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☆ Exclusive: Buzzy legal generative AI startup Casetext is in talks to be acquired
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AI startup Casetext is in talks to be acquired, Insider has learned. This hypothesis may have found its first example in Casetext, a buzzy legal generative AI startup that is in talks to be acquired, according to people familiar with the situation. Casetext has raised $68 million in funding from VCs including Union Square Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Y Combinator, and Touchdown Ventures. Now, the technology powers Casetext's AI legal assistant CoCounsel, which aids lawyers with everything from legal research memo drafting to deposition preparation to document review. Have a tip on a startup funding round?

☆ BlackRock is mandating 4 days in the office, starting in September. Read the memo on the firm's plans.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Rebecca Ungarino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

BlackRock is calling employees back to the office four days per week, starting in September. BlackRock told employees last fall that they had to work in the office at least three days per week. In a Fox Business interview last September, Fink linked a return to in-office work to a more productive workforce and lower inflation. "We are going to ask our employees to be much more mindful about their responsibilities in the office. This new approach begins on the 11th of September, and we encourage you to transition into this model by increasing your in-office days, as your schedule permits, over the next few months.

☆ BlackRock org chart: The 150 most powerful people under CEO Larry Fink as succession planning looms
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Rebecca Ungarino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Insider built an org chart showing the most senior executives under BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. To provide a window into the current power structure, Insider has mapped out the roughly 150 most senior BlackRock executives. This week, the firm overhauled its alternative-investments business and made changes to the makeup of its Aladdin business, two core BlackRock offerings. "We are spending a great deal of time at BlackRock getting the firm ready for when the founders are retiring. Investment stewardship head Joud Abdel Majeid and Willie Alford, Fink's new chief of staff, are among the executives who report to Fink.

☆ How to Deal With Rising Auto Insurance Rates
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Ann Carrns | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The federation supports eliminating the use of credit scoring in insurance rating, saying it especially harms lower-income customers and people who live in minority neighborhoods. (At least three states — California, Hawaii and Massachusetts — bar the use of credit scoring in setting these premiums, and a few others limit its use.) Insurers defend giving better rates to drivers with good credit, saying it makes sense because those customers are less likely to file insurance claims. “The vast majority of customers get a better rate because we’re using credit scoring,” Mr. Passmore said. While many people “would rather get a root canal,” he said, getting auto insurance quotes isn’t difficult.

☆ Surprises, snubs and a watershed moment that wasn’t.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Scott Heller | Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Not everyone can wake up to good news on Tony nominations morning. Then again, with a panel of voters often un-wowed by celebrity, the roster typically turns up left-field choices and anoints young talent. But the Tony committee gave the show’s team something to laugh about, lavishing six nominations, including two for Cooper himself: best play and best featured actor in a play. Cooper, who portrayed a saucy airline hostess named Peaches, gave it his all, onstage and off: When the show’s sudden closing was first announced, he took to Instagram to rally audiences. Yet Tony voters passed on nominating Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan for their sexy, impassioned portrayals of a fraying couple in 1960s Greenwich Village.

☆ The history of the swastika: From a sign of luck and fortune to a symbol of evil
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The statue was discovered alongside a range of "phallic objects," suggesting the swastika was used as a good luck symbol to invite fertility. Swastika in EuropeWorshipers of the Norse religion used the swastika symbol as early as 401 AD. US art director Steven Heller, author of "Swastika: Symbol Beyond Redemption?" Co-opted by the NazisSome researchers believe that people of Aryan culture used the symbol as a sign of luck and prosperity. Sheetal Deo and her husband, Sanmeet Deo, hold a Hindu swastika symbol in their home in Syosset, N.Y., on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022.

☆ 'Our phones are ringing off the hook': Amid a global downturn, the finance world is chasing Middle Eastern money
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Natasha Turak | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The region's 10 largest sovereign wealth funds combined manage nearly $4 trillion, according to the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute. The regional investors, especially the sovereign funds but also the families, are now much more sophisticated than before. Follow the capitalAs oil prices made a roaring comeback in the last two years, the Gulf's public wealth funds went on a spending spree. It added that GCC sovereign wealth funds "played an important role in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic and now again in 2022 during times of financial distress." Our phones are ringing off the hook," one manager from a UAE investment fund said, declining to be named due to professional restrictions.

☆ The stock market and the economy are stuck on different pages - but the Fed's going to get the last word
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

It's one of my favorite books, and the idea is relevant today because "Catch-22" is a fitting characterization of what's facing stocks and economy right now. Good news isn't good news and bad news is good news. To be sure, inflation remains hot, as we saw in Friday's Personal Consumption Expenditure data — the Fed's preferred inflation gauge. Even as many top commentators are split on the outlook for the economy, markets appear stuck digesting a host of mixed signals, from strong economic data on the one hand, to fears of higher rates on the other. The billionaire Tesla chief has warned that the central bank could crush the value of the entire stock market.

☆ A Second New Jersey Council Member Fatally Shot This Month
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A screenshot from a video of police investigating the scene of a shooting outside a PSE&G facility in New Jersey on Thursday. A second city council member in New Jersey was fatally shot outside of his car in a parking lot, officials said, a week after a councilwoman was shot and killed inside her car. The 51-year-old councilman, Russell Heller , who represented the borough of Milford in central New Jersey, was found dead in the parking lot outside his workplace on Wednesday morning, local police and prosecutors said.

☆ Former Fed governor says the U.S. could get into recession this year
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFormer Fed governor says the U.S. could get into recession this yearFormer U.S. Federal Reserve Governor Rob Heller says that while it's "good to be hopeful," the data is pointing toward a recession.

☆ Inflation will continue to come down with the shrinking money supply, says fmr. Fed Gov. Heller
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailInflation will continue to come down with the shrinking money supply, says fmr. HellerRobert Heller, former Federal Reserve governor, joins 'Power Lunch' to share his reaction to the Fed's latest decision, money supply trending downward as an indicator of a slowing economy, and more.

☆ Democrats will be defending a slim Senate majority in 2024. Here's an early look at the states that will likely be in play for both political parties.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The 2024 Senate elections — which will run concurrent with the presidential race — are approaching. In 2024, 34 senators will be up for reelection: 20 Democrats, 11 Republicans, and three Independents. But Sinema's election itself is another matter; she has not yet announced whether she will run for reelection in 2024. He has not yet decided if he will run in 2024, but Republicans have been eyeing his seat for years. But he has done it before, winning in 2018 despite Republicans going all-out to defeat him.

But the sheer number of nurses working travel jobs, and the difference between what they thought was promised and what they pocketed, has led to a substantial legal pushback by travel nurses around the country on the issue. Courtesy Jordyn BashfordThis summer, Stueve Siegel Hanson, a Kansas City, Missouri, law firm, filed class-action lawsuits against four travel nurse agencies: Aya, Maxim, NuWest and Cross Country. Advertisements touted an hourly rate of $8 to $11, but many nurses wound up making less than $6, according to Pan Travelers, a professional association of travel nurses. But by February, after her first 13-week contract, Covid hospitalizations had waned and the demand for travel nurses had fallen. Mark Humphrey / APTwo travel nurses walk the hallways during their shift at a hospital in Rhode Island.

☆ A nutritionist shares the 'most underrated' longevity food she eats every day to boost her immune system
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Samantha Heller | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Looking for a healthy, inexpensive protein that can boost your immune system and help you live longer ? Here are some key health benefits of legumes:The most common varieties of legumes are beans, including black beans, lentil beans, soybeans, fava beans, garbanzo beans (chickpeas), kidney beans, edamame and lima beans. You can also cook legumes in large batches and store them in sealed containers in the fridge or freezer:Thoroughly cook dried beans. Whether you use black beans, white beans, or lentils, you can't go wrong with a legume patty on a whole wheat bun. If you've got a sweet tooth, black bean brownies are a delicious dessert that packs a punch of fiber into every serving.

☆ In Lauren Boebert’s Colorado District, Some Voters Grow Tired of Trump-Style Politics
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Elizabeth Findell | Photographs Rachel Woolf For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

PALISADE, Colo.— Bill Heller , a retired oil-field worker on Colorado’s Western Slope and lifelong registered Republican, said he would like to support his party but found he couldn’t vote to re-elect his congresswoman, Rep. Lauren Boebert . Ms. Boebert (R., Colo.) has gained national recognition for her vocal support of gun rights and for attention-grabbing statements, including tweeting “Today is 1776” on the day of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Mr. Heller instead voted for her opponent, Adam Frisch , a little-known centrist Democrat and former Aspen city councilman.

☆ Trump-endorsed Republican Joe Lombardo defeats Gov. Steve Sisolak in Nevada's gubernatorial election
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Steve Sisolak was defeated by Republican Joe Lombardo in Nevada's gubernatorial race. (3 Districts) Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options. NV-01NV-03NV-04 House Governor Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options. Steve Sisolak was defeated by Republican Joe Lombardo in Nevada's gubernatorial election. His opponent, Lombardo, raised $3.7 million, spent $4.7 million, and had $1.8 million on hand, as of September 30.

Democratic US Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is running against Republican Adam Laxalt in Nevada. Senate Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options. RenoNorth Las Vegas MayorDemocratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is locked in one of the nation's closest-watched Senate races in Nevada against Republican Adam Laxalt, a former state attorney general. If Cortez Masto manages to hold on, the GOP's path to 51 seats becomes even more perilous and Democrats' odds of retaining power in the Senate improve. The money raceAccording to OpenSecrets, Cortez Masto has raised $44 million, spent $39.1 million, and has roughly $5.1 million on hand, as of September 30.

☆ Live Results: Gov. Steve Sisolak faces off against Trump-endorsed Republican Joe Lombardo in Nevada's gubernatorial election
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Steve Sisolak ran against Republican Joe Lombardo in Nevada's gubernatorial race. (3 Districts) Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options. NV-01NV-03NV-04 House Governor Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options. Steve Sisolak faced off against Republican Joe Lombardo in Nevada's gubernatorial election. His opponent, Lombardo, had raised $3.7 million, spent $4.7 million, and had $1.8 million on hand, as of September 30.

☆ Palm oil is in almost everything, and it's devastating rainforests. This Bill Gates-backed company used microbes to create an alternative
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

Palm oil grows best in the regions right around the equator, so palm oil producers chop down rainforest and clear that felled vegetation by burning it, making it a prime target of conservation organizations like the Rainforest Rescue and the World Wildlife Fund. Palm oil trees grow at the Cikasungka palm oil plantation, operated by PT Perkebunan Nusantara VIII, in Bogor Regency in West Java, Indonesia, on Monday, June 20, 2022. To make its palm oil alternative, C16 Biosciences uses a wild yeast microbe that makes a functional equivalent to palm oil with a kind of fermentation process. Photo courtesy: Cat Clifford, CNBCChemically, the palm oil that C16 Biosciences makes is not identical to the palm oil that is grown in industrial agriculture farms. However, "it contains the same fatty acids, which are the molecular fingerprints of fats and oils, that palm oil does," Heller told CNBC.

☆ Gov. Steve Sisolak faces off against Trump-endorsed Republican Joe Lombardo in Nevada's gubernatorial election
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Steve Sisolak is running against Republican Joe Lombardo in Nevada's gubernatorial race. Steve Sisolak faces off against Republican Joe Lombardo in Nevada's gubernatorial election. Nevada's gubernatorial candidatesSisolak is the governor of Nevada, with voters first electing him in 2018. Sisolak's win in 2018 established Nevada's Democratic state trifecta — where one party controls a state's governorship and majorities in both chambers of the state legislature — for the first time since 1992. His opponent, Lombardo, has raised $3.7 million, spent $4.7 million, and has $1.8 million of cash on hand, as of September 30.

☆ Will Hispanic Voters Turn Nevada Republican?
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Carine Hajjar | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Las VegasNevada is the quintessential political bellwether. Of the 26 presidential elections between 1912 and 2012, the nationwide winner carried the Silver State 25 times. But lately, Democrats have been on a roll. In 2016 Hillary Clinton duplicated Gerald Ford ’s 1976 feat, and Democrats control both U.S. Senate seats, three of the state’s four House seats, every statewide elected office except secretary of state, and both legislative houses in Carson City. “A coordinated campaign over the last how many years has turned Nevada blue,” Sen. Jacky Rosen , who defeated Republican Sen. Dean Heller in 2018, told NBC News in April.

☆ Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto faces off against Republican Adam Laxalt in Nevada's closely watched US Senate race
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Democratic US Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is running against Republican Adam Laxalt in Nevada. A protégé of the late-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Cortez Masto made history as the first Latina elected to the US Senate when she succeeded Reid in 2017. If Cortez Masto manages to hold on, the GOP's path to 51 seats becomes even more perilous and Democrats' odds of retaining power in the Senate improve. The money raceAccording to OpenSecrets, Cortez Masto has raised $44 million, spent $39.1 million, and has roughly $5.1 million on hand, as of September 30. What experts sayThe race between Cortez Masto and Laxalt is unanimously rated as a "toss-up" by Inside Elections, The Cook Political Report, and Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.

Producția a fost lansată pe 23 octombrie, la nivel global. În primele 28 de zile de la lansare a fost vizionat de pe 76 de milioane de conturi. Serialul documentar „Tiger King” a fost urmărit de pe 64 de milioane de conturi în prima lună. Cofondatorul și CEO-ul Netflix Reed Hastings a încasat aproximativ 2 miliarde de dolari în pandemie. Printre cele mai urmărite seriale în timpul lockdown-ului se numără Outer Banks, Ozark și Tiger King.

Persons: Anya Taylor, Marielle Heller, Thomas Brodie, Moses Ingram, Harry Melling, Bill Camp, Beth, Pandemia, Reed Hastings Organizations: Tiger King, Banks Locations: Argentina, Israel, Africa de Sud

☆ Vladimir Tismăneanu, 06 noiembrie 2020
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-06 | by ( ) moldova.europalibera.org time to read: +2 min

Născut la Târgu Mureș în 1953, poetul, dizidentul și activistul civic Géza Szőcs s-a stins din viață pe 5 noiembrie 2020 la Budapesta. Situație paradoxală ţinând cont de atașamentul său pentru ceea ce putem numi tradiția europeană din literele maghiare, atât de diferită de opţiunile lui Orban și ale partidului Fidesz. În România, în anii 80, Géza a fost editorul revistei samizdat „Contrapuncte” (Ellenpontok), a fost urmărit, arestat și interogat de Securitate, și-a menţinut nealterată verticalitatea. Géza a simțit direct efectele politicii de „omogenizare” practicată de regim, a înțeles că rezistența civică este singura strategie menită sa salveze valorile reale. Numele lui Géza Szőcs aparține, neîndoios, acelui domeniu al memoriei pe care îl numesc istoria onoarei în Europa Centrală și de Est.

Persons: Géza Szőcs, Ceaușescu, Paul Goma, Viktor Orban ., Orban, Fidesz, Géza, Securitate, Orban . Géza, Judith Shapiro, Mihai Botez, Agnes Heller, Ferenc Feher, Miklos Haraszti, Dorin Tudoran, Aleksandr Zinoviev, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Jan Vladislav Organizations: maghiar, Europa Liberă, UDMR, Soros, editura Macmillan Locations: Târgu Mureș, Budapesta, România, Elveția, Cluj, Ungaria, New York, Europa de Est, Europa Centrală, Est

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