James Chen
James Chen — Editor-in-Chief at OwlyTimes, which he founded in 2025 with a small team of editors. Reports on markets with a CPA's suspicion and a reporter's notebook. Came to the project after seven years on a regional business desk in Chicago, where he learned to read footnotes before press releases. Numbers tell stories; he edits the stories so they tell the truth.
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Business Insider won the 2026 Webby Award for Documentary: Mid-Form for their project, The Man Who Feeds Gaza’s Children, out of 13,000 global submissions.
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A new WalletHub report reveals that 20% of startups fail within their first year. Florida cities dominate the top rankings for new business success rates.
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A new MIT Press book, Priority Technologies, links 25 percent of post-war U.S. economic growth to government-funded non-defense research and development.
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President Donald Trump celebrates stable $90 oil prices despite Wall Street concerns, as Goldman Sachs analysts prepare for potential 2026 market volatility.
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Solx and Caelux announced a five-year partnership on April 21 to add 3 gigawatts of solar capacity using a new hybrid module with 28 percent efficiency.
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BusinessBentley University Breaks Into National Top 100 Rankings
Bentley University officially enters the top 100 national university rankings, marking a major milestone for the institution's graduate business programs.
FinancePentagon Spends $11.3 Billion on First Six Days of Iran Conflict
The Pentagon spent $11.3 billion during the first six days of the Iran conflict. Harvard professor Linda Bilmes highlights the rising costs of this war.
BusinessMeta Mandates New Tracking Software for All U.S. Employees
Meta mandates that all U.S. employees install the Model Capability Initiative software to convert internal work workflows into artificial intelligence data.
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An MIT survey of 300 public deployments reveals that 95 percent of enterprise generative AI pilots fail to generate measurable profit for corporations.
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Passport Workforce launched a new platform on April 21, 2026, to automate field labor data collection and eliminate manual errors in complex job site payroll.
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Analysts raised the fair value target for Bread Financial Holdings to $85.53 from $83.53, reflecting a $2.00 increase in the firm's modeled market worth.