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Meliá Hotels International and MiM hotels have announced a partnership in which Meliá will take over management of the MiM hotels portfolio beginning November 1, 2025.MiM, the hospitality brand owned by football legend Lionel Messi will be incorporated into luxury brand, The Meliá Collection. The MiM portfolio includes six boutique hotels in premier destinations throughout Spain, including Sitges, Sotogrande, Mallorca, Ibiza, Baqueira Beret and Andorra, all of which will be operated under a lease agreement. Each MiM property reflects Messi’s personal vision of luxury with signature elements that include the exclusive “Messi Suite” and curated memorabilia. The hotels are known…
There was barely a breeze on the roof of the MCM studios building in Manhattan last week as six entrepreneurs graced a stage to pitch their businesses. At one point, it was April Wachtel’s turn. She stood and made the case for her company, Cheeky Cocktails, to a judging panel that included the billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper. Men holding TV cameras circled her as she pitched, capturing the moment live for Draper’s “Shark Tank”-style business competition show “Meet the Drapers.” The show is entering its eighth season, with past winners including the leadership platform Balloon and the food company…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When rapper-actor Common was a kid, he carried towels and sneakers as a Chicago Bulls ball boy who was close enough to hear the squeak of shoes and the roar inside the arena.Decades later, Common is helping set a different kind of tone for basketball: He has teamed up with his longtime collaborators to compose “Victory” as the official theme for NBA on Prime, the streaming platform announced Thursday. He worked with Karriem Riggins and James Poyser on the song, which will be a part of Amazon’s first exclusive season of NBA coverage.Common said he drew…
by Mia Taylor Last updated: 7:00 AM ET, Thu October 9, 2025 As a child in southwest England, Anna Nash rode a tiny passenger ferry to and from school every single day. She also learned to sail at a very young age.Because of these early experiences, Nash says she has always viewed the water as both grounding and freeing. So, it is perhaps apropos that Nash’s career trajectory in the travel industry led her to her current role: President of a cruise line.Last year, Nash joined Explora Journeys, one of the world’s newest cruise lines. The company launched in 2021…
At nearly the same moment as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was expressing surprise over OpenAI’s multibillion-dollar deal with competitor AMD — shortly after his company agreed to invest up to $100 billion into the AI model maker — Sam Altman was saying that more such deals are in the works. Huang appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Wednesday. When asked if he knew about the AMD deal before it was announced, he answered, “Not really.” As TechCrunch previously reported, OpenAI’s deal with AMD is unusual. AMD has agreed to grant OpenAI large tranches of AMD stock — up to 10%…
Down on his luck divorced dad who resorts to crime is becoming familiar territory for Channing Tatum as an actor. In “Logan Lucky” his mark was the Charlotte Motor Speedway. In “Roofman,”in theaters Friday, it’s McDonald’s. In both films, there’s a young daughter he wants to impress. The big, heartbreaking difference is that “Roofman” isn’t just some fun, eccentric caper — it’s based on a wild true story, involving a prison escape, a six-month secret stay inside Toys “R” Us and a local girlfriend who was none-the-wiser to his criminal ways.The film, directed by Derek Cianfrance, who co-wrote the script…
Polignano a Mare in the Region of Puglia. Italy.Artur Debat | Moment | Getty ImagesUnited Airlines’ summer 2026 international travel plan is out, and smaller European cities are in.Starting April 30, United plans to fly from its hub at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey to Split on the Croatian coast — its second destination in the country. A day later the carrier is launching Newark to Bari in the popular Puglia region of southern Italy on the Adriatic Sea.May 22 is the scheduled launch of a nonstop from Newark to Santiago de Compostela, in the Galicia region of…
Plastic recycling startup Novoloop has inked a deal with a major manufacturer to produce its upcycled thermoplastic polyurethane at commercial scale, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The agreement helps nudge the Menlo Park-based Novoloop through the so-called “valley of death” that many climate tech startups must slog through. Startups that depend on hardware are particularly susceptible to stumbling in the valley, the dreaded moment when they’ve proven their initial technology and have not generated sufficient revenues from selling their product. Under the terms of the deal, Novoloop will supply Huide Science and Technology with a chemical building block used to make…
If you blindfolded an American tourist and plopped them on the Cotai Strip in Macao, they might take one look at the Venetian hotel and the replica Eiffel Tower and assume they were in Las Vegas.Like Las Vegas, Macao — a special administrative region of China — is transforming itself with fresh entertainment, waterparks, spas, fine dining and sports.This week Las Vegas Sands is hosting two NBA games in Macao, a return for the basketball league after a six-year absence from China. The company’s president and chief operating officer, Patrick Dumont, owns the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and was pivotal in…
Loyal American Airlines passengers will soon be able to cash in their frequent flier miles for tickets to one of the most anticipated events of 2026: the FIFA World Cup.The airline is giving members of its AAdvantage loyalty program early access to redeem miles for tickets to the tournament, which is taking place across the United States, Canada, and Mexico next June and July. AAdvantage members get access to the ticket purchases on different days, based on their status level. Travelers with Executive Platinum or ConciergeKey status will be able to make redemptions first, starting October 13. That’s followed by…