Tag: Forcing

High Interest Rates Are Forcing Big-Time Investors to Cut Their Losses—Is a Bust Coming?

In This Article Key Takeaways Commercial vacancies reached 17% in Q4 2023, higher than the peak vacancy rate during the 2008 financial crisis. As a result of high interest rates, high vacancies, and mounting costs, big-time commercial investors are selling off their assets at 50-80% value. Investors continue to be frustrated with the Federal Reserve’s [...]read moreHigh Interest Rates Are Forcing Big-Time Investors to Cut Their Losses—Is a Bust Coming?

Rates at 7% attract different types of borrowers, forcing lenders to rethink profit strategies

Industry experts believe mortgage rates will remain higher for longer, attracting borrowers who face life events but not “economic gamers“ to the mortgage market. In turn, this will force some lenders to think out of the box to attain profitability. On Wednesday afternoon, the Federal Reserve announced its decision to maintain its short-term policy interest rate at a [...]read moreRates at 7% attract different types of borrowers, forcing lenders to rethink profit strategies

Nintendo Forcing Garry’s Mod To Delete 20 Years Of Content

Garry’s Mod, a popular 2006 sandbox game that emerged from the modding scene around Valve’s Source software, has recently been issued takedown notices by Nintendo. As a result, Facepunch Studios, the developers of Garry’s Mod, are in the process of removing about 20 years’ worth of Nintendo-related content from the game. Why The Hot New [...]read moreNintendo Forcing Garry’s Mod To Delete 20 Years Of Content

Senate passes a bill forcing TikTok to face a ban if ByteDance doesn’t sell it

The Senate passed a bill, included with the foreign aid package, that will ban TikTok if its owner, ByteDance, doesn’t sell it within a year. Senators passed the bill 79-18 Tuesday after the House passed it with overwhelming majority over the weekend. President Joe Biden will have to sign the bill to make it law, [...]read moreSenate passes a bill forcing TikTok to face a ban if ByteDance doesn’t sell it

The market is forcing cloud vendors to relax data egress fees

In recent months, the big three cloud vendors — Amazon, Microsoft and Google — have relaxed their egress fees, which are a tax of sorts that the cloud companies charge customers to move their data to another vendor. It’s a way to keep existing customers in the fold, but it’s kind of a ham-handed way [...]read moreThe market is forcing cloud vendors to relax data egress fees

Meta is Forcing Expanded Audiences for Top of Funnel Optimization

Meta has begun to roll out an update to ad setsAn ad set is a Facebook ads grouping where settings like targeting, scheduling, optimization, and placement are determined. More utilizing performance goals for link clicksThe link click metric measures all clicks on links that drive users to properties on and off of Facebook. More and [...]read moreMeta is Forcing Expanded Audiences for Top of Funnel Optimization

MrBeast Is Visiting Stores & Forcing Them To Restock His Candy

James Donaldson, aka MrBeast aka that YouTuber who does weird charity videos aka that guy who sold me a terrible burger, is apparently visiting Walmarts and forcing employees to let him explore their storage areas and then making them restock his candy bars. The Week In Games: Station Wagon Survival And A Cozy League Spinoff [...]read moreMrBeast Is Visiting Stores & Forcing Them To Restock His Candy