Press release by Sand County Foundation on 6 Jan 2025 Troy Firth of Spartansburg has been selected as the 2024 Pennsylvania Leopold Conservation Award® recipient. The $10,000 award honors farmers and forestland owners who go above and beyond in their management of soil health, water quality, and wildlife habitat on working land. Firth, who owns … Read more
Despite the many concerns around generative AI, businesses are continuing to explore the technology and put it into production, the 2025 AI and Data Leadership Executive Benchmark Survey revealed. Generative AI is increasingly being put into production, survey author Randy Bean and Tom Davenport, professor of IT and management at Babson College, observed in this … Read more
A final wrap-up of the big trends of 2025 is obvs to talk about fintech. Looking at the big fintech trends, probably the best place to start is with Simon Taylor’s 111 page report (ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN PAGES!!!). Simon and his BFF Jev at Sardine note a number of developments, such as the fintech hyperscaler. … Read more
Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors’ opinions or evaluations. The current mortgage rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage rose by 0.05 percentage point in the last week to 7.37%, according to Curinos. Meanwhile, the APR on a 15-year fixed mortgage climbed 0.05 percentage … Read more
Five Questions to Dana Schmalz CDU chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz demanded that individuals with dual citizenship should lose their German nationality if they commit crimes. His proposals have been criticized as a dangerous precedent and as potentially unconstitutional. We spoke with Dana Schmalz, a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public … Read more
