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☆ Huawei's new phone uses more China-made parts, memory chip
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Huawei's latest high-end phone features more Chinese suppliers, including a new flash memory storage chip and an improved chip processor, a teardown analysis showed, pointing to the progress China is making towards technology self-sufficiency. Huawei's latest high-end phone features more Chinese suppliers, including a new flash memory storage chip and an improved chip processor, a teardown analysis showed, pointing to the progress China is making towards technology self-sufficiency. Online tech repair company iFixit and consultancy TechSearch International examined the inside of Huawei Technologies' Pura 70 Pro for Reuters, finding a NAND memory chip they said was likely packaged by the Chinese telecoms equipment maker's in-house chip unit HiSilicon and several other components made by Chinese suppliers. Huawei's resurgence in the high-end smartphone market after four years of U.S. sanctions is being widely watched by both rivals and U.S. politicians as it has become a symbol of growing U.S.-China trade frictions and China's bid for technology self-sufficiency. Huawei launched the Pura 70's four smartphone models in late April and the series quickly sold out.

Persons: Huawei's, Shahram Mokhtari, Mokhtari Organizations: TechSearch International, Huawei Technologies, Pura, Pro, Reuters, Huawei, Kirin, Apple Locations: China, U.S, Washington

☆ HD Hyundai Marine Solution doubles in South Korea's largest IPO since January 2022
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Lim Hui Jie | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Employees of HD Hyundai Marine Solution Co., during the company's listing ceremony at the Korea Exchange in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Shares of maintenance and repair firm HD Hyundai Marine Solution spiked nearly 50% in their trading debut Wednesday, marking a strong start to South Korea's largest IPO since January 2022. Shares traded as high as 166,100 South Korean won ($121.59) apiece, representing a 99.1% surge from the IPO price of 83,400 won. The ship-repair unit of South Korea's largest shipping conglomerate HD Hyundai Group sold 8.9 million shares in the initial public offering. The IPO totaled 742.26 billion won, valuing the newly public unit around 3.71 trillion won at the offering price.

Organizations: Korea Exchange, Hyundai, South Korean, Street, KKR Locations: Korea, Seoul, South Korea, South

☆ The Titanic may play a role in who pays for the Baltimore bridge collapse. Here’s why
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

New York CNN —The massive cargo ship crash that destroyed the Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday will probably cost various shipping companies and insurers billions of dollars in damages. “Maritime law is steeped in antiquity. Maritime law is rooted in the need to settle disputes and enforce rules between different peoples, even before there was the concept of countries with definitive laws. That rule, known as general average, is still a guiding principle of maritime law. “it’s just a fundamental part of the way that the shipping business works,” said Martin Davies, director of the Maritime Law Center at Tulane University.

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Customers look at appliances for sale at a Best Buy store in Miami, Florida, Oct. 8, 2021. However, the machine broke for the same reason again a few months later, and then again shortly after that. After the mechanic's third visit, Rathner said he told her, "You need to stop calling me and just buy a new dryer. watch nowHomeowners spend about 34% more on appliances than they did 15 years ago, "above and beyond inflation," Tomalak said. "Homeowners are purchasing appliances with more bells and whistles, but which become obsolete sooner and have more aspects to repair versus appliances years ago," he said.

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☆ How to have a safe treadmill workout and avoid injury
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Melanie Radzicki Mcmanus | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

A nurse practitioner at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, he and a colleague did a study on treadmill burns in children who were treated at the hospital. The 2017 study, published in the Journal of Burn Care & Research, found treadmill burns were more severe than burns from touching a hot stovetop. “What struck us most was that these treadmill burns were very deep and hard to heal,” Noffsinger said. Top treadmill safety measuresFortunately, it’s relatively easy to use a treadmill safely, experts said. “You should never have a child in the same room as an operating treadmill,” Stevenson said.

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☆ Inflation has created a dark cloud over how everyday Americans view the economy
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-25 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

There's rising hope that monetary policymakers have successfully cooled inflation without tipping the economy into a recession. Yet closely watched survey data from the University of Michigan shows consumer sentiment, while improving, is a far cry from pre-pandemic levels. Inflation vs. the job marketContinued strength in the labor market is something economists expected to sweeten everyday Americans' views of the economy. While the Michigan index compiles questions focused on financial conditions and purchasing power, the Conference Board's more closely gauges one's feelings about the job market. A hot job market can be a double-edged sword for sentiment, Michigan's Hsu noted.

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☆ Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Pioneer Natural Resources, MGM Resorts, Levi Strauss and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Levi Strauss — Shares slid 0.8% after the denim apparel maker cut its full-year sales forecast. Late Thursday, Levi posted fiscal third-quarter revenue that missed expectations, and it cut its full-year sales guidance again. MGM Resorts — The resort and casino operator rose 4.9% after offering an update on a cybersecurity issue experienced last month. Liberty Media Formula One — Shares of the motorsports stock advanced 3.6% following an upgrade to buy from neutral by Citi. Frontdoor — The home repair company's shares climbed 4.4% on the back of a Truist upgrade to buy from hold.

Persons: Tesla, Levi Strauss —, Levi, Aehr, FactSet, Truist, — CNBC's Pia Singh, Yun Li, Michelle Fox, Samantha Subin Organizations: Resources, Street Journal, Exxon Mobil, Exxon, stoke, MGM Resorts, MGM, CNBC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Philips —, U.S . Food, Drug Administration, Philips, FDA, Pharmaceuticals, JPMorgan, Jefferies, Liberty Media, Citi, Las Vegas, UBS, AES Locations: Virginia, U.S

While you can repair your credit on your own, many people find the process of repairing credit overwhelming and want to enlist help from a credit repair company. Beguin explains that "a credit sweep is an attempt to remove all negative accounts from your credit report, thereby 'sweeping' your credit report clean." How to choose a credit repair companyWhile you don't need to hire a credit repair company to fix your credit for you, it's important to know how to choose correctly if you decide against a DIY approach. Credit repair cost frequently asked questionsIs it worth paying for credit repair? Paying for credit repair is only worth it if there are significant errors on your credit report that need rectifying.

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☆ Free weekly credit reports are now permanent, providing an important tool to manage your financial life
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Paul Kim | Richard Richtmyer | Associate Editor At Personal Finance Insider | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Before COVID-19, consumers were only allowed one free credit report annually from each of the major credit bureaus. Here's why permanent weekly free credit reports are so important, and how you can access them. Why are free credit reports important? Free weekly access to credit reports allowed consumers to keep track of their finances as COVID-19 roiled the economy. How to request free weekly credit reportsCredit reports can be accessed through annualcreditreport.com or over the phone at 877-322-8228.

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4, he’s missing, he’s up there. Jagger told The Los Angeles Times in October 2021 that “Hackney Diamonds” would have been finished long ago if not for the coronavirus pandemic. Last month, the Stones teased the album via an advertisement for a fake glass repair company, called Hackney Diamonds, that appeared in a London newspaper. The ad’s text referred to several of the band’s well-known songs: “Our friendly team promises you satisfaction. That was “typical Stones’s fakery,” Norman said, because the band had no previous association with Hackney.

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☆ A how-to repair company wants to fix one of summer's biggest problems: McDonald's broken ice cream machines
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

McDonald's ice cream machines are so prone to breakdowns that they've spawned thousands of memes. Now, iFixit, a how-to repair company, wants a copyright exemption to repair them. McDonald's ice cream machines have a history of breaking down. This isn't the first time an outside group has tried to fix McDonald's ice cream machines. Startup Kytch introduced a device in 2019 to help franchise owners troubleshoot their ice cream machines so they could repair them.

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In 2023, Roblero found more clients and started making money from car detailing videos posted on his YouTube channel. But he kept thinking about starting a car detailing business, inspired by the effort he put into maintaining his own vehicle. But by then, he was earning enough to leave his 9-to-5 and focus on the car detailing business full-time. In January 2023, he started a YouTube channel, where he shares weekly behind-the-scenes videos of his car detailing process. But in September 2020, just three months after he started the company, Roblero's father collapsed from cardiac arrest.

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Here's what you need to know about the impact of collections and how to get them removed from your credit report. As it ages on your credit report, its effect on your credit score will decrease until it falls off entirely. There are a few different — and completely legal — ways you can try to remove it from your credit report to fix your credit score. While paying off a debt in collections will not improve your credit or remove the collections from your credit report, a collections agency can sue you for unpaid debt if it's still within the statute of limitations. A CFPB report on credit reports in 2022 found 175 million total collections tradelines on credit reports, down from 261 million when the report was last updated in 2018.

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☆ To my son, born in the climate crisis: I see signs of hope
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Bill Weir | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

The first looked at the twin crises of Covid and climate change as River was born; the second introduced him to Earth Day and what he could do. Watch Weir investigate “How to Unscrew a Planet,” on CNN’s “The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper,” Sunday at 8 p.m. Energy from clean sources, like this windmill in Texas, is heating and cooling more homes in America than ever before. “We call it climate intervention,” Kelly Wanser told me as we sat under bluebird skies and the Washington Monument. So far, it feels like your future will be marked in new stories to frame our wants and needs, and new tools to build Life As We Know It Could Be.

☆ I talked to 70 parents who raised highly accomplished adults—here are 5 signs your kid will be successful
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Margot Machol Bisnow | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

For my book, "Raising an Entrepreneur," I talked to 70 parents who raised highly successful kids. We fail, we try and try again, we fail, we try and try and try," he told me. We want kids to explore things in ways that are most meaningful to them, rather than having them trying to please us. Robert Stephens is a perfect example of someone who turned a childhood passion into entrepreneurial success: The boy who loved to fix things started a company that fixes things. Stephens' parents consistently supported his passion and trusted him to make his own choices, and he learned to believe in his own abilities.

☆ From battery health to tax credits, there's a lot to consider when buying a used electric car. Here's how to shop smart.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Tim Levin | Nora Naughton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Driving habits can also impact which type of used EV you should shop for. Aside from wondering which car to buy, used EV shoppers might be wondering if their (used) battery can die. The good news is that an EV's battery is unlikely to fail completely or render the car useless. The used EV tax credit is your friendAt the start of the year, a new used electric vehicle tax credit went into effect as part of a larger EV incentive program in the Inflation Reduction Act. Vehicles that qualify for the used EV tax credit must have a sale price of $25,000 or less and must be at least two model-years old.

Dovly Uplift provides credit monitoring and monthly TransUnion credit reports and credit scores. Visa offers free credit repair for cardholders through Dovly UpliftOn Tuesday, smart credit repair company Dovly announced an agreement with Visa. The agreement will provide Visa cardholders with Uplift, a smart credit repair service created by Dovly for Visa cardholders, free of charge. In broad strokes, credit monitoring describes the process of checking your credit reports consistently to see if there are any errors or inaccuracies on your credit reports. While consumers can currently see their credit reports every week through the end of 2023, when that period ends, the Fair Credit Reporting Act only affords consumers three credit reports each year.

☆ In Atlanta, Seeking a House With Ample Space Indoors and Out. Which Option Did He Choose?
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Tariro Mzezewa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

When AJ Dewberry began his search for a new home in Atlanta, he knew what he wanted more than anything else was ample outdoor space. “Griffin is the country,” said Mr. Dewberry, 29, the founder and owner of Level 10 Repairs, a popular mobile-phone repair company in Atlanta. Email: thehunt@nytimes.com]A year later, with bank approval for a $680,000 loan and a smaller cash gift from his aunt, Mr. Dewberry started looking for land. For $500,000 to $600,000, Mr. Fleury said, a buyer could get a five- or six-bedroom townhouse or condominium. “The thing about Atlanta,” Mr. Fleury said, “is that it’s flexible that way.

☆ EasyJet calls on over-45s to fill cabin crew vacancies
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] An Easyjet aircraft approaches Josep Tarradellas Barcelona - El Prat airport the day before a cabin crew strike, while it passes next to a Stop traffic sign, near Barcelona, Spain, June 30, 2022. The UK-based airline said it was encouraging adults aged 45 and over to train as cabin crew, building on the 27% rise it has already seen in that age group for crew since 2018. EasyJet said a crew recruitment programme some months ago had over 18,000 applications for about 2,000 roles, but it was still looking for more workers. The cabin crew role would be ideal for people whose children have left home, who have customer service skills and are looking for a new challenge, said the airline. "This campaign is about challenging stereotypes about the job and showing that being cabin crew can be a job for anyone with the right skills, no matter what their age," easyJet's director of cabin services Michael Brown said in an email.

☆ I talked to 70 parents who raised highly successful adults—here's the 'rare' skill they all taught their kids
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Margot Machol Bisnow | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

For my book, "Raising an Entrepreneur," I talked to 70 parents who raised highly successful people. When I asked them what skills they taught their kids at an early age, there was one in particular that they all agreed on: curiosity. As parents, we all want to raise confident, fearless and resilient kids. They encouraged their kids to fix things. Robert's curiosity for how things worked started when he was a young boy, when he unscrewed all the doorknobs in his parents' house.

☆ I talked to 70 parents of highly successful adults—here are 5 phrases they always said to their kids
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-10 | by ( Margot Machol Bisnow | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The things that parents say to their kids can either encourage and give them confidence, or lower their self-esteem and hold them back in life. As I researched and wrote my book, "Raising an Entrepreneur," I talked to 70 parents who raised highly successful adults about how they helped their kids achieve their dreams. These parents were the opposite of "helicopter" parents (a.k.a. “My parents weren’t angry, they just told me I had to put them all back," he said. We fail, we try and try again, we fail, we try and try and try."

If you’re struggling with bad credit, you may stumble upon credit repair companies that boast the ability to clean up your credit report. Credit repair services aren’t free, but you won’t incur a fee until services are delivered. Fees are charged in one of two ways: monthly or per item removed from your credit report. What to watch out for with credit repair companiesCredit repair services aren’t always reliable or truthful. If you opt to use a credit repair company, you’re protected under the Credit Repair Organizations Act (CROA), which regulates how these companies can operate.

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