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David Crowther7/21/25

Traffic to the Astronomer company’s website jumped more than 15,000% after the viral Coldplay clip

Well, that’s one way to drive some traffic to your software company’s website.

After a clip from the Coldplay concert in Boston went viral, traffic to “astronomer.io” — the website of the SAAS enterprise run by (now former) CEO Andy Byron — exploded in true viral style. According to data from Similarweb, daily visits clocked in at more than 1.4 million on July 17.

That’s roughly 150x the typical traffic that the website was getting on a daily basis, with average daily page visits clocking in at just over 9,000 from June 21 to July 16, Similarweb data shows.

But the deluge of visitors were probably disappointed upon their arrival, with the company’s main product significantly less entertaining than its CEO’s antics. Per the company’s website, its product “empowers your team to build, run, and observe data pipelines that just work, all from one place.”

Surely, out of the millions of people looking the company up, there is someone who thought: wait, my company does actually need something just like this.

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OPEC and others are boosting oil production as the race to catch up with the US goes on

This month’s 137,000-barrel-a-day boost is a little more modest than some expected.

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China, the world’s largest carbon polluter, has pledged to cut emissions for the first time

President Xi Jinping has announced that China is aiming to slash carbon emissions by up to 10% in the next decade.

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Claire Yubin Oh9/19/25

John Wayne Airport in Orange County tops the list of North America’s favorite airports

Despite a record year of passenger numbers, flight cancellations, and delays, a new survey has revealed that flyers have been increasingly satisfied about their experiences in North American airports.

According to this year’s North America Airport Satisfaction Study from data analysts at J.D. Power, overall passenger satisfaction scores were up 10 points (on a 1,000-point scale), largely from “improvements in food, beverage and retail and ease of travel through the airport.” The annual survey measures overall traveler satisfaction across the region’s airports in seven categories (in order of importance): ease of travel, level of trust, terminal facilities, airport staff, airport departure experience, food and retail, and airport arrival experience.

Here are the region’s favorites:

More than 40% of American adults now report being online “almost constantly”

While a new survey showed Japan has the greatest share of perpetually online people, there was a significant number reporting not using the internet at all.

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The Red Lion historic thatched village pub, Avebury, Wiltshire, England, UK

Britain is on track to shed more than one pub a day this year

Rising costs and lower spending are hitting the UK’s drinking establishments.

Tom Jones9/4/25

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