Netflix is spending $6 billion on content this year and ‘a lot more’ in future, CEO says

Netflix plans to spend $6 billion on original content in 2017, and that number is going up “a lot” in the future, CEO Reed Hastings told CNBC. “As we grow the membership base, we want to grow the current budget,” Hastings said on Wednesday, at...

From website to pop-up: More retailers are capitalizing on short-term storefronts

As traditional retail stores close and vacancies mount, landlords across the country appear newly receptive to leases as short as a week, eschewing the typical 10-year time frame, even in locations that once shunned limited stays. The upswing in pop-up stores, as the...

Dostoyevsky, NPR and Mass Murder: Files Shed Light on Dylann Roof

By KEVIN SACK May 31, 2017 CHARLESTON, S.C. — In early January, after a series of closed-court hearings, a federal judge in Charleston allowed Dylann S. Roof to represent himself as prosecutors sought his execution for a murderous 2015 rampage at a...