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☆ Trump has been privately grumbling about Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, who has made appearances with Ron DeSantis while publicly remaining neutral in the GOP presidential primary, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

He believes Reynolds should back his 2024 bid after he endorsed her past campaigns, according to the report. Reynolds is remaining neutral in the GOP presidential primary but has appeared alongside DeSantis. Kim Reynolds recently, with the ex-commander-in-chief holding the belief that she should endorse his 2024 presidential bid after he backed her successful 2018 gubernatorial candidacy, according to The New York Times. Reynolds — who is in high demand amongst Republican presidential candidates and has committed to remaining neutral throughout the primary process — has had several prominent appearances with Florida Gov. Reynolds ascended to the Governor's office in May 2017 after Trump tapped then-Iowa Gov.

Persons: Trump, Kim Reynolds, Reynolds, DeSantis, Donald Trump, —, Ron DeSantis, — didn't, Terry Branstad Organizations: Iowa Gov, The New York Times, Service, Iowa Republican Gov, Republican, Florida Gov, GOP, Times, Trump, White House Locations: Wall, Silicon, Iowa, China

☆ This 100-year-old woman has been working at the same craft store for 26 years—why she's never retiring
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

When Jayne Burns turned 100 last summer, she told her friends that she had one wish: "to keep working." Jayne Burns and some of her co-workers at her 100th birthday party last summerBurns — who turns 101 on July 26 — didn't plan on working past 100. Burns began working at the craft store in 1997, a few months after her husband, Dick, died. Ultimately, there's no secret to living a longer, happier life, says Burns, but "working has helped." DON'T MISS: Want to be smarter and more successful with your money, work & life?

Persons: She's, Joann, it's, Jayne Burns, Burns —, Burns, Dick, Donna Burns, Donna, there's, — here's, — Organizations: Crafts Locations: Mason , Ohio, Cincinnati

Silicon Valley is bracing for what it fears will be an "extinction event" threatening the survival of hundreds of startups. Tom Loverro, a investor at 40-year-old Bay Area venture capital firm IVP, has been loudly warning for months on Twitter and in media interviews about a coming "mass extinction event" for startups. The total volume of venture capital investment into US startups has slumped for six consecutive quarters, according to data firm Pitchbook. Even a last-ditch slashing of the startup's prospective valuation — a "down-round," in Silicon Valley parlance — didn't whet investors' appetites. Over the past year, many startups that rely on Silicon Valley funding have been steeling themselves for the slowdown to avoid similar fates.

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☆ The new judge in the Disney-DeSantis lawsuit is a Trump-appointee who gave the governor a win in his 'Don't Say Gay' law
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Rebecca Harrington | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Allen Winsor, 46, has been a US District Judge in the Northern District of Florida since 2019. Before he became a US district judge, Winsor was a judge in Florida's First District Court of Appeal from 2016-2019. Winsor previously dismissed a lawsuit challenging the 'Don't Say Gay' billIn February 2023, Winsor issued a 21-page ruling dismissing a lawsuit challenging Florida's Parental Rights in Education Act, which opponents called the "Don't Say Gay" bill. In the hour-and-a-half-long conversation, four state solicitors general discussed various federal laws and lawsuits that they felt impeded states' rights. "He does not possess the neutrality and fair-mindedness necessary to serve in a lifetime position as a federal judge."

Persons: Allen Winsor, He's, Ron DeSantis, Winsor, —, Mark Walker, Insider's Kimberly Leonard, Donald Trump, Sen, Joe Manchin, — didn't, Trump, Mr, Pam Bondi's Organizations: Northern District of, Walt Disney Parks, Resorts, Gov, Service, Walt Disney Co, Disney, US Senate, Florida's, Auburn University, University of Florida, Plaintiffs, Federalist Society, Committee, Walt Disney World, Conference, Civil, Human Rights, Associated Press Locations: Northern District, Northern District of Florida, Florida, West Virginia, Orlando, Lake Buena Vista , Florida

☆ 'The Flash' reportedly has a 'secret ending' that Warner Bros. is trying to keep from leaking before it hits theaters
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Nathan Mcalone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

"The Flash" reportedly has a "secret ending" that studio Warner Bros. is trying to keep under wraps. Warner Bros. is trying to "keep the 'secret ending'" of "The Flash" "under wraps" ahead of its June 16 release, Variety's Tatiana Siegel reported Saturday. Now the ending has been settled, but the studio is still trying to keep its contents from leaking to the general public. In showings on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank this week, Siegel reported, the final scene was intact but "key elements" were blurred out. Siegel reported that a script for a sequel has already been written.

Persons: Ezra Miller, Variety's Tatiana Siegel, Miller, Jason Guerrasio, Guerrasio, — didn't, Siegel, Andy Muschietti, wouldn't, Muschietti, Miller's Organizations: Warner Bros, Morning, CinemaCon Locations: CinemaCon, Burbank

☆ Meet a boomer who retired from a 6-figure job so he wouldn't have to work remotely full time
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

He said he didn't have the self-discipline for remote work and likes being around people. He found during those couple of weeks that something that makes remote work appealing to many — the ability to structure time away from the eyes of coworkers — didn't really work for him. Remote work is "just not for me," he said. For many people, remote work has allowed them to flex their autonomy over their working conditions and lives. But for Bond, who worried about self-discipline and a lack of separation between home and work, working in person became his ideal.

☆ Biden calls House Speaker Kevin McCarthy an 'honest man,' but says he 'just about sold away everything' to appease far-right Republican lawmakers
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

President Biden on MSNBC called Speaker McCarthy an "honest man" but said he was constrained by the GOP. "He has to agree to things that maybe he believes but are just extreme," Biden told Stephanie Ruhle. Biden and McCarthy are in the midst of a protracted stalemate over the country's debt limit. Biden and House Republicans are now in a stalemate over the debt limit. However, House Republicans are insistent that Biden work with them to identify substantive cuts, and have so far said they would not back a clean bill.

☆ Chuck Schumer wants to publicly eviscerate Republicans' debt ceiling bill, which he says has 'no hope of ever becoming law'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer pushed back on House Republicans' debt ceiling legislation. Democrats have pointed to the potential economic negative impact that the GOP's plan could have, even if it prevents a technical debt default. But more back and forth over how to raise the debt ceiling means the country is steadily creeping towards an unprecedented economic catastrophe. "As Democrats have been saying for months, the real solution is bipartisan support for a clean bill to increase the debt limit and avoid default," Schumer wrote. "Speaker McCarthy and the MAGA House Republicans have moved the process backwards through their far-right ransom note.

☆ Inside the demise of Vice, from turning away a $3.5 billion Disney offer to a 'painful' downward spiral that has the media giant scrambling for a buyer
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Claire Atkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

The talks fizzled, Disney backed off, and Smith set off for California to drum up other interest in Vice Media. Vice Media Group co-CEOs Bruce Dixon, left, and Hozefa Lokhandwala. Vice Media GroupOne former Vice insider familiar with the current situation told Insider that staffers were warning vendors they needed to threaten to stop work in order to get paid. Just a few months later, Rupert Murdoch tweeted, "Who's heard of Vice Media? Refinery29 quickly lost key staff and was not well integrated into Vice Media, the two former staffers said.

☆ How these 3 sisters grew up to become highly successful CEOs and a doctor: 'It's helpful to realize the world is often wrong'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Believing in yourself has immeasurable value, says Anne Wojcicki. "It's helpful for people to realize the world is often wrong," she tells CNBC Make It. "When you're swimming upstream, it's hard and you're going to have people telling you it's a bad idea or you're not capable," Anne says. Many of those close relationships remain: Anne says she and her two sisters all still "have the same friends from early elementary school." 1 best piece of advice for regular investors, do's and don'ts, and three key investing principles into a clear and simple guidebook.

☆ Here's what every major analyst thought of Tesla's investor day
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Analysts aren't budging on Tesla coming off an investor day that they see as offering little detail on the electric vehicle maker's future plans. Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi, a noted bear on the stock, called the meeting "somewhat disjointed and fairly technical." The investor day came as investors grow increasingly cautious following Musk's chaotic purchase of Twitter and recent price cuts to some Tesla models . Wells Fargo Analyst: Colin Langan Price target: $190, a downside of 6.3% from Wednesday's close Rating: Staying equal weight "It's unclear how long the recent Model3/Y price cuts will sustain demand. There was also no comment on a Model 3/Y refresh or any major update on Tesla Bot or FSD.

☆ Amazon Studios is growing fast and spending big on shows like 'Citadel,' but insiders say unclear creative direction, leadership shifts, and tech bureaucracy threaten to drive away staff and talent
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Lucia Moses | Elaine Low | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

The dust has been settling at Amazon Studios after a big reorg in the fall that solidified Jen Salke's power. Yet Amazon Studios faces major challenges. Amazon Studios' Head of Global Television Vernon Sanders told Insider that the goal is to deliver content with global cultural relevance. Amazon Prime VideoWhile spending on such big swings has soared, some insiders see far less budgetary support for underrepresented casts. "I do think people wonder what's the commitment to Amazon Studios," the current insider said.

☆ How TikTokers are rethinking their content strategies as they jump to YouTube
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Shriya Bhattacharya | Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

It's one several reasons some TikTokers are posting on YouTube for the first time in 2023. Here are three ways TikTokers are repurposing their content to fit YouTube. The shift to YouTube comes as some TikTokers have been frustrated with efforts to monetize their content on the short-video app. And if Shorts grows, the amount creators earn grows too." Here are three ways TikTokers are trying to reposition their content for YouTube:

☆ 3 ways TikTokers are changing their content strategies as they jump to YouTube
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Shriya Bhattacharya | Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

☆ The world's oceans are key to slowing the climate crisis, and this year is critical to guaranteeing their longevity
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Freya Graham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

But oceans are an important carbon sink — some more effective than rainforests. Leaders at Davos said the role of the ocean in combating climate change has been underestimated. Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest on the culture & business of sustainability — delivered weekly to your inbox. Understanding 'blue carbon'Plants and trees that grow in coastal waters, such as mangroves, kelp, and seagrass, are all forms of "blue carbon," which means they absorb and store carbon. The Global Biodiversity Framework, agreed at COP15 in Montreal in December 2022, was a big step forward for oceans.

☆ Meta and Apple are no longer among the best places to work, according to a new Glassdoor ranking
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Grace Kay | Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Meta and Apple fell off Glassdoor's list of best places to work for the first time in over a decade. Other tech companies like Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft made the top 20 of this year's list. While Meta and Apple fell off the list, tech companies still dominated the US rankings, accounting for 40% of the organizations on the list. Top tech companies like Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Google made the top 20. There are some tech companies that entered the list," Zhao said.

☆ House Republicans voted to gut the House Ethics Committee, and George Santos said it was 'fantastic'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

House Republicans voted on Monday to hobble the Office of Congressional Ethics. George Santos, facing multiple investigations and ethics complaints, called the changes "fantastic." The Office of Congressional Ethics, first established in 2008, is a quasi-independent body tasked with investigating allegations of misconduct against members of Congress. It then makes a determination as to whether those allegations are worth investigating further, at which point it makes a referral to the House Ethics Committee, which is evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. In 2017, House Republicans voted in conference to subsume the office under the House Ethics Committee, effectively neutering it.

☆ Political advertisers are excited to return to Twitter as Elon Musk lifts the platform's 3-year-old ban on political ads
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Twitter has said it plans to unwind a 3-year hiatus of political ads on the platform. Political ad experts have mostly cheered the news. Political ad buyers on both sides of the aisle are keen to return to Twitter after the company said it planned to reverse its ban on political advertising appearing on the platform. The company generated under $3 million in political ad spend for the 2018 US midterms, according to its former chief financial officer. Some political ad experts said they remained wary about advising clients to advertise on Twitter, given Musk's hasty leadership style.

☆ A sneaky photo taken the last time a stealth bomber was unveiled shows why some parts of the new B-21 are still under wraps
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

On December 2, the US Air Force revealed its new stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider. That may have been an effort to avoid what happened the last time a stealth bomber was unveiled. One reason for that may be what happened the last time the Air Force unveiled a stealth bomber. Scott told Aviation Week in an article about the photo scoop published on the same day as the B-21's rollout. A US Air Force B-2 stealth bomber.

☆ TikTok's Chinese parent company reportedly intended to use the app to surveil specific Americans' locations
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

TikTok's parent ByteDance planned to use the app to surveil specific Americans' locations, Forbes reported. A China-based team intended to gather location data on at least two specific US users, per the report. The report is sure to raise more privacy and national-security concerns over TikTok. TikTok is often at the center of privacy and security debates, and Forbes' report is sure to raise more eyebrows. Trump threatened to ban the app if it didn't find a US-based buyer, something that never came to fruition.

☆ Trump ally Steve Bannon should get 6 months in prison for defying the House January 6 committee, federal prosecutors say
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( C. Ryan Barber | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Federal prosecutors on Friday recommended that longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon receive a six-month prison sentence for defying the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. In a 24-page court filing, federal prosecutors said Bannon should also pay a $200,000 fine for his "sustained, bad-faith contempt of Congress." The Justice Department pursued charges against Bannon following a referral from the House recommending a prosecution against the former Trump advisor. After that initial referral, the House went on to hold three other former Trump White House advisors — Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, and Peter Navarro — in contempt. At the end of the hearing, the House January 6 committee voted unanimously to subpoena Trump to testify.

☆ Jim Cramer says 3 factors foreshadowed Thursday’s market comeback
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Krystal Hur | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Thursday said that there were three indicators during Thursday's trading session that suggested the initial market sell-off would fizzle out. Stocks made a stunning reversal on Thursday after the market fought off a hotter-than-expected consumer price index report to snap a six-day losing streak. Anything above plus 4% indicates the market is overbought, while anything below minus 5% indicates the market is oversold. That means traders weren't spooked and is usually a sign the market is dealing with a "misdirection play," according to Cramer. "The people who are still left in this miserable, horrible, no-good market aren't going to dump stocks over something they already knew — that the consumer price index is too hot.

☆ Michael Cohen says the DOJ should look into whether Trump is keeping photocopies of classified documents
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Michael Cohen is urging the DOJ to investigate if Trump kept photocopies of top-secret files. Cohen accused Trump of using "Art of the Deal" tactics to trade these files for other documents. Cohen also wondered aloud why Trump — after being president for four years — didn't attempt to get the documents while he was in office. During its search of Mar-a-Lago on August 8, the FBI seized classified documents, including some marked "top secret." The DOJ is investigating whether Trump broke three federal laws — including the Espionage Act — by keeping the files at his Florida residence.

LAS VEGAS — Jim Marchant, the election-denying Republican nominee for secretary of state in Nevada, has so far been outspent and out campaigned by his Democratic opponent. Davis, a Republican, said he “hadn’t thought much” about whether the 2020 election was stolen from Trump and remained undecided in the secretary of state race. The dynamics in Arizona’s secretary of state race are similar. He and Marchant, as well as Kristina Karamo, the Republican secretary of state nominee in Michigan, are all members of the pro-Trump America First Secretary of State Coalition, though polling shows Karamo’s race is far less competitive. “This could be the last free and fair election in Nevada,” West said.

☆ I made $297,000 in 18 months as a personal-brand consultant. Here's how I found clients and built my one-woman business after being laid off.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Bevin Farrand | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Bevin Farrand was laid off from her job as a marketing director in 2019 and then started a business. My first two businesses — a yoga business and a life-coaching business — didn't financially sustain me. Over the next 10 years I built my career in brand strategy and digital marketing for companies in personal development, online education, and e-commerce. I needed to pay myself about $4,000 a month, which wasn't possible from the business revenue in the first few months. The other client started at a $2,000 monthly retainer to develop and execute their launch strategy.

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