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☆ I paid a stranger on Facebook $1,545 for tickets to Taylor Swift's 'Eras Tour.' Here's how I avoided getting scammed.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Joni Sweet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

But like many Swifties, I never got access to Ticketmaster's disastrous presale for the Eras Tour. I posted on a Taylor Swift ticket-selling Facebook groupI turned to Facebook after I didn't hear back from several sellers on Twitter. Joni SweetMy search for Taylor Swift tickets started on Twitter. I had come across @ErasTourResell, an account which connects hopeful concertgoers with people selling their Eras Tour tickets for face value. I searched for terms like "Taylor Swift resell" and "Eras Tour tickets" and joined a few groups that came up.

☆ An experimental drug just showed it can help slow Alzheimer's, offering new hope for patients and a major boost to pharma giant Eli Lilly
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Yeji Jesse Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The pharma giant Eli Lilly said donanemab slowed cognitive decline in people with Alzheimer's. The news comes months after the FDA approved an Alzheimer's drug called Leqembi. On Wednesday, the pharma giant Eli Lilly said its experimental drug donanemab had successfully slowed cognitive and functional decline in patients with early-stage Alzheimer's, offering some hope to people with a condition that lacks good treatment options. In the trial, patients received donanemab until scans showed their brains were clear of those proteins, called beta-amyloid. Leqembi slowed the rate of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's patients by 27% over 18 months in a late-stage study.

☆ Look for these 5 'green flags' before taking a 4-day workweek job, says hiring expert
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

There's never been a better time to try to find a job with a four-day workweek. It can also be helpful to ask about the skills and experiences help someone thrive while working a shortened week. For example, leaders at four-day workweek companies recently told CNBC Make It they look for candidates with outstanding initiative, autonomy and adaptability. The company sets clear expectations around the fifth day offAsk each person how they use their day off, Salemi says. The company has a strong perspective of what flexibility looks likeA shortened workweek is just one component of workplace flexibility.

☆ They dated as teenagers. 40 years later, she decided to go on vacation with him
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

“Our hallways in this school, they were outside, and so there’s this beam of sunlight shining down on her,” recalls Bo. “I’d say, ‘Come to my window and I’ll talk to you through the window,’” recalls Beverly. The former flames, now both 60, received invites to their 40th high school reunion, taking place at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock. A high school reunionBo and Beverly reunited at a high school reunion and got to know one another on a subsequent sailing vacation. It was “literally a shack of driftwood and washed up lumber slapped together haphazardly on a remote beach,” recalls Bo.

☆ The psychologists who sit between you and your dream job on Wall Street
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Nabbing your dream job might just amount to getting approved by a handful of psychologists and business strategists. Click here to read more about ghSmart, the leadership advisory firm that plays a key role in Wall Street's hiring process. Generative AI startups on the rise. PE firms big bet on food companies isn't paying off. Private-equity firms bought up the companies behind some of your favorite brands of food, but rising interest rates have ruined those investments, The Wall Street Journal reports.

☆ The CD Market Is Doing Something Strange—and It Could Have a Big Impact on Your Money
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +8 min

CD rates have been rising rapidly over the past year, thanks to the Federal Reserve’s efforts to fight inflation. And there’s potentially a bigger issue at play: Regardless of where you stick your cash, interest rates’ odd behavior suggests the economy may be out of whack. CD rates have climbed dramatically since the Federal Reserve embarked on its campaign to fight inflation, which peaked at nearly 10% late last year. But the Fed faces a conundrum: Hiking interest rates to fight inflation also slows economic growth. Short term rates remain high, while longer term rates—reflecting grim economic prospects in years to come—fall off.

☆ The No. 1 job interview question every candidate should be asking right now, according to a recruiting pro
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Without a crystal ball, you can't predict if — and when — you might lose your job. A job interview, he says, is the best tool you can use to suss out the stability of a company and security of the specific role you've applied to. The answer should reveal what the company's priorities are right now and how closely the job aligns with those objectives. Here's why you're getting job interviews—but no offersThe No. 1 job interview question to ask to spot a red flag, from an HR proPick just 6 skills to highlight on your resume, expert says: The section shouldn't be 'verbal vomit'Sign up now: Get smarter about your money and career with our weekly newsletter

☆ I tried Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing. Here’s what it’s like
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Seattle CNN Business —Microsoft’s Bing search engine has never made much of a dent in Google’s dominance in the more than 13 years since it launched. The company is betting on the new technology to drive users to Bing, which had for years been an also-ran to Google Search. Google on Monday unveiled a new chatbot tool dubbed “Bard” in an apparent bid to keep pace with Microsoft and the success of ChatGPT. I took Bing for a spin at a press event at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters Tuesday. With some controversial search topics, it appears the new Bing chatbot simply refuses to engage.

☆ I followed Nancy Pelosi's diet of breakfast ice cream and hot dogs for a week, and I ping-ponged between euphoria and the depths of despair
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Sophie Kleeman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

My research found that Pelosi eats ice cream for breakfast, hot dogs for lunch, pasta, and chocolate. Chocolate ice cream for breakfast, rich and creamy pasta, and lots of snacking chocolate. She claims she does not exercise; her daughter once arrived home to find her mother eating chocolate ice cream while using a stationary bike. I save the ice cream for later to avoid a massive sugar crash and start out with a cup of black tea instead. However, I don't want to slack off after the ice cream episode, so I slather it on.

☆ The CEO of buzzy healthtech startup Vial, which slashed up to 50 jobs last year, asked remaining employees to write positive Glassdoor reviews
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | Samantha Stokes | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Vial's CEO asked workers to post positive Glassdoor reviews to counter negative ones, Insider found. In a month, 20 positive reviews for Vial flooded the site, raising its rating from one to 3.8 stars. On December 12, Simon Burns, a cofounder and the CEO of the healthtech startup Vial, sent a Slack message in his company's "random-kudos" channel. He included a link to Vial's Glassdoor page and asked other employees to "give her a hand, review us on Glassdoor." In earlier days at the startup, negative employee reviews on Glassdoor cited a toxic culture, a disconnected leadership team, and a lack of industry experience.

☆ The Crime Solver Inspired by ‘The Big Lebowski’
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Esther Zuckerman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In ‘Poker Face,’ Natasha Lyonne plays Charlie Cale, a drifter trekking across the country who just happens to come across a number of killings that need solving. In the new Peacock mystery series “Poker Face” Natasha Lyonne’s character Charlie Cale has a gift. She can tell when someone is lying. It’s not a trained skill, it’s more of a sense, but she’s always right. This is a talent that comes in handy when she’s trying to suss out a murderer.

☆ Publisher tech firm OpenWeb is making a $100 million acquisition to help publishers better target ads and emails
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Lauren Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The acquisition is the third company OpenWeb has bought in about a year. The Jeeng acquisition will help OpenWeb's publisher clients collect data for subscriptions and ads. OpenWeb, a tech company that helps publishers engage with readers and sell ads, has acquired Jeeng for $100 million, the companies said Thursday. OpenWeb is acquiring Jeeng to provide publishers with tools to take that data and personalize emails, push notifications, and SMS messages. In January 2022, OpenWeb acquired Hive Media for $60 million to build tools for publishers to better recommend content, and the company acquired Adyoulike in April for $100 million to expand into social advertising.

☆ 5 of the easiest online businesses to start in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Suss out the need for your potential online businessConduct market and consumer research to determine what's needed. When deciding what type of business to start, "looking at where societal forces are heading and seeing if you can get ahead of the trend" is a good start, she said. "Start with scratching your own itch," Franklin suggests for aspiring online business owners. "Whatever you do, find something you care about because you're going to need to put a lot of time and energy into making it succeed." Here are 5 of the easiest online businesses to start in 2023.

Meanwhile, abortion-rights advocates and the ballot initiative groups they’re working with said preliminary efforts are also underway in Florida, Missouri and other states. Meanwhile, voters in two Democratic states, California and Vermont, chose to officially protect abortion rights in their constitutions. “Reproductive rights is a winning issue. The Dobbs decision had a huge impact,” said Chris Melody Fields Figueredo, the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, which works with progressive organizations to help advance citizen-led ballot measures. “And what we know — that about a majority of Americans actually support reproductive rights and abortion access — means we have an incredible opportunity.”

☆ What Guns Did to My Childhood
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Mitchell S. Jackson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +10 min

Isn’t a part of childhood feeling insecure and divining ways to resolve those feelings or else abide them? From Mitchell S. JacksonThe presence of gangs — mind you, a predictable symptom of poverty and neglect — led to the prevalence of guns that shaped much of the normal childhood maturing around me as a kid. It surprises me little to none that Black boys are the likeliest to die by guns. These guns alter their lives in significant ways, not in the least by nullifying the childhood grace of feeling the greatest distance from death. Amen, I’ve never had to sit him down for a stern talk on guns or the violence and grieving they reap.

☆ Private equity is starting to bet big on the cloud. Here's why firms like Blackstone are making the move.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Like other Wall Street firms upended by the technology, PE firms' motivation to make the move is tied to harnessing the copious amounts of data they manage. GFT works with more than 20 private-equity firms for digital transformation, including a handful of tier-one PE companies, he said. Some PE firms have tried to leverage their scale for pricing discounts among cloud providers, Mahenthiran said. Major cloud providers, like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, have been hungry for more Wall Street market share. That hasn't stopped PE firms from trying to hire out data-science and cloud teams to help front-office researchers find new opportunities and oversee internal cloud infrastructure, Vyas said.

☆ 6 red flags a company isn't what it seems — and you probably shouldn't take the job
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Susan Johnston Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Several experts told Insider what red flags indicate a company may not be great to work for. No matter how appealing a job sounds on paper, if you come across these six red flags when interviewing at a company, it might be best to pass it over for a better opportunity. The job description is vagueEven for a brand-new role, the hiring manager should have a clear picture of what it entails. They're being cagey or defensive around compensationThe last thing any job seeker wants is to interview multiple times for a job without knowing if the pay meets their expectations. "If a company won't accommodate, that's also a red flag," Monaghan said.

☆ Criteo has bet big that e-commerce ads will contribute to $1 billion in revenue by 2025. But a new crop of startups are also coming for those dollars.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Lauren Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Adtech firm Criteo is battling for retailers' ad businesses with new competitors like CitrusAd. E-commerce advertising is driving much of Criteo's growth, with the firm hoping to hit $1 billion in revenue from retail media by 2025. Criteo's technology has moved beyond search ads to include display ads and ads that appear off the retailer's site. Not all retailers outsource their ad businesses, creating more competition with CriteoCriteo also faces competition from retailers themselves. Some retailers don't want Criteo or CitrusAd managing their ad businesses and license technology to build ad businesses that they manage themselves.

☆ Private equity is opening up to the public cloud, setting up a new battleground for AWS, Microsoft, and Google to win over Wall Street
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Like other Wall Street firms upended by the technology, PE firms' motivation to make the move is tied to harnessing the copious amounts of data they manage. GFT works with more than 20 private-equity firms for digital transformation, including a handful of tier-one PE companies, he said. Some PE firms have tried to leverage their scale for pricing discounts among cloud providers, Mahenthiran said. Major cloud providers, like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, have been hungry for more Wall Street market share. But the wait-and-see approach has put PE companies far behind their Wall Street peers.

When you buy through our links, Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Amazon is well-known for its vast product offerings and therefore, has become a one-stop shop for everyday items from cookware to tech gadgets. With an ever-expanding inventory, it's easy to get lost in the sea of product pages on Amazon and suss out what's actually worth adding to your cart. Luckily, our colleagues at Insider Reviews research and test thousands of products to recommend to you, and we've asked them to provide their top Amazon picks under $25. The resulting list features everything from TikTok-viral beauty products to handy kitchen tools, so there's something for everyone in your life — including yourself.

☆ 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?

☆ Equifax fired at least two dozen employees after it used its own tool to suss out if workers had a second job
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Four of the big six US banks (JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo) all report their Q3 earnings today. Our friends over at Markets Insider will have the immediate reaction to all the revenue numbers as they're posted. That's clearly the message at Equifax, which fired at least 24 workers for secretly having second jobs, Insider reported Thursday. "I'm not sure how Equifax can be trusted with data when it uses it to spy on its own employees," an Equifax employee told Insider. Read our full story on how Equifax used its own tool to figure out if employees were working second jobs.

☆ How Equifax used employment records it collects from 2.5 million companies to fire dozens of its own employees for working second jobs
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Kate Taylor | Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The crackdown was the result of an investigation that unfolded in recent months conducted by Equifax employees, including HR and cybersecurity, according to a document seen by Insider. The product has employment records, including weekly pay, of 105 million US workers, according to the company's last annual report. At one point, 25 employees were interviewed on the investigation's findings, and 24 were terminated, resulting in savings of $3.2 million, according to a document. In one author's case, this included all salaried positions since graduating college in 2013, as well as a job working in the college library as a student. "With predictions of more than 36 million employees working remotely by the year 2025, the need to monitor an employee's employment status will continue to grow," the company says in marketing material.

☆ The first-time founder's ultimate guide to hiring top talent, from a Greylock partner, a former Googler, a Stanford lecturer, and a consultant to Spotify and JPMorgan
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-19 | by ( Shana Lebowitz | Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

We asked a series of entrepreneurship experts — including founders, investors, and business professors — to outline some best hiring practices. Read more: The first-time founder's ultimate guide to pitching a VCNow, your goal in hiring the company's first few employees is to get the product or service to market. Patty McCord, former chief talent officer at Netflix, previously told Business Insider that managers should regularly evaluate whether their current team is equipped to tackle the next big challenge. Break down your organization into different levels: the senior management team, director-level managers, key employees, and employees in non-critical functions. As Sophie Kahn, cofounder of the sustainable jewelry company AUrate, told Business Insider, you can also consider your employees' personal preferences.

To help a client decide whether or not a purchase is worth the money, I start with the financial facts. Start with the financial factsThe first step to making a good spending decision is to understand your financial reality. If you find yourself in the last camp, you can evaluate what your finances might look like if you move forward with the spending decision you're considering. That doesn't mean this is an automatic "yes, it's worth it" or a good spending decision. Any spending decision can seem worth the money when you make it in a vacuum.

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