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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.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos looks stoic
Big Tech
Amazon 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
Dylan Field speaks on stage
Success
Figma’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
Lindsey Halligan gets into a car
Law
Meet 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
The blue iPhone 17 Pro
Tech
Apple says some in-store chargers are scuffing the new iPhone 17 Pro, adding fuel to durability concerns and ‘scratchgate’
By Dave SmithSeptember 25, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel sits at his desk
Arts & Entertainment
Trump 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
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn points his finger
Success
Duolingo’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
Meet Erika Kirk, the 36-year-old CEO of Turning Point USA, who has three degrees, two kids, and a clothing brand
Success
Meet 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
Zuckerberg and Trump smile at dinner together
Big Tech
Mark 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
Howard Stern smiles on a red carpet
Arts & Entertainment
Howard 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
Trump speaks from the Resolute Desk
North America
Over 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
Sara Blakely smiles on stage
Success
Billionaire 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
Brian Niccol smirks in a chair
Retail
Starbucks 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
NYU Professor Suzy Welch
Success
Suzy 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
Jimmy Kimmel smiles in front of a banana. Yes, really
Arts & Entertainment
People are threatening to boycott Disney after ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Let’s do to Disney what we did to Target’
By Dave SmithSeptember 18, 2025
Young Robert Redford wearing a cowboy hat and a mustache
Success
Robert Redford said he worked at Yosemite National Park before making it in Hollywood, inspired by his first visit when he had ‘a mild case of polio’
By Dave SmithSeptember 17, 2025
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The millennial generation has split, new Fed research shows: Those over 35 are edging toward boomer-style wealth, while everyone else falls behindplaceholder alt text
By Nick LichtenbergJuly 22, 2026
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Spain lifted the World Cup, but the IRS still gets a cut of its $50 million pay day as players, coaches and refs all face complex U.S. “jock taxes”placeholder alt text
By Joshua HongJuly 23, 2026
Economy
The $39 trillion U.S. national debt isn’t as high as Japan’s and Singapore’s relative to economy size—and yet it's still worse somehowplaceholder alt text
By Sasha RogelbergJuly 23, 2026
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