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☆ Trump laughed at coverage of Pence refusing to eat alone with women who weren't his wife, according to new book: 'Now they're attacking Mike for being faithful to his wife!'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former Vice President Mike Pence had a rule to never dine alone with a woman who wasn't his wife. Trump thought it was funny and ironic, Pence writes in his new book. Numerous commentary followed, much of it accusing Mike Pence of disadvantaging women's careers. Mike Pence wrote that Trump "saw the irony" of the coverage about the "Pence Rule." In response to the reports, Pence writes, Trump often quipped that his vice president was "way ahead of his time!"

The crypto giant FTX and its affiliated companies have started the process of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with founder Sam Bankman-Fried stepping down as CEO. Bankman-Fried sent out a series of tweets on Friday stating his hope that FTX would be able to continue as a going concern following its bankruptcy. Media outlets have reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department are now investigating FTX. In the days following the report, rival crypto exchange Binance announced it was liquidating its FTT holdings. Unable to find an out, FTX announced its bankruptcy filing Friday morning.

☆ I'm one of 11,000 people Meta just laid off. It was an incredibly emotional experience, but I felt Mark Zuckerberg handled it with humanity.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to lay off 13% of the company's workforce. This felt different than other layoffs I'd been throughMark announced the layoffs in a memo this morning on our internal employee page. Everyone felt like it felt like the last day; people said it was very depressing. At Meta, I felt like it was done really delicately and intentionally, with humanity intact and with respect for everyone. We hired some really great positions, and to just get fired as soon as things don't work out is pretty emotional, you know?

☆ A supercar broker for celebrities like Elton John and Nicolas Cage shares what his job is like: 'I've bought cars in saunas, in swimming pools, and on airplanes'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Mark Ellwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Tom Hartley buys and sells classic cars at his private estate and showroom in northern England. "I've bought cars in saunas, in swimming pools, on airplanes — you can't name where I haven't bought a car," he said. Courtesy of Tom HartleyHartley said he gets about five customers a day and takes visitors by appointment only. Courtesy of Tom HartleyDespite being around expensive cars 24/7, he's never owned one himself. "I always say when you walk on the Hartley estate, everything has a price, except my wife."

☆ Democratic state Rep. Summer Lee faces off against Republican Mike Doyle in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District election
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Democrat Summer Lee is running against Republican Mike Doyle in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District. Democratic Pennsylvania Rep. Summer Lee faces off against Republican Mike Doyle in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District. Prior to entering public office, the progressive firebrand worked as an attorney and labor organizer, also leading voter mobilization efforts for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. The Republican Doyle told a local news station that he would support a federal abortion ban that includes exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. Voting history for Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional DistrictPennsylvania's 12th Congressional District includes the heavily Democratic city of Pittsburgh and covers western Westmoreland County.

☆ The Trump Organization got an unwanted sidekick courtesy of a Manhattan judge: a court-ordered watchdog
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Donald Trump and the Trump Organization suffered a big legal setback in Manhattan on Thursday. In arguments before the judge hours before the ruling, Trump attorney Christopher Kise called the idea of monitoring "drastic" and likened it to "nationalizing" the company. In Thursday's 11-page ruling, Engoron credited the attorney general's lawsuit with having made a "compelling" case for fraud. In one, Engoron cited Trump's triplex penthouse at Trump Tower on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Trump claimed on 2011 financial documents that the triplex was worth $80 million, the judge noted, referring to the attorney general's evidence.

Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the automobile awards "Das Goldene Lenkrad" (The golden steering wheel) given by a German newspaper in Berlin, Germany, November 12, 2019. Days after closing his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk faced pressure from heads of civil rights groups to disallow many users who had been banned from the platform from returning, and to give company staffers access to the tools necessary to combat election-related misinformation. Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, helped organize the call after speaking with Musk previously, and took part in the meeting, according to three of the attendees. After the call with civil rights groups, Musk tweeted that users who've been banned from Twitter for violating its rules — a group that includes former President Donald Trump — will not have the chance to return to the platform for at least another few weeks. Prior reports suggested Musk was planning to allow people who'd been kicked off Twitter for disciplinary reasons to come back.

☆ Oz warned suburbanites that fentanyl has turned Pennsylvania into a border state. The applause line fell flat with a Philadelphian who said drugs like crack are still wreaking havoc.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mehmet Oz campaigned on Tuesday in the Philadelphia suburbs where he spoke about fentanyl. The GOP talking point hit home with one rally-goer but fell flat with another who said there were other drugs plaguing the inner city. "I know fentanyl is like the big thing on the list, but there's a lot of drugs in the inner community. The Bensalem resident told Insider she moved away from Philadelphia because of all the issues Oz laid out. "I just think the drugs are out of control," Terry said, adding, "I used to work in the city.

☆ 88% of employers are offering return-to-office incentives―here's how to negotiate yours
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The majority of employers, 66%, currently require employees to work from the office, according to a September 2022 ResumeBuilder.com survey of 1,000 American business leaders. When it comes to convincing those who'd still prefer remote work to coming back, most employers are trying to make it worth their while. A majority of companies, 88%, are currently offering incentives like catered meals and commuter benefits to get workers to return, according to ResumeBuilder.com. That being the case, can workers whose companies are asking them to come back take this as an opportunity to negotiate their arrangement? Experts say it's a good time to negotiate your work arrangement if coming back to the office will impact your productivity.

☆ At Pixar, Steve Jobs hired a director who'd 'just made a big flop'—the result was an Oscar-winning success
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Fresh off the career-threatening flop, Bird was hired by Jobs and Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull to write and direct a movie called "The Incredibles." "They were feeling like, 'We're in danger of falling into certain habits because we have the same group that are doing things ... but we want to shake things up.'" Jobs and Catmull told Bird they hired him because "The Iron Giant" showed a determination to find new ways to tell stories, Bird recalled. "I want people who are disgruntled because they have a better way of doing things and they're having trouble finding an avenue," Bird said. If you're doing it right, you are kind of an underdog," Bird said.

☆ The Trump Org trial is suddenly derailed after DA's coughing witness tests positive for COVID-19
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Laura Italiano | Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Prosecutors' 1st witness in the Trump Organization tax fraud trial has tested positive for COVID-19. The trial was adjourned to Monday after Jeffrey McConney, the company's controller, fell ill.McConney had coughed throughout his testimony Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning. "It comes and goes," McConney, the trial's very first witness, apologized repeatedly as he sat unmasked in the witness stand and coughed throughout two days of testimony. The jury in the high-profile trial was brought into the courtroom and told by the judge that "someone in the well" had tested positive. Prosecutors allege that the Trump Organization ran a 15-year scheme to trick tax authorites by giving top executives significant compensation in the form of untaxed "perks" like luxury cars and rent-free Trump-branded apartments.

☆ 'Emily in Paris' actor Ashley Park's career advice: 'You're allowed to dream big'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The award-winning "Emily in Paris" actor grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, always a performer ― dance, a-cappella, musical theater. It's an attitude she's taken with her even as she's entered a field in which rejection can be a daily routine. She received a Critics' Choice Award nomination for her performance as Mindy Chen on "Emily in Paris" in 2021, too. 'You're allowed to dream big'Park says she never thought she'd have the opportunities she's gotten. That made a huge difference in her day-to-day happiness, especially in a career typically filled with constant rejection.

☆ After leading $20 billion Figma deal, Adobe's David Wadhwani is in prime spot to be next CEO
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +15 min

The business Wadhwani oversees is roughly three times the size as Chakravarthy's in terms of revenue. For Wadhwani, Figma represents a risky bet on growth at a time when Wall Street is telling tech companies to tighten their belts and preserve cash. The make-or-break betIn his 15-year tenure as CEO, Narayen hasn't been shy about dealmaking, just at a smaller size. And it might be Wadhwani's make-or-break opportunity to prove he should be CEO of the fourth-biggest U.S. business software company by market cap. Shantanu Narayen, CEO, Adobe Mark Neuling | CNBCThe revenue became more predictable and less closely associated with product releases.

If election deniers in those races win, their ability to affect future elections could be made more robust by having cooperative election deniers in their state houses to help push legislation remaking certain election laws in those states. The group’s analysis found that election deniers were most prevalent in Arizona state legislative races, where they made up 87% of all Republican nominees in those races. In both Pennsylvania and Michigan, 62% of all Republican state legislative nominees in each state were election deniers, the group found. In Minnesota, 42% of all Republican nominees in state legislative races were election deniers, while in Nevada, 31% were. That included several incumbents and candidates in Minnesota who'd who had questioned or challenged the results of the 2020 election.

☆ Inside Elon Musk's first day as leader of Twitter: Cancelled meetings, fake layoffs, orders to print out code, and a team of Musk advisers camped out in a separate part of the company's HQ.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Twitter employees predicted chaos after Elon Musk took over the company. Musk entered Twitter's San Francisco HQ carrying a bathroom sink, a joke about his ownership "sinking in." Meanwhile, engineers from Tesla were in Twitter's San Francisco office, some meeting individually with Twitter engineers, asking them about their work and some technical aspects of the platform. Musk worked on Friday at Twitter's San Francisco HQ with a small team he brought in to assist him in taking over the operations, people familiar with the matter said. Later in the day, he said "comedy is now legal on Twitter" and then separately tweeted an apparent joke about the two men who faked being laid off Twitter engineers.

☆ Here are the best ways to convince your boss to let you work from home forever
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Shana Lebowitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

For the past two years, remote work has been in a state of will they or won't they. We asked Greenberg and other career experts about the best ways to convince your boss to let you work remotely. Make a strong business caseConvincing your boss to let you work remotely is like convincing them of anything else. "Oftentimes you're more productive and effective when you're working remotely because you're better able to focus," Reynolds said. Pitch remote work as an experimentLet your boss know you're willing to reevaluate and adjust your work circumstances as necessary.

☆ I'm a Twitter employee. Here's what it's like at the company a day before Musk's purchase deadline.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Tekendra Parmar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk is likely to acquire Twitter on Friday, six months after first offering to buy it. One employee described trying to work out who'd be at risk if major layoffs were to happen. Elon Musk is obsessed with puns. I'd be more worried if Musk decides to wipe out teams indiscriminately because then it's just a roll of the dice. I'm still cautiously optimistic about Elon Musk taking over the company, but it's all contingent on how indiscriminate he is if and when he lays off 75% of the staff.

☆ A 27-year-old real estate investor who owns 9 properties in Alabama says you shouldn't sleep on the Birmingham market. He shares his top reasons why it's a great investment opportunity.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Real estate investor Stephen Yin says that Birmingham is an overlooked market. He admits to "kind of falling into real estate by accident," he told Insider. One of his friends from home reached out and asked if he'd ever considered investing in real estate. After doing some research, "I realized that Birmingham has one of the best real estate markets in the nation, from a returns perspective as well as from a barrier-to-entry perspective," he said. "I could still make money, but I can't make money in the way I want to make money."

☆ Overwhelming workloads, back-to-office complaints, and frustrations over pay: Why Merrill Lynch's support staff is leaving
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Rebecca Ungarino | Hayley Cuccinello | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Less visible, though just as much the lifeblood of the firm, are Merrill's client associates. But we're not treated that way, and we're not stupid," an associate who recently left the firm said. "Our client associates are essential to the fabric of the firm, how we serve clients and grow," a company representative said. Yagyaev said client associates were "grossly underpaid" across the industry and their base should really be in the area of $80,000 to $90,000. An advisor who recently left Merrill and worked with CAs said some were leaving for raises of about $30,000 to work at other banks.

☆ Former Amazon managers who became successful founders say metrics and frugality aren't great for startups but customer obsession is
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Madeline Renbarger | Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Five founders shared the aspects of Amazon's company culture they brought with them, or left behind. As Insider has previously reported, some Amazon employees have described the culture as hypercompetitive and overly frugal, which can lead to burnout. Yes to customer obsessionAll five founders praised Amazon's top leadership principle, established by its founder, Jeff Bezos: customer obsession. Those are metrics Amazon also follows closely. Some Amazon employees have dubbed this phenom "frupidity," a combination of the words "stupidity" and "frugality."

Other omicron subvariants that have piqued the interest — and concerns — of scientists read like a viral alphabet soup: BQ.1, BQ.1.1, BF.7. Ever since the omicron variant emerged, it's been omicron all the way down, with omicron subvariants splitting off into their own subvariants. Barouch's study was small, including just 35 people who'd had either the Covid vaccine or an omicron infection. Most, regardless of prior infection, had at least three doses of Covid vaccine. The World Health Organization is tracking more than 300 omicron subvariants worldwide, Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said during a media briefing Wednesday.

"Look we all love Emmanuel the Emu but he has avian flu. Avian flu experts, too, said touching an infected emu isn't advisable, given that the virus can jump from animals to humans in rare cases. H5N1, the bird flu strain currently spreading, is highly contagious among birds, and it can be deadly to them. "Once an avian virus can move to mammals, now we’re in the realm of 'Yeah, we better be careful.'" All three experts said scientists are watching this bird flu closely even though the risk to humans is low.

☆ Miami Mayor Francis Suarez says he's considering a run for president in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said he would consider running for president in 2024. "It's something that I would consider given the right circumstances and given the right mood of the country," he said. "It's something that I would consider given the right circumstances and given the right mood of the country," Suarez said Monday at a Punchbowl News event. Suarez has been getting national attention given the surge of people and tech companies moving to Florida, particularly to Miami. When asked about how he might stand out in a presidential race, he pointed to his age difference from some of the other potential condenders.

☆ Meet the 25-year-old founder hitting $1 million in annual sales from web development services and passive income
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Website templates generate passive income and allow her to expand her services further. Use passive income as a foundation for your businessLuna sells web templates and builds customized sites for her clients. "I saw just how much potential I had to be creative, make passive income, and create absolute financial freedom," she said. Passive income supports much of her business, giving Luna the opportunity to branch out to more time-intensive services, like one-on-one web design. Similar to the web templates, Luna only has to create each course one time, but can continually sell it to new aspiring designers.

☆ I’ve been following a woman around the internet. Turns out she was created by artificial intelligence.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Evan Ratliff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +31 min

Even in their first efforts, the GAN images were quickly on par with those made by any other, less intelligent software. You can find the results on the Generated Photos site, where you can filter by ethnicity, age, sex, eye color, and other attributes. Generated Photos' GANs tend to match conventional beauty standards, a product of the models that have been fed to the software. I'm not sure anyone would be surprised to find fake images accompanying testimonials on an Estonian bitcoin exchange or an online CBD seller. Are they real people deploying fake images, or fake people deploying fake images?

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