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This is not a spaghetti Western, it’s a “noodle Western,” starring one famished cowboy straight off the open range after a day filled with ropin’, ridin’ and rustlin’. And what he wants for dinner is … ramen? Welcome to the first long-form ad for San Francisco-based startup Ramen Hero, which promises “the best ramen west…

As any entrepreneur will tell you, the success of a new brand has a lot to do with timing. And Brian Bushell’s timing could hardly have been better. For well over a year, Bushell had been planning to add a grapefruit-scented hand sanitizer to By Humankind, his boutique line of personal-care products that launched in…

When it comes to iconic U.S. creative leaders, they don’t get much bigger than Greg Hahn. In person, there’s no missing him, with his unkempt hair, lanky gait and penchant for philosophical introspection. But the body of his work is even more recognizable, with Hahn having been a driving force behind some of the ad…

If you were to take a spin down Argonne Drive in Woodridge, Ill., just south of the I-55 interchange, you’d pass the plant belonging to Home Run Inn Pizza. And if you were to take that drive one night this week, you might notice something unusual about the place. While most every business in this…

Before launching Lively, a direct-to-consumer lingerie brand, founder and CEO Michelle Cordeiro Grant spent years learning the ins and outs of the business at now-troubled lingerie behemoth Victoria’s Secret. Cordeiro Grant worked as a director of merchandising at Victoria’s Secret for just over four years, joining the company in October 2008 and leaving in December…

Microsoft said it will offer 12 weeks paid leave to employees with children while schools remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Microsoft evp Kurt DelBene sent employees an email about the new initiative on April 6. The memo specifies that parents can take this leave on a “continuous, reduced or intermittent basis,” meaning they…

Carolyn Everson, Facebook’s vice president of global marketing solutions, has her hands full. And not just because she’s overseeing the social network’s advertising division in the midst of the coronavirus lockdown–she has eight people in her New Jersey home. Plus six dogs. “It’s crazy,” she said during a recent interview over Zoom, as she bounced…

As data slowly reveals that black and Latino communities have been the hardest hit by COVID-19 deaths in many U.S. cities, Black Entertainment Television (BET) is stepping up to help. The Viacom subsidiary announced Wednesday that it is launching a new partnership with United Way to raise money for African American communities impacted by the…

A number of breakthroughs in the past few years have given artificial intelligence newfound creative abilities, with implications ranging from an internet underbelly of deepfakes to a burgeoning AI-generated art scene. But because of the complexity of the neural networks involved and the sometimes-arduous coding and training process, such capabilities can also be hard for…