There is no need for Costco members to worry about inflating food court prices if they can cut out food cravings.Costco has launched a subscription-based weight loss program for members and non-members of the nationwide wholesaler — which includes access to prescription weight-loss drugs. 3 Costco rolled out the program on April 2 but has been working with Sesame since the Fall of 2023. David Tucker/News-Journal / USA TODAY NETWORKThe wholesaler announced on Tuesday that members will pay as low as $179 fo ...

Disney CEO Bob Iger appears to have the upper hand in his effort to stave off a proxy battle from activist investor Nelson Peltz’s Trian Partners.With the votes of more than half of all shares counted, Disney has pulled ahead of Trian thanks to the backing of asset management giants BlackRock and T. Rowe, according to a Reuters report.Peltz, who has questioned Iger’s leadership and business strategy, aims to snatch two seats on the company’s board of directors — one for himself and one for former Disney chi ...

A McDonald’s franchisee who owns 18 restaurants in Northern California said he has been forced to raise menu prices in response to the state’s new $20-an-hour minimum wage law for fast food workers — though he will resist raising the prices of Happy Meals.“We have looked at price, although I can’t charge $20 for a Happy Meal,” Scott Rodrick, who owns Rodrick Management Group, told CNN on Monday.In the last three months, Rodrick has raised menu prices between 5% and 7% in anticipation of the new law going in ...

United Airlines is asking its pilots to take voluntary unpaid leave next month because of delays in Boeing deliveries, according to a memo sent to pilots.Because of an anticipated shortage of airplanes, “our forecasted block hours for 2024 have been reduced and we are offering our pilots voluntary programs for the month of May to reduce excess staffing,” United said in a statement to The Post.Block hours — the key industry measure for aircraft use — include the time from the moment the aircraft door closes ...

The search for Disney’s next CEO has become a chaotic mess as activist investors push for seats on the company’s board — and Hollywood insiders are skeptical that any of the top contenders will be ready when Bob Iger is slated to step down in 2026. The Mouse House is hoping to fend off billionaire Nelson Peltz and his firm Trian Fund Management, who are demanding two board seats in a fierce proxy battle that will come to a head at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday. The heat is on to get ...

Apple’s “biggest” update to its operating system will leave those will older iPhones out in the cold.The iOS 18 update, slated for June, is expected to include four new artificial intelligence-powered features, including large language models (LLMS) and a generative AI app called iWork.However, those features can only work with iPhones that include its muscular A12 Bionic chip — which excludes anyone still using an iPhone 8 Plus or earlier models. 3 Apple’s forthcoming iOS 18 update is rumored to include ...

Google agreed to destroy billions of data records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of people who thought they were browsing privately.Terms of the settlement were filed on Monday in the Oakland, California federal court, and require approval by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.Lawyers for the plaintiffs valued the accord at more than $5 billion, and as high as $7.8 billion. Google is paying no damages, but users may sue the company individually for damages.The clas ...

A former Apple engineer who was fired by the company for allegedly leaking confidential information to the media used his bathroom breaks to delete messaging apps that may have contained evidence, according to a lawsuit filed by the iPhone maker against the ex-worker.Andrew Aude, who worked as a software engineer at the Cupertino, Calif.-based company’s iOS division, allegedly used his company cell phone to send thousands of text messages to reporters from the Wall Street Journal and the Information over a ...

A US lawmaker who has long campaigned against congressional stock trading is among the nearly one-in-five in the Senate who own or likely own chunks of Apple stock – and watchdogs warn the conflicts of interest could derail major legislation aimed at reining in the Big Tech firm’s anticompetitive practices.Sen. John Ossoff (D-Ga.) – who famously ripped his Republican opponent David Perdue as a “crook” over his personal stock trades during his successful bid for the Senate in 2020 – has portrayed himself as ...

Millions of current and former AT&T customers’ leaked data, including Social Security numbers, were posted on the dark web earlier this month. The leak prompted a “robust investigation supported by internal and external cybersecurity experts,” the telecommunications giant said Saturday. The compromised data appears to be from 2019 or earlier and included the information of roughly 7.6 million current customers and 65.4 million former ones, AT&T said. The compromised data included information of roughly 73 m ...