Building software products has never been easy, so why are so many well-funded startups failing to take off, no matter how good their product is? In this season finale episode of Build Mode, our guest answers: Startups have focused too much on product development and not enough on delivery excellence. Paul Irving is a partner…
We’re in the final stretch of 2025 and entering the second week of the historically strong market month of December. Barring a calamity, the S & P 500 should be able to turn in a third straight year of gains. The index has advanced nearly 17% year to date. Whether it goes higher from here…
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos felt different this yearAnd not just because Meta and Salesforce took over storefronts on the main promenade. AI has come to dominate the conversation to such an extent that traditional topics like climate change and global poverty have been eclipsed, and CEOs are not backing down. There was…
Bill ConnellyOct 24, 2025, 07:30 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since 2019. In recent years, Week 9 of the college football season has been good at shutting down fun upstart stories — or at least severely wounding them….
Field YatesFeb 11, 2026, 06:10 AM ET Close Field Yates is a fantasy football expert and NFL draft analyst for ESPN. You can find him on Fantasy Football Now on Sunday mornings and regularly on NFL Live throughout the week, as well as the Fantasy Focus and First Draft podcasts. A graduate of Wesleyan University…
Exxon Mobil reported second-quarter earnings on Friday that declined significantly compared to last year, though the company beat Wall Street estimates as production growth in the Permian Basin and Guyana softened the impact of lower oil prices. Exxon’s net income fell 23% to $7.1 billion, or $1.64 per share, compared to $9.2 billion, or $2.14…
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Shoppers may be feeling sticker shock with the cost of beef at the grocery store. Prices in the beef and veal category are up 14.7%, while overall food is up 3.1% from September 2024 to September 2025 — the latest publicly available consumer price index data due to the government shutdown in October. But expenses…
A nearly $1.8 billion fund created by the Trump administration to compensate people who allege they were victims of a weaponized Justice Department crackdown is facing its first legal challenge as well as criticism from some Republican lawmakers. Police officers who protected the US Capitol during the events of January 6, 2021, have filed a…
Michael VoepelAugust 13, 2025, 09:00 AM ET to close Michael Voepel is a senior writer who covers WNBA, Women’s College Basketball and other college games. Voepel began to cover women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. Standing has even more urgency for WNBA teams to unite a qualifying spot and the…
