This Italian town is struggling to sell off its empty homes for one euro. Here’s why

Italy’s one-euro-home sales have been attracting a lot of interest over the past few years, with dozens opting to snap up abandoned properties in some of the country’s depopulated towns. But while towns like Mussomeli in Sicily and Zungoli in Campania have managed to offload various abandoned dwellings to foreigners longing to live the Italian … Read more

Europe Is Struggling to Coexist With Wild Bears

It was around 5 pm on March 15, and the light was fading fast, when Constantin and Tatiana were attacked by the bear. The young couple, aged 29 and 31 and identified in local media reports only by their first names, were Belarusians living in Poland. But Constantin had been working for the winter as … Read more

Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal

MariaDB is the subject of another potential takeover bid, as the company behind the eponymous open source relational database management system (RDBMS) confirmed it had received a provisional offer from California-based K1 Investment Management. K1 quietly revealed on Friday that it had tabled what is known as an “unsolicited non-binding indicative proposal” for MariaDB, which … Read more

Ukraine’s tactical switch could make it even harder for an already struggling Russia to make any progress in the war

Ukraine is investing millions in new defensive fortifications. That will make it even harder for Russia to get any victories, an expert told Business Insider. Attacking has been harder than defending in this war, so Ukraine has a new advantage. A tactical shift by Ukraine will likely make it even harder for Russia to gain … Read more

Students at California school struggling after $250K in federal funds spent on ‘Woke Kindergarten’ program

Students at a San Francisco Bay-area elementary school — where officials hired a for-profit company called “Woke Kindergarten” to train teachers — are continuing to struggle with some of the lowest math and reading scores in the state, according to a report. The school spent $250,000 in federal funds provided by a program meant to … Read more

Europe’s farmers are struggling, but some sympathetic consumers have difficulty affording their food

BOUSSY-SAINT-ANTOINE, France — Truck driver Jeremy Donf understands French farmers are struggling and he wants to support local food producers. But like many consumers, buying French produced food isn’t always an option. Farmer protests across Europe this week have highlighted how farmers and households are both hurting these days because of multiple factors, including persistent … Read more

Ron DeSantis ends his struggling presidential bid before New Hampshire and endorses Donald Trump

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended his Republican presidential campaign Sunday just before the New Hampshire primary and endorsed Donald Trump, ending a White House bid that failed to meet expectations that he would emerge as a serious challenger to the former president. “It’s clear to me that a majority of Republican … Read more

Private equity could be the last resort for startups struggling to exit

After watching Lucy pull the football from Charlie Brown’s foot at the last possible moment time and time again, we have learned our lesson and are therefore hesitant to believe that 2024 will be the year of the IPO market’s return. It may or may not happen, but we’re not betting on it. Alternative sources … Read more

NeNe Leakes Says Kim Zolciak Struggling With Divorce, Wishes Her Happiness

Play video content TMZ.com Despite their differences over the years, NeNe Leakes is letting her former ‘RHOA’ costar Kim Zolciak know she’s got a friend in her — especially during her divorce. We got NeNe at LAX this week … and she revealed to us that she and Kim ran into each other not that … Read more

EV startup Fisker struggling to meet internal sales goals, documents show

Fisker remains far from meeting CEO and founder Henrik Fisker’s publicly stated goal of delivering 300 electric SUVs per day globally, according to internal documents viewed by TechCrunch. The EV startup spent much of December aiming to meet an internal sales goal of between 100 and 200 vehicles a day in North America, where the … Read more