Dave Smith
Dave Smith is a former Fortune U.S. News Editor. He also has been published in Business Insider, Newsweek, ABC News, and USA Today. He lives in Toronto.
Big TechAmazon to pay $2.5 billion, one of the largest FTC settlements in history, to mitigate claims it tricked millions of people into signing up for Prime
By Dave SmithSeptember 25, 2025
SuccessFigma’s 33-year-old billionaire CEO says he tells his team to ignore stock price volatility: ‘We don’t control that number, we control the inputs’
By Dave SmithSeptember 25, 2025
LawMeet Lindsey Halligan, the 36-year-old former Miss Colorado hopeful who only worked 3 federal cases before Trump promoted her to U.S. attorney
By Dave SmithSeptember 25, 2025
TechApple says some in-store chargers are scuffing the new iPhone 17 Pro, adding fuel to durability concerns and ‘scratchgate’
By Dave SmithSeptember 25, 2025
Arts & EntertainmentTrump slams Jimmy Kimmel’s return, says ‘We’re going to test ABC out on this’ because ‘last time I went after them, they gave me $16 million’
By Dave SmithSeptember 24, 2025
SuccessDuolingo’s billionaire CEO tells his 42 new Gen Z hires his company is ‘allergic’ to toxic behavior—and not to ‘work yourself to death’
By Dave SmithSeptember 24, 2025
SuccessMeet Erika Kirk, the 36-year-old CEO of Turning Point USA, who has three degrees, two kids, and a clothing brand
By Dave SmithSeptember 23, 2025
Big TechMark Zuckerberg says Meta ‘misspending a couple of hundred billion’ in the U.S. would be ‘unfortunate,’ but ‘the risk is higher on the other side’
By Dave SmithSeptember 23, 2025
Arts & EntertainmentHoward Stern says he’s canceling Disney Plus ‘to say with the pocketbook that I do not support’ ABC yanking Jimmy Kimmel off the air
By Dave SmithSeptember 22, 2025
North AmericaOver 70% of H-1B visa holders are Indian citizens. Its government says Trump jacking the fee to $100,000 is ‘likely to have humanitarian consequences’
By Dave SmithSeptember 22, 2025
SuccessBillionaire Sara Blakely says she launched Spanx with just $5,000 from selling fax machines—and never took on a single investor: ‘I bet on myself’
By Dave SmithSeptember 20, 2025
RetailStarbucks CEO says the company is doubling down on protein and gluten-free options: ‘I believe our food needs to match the craft of our coffee’
By Dave SmithSeptember 20, 2025
SuccessSuzy Welch says Gen Z and millennials are burnt out because older generations worked just as hard, but they ‘had hope’
By Dave SmithSeptember 19, 2025
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