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5/17/2024
13 : 5
Numlock News: May 15, 2024 • Cheerleading, Wiley, Taco Bell
By Walt Hickey Cheerleaders Bain Capital, which owns the cheerleading company Varsity Brands, as well as the previous owners of the company agreed to pay $82.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit
5/17/2024
12 : 54
Numlock News: May 16, 2024 • Toto, Dog Man, Coke
By Walt Hickey Coke McDonald's announced a $5 meal bundle for this summer in an attempt to woo back consumers who got kind of mad that they have to pay over $10 for a burger from McDonald's.
5/17/2024
12 : 42
Numlock News: May 17, 2024 • Heifers, Cave Bears, Salt Lake
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Over the next two weeks, I'll be on my honeymoon, so we've lined up some brilliant guest writers to fill in while I'm gone. For now, this is the end of
5/14/2024
10 : 14
Numlock News: May 14, 2024 • Everest, Quebec, Seabirds
By Walt Hickey Unlimited A new settlement involving 49 out of 50 US states and the District of Columbia has the three major telecom carriers forking over $10.2 million — $4.1 million each from T-Mobile
5/13/2024
10 : 14
Numlock News: May 13, 2024 • Apes, Arts, Automation
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! It's the Numlock sixth anniversary this month! Get a steeply discounted subscription today: Apes Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the 10th installment in a 56-year-
5/10/2024
10 : 4
Numlock News: May 10, 2024 • Giants, Harbor, Brass
By Walt Hickey Giant Slayer B&G Foods, one of the massive food conglomerates you're only vaguely aware of, is kicking the tires on a sale of its Green Giant brand of frozen vegetables, just six
5/9/2024
10 : 4
Numlock News: May 9, 2024 • Oroville, Pizzerias, NoVa
By Walt Hickey Remember, we've kicked off the Numlock Sixth Anniversary event early because we'll have guest writers in while I'm on my honeymoon later this month, so jump on the promotion
5/8/2024
10 : 14
Numlock News: May 8, 2024 • Sunscreen, Warhammer, Red vs. Blue
By Walt Hickey I'm going on my honeymoon at the end of the month and we'll be having guest writers during the actual anniversary of the newsletter, so we're starting the annual promo early
5/7/2024
10 : 14
Numlock News: May 7, 2024 • Broods, Blades, Black Lotus
By Walt Hickey Supercomputing The US government's Cheyenne supercomputer auction has ended, with all 313 TB of ram and 8064 Intel processors selling for $480085 after attracting 27 bidders. The 32
5/6/2024
10 : 4
Numlock News: May 6, 2024 • Elk, The Phantom Menace, What A Pro Wants
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Brown Gold Every winter, elk, deer and moose shed their antlers, and foragers eager for the discarded but pronounced objects engage in a mad dash at the start of the first
5/3/2024
10 : 14
Numlock News: May 3, 2024 • Orangutans, Cocoa, Retinol
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Orangutans An ape in Indonesia has made headlines as it purportedly produced a poultice. In 2022, an orangutan named Rakus in his early 30s had picked up a gnarly
5/2/2024
10 : 4
Numlock News: May 2, 2024 • Konami, Flops, Meteorites
By Walt Hickey Run, EV, Run Rental car behemoth Hertz announced it will sell an additional 10000 of its electric vehicles from its existing fleet, on top of the initial intention to sell 20000 electric
5/1/2024
10 : 24
Numlock News: May 1, 2024 • Blues, Brakes, Velveeta
By Walt Hickey Blues The blues, the musical genre, have had a characteristically difficult time, and have been financially suffering. Now, if there's a genre that is downright built for such
4/30/2024
10 : 14
Numlock News: April 30, 2024 • Kansai, Domino's, Dodecahedrons
By Walt Hickey Domino's Domino's sells about 1.5 million pizzas every day, and it's become more and more profitable owing to a number of deals struck with third-party delivery companies and
4/29/2024
10 : 14
Numlock News: April 29, 2024 • Manga, Challengers, Mauritius
By Walt Hickey Three's A Crowd Challengers, the Zendaya-starring Luca Guadagnino movie about three people who play literal and metaphorical tennis, made $15 million this past weekend, the second-
4/26/2024
10 : 14
Numlock News: April 26, 2024 • Finches, IndyCar, Swift Books
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Push-to-Pass In IndyCar racing, drivers get a budgeted amount of time where they can use extra power called “push-to-pass,” which is activated through a button on
4/25/2024
10 : 14
Numlock News: April 25, 2024 • Octocorals, Pinyin, Wizards
By Walt Hickey Digital Books Libraries pay extra when it comes to e-books that they lend out, and it can pinch them financially. For instance, Britney Spears' memoir The Woman In Me cost a library
4/24/2024
10 : 14
Numlock News: April 24, 2024 • Chartreuse, Muskrats, Chicken Soup for the Soul
By Walt Hickey Chicken Soup The sentence “Chicken Soup for the Soul lost $636.6 million last year” is certainly a weird one, but I must assure you it did in fact happen. The brand, which expanded
4/23/2024
10 : 14
Numlock News: April 23, 2024 • Mondo, Hydrox, Wingspan
By Walt Hickey Hydrox The packaged cookie business is a $9 billion category, and more than $4 billion of that is Oreo alone, owned by CPG colossus Mondelēz, with not only the flagship Oreo and the
4/22/2024
10 : 14
Numlock News: April 22, 2024 • Ghosts, Crocs, Quasi-Moon
By Walt Hickey Next Big Thing Terence Reilly made his name as the guy who made Crocs, the brand of clogs, into a genuinely hot item over the course of a five-year stint as chief marketing officer. In