Dropit picks up $25M to digitize brick-and-mortar stores and unify inventories

Dropit, a retail technology platform that bridges the digital divide by unifying merchants’ online and in-store inventories, has raised $25 million in a Series C round of funding. Founded in 2014, London-based Dropit counts retail brands including L’Occitane, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Estee Lauder as customers, in addition to shopping malls. At its core, Dropit…

‘Wendell & Wild’s Kat Elliot is a badass protagonist in her own coming-of-rage story

In the stop-motion horror-comedy Wendell and Wild, Henry Selick and Jordan Peele join forces to create a Hellmaiden protagonist that coming-of-age films will be working overtime to compete with. Way too often the entertainment industry force feeds us young girls who overcome hardships by choosing sensibility over sensitivity (I’m talking to you, Pocahontas and The…

Bethenny Frankel: I went from a ‘Real Housewife’ to a credible businesswoman. It took me a while to realize my success wasn’t a fluke.

Bethenny Frankel. Courtesy of Celeste Sloman Bethenny Frankel’s TikToks have become her new bread and butter, garnering 1 million followers. She says her TikTok and podcasts are her main passions right now. Frankel explains why she feels her videos resonate and what she’s learned along the way. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation…

I’m a 23-year-old nanny for a wealthy family in Nantucket. I get to fly on private jets and document my daily adventures on TikTok.

Evellyn Singleton and Jacob in Nantucket. Courtesy of Evellyn Singleton Evellyn Singleton, 23, began working as a nanny for an affluent, Nashville-based family last fall. She watched their son, Jacob, during their vacation in Nantucket and posted about it on TikTok. Now she gets recognized on the street and kids brands are seeking endorsement deals. This…