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☆ Women’s World Cup: Underdogs continue to impress. Jamaica’s manager thinks he knows why
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Just six days into the 2023 Women’s World Cup and many of the tournament underdogs are already making a name for themselves. The Philippines securing its first World Cup win on Tuesday was just the latest in a series of surprise results. 5 France, its first ever point at a World Cup, while New Zealand won its first Women’s World Cup game by beating Norway – before itself being on the wrong end of an upset against the Philippines. Even when results haven’t gone the way of the so-called smaller teams, many games have been much closer than expected. “The smaller nations are believing that they can get this done.”Philippines beats New Zealand in the latest surprise result on Tuesday.

Persons: CNN —, haven’t, Lorne Donaldson, ”, “, USWNT, ” Donaldson, Marty Melville, Donaldson, Jamaica’s Deneisha Blackwood, we’ve Organizations: CNN, New Zealand, Norway –, England, cohost Australia, Zambia, Getty, Filipina Locations: Philippines, Jamaica, France, Haiti, Republic of Ireland, England, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, Germany, Morocco, New, AFP

☆ The 'Barbie' movie could boost Mattel's stock prices and increase the price of old dolls in your closet, but avid Barbie collectors couldn't care less
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Colette Fountain | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Insider spoke to three Barbie collectors who seem unfazed by the potential rise in the dolls' worth. As a collector doing it for love, he told Insider those looking to make money should invest in other things. Antique expert Dr. Lori told Insider she estimates a 25% rise in the doll's value in the build-up to the film's release and immediately afterward. "There are too many elements to the concept of value, and it's rarely just about finance," Yang told Insider. Even if these Barbie collectors were looking to make a quick buck in Gerwig's box office weekend, selling Barbies isn't easy.

Persons: Greta Gerwig's, Jian Yang, Yang doesn't, Yang, Barbie, Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, MarketBeat, Lori, Hankwitz, Mattel, Tommy Hilfiger, Gigi Hadid, Calvin Klein, Juno, Teresa, Arjen, Queen Elizabeth, Tina Turner, It's, I've Organizations: Service, Google, Mattel, Warner, Air, Nike, billings, eBay Locations: Wall, Silicon, Singapore, Philadelphia, Netherlands, Poland

☆ I make up to $1,500 a month cohosting Airbnb units. It only takes me about 3 hours a week and I can do it from anywhere.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Elle Hardy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

He says he spends about three hours a week managing admin for the five properties they cohost. He says they make about $1,000 a month during the year and peak at about $1,500 in the summer. I'm an ICU nurse in Reykjavík, Iceland, but I'm originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee. I spend about 3 hours a week working as a cohostCohosting is integrated into the Airbnb platform, so it makes it really easy. Using the systems I have right now, and while working full time, I'd say I could add another 10 units to our portfolio.

Persons: Seth Sutherland, cohost, Airbnb, Agnes, I'd, I'm, couldn't, Rafael Loza, Sean Rakidzich Organizations: Service, YouTube Locations: Wall, Silicon, Reykjavík, Iceland, Chattanooga , Tennessee, United States, Italy, Tennessee, Orlando, Florida, East Coast

☆ Tired of Elon Musk? Here are the Twitter alternatives you should know about
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —When Elon Musk took over Twitter in October and began upending the platform, there weren’t many viable alternatives for frustrated users. ThreadsThreads is Meta’s long-anticipated answer to Twitter and the biggest threat to the social network Musk bought for $44 billion. And Zuckerberg isn’t just looking to catch up to Twitter; he wants to build a service that’s far larger. Spill has also emerged as a haven for Black Twitter users and marginalized communities seeking a safe space online. BlueskyBluesky, a service backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, looks identical to Twitter, with one key difference.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, Mark, ” Sarah Oh, Alphonzo Terrell, Zuckerberg, hasn’t, ” Zuckerberg, Terrell, “, ” Oh, Meta, ”, Jack Dorsey, Bluesky, Dorsey, Mastodon, It’s, Eugen Rochko, Cohost, reposts, don’t, Jae Kaplan, we’re Organizations: CNN, Twitter, Meta, San Francisco Bay Area, Cohost, “, Facebook Locations: San Francisco Bay

☆ How audio startup PodCo is cashing in on Disney and Nickelodeon nostalgia with podcasts hosted by the stars of shows like 'Wizards of Waverly Place'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

PodCo produces podcasts themed around Nickelodeon and Disney Channel shows from the past two decades. Since their debut, several PodCo shows have ranked among the top 10 television and film podcasts on platforms like Spotify and Apple Podcasts, according to Chartable. Along with the hosts, other big-name alums have made appearances on PodCo shows, which are also recorded on video and viewable on YouTube. So when he heard Carlson Romano and Rooney's idea, he leapt at the chance to bring the show back in a new form. Some have written to him personally to say the "Ned's" podcast is leaving them feeling less isolated in their own lives, he added.

Persons: Stevens, Christy Carlson Romano, Brendan Rooney, Kim, Ned Bigby, Harper Finkle, PodCo, Rooney, Krystal Eve, Carlson Romano, Ren Stevens, Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, Selena Gomez, Jennifer Stone, David DeLuise, Stone, Lee Citron, Stone —, California —, —, it's, wouldn't, Alyson Stoner, Zack, Cody, Devon Werkheiser, Werkheiser, Scott Simock, PodCo's, Reed Alexander Organizations: Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, Wizards, Marine Corps, Columbia University, American Film Institute, Apple, PodCo, Edison Research, Triton, Intelligence, Disney, Paramount, Netflix, YouTube, Social, Spotify Locations: Waverly, Hollywood, NBC's, California, TikTok, Texas

Ramsey asked Travis why he hadn't gotten on a "tight, tight, tight, tight budget" to get his debts down. Ramsey said Travis should meet his basic obligations then throw everything else at his "stupid credit card debt until it's gone." "But you're not going out to eat, and you're not going on vacation," Ramsey said. Ramsey said Travis had to look at his finances like "every dollar has a mission:" necessities or his debt. "You will go, 'Where is all this freaking money going?'"

Persons: Dave Ramsey's, Travis, Ramsey, Benjamin Franklin, hadn't, it's, I've, Ramsey's cohost, John Delony, You've, Delony Locations: Michigan, Grand Rapids , Michigan, American

☆ 'Never-again Trumper' Paul Ryan says it's getting easier to convince die-hard supporters that Trump is 'not electable'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Chris Kaye | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former GOP Speaker of the House and "never-again Trumper" Paul Ryan appeared on CBS This Morning. Ryan listed a litany of reasons why he's "not a Trump fan." After cohost Gayle King asked Ryan if he supports Trump for the 2024 Republication, Ryan listed a litany of reasons why he's "not a Trump fan." "All the exhaustion of all the Trump baggage is going to make it easier now, I think, to make the argument to his core supporters he's not electable," Ryan said. "He's going to cost us the Senate again, he's going to cost us more House seats, he'll cost us the White House, and we want to win."

Persons: Trumper, Paul Ryan, Ryan, Trump, hasn't, —, cohost Gayle King, We've, King, indicting Trump, Ryan demurred, Chris Christie, who's, Donald Trump, he's, Donald Trump we're, Joe Biden, they're Organizations: CBS, Trump, Service, Senate, Justice Department, Wisconsin Locations: Wisconsin

☆ I stumbled into a really powerful use for the ChatGPT iPhone app: super fast, super accurate voice-to-text transcription
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Nicholas Carlson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A couple weeks ago, OpenAI finally came out with a native iOS app for ChatGPT. The voice-to-text transcription the app was doing was better than any voice-to-text transcription I'd ever seen. Here's how one of the leading AI-powered transcription services, Otter.ai, transcribed White's answer:"Now likely, since a summons demand, he'll he'll technically surrender to the US Marshal. He told me the reason the ChatGPT app is so good at this is that it's using another OpenAI technology called "Whisper." Altman mentioned to me that there are some apps and services out there beyond the ChatGPT app using Whisper.

Persons: OpenAI, cohost Josh Barro, Ken White, Trump, he'll, it's, they'll, they'd, Judge Cannon, It's, Sam Altman, Mel spectrogram, ChatPDF, that's, Altman Locations: he'll, Otter.ai

☆ So you think they've got Trump right where they want him, eh? Wait till you hear what this former federal prosecutor turned high-end defense attorney has to say
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Nicholas Carlson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But one former federal prosecutor turned high-end defense attorney, Ken White, sees a quick path out of trouble for Trump. That's what it looks like Trump is going to get: Judge Aileen Cannon. White suspects Cannon may be imagining what she might be able to get out of a second Trump presidency. "You have a situation where it is not even remotely difficult to imagine: Her acquitting Trump, Trump getting elected, Trump elevating her to the 11th Circuit or the Supreme Court. "People are saying that by charging Trump you're riling up his base.

Persons: —, Donald Trump, Trump, Fox, Alvin Bragg's, Ken White, Aileen Cannon, Kimberly Leonard, Cannon, White, Josh Barro, Barro, She's, that's, it's Organizations: Trump, Service, New, The, Justice, Appeals, Circuit, Department of Justice, Justice Department Locations: New York, Mar

☆ The 18 best ways to make money by reading, from submitting book reviews for cash to narrating audiobooks
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Zulie Rane | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

She always wanted to earn money from reading books, but said the best way to do that doesn't exist. Here are a few of the best ways to make money by reading books using social media. The good news is that BookTok is one of the best ways to make money by reading books. Post your book reviews on a publication like Books Are Our Superpower and make money by reading books that way. Until then, I hope this article helps you find the best ways to make money by reading books.

☆ Inside PodCo, the startup cashing in on Nickelodeon and Disney nostalgia, drawing hundreds of thousands of listeners, and scoring brand deals with stars of shows like 'Wizards of Waverly Place'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

"Even Stevens" star Christy Carlson Romano and her husband, Brendan Rooney, founded the startup. Since their debut, several PodCo shows have ranked among the top 10 television and film podcasts on platforms like Apple Podcasts, according to Chartable. Along with the hosts, other big-name alums have made appearances on PodCo shows, which are also recorded on video and viewable on YouTube. So when he heard Carlson Romano and Rooney's idea, he leapt at the chance to bring the show back in a new form. Some have written into him personally to say the "Ned's" podcast is leaving them feeling less isolated in their own lives, he added.

☆ Influencers make being a landlord with lots of rental properties seem easy. But a real-estate investor with 482 units warns newbies to not scale up too quickly.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Aj Latrace | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The prospect of easy money and equity lured people to invest in real estate between 2020 and now. Those who purchased rental properties in the last two years saw a windfall, a veteran investor said. But new landlords who follow landlord influencers on TikTok and Instagram extolling the merits of quick-scaling strategies could use a dose of reality, one veteran real-estate investor told Insider. It all means that investors still have to play it safe when looking at a new deal, Ainley said. They buy properties, fix them up, then refinance them to get out cash that they funnel into purchase the fixer-upper.

☆ Ex-Bon Appétit editor Marissa Ross says the wine world ruined her. Now she's back and ready to give it hell.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

Her rise was tied to a period of reinvention for the wine world during which natural wine conquered millennial taste buds and became ubiquitous on menus across the US. Marissa Ross, Bon Appétit's wine editor from 2016 to 2020, often posted pictures of herself chugging straight from the bottle — a technique she called "The Ross test." "Natural wine," a nebulous term that generally refers to wine made with minimal intervention and without additives like sulfites, was tentatively entering the American wine world. Many in the wine world took the idea that you didn't have to be educated to know about wine as a personal insult. When she first told BA that she planned to cover only natural wines, Ross said, Rapoport called to try to change her mind.

Maggie Tucker and her husband, both in their early 40s, retired on the same day. Tucker and Woods had a specific plan for how they would reach early retirement. Saving additional money in index funds and getting into real estate investing helped them meet their early retirement goals. Early retirement still held some surprisesWhile there have been relatively few disadvantages to retiring early, Tucker says that there are some — including a sense of ennui. And remember to celebrate: After retiring early, Tucker and Woods took their children on a six-week trip around Europe, visiting six countries in six weeks.

☆ With Twitter upended by Musk, these services see an opportunity
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Like Twitter, it offers a social feed of posts with 280-character limits. The list of newer entrants in the markets includes apps created by former Twitter employees, a startup backed by one of Musk’s Twitter investors, and a service from former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The service launched publicly in June of last year, after Musk offered to buy Twitter. (As part of the acquisition, Musk took Twitter private and the company no longer reports user numbers in quarterly securities filings.) Though controversy remains, many Twitter users may feel less urgency to jump ship today than in late October.

☆ It's the perfect time to start your sneaker collection
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Danni Santana | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Inflation and high inventory have created the perfect environment for new sneaker collectors. Sneakers are easier to getMost shoes have become relatively easy to get, said a sneaker collector who goes by Sockjig and is the host of the "Sockjig Sneaker Podcast." Sneakerheads new to the Snkrs app might have a better chance of getting one of those "unicorn" shoes, Sockjig said. Saucony is a popular brand among sneaker collectors following casual-fashion trends. And they've placed the emphasis on the Snkrs app," Burns said.

☆ Ditching noncompete clauses would be a win for workers' rights and employees in low-wage jobs
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Marguerite Ward | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Noncompetes prevent some workers in low-wage jobs from leaving for better opportunities. If the FTC succeeds in banning noncompete clauses, it can be an important win for low-wage workers and a pivotal moment in the push for workplace equity, advocates for the change say. Annabelle Chih/Getty ImagesCritics point out that many workers subject to noncompete language aren't high-profile executives who've amassed trade secrets — they're average workers. In 2015, The Verge reported on Amazon's use of noncompete agreements for warehouse workers. "Noncompete agreements help artificially stifle competition in the labor market, allowing employers to keep wages low by limiting workers' employment options," Constant wrote.

☆ CNN missed its NYE countdown in the Central time zone, accidentally ringing in 2023 with 'Back That Azz Up'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Kit Gillet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

CNN missed the New Year's Eve countdown in Central time zone. Instead it rang in 2023 with footage of crowds dancing to Juvenile's 'Back That Azz Up'CNN barred on-air talent from drinking this year, following concerns over past NYE coverage. But it was not to be, as the network completely missed the countdown in the Central time zone, instead ringing in 2023 with on-screen footage of host Don Lemon and revelers in New Orleans dancing to Juvenile's "Back That Azz Up." Split screen footage, meanwhile, showed muted images of fireworks and celebrations in Nashville, where revelers and organizers had not missed the moment. Either way, the footage will likely join the long list of past epic New Year's Eve broadcast fails.

☆ Elon Musk laughed when asked about Twitter layoffs and said a focus on working hard 'was not Twitter's prior culture' before he took over
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Musk spoke about his "roller coaster" first two months at Twitter on the "All-In Podcast." When asked how he decided who to lay off, Musk laughed before saying that "exceptional" staff should stay on. Venture capitalist and podcast cohost Chamath Palihapitiya asked Musk how he decided what "the efficient frontier of employees" needed to be to make Twitter better. He noted that staff also needed to be "up for working hard," adding that that wasn't part of Twitter's "prior culture." Other Twitter workers, meanwhile, chose to quit their jobs, saying Musk had changed the company's culture and they were worried about the site's future.

☆ Scott Galloway looked at 100 charts on US inequality for his new book. America is adrift, but here's why he's optimistic.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Paul Constant | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

NYU professor Scott Galloway spoke to Paul Constant about his book "Adrift: America in 100 Charts." Galloway says we need to bring back the middle class, but there's still hope for the US. This process offered him several important new insights into the decaying of the American middle class — and a surprising sign of optimism for the future. Galloway believes America has been its own worst enemy, with outsized political division keeping us from solving the problem of inequality. "First you have to acknowledge that the middle class is an accident, and it's not self-sustaining," Galloway said.

☆ Bernie Sanders blasts Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema as a 'corporate Democrat' who has 'sabotaged enormously important legislation'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday blasted fellow Sen. Kyrsten Sinema as a "corporate Democrat." Sanders on CNN's "State of the Union" said Sinema has "sabotaged enormously important legislation." Sinema on Friday announced that she was leaving the Democratic Party to become an Independent. "She is a corporate Democrat who has, in fact, along with Senator Manchin sabotaged enormously important legislation." Sinema will retain her committee assignments through the Democratic Party going forward, meaning that 51-49 balance will hold despite her switching to become an Independent.

☆ If the Biden administration doesn't step in to block the $25 billion Kroger-Albertsons merger, it will be devastating for shoppers and grocery-store workers — while the rich shareholders will get rich
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Paul Constant | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Last month, Kroger announced a $25 billion deal to merge with grocery chain Albertsons. During the pandemic last year, local city councils in Long Beach and Seattle passed "hero pay" laws requiring grocery stores to pay their public-facing workers $4 extra per hour. Last month, Kroger announced a $25 billion deal to merge with Albertsons, another major national grocery chain. In the press release announcing the merger, Kroger promised that the consolidation would result in lower prices for customers and better compensation and benefits for workers. But the larger Kroger-Albertsons merger is still on track to conclude in 2024, unless the Biden administration steps in to stop it.

☆ The CEO of a company that's purchased $7 billion in real estate expects competitors who've relied on cheap debt will get washed out
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

As borrowers' debt comes due, rising interest rates will cause defaults and sales. Defaults could cascade through the financial system, putting "trillions" of dollars at risk. After nearly 15 years of rock-bottom interest rates, financial markets — including real estate — are being weaned from easy money by Federal Reserve rate hikes, Benjamin Miller, the CEO, said. Suddenly, landlords might be on the hook for 20% or more of the total value of the property, and their interest rates will be at least double what they were. An even bigger risk to the financial system lies with interest-rate derivatives, or financial contracts used to mimic or bet against rate moves.

☆ The only thing Elon Musk understands about Twitter is how to kill it
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Biologists, anthropologists, and information theorists do think that social networks, like Musk's bird app, show at least some signs of being flocks. "Elon's tweet is basically espousing the invisible hand of social behavior," Bak-Coleman says. In this construction, a social network might have become a collective superintelligence, had capitalists left it to its — our? Under Musk, Twitter has entered the dance-off phase. I'll be sad if the Twitter superintelligence starts singing a Kubrickian cover of "Daisy" and implodes into a pile of melting isolinear chips.

☆ Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan blasts Trump's continued influence within the GOP after the party's midterm election performance: 'I'm tired of losing'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Larry Hogan said he's "tired of losing" following a lackluster GOP showing in the midterms. Hogan pointed to former President Donald Trump's continued influence over the GOP as a major issue. Larry Hogan on Sunday criticized former President Donald Trump's continued influence within the GOP, pointing to the ex-president as the source of party's lackluster showing in the 2022 mid tem elections and emphasizing that he's "tired of losing." And Donald Trump kept saying, we're going to be winning so much, we will get tired of winning." Moore, an Army veteran and author, won this year's Maryland gubernatorial election in a landslide over GOP Del.

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