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by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 2:55 PM ET, Tue July 8, 2025 WHY IT RATES: Star Clippers is making strategic personnels to help build business. —Sarah Kuta, TravelPulse writer Star Clippers is pleased to announce the promotion of longtime employee Cyndi Denman to the new position of Director of Sales. Cyndi’s new role will be to build Star Clippers’ business by working with the company’s strategic partners and accounts, as well as growing charter sales, and increasing the account base. The company has hired Sheryll Pyle to replace Cyndi in the role of Business Development Executive for the Southeast region.Cyndi…

“SaaS is going away,” said Dave Park, co-founder and CEO of Narada AI. The company is betting big on a different future for enterprise software, one powered by agentic AI. Change is coming “in the not-too-distant future,” Park said on Equity, TechCrunch’s flagship podcast. “The typical knowledge worker today deals with anywhere from 17 to 25 different SaaS tools and portals every day, wasting two and a half hours just manually looking up or updating these systems. We believe in a future where it’ll just be the data, the databases, and AI agents or agentic models that take your request…

Former New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning is no longer interested in buying a minority stake in his old team, telling CNBC Sport Wednesday that he’s been priced out.”Basically, it’s too expensive for me,” Manning told CNBC Sport in an interview. “A 1% stake valued at $10 billion turns into a very big number.” Manning’s comments come as NFL team valuations skyrocket. In CNBC’s Official NFL Team Valuations published in September, the Giants were valued at $7.85 billion, ranking fourth among the league’s 32 teams.In December, the Philadelphia Eagles sold a minority stake in the team at a valuation of $8.3…

by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 2:55 PM ET, Tue July 8, 2025 Bookings are now open for Emerald Cruises’ 2027-2028 yacht cruising collection. Travelers can choose between 170 departures across four luxury yachts, which will visit more than 200 ports in 70 countries. The season includes 25 new voyages, including Emerald Raiya’s inaugural Mediterranean sailing launching April 8, 2027, from Valletta. The cruise line will also visit 19 new ports of call in Greece, Italy, France, Turkey, Costa Rica, Panama and more. Emerald Cruises will also be returning to Central America after a successful 2024 season. “This season reflects how Emerald Cruises…

YouTube is preparing to update its policies to crack down on creators’ ability to generate revenue from “inauthentic” content, including mass-produced videos and other types of repetitive content — things that have become easier to generate with the help of AI technology. On July 15, the company will update its YouTube Partner Program (YPP) Monetization policies with more detailed guidelines around what type of content can earn creators money and what cannot. The exact policy language itself has not yet been released, but a page on YouTube’s Help documentation explains that creators have always been required to upload “original” and…

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are urging seven U.S. universities to cut ties with a Chinese scholarship program that lawmakers call a “nefarious mechanism” to steal technology for the Chinese government.In letters to Dartmouth College, the University of Notre Dame and five other universities, leaders of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party raise concerns about the schools’ partnerships with the China Scholarship Council, a study abroad program funded by China.The program sponsors hundreds of Chinese graduate students every year at U.S. universities. After graduating, they’re required to return to China for two years. In the letters sent…

NEW YORK (AP) — While classmates dreamed of becoming teachers, doctors and professional athletes, Burna Boy was clear on his future aspirations.“They would hand out the papers and the question would be, ‘What you wanna be?’ … I’d write ‘rock star,’” said the Afrobeats giant. “One of my teachers asked me, ‘What do rock stars do?’ I didn’t really know what to say.” These days, the Grammy winner’s music talks for him. Fresh off becoming the first African artist to sell out Paris’ iconic Stade de France in April, Burna Boy has been on an incredible run, and hopes it…

Facebook Tweet Email Link When tragedies are in the news — natural disasters, plane crashes, fires — parents naturally and unavoidably react by thinking about what might happen to their own children. And children worry in turn about what might happen to them. The flash flooding last week that killed more than 100 people along the Guadalupe River in central Texas, including dozens of campers and counselors at Camp Mystic, was a family nightmare come true. Every summer, kids hug their parents goodbye for camp, with both sides full of anxiety about what it means for children to be away…

by Mia Taylor Last updated: 3:25 PM ET, Tue July 8, 2025 One of the Caribbean tourism industry’s most popular professional development and networking events is set to return this November.The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) has announced that the Caribbean Hospitality Industry Exchange Forum (CHIEF) and Taste of the Caribbean are set to take place November 16 thru November 18, 2025 at the Wyndham Grand Barbados Sam Lords Castle Resort. Created by, and for, the Caribbean hospitality community—CHIEF and Taste of the Caribbean are designed to bring together industry leaders, rising professionals and culinary talent from across the…

The experience at an airport can make or break a trip, particularly when it comes to flight delays and cancellations. When it comes to keeping operations prompt and flights on time, some facilities simply do a better job than others. At least, that’s what a new report on the best airports in the world shows. The passenger assistance company AirHelp ranked 250 airports across 68 countries using its own internal flight database and feedback from passengers gathered about their flight experience from June 2024 through May 2025. Airports received a score of up to 10 points based on three factors: on-time…