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        <title><![CDATA[Brent Crane - Freelance Contributor]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[OpenTable Won Over the Wrong Customers, Then Changed Course]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The pioneering reservation app was losing marquee restaurant groups before its chief executive made some big changes.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:00:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Antisemitic Violence Sparks $765 Million in Security Spending]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[American Jewish institutions are seeking increased protection at temples, day schools and museums after a wave of attacks.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:00:04 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Arc’teryx’s CEO Won Over Chalamet and Chinese Shoppers]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The gorpcore brand continues its off-mountain ascent by appealing to urban fashionistas, woodsy backpackers and C-suiters alike.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:00:05 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Death Spiral of a $250 Million Satellite Startup]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Theia raised big money to launch a next-level network of digital imagery, but its legacy is mostly lawsuits, including federal fraud charges.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:00:06 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Architect Bjarke Ingels Says Modern Buildings Are So Boring]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A favorite of eco-friendly urban planners and the technocrat class, the Danish designer has been getting by on government and donor-subsidized projects as shareholders keep purse strings tight.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-03-20/architect-bjarke-ingels-misses-working-on-big-budget-projects</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:00:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Zillow’s CEO Is Ready for Another Slow Year in the US Housing Market]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The $16 billion company is pushing more into the transaction side of the real estate industry, which Jeremy Wacksman calls ‘a better business to be in.’]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:00:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Din Tai Fung Became America’s Top-Earning Restaurant Chain]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The dumpling restaurant was started in Taiwan half a century ago. Now there are 17 always-packed locations in the US, including one in Disneyland.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:01:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Ironman CEO Wants to Turn the Race Organizer Into a Lifestyle Brand]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[If you can swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles and run a marathon back to back, then Scott DeRue think you’ll like what he’s selling.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:00:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Pizza Oven Startup With a Plan to Own Every Piece of the Pie]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Long past its Kickstarter days, backyard oven maker Ooni now sells paddles, slicers, premade dough and an $800 stand mixer.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-06/outdoor-pizza-oven-company-ooni-adds-big-plans-for-growth</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 09:00:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[‘Our Goal Is to Get Their Money’: Inside a Firm Charged With Scamming Writers for Millions]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Author services company PageTurner used promises of mainstream success and Netflix deals to prey on more than 800 aspiring authors, according to DOJ.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:00:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Brunello Cucinelli Is Well Suited for a Trade War]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Cucinelli’s plain white tees cost $500. Just don’t call them quiet.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 05:00:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Oura’s Smart Ring Bridged the Gap From Tech Bros to Normies]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Under CEO Tom Hale, Oura broadened its appeal beyond the biohacker fringe.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:00:27 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Believing in Aliens Derailed This Internet Pioneer’s Career. Now He’s Facing Prison]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Joseph Firmage helped create today’s digital economy. These days, he’s being sued by antigravity-machine investors and claiming to be hounded by a Jamaican wire-fraud gang, with a guy pretending to be Steven Mnuchin along for the ride.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 11:00:33 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How North Korea’s Man in the West Ran Afoul of US Authorities]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Alejandro Cao de Benós has been accused of violating sanctions in connection with a 2019 cryptocurrency conference. “I am not afraid,” he says.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-25/how-alejandro-cao-de-benos-north-korea-s-man-in-spain-ran-afoul-of-the-us</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:00:17 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Inside a Private Jet Club Where Everything Went Wrong]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[AeroVanti vowed to shake up private aviation with way-below-market rates, but it kept canceling the flights. Customers, employees and contractors say the CEO ripped them off—to the tune of $40 million.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2024 11:00:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Stradivarius Murders: The Strange Life and Stranger Murder of a Rare Violin Collector]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Police said four very valuable violins went missing after a collector and his daughter were killed. Then a lot of stories began to unravel.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2023 04:01:05 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Pistachio Tycoon Picks a Fight With the U.S. Navy]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Wonderful Co.’s demand for nuts is straining the water supply in a remote California community of farmers and military types.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2020 12:00:25 GMT</pubDate>
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