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Formula 1 cars and a circuit made with Lego are displayed at the 2025 Canadian International AutoShow at the Metro Convention Centre in Toronto, Feb. 21, 2025.Nurphoto | Getty ImagesLego is rebuilding how consumers engage with motorsport brick by brick.In 2025, Lego kicked off a partnership with Formula 1 that brought officially licensed sets to global retail shelves and immersive experiences to races around the world. In the nearly year since launch, the collaboration has bolstered fan engagement for both brands, lead to promotional sales of Lego products and expanded the demographic reach for the toy company and the racing…

2025-12-22T13:27:01.215Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Business Insider spoke to professional organizers about what to get rid of before the new year. They said the end of the year is a good time to get rid of old toys, clothes, and electronics. They also suggest sorting through holiday decorations before putting them away for the…

US film producer David Ellison arrives for Paramount’s “Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts” premiere in New York City on June 5, 2023. Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty ImagesParamount Skydance on Monday guaranteed the backing of billionaire Larry Ellison in an amended offer for Warner Bros. Discovery — a clear response to questions raised by the WBD board of directors. “Larry Ellison has agreed to provide an irrevocable personal guarantee of $40.4 billion of the equity financing for the offer and any damages claims against Paramount,” the company said in a news release. Paramount said Ellison, the father of Paramount…

Ulta is expanding its wellness shop to have more health-focused brands and more shelf space for those items.Melissa Repko ? CNBCSanta may be bringing you some supplements this year.Along with typical holiday wish list items like clothing, perfume and gadgets, the wellness category is poised to gain popularity this shopping season and beyond — particularly as retailers like Ulta Beauty and Target give it more shelf space long before the start of New Year’s resolutions.Beauty is always a top-performing holiday category. November and December combined account for about 25% of annual spending on prestige beauty items, which includes brands usually…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jillian Richardson, a 31-year-old ghostwriter for executives. She’s based in Brooklyn. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I’m a ghostwriter focused on helping executives and founders grow their presence on LinkedIn.I offer LinkedIn profile polishes for executives, as well as people looking for a new job or trying out self-employment. After helping a number of people edit their profiles, one of my takeaways is that people need to brag more. They are not hyping themselves up nearly enough.LinkedIn is the place where it’s socially acceptable to brag. The point…

Attorney General Pam Bondi, accompanied by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche (L) and FBI Director Kash Patel (R), speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department on Nov. 19. Some lawmakers said the department’s release of files relating to Jeffrey Epstein had too many redactions as well as missing information. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Two lawmakers are threatening a seldom-used congressional sanction against the Department of Justice over what they say is a failure to release all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by a deadline set in law. Reps.…

The world’s largest technology companies are scrambling to manage a growing crisis affecting thousands of their employees on work visas, as new social media screening requirements trigger delays at US embassies and consulates worldwide.Google, Apple, Microsoft, and ServiceNow have all sent advisories to visa-holding employees in recent days, warning them against international travel and describing appointment delays stretching up to a year.The memos, sent by immigration law firms representing these companies or by their internal legal teams, paint a picture of mounting uncertainty for foreign workers who form a critical part of the tech industry’s workforce.The warnings come as American…

By the time Pablo Slough and Karen Gilchrist walked away from their corporate jobs in mid-2024, their plan to quit had been simmering for a year.Over two decades of working in demanding roles managing teams around the world had taken a toll.”I worked straight out of college, and then it was one job to the other job,” Slough, 53, told Business Insider. “It was always fast-paced, high stress.”For Gilchrist, turning 50 last summer drove her to reflect about how she’d spent her time and what she wanted to do moving forward.”I joke sometimes that my maternal instincts kicked in late,”…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lee Wan Yu, 30, a Hong Kong Disneyland parade dancer turned freelance dance artist, teacher, and choreographer. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I started dancing when I was three years old, after asking my mom for ballet lessons as we walked past a studio.From then on, all I wanted to do was dance. That love eventually led me somewhere I, as an introvert, never expected: Hong Kong Disneyland.It started in 2017, when Hong Kong Disneyland held an audition at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore, where…

If there’s one lesson iRobot founder Colin Angle took from the company’s bankruptcy, it’s never to underestimate competitors.On December 14, iRobot, maker of the popular robotic vacuum Roomba, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will be acquired by its primary contract manufacturer, Chinese company Picea Robotics.Angle said one of his biggest takeaways as iRobot enters its next phase is that even market leaders must remain alert to competition from China.”It’s certainly the advent of this new type of competitor, the Chinese fast follower, who had access to the Chinese marketplace, which iRobot effectively did not,” he said on the…