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Put down the kitchen scissors. As more people experiment with cutting their own hair at home, Sally Hershberger is offering up some advice: Don’t do it alone, and stay away from regular scissors. “I recommend having someone else cut your hair instead of cutting it yourself. When I give virtual cuts, I always have two …
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The global entertainment industry will take a $160 billion hit over the next five years as it slowly recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report. The outbreak has already whacked Hollywood studios, which have been forced to delay the release of top grossing franchises and suspend productions of summer blockbusters under shelter-in-place …
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During Wednesday’s film and television industry Zoom roundtable with Governor Gavin Newsom, “This Is Us” actor Jon Huertas said that after talking to show creator Dan Fogelman, the NBC drama may not return to production until January 2021 in case of a second wave of COVID-19. People ran with this return date which made Huertas …
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Julia Roberts and other A-listers, including Hugh Jackman and Millie Bobby Brown, have teamed up with Dr. Anthony Fauci for a campaign aimed at spreading accurate coronavirus information. Celebs participating in the #PassTheMic campaign will hand their social media accounts over to a COVID-19 expert for the day to spread awareness about how people can …
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Big tech companies such as Facebook and Google have touted their efforts to help small businesses struggling during the coronavirus pandemic — but those efforts may eventually take customers away from the small businesses they were supposed to help, according to a new report. Facebook and Instagram Shops were announced this week to help shuttered …
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Apparel chain Gap is speeding up its rollout of warehouse robots for assembling online orders so it can limit human contact during the coronavirus pandemic, the company told Reuters. Gap reached a deal early this year to more than triple the number of item-picking robots it uses to 106 by the fall. Then the pandemic …
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Uber Technologies on Thursday for the first time detailed how much it has spent to support its ride-hail drivers and food delivery workers during the coronavirus crisis, which has battered the company and forced it to lay off thousands of employees. The company said in a blog post here it had spent $19 million as …
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Amazon is scheduling its annual Prime Day shopping event for September and allowing unlimited shipments of non-essential goods to warehouses, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The latter move will allow the company to lay the groundwork for shipments of a wider variety of products, indicating it is …
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Macy’s said on Thursday it could rack up operating losses of up to $1.11 billion in the first quarter, as the department store operator was forced to shut stores due to lockdowns aimed at curbing the spread of the new coronavirus. The health crisis has forced brick-and-mortar retailers to tap credit lines, lay off employees …
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Millions of Americans are missing payments on credit cards and car loans as the coronavirus pandemic squeezes consumers’ wallets, data shows. Nearly 15 million credit cards, or about 3.2 percent of the nation’s accounts, were in “financial hardship” status in April, according to figures from credit-reporting company TransUnion. That means the accounts were frozen, in …
Put down the kitchen scissors. As more people experiment with cutting their own hair at home, Sally Hershberger is offering up some advice: Don’t do it alone, and stay away from regular scissors. “I recommend having someone else cut your hair instead of cutting it yourself. When I give virtual cuts, I always have two …
