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This image from video provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via DVIDS shows manufacturing plant employees being escorted outside the Hyundai Motor Group’s electric vehicle plant, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, in Ellabell, Ga.Corey Bullard/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via APLast week’s sweeping immigration raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia could spell trouble for other companies as President Donald Trump cracks down on illegal immigration on a larger scale.The raid in Ellabell, Georgia, marked the largest single-site enforcement operation in the Department of Homeland Security’s history, according to special agent Steven Schrank. Nearly 500 workers, many of whom were…

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If there’s one brand that’s come to define the “unhinged” social marketing era, it’s Duolingo.Whether it’s bubble butt Super Bowl interruptions, mascot séances, or death stunts, the language-learning platform has figured out how to continuously shock its audience while somehow getting them to do their next lesson. The brand now has more than 20 million followers across TikTok and Instagram and, in its latest earnings report, reported a 41% increase in revenue and 47.7 million daily users, a 40% increase.Manu Orssaud, CMO of Duolingo, is set to speak at our upcoming Marketing Brew Summit on September 10, and ahead of…

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Tyler Winklevoss, chief executive officer and co-founder of Gemini Trust Co., left, and Cameron Winklevoss, president and co-founder of Gemini Trust Co., speak during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, June 4, 2021.Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGemini, the crypto exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has secured Nasdaq as a strategic investor ahead of its initial public offering this week, CNBC has confirmed.Nasdaq plans to invest $50 million in the crypto company in a partnership that will allow the stock exchange to offer Gemini’s custodial services to its financial institution clients. Gemini…

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For CFOs and finance teams, AI adoption, tariff impacts, and data security and privacy are the top issues they’re confronting as they start planning for 2026, according to the results of global consulting firm Protiviti’s annual Global Finance Trends Survey. They are facing these challenges amid ongoing economic uncertainty, where less than half of CFOs and finance leaders (41%) have a high level of confidence in their organization’s ability to navigate current challenges in the global economy. Evolving Interest in Artificial Intelligence According to the survey, the number of finance teams leveraging AI tools has more than doubled in the past year,…

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Nasdaq has reportedly agreed to buy $50 million in shares of cryptocurrency exchange Gemini Space Station. The company will buy the shares in a private placement at the time of Gemini’s initial public offering, which is set for Friday (Sept. 12), Reuters reported Tuesday (Sept. 9), citing unnamed sources. Gemini’s plans are subject to change, according to the report. Neither Gemini nor Nasdaq immediately replied to PYMNTS’ request for comment. According to the Reuters report, the companies have also agreed that Nasdaq’s clients will get access to Gemini’s custody and staking services and that Gemini’s institutional clients will get access the Nasdaq Calypso platform for managing…

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Memorial spaceflights have grown from novelty to a modest and steady business, one that’s carried thousands of loved ones to orbit over the past three decades. Now, a startup founded by a former Blue Origin engineer aims to harness the space industry’s latest advances to take the market mainstream. Ryan Mitchell, founder of Florida-based Space Beyond, is raising funds to fly a brick-sized cubesat that he said could carry at least 1,000 capsules to low Earth orbit (LEO) as early as next year. Each capsule would carry a symbolic portion of human or pet remains to LEO for a minimum…

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NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The strategic partnership of Interluxe Group, the preeminent luxury-focused experiential agency, and North & Warren, a leader in digital marketing and media for luxury brands, announces the acquisition of Quinn, an award-winning, luxury-focused strategic communications agency. The combined company creates a powerful, integrated marketing platform for luxury brands, bringing together proprietary audience data with best-in-class strategy, experiential, communications, media, and digital marketing capabilities. Founded in 1989, Quinn helps clients around the world reach affluent audiences via an integrated offering of storytelling,…

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This morning, 12 Senate Democrats published a six-page framework for digital asset market structure legislation in which they outlined their plan to combat illicit finance while protecting users’ financial privacy. The group of Democrats, which included Senate Banking ranking member Ruben Gallego (AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), and Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), stated in the first page of the document that digital assets legislation should be guided by certain values, include “protecting financial privacy while denying bad actors access to the financial system.” In the fifth section of the framework, they outlined what this looks like. The outline included the following…

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(InvestigateTV) — High school athletes are nailing down big sponsorship deals before college.Our investigators explore the seismic shifts happening in worlds both big and small. In this episode of InvestigateTV+:We delve into the high-stakes game of high school sports, where teenagers are now navigating five-figure endorsement deals and families are crossing state lines to cash in. We uncover a hidden medical crisis, where the lessons learned from Long COVID are finally bringing answers and validation to patients who were dismissed for years. We investigate the new frontier of travel scams, where your airline miles are a valuable target for digital…

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