March 4, 2024

As the App Store approaches its 16th anniversary, patchwork rules have turned what was a single store into different shops across many countries.

For years, Apple, Google, Meta and others operated unfettered. But new laws and regulations have finally compelled them to make major shifts to their products and businesses.

Hosts who have to entertain insiders at the ceremony and outsiders watching at home. Presenters who change their minds. No wonder the bits are awkward.

A new study shows that white-collar employees who can work remotely now live roughly twice as far from their offices as they did prepandemic.

Both campaigns view this week, with Super Tuesday and the State of the Union, as a critical period that will set the tone and define the early contours of the coming general election campaign.