…
Read More8 ways to lead your company without abandoning yourself
[ad_1] If you’re building a company right now, there’s a good chance you’ve quietly started trading pieces of yourself for progress. You say yes when you mean no, push through burnout because “this is what founders do,” and shape-shift depending on who’s in the room. From the outside, it can look like commitment. From the…
Read More7 hard lessons founders learn about self-worth and results
[ad_1] Founders often begin their journey with a powerful belief that effort equals outcome. Work harder, move faster, care more, and success should follow. Over time, reality introduces a more complicated equation. The gap between self-worth and results becomes one of the most difficult things to understand and accept. These lessons are rarely taught directly,…
Read MoreMikal Bridges’ long-awaited emergence couldn’t come at a better time for the Knicks
[ad_1] He wasn’t the Knicks’ highest scorer on Wednesday. Or the second, or third. But for the third consecutive game, Mikal Bridges looked comfortable and confident on offense — a significant departure from a three-game stretch in the first round during which he failed to even break double figures. The 29-year-old has never needed to…
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