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☆ 15 of the most successful companies that started in homes, basements, sheds, and bedrooms
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Caroline Fox | Erin Mcdowell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Amazon began as an online book store in Jeff Bezos' home garage. Jeff Bezos' garage in Bellevue, Washington. Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesIn 1994, Jeff Bezos decided to take advantage of the internet's potential. He quit his New York hedge fund job and drove to Bellevue, Washington, where he rented a house. On February 2, 2021, Amazon announced Bezos would be stepping down as CEO and transition to the role of executive chairman.

REUTERS/Tom KaeckenhoffLEVERKUSEN, Germany, April 5 (Reuters) - Incoming Bayer (BAYGn.DE) chief executive Bill Anderson says he is keeping an open mind on whether to break up the company into smaller pieces, as some fidgety investors want. "That's why I said I am going to have an open mind," he said. On the stock market Bayer, once the most valuable company on Germany's DAX blue-chip index, is now worth only about the same as it paid for Monsanto. At Bayer, he said he did not have his own desk and made use of the company's meeting rooms as needed. Professing a love of American football, hiking and snowboarding, he was also effusive about Bayer as a company and its heritage of medicines such as Aspirin.

The fact that Charles had picked France and Germany for his first state visit, even before his coronation in May, was an important "European gesture", said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who greeted Charles and his wife Queen Consort Camilla in Berlin. "Today, exactly six years after Britain started its exit from the European Union, we are opening a new chapter in our relations," Steinmeier said. [1/14] Britain's King Charles III and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier review an honor guard during a ceremonial welcome at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, on March 29, 2023. Steinmeier said he had invited Charles to visit Germany at Elizabeth's funeral last September. However, any warmer relations with Europe brought about by the visit could cool if other post-Brexit issues flare up.

[1/2] Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla leave after their visit to the Bolton Town Hall, in Bolton, Britain January 20, 2023. Steinmeier, said it was an important "European gesture" that Charles had chosen France and Germany for his first state visit, even before his coronation in May. Steinmeier said he had extended an invitation to Charles, who has traveled to Germany more than 40 times, at the funeral of his mother last September. However, any warmer relations with Europe brought about by the visit could cool quickly if other post-Brexit issues flare up. Macron has suggested Charles' visit to France could be rescheduled for the summer.

☆ See inside a few of the coolest offices in North America, where frozen yogurt is served out of Airstreams and conference rooms have holograms. Should your office be on the list? Let us know.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Office use on average is around 50% of prepandemic levels in major cities like New York. Employers are responding with amped up perks and spaces that allow for hybrid work. From an Airstream trailer serving frozen yogurt to fort-like meeting rooms, see a few office perks. Take a peek at a few of the offices that are pulling ahead of the pack. If your office opened after 2020 and you think it should be on this list, email reporter Jordan Pandy at jpandy@insider.com.

☆ The No. 1 best U.S. city to live in is Cambridge, Massachusetts—see which other cities made the list
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-26 | by ( Celia Fernandez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Niche released its list of the best U.S. cities to live in 2023. This month, Niche released its ranking of the best cities to live in America in 2023. The list ranked 228 cities by using data from the U.S. Census, FBI, Bureau of Labor Statistics and CDC in combination with millions of resident reviews. Like Cambridge, the second city on the list, Arlington, Virginia, is home to top-class universities like Georgetown and George Washington University. Arlington, Virginia also ranks as one of the best cities to raise a family and retire.

☆ Norfolk Southern CEO to tell senators how he plans to 'make it right' after Ohio derailment
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Drone footage shows the freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, U.S., February 6, 2023 in this screengrab obtained from a handout video released by the NTSB. Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw will tell a U.S. Senate panel Thursday how he plans to "make it right" after one of the company's trains derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, last month. Other committees in Congress are also investigating the East Palestine derailment. On Saturday, another Norfolk Southern train derailed in Ohio, after which residents near Springfield were ordered to shelter in place. Hours after that derailment, internal emails obtained by CNBC indicated that Norfolk Southern was making broad safety adjustments to prevent future incidents.

☆ Amazon pauses construction of second headquarters in Virginia
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Annie Palmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon HQ2 rendering showing the Helix, which includes work space, will also be open to the public select weekends every month. Amazon is pausing construction of its second headquarters, dubbed HQ2, in Virginia, the company confirmed to CNBC. John Schoettler, Amazon's real estate head, said in a statement the company is pushing out the groundbreaking of PenPlace, the second phase of the sprawling northern Virginia campus. "Our second headquarters has always been a multi-year project, and we remain committed to Arlington, Virginia, and the greater Capital Region." Amazon selected Arlington as the site of HQ2, in addition to the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York, as part of a closely watched, splashy search for a second headquarters that kicked off in 2017.

☆ The battle over abortion access could return to the ballot box in four states in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Millions of Americans lost legal access to abortion after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. The GOP used state ballot initiatives banning same-sex marriage to juice turnout, including in the critical state of Ohio. "The majority of Arizonans support safe, legal abortion, and we need to roll back many of the restrictions that are in place now." Two abortion rights groups are teaming up to put the question before voters in 2024. The ballot box might also be abortion rights advocates' best hope as the unicameral legislature appears to be on the verge of breaking a filibuster to pass a 6-week abortion ban.

☆ Three Years Into Covid, We Still Don’t Know How to Talk About It
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Jon Mooallem | Photographs Ashley Gilbertson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +53 min

It will play out and reverberate for years or decades, Hagen told me. “The pathological normal,” Hagen calls it: a patchwork of homespun, bespoke realities, each one invested in a different story about what exactly happened when Covid ruptured the story of our lives. garb.”More than once, life seemed to be attaining “an uncanny resemblance to normal life,” as one man put it. But because we don’t totally understand where that experience has delivered us, we don’t know the right gloss to give it. “The days are strange,” one public-school teacher told Milstein toward the end of his first interview, in May 2020.

☆ The growing number of distressed office buildings reflects a recognition by owners and lenders that the robust return to office they had hoped for isn't likely to materialize
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Office owners like Brookfield, RXR, and Related are in the process of defaulting on office loans. Some of real estate's biggest names have defaulted on their office debt in recent weeks. The delinquency rate for office loans is only 1.83% now, according to Trepp, a firm that researches real-estate debt. Loans come dueOver this year and next year, 24% of commercial real estate loans will be coming due, many of them office loans, per Hendry. Office buildings, from the newest and shiniest Class A towers to the older and less-sexy Class B buildings, were a pretty safe investment, as long as they were in the right locales.

☆ Emission Cuts Will Fail to Stop Climate Change. What to Do Then?
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Bellevue, Wash. Sometimes it takes a visionary to throw cold water on a seemingly revolutionary development. When scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved a breakthrough in December—producing more energy in a fusion reaction than they used to ignite it—the Biden administration hyped the experiment as a quantum leap for its green agenda. “This milestone,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm boasted, “moves us one significant step closer to the possibility of zero-carbon abundant fusion energy powering our society.”

☆ T-Mobile misses quarterly revenue estimates as competition bites
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Feb 1 (Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) missed fourth-quarter revenue estimates on Wednesday despite adding thousands of wireless subscribers, as competitors ramped up their holiday season handset offers to lure customers. However, Verizon (T.N) and AT&T (T.N) ramped up their handset offers during the holiday season to tap into growing demand after the latest iPhone launch, hitting T-Mobile's torrid growth. By contrast, Verizon reported churn of 0.89% for monthly phone subscribers while AT&T's came in at 0.84%. It expects to add between 5 million and 5.5 million net monthly-bill paying subscribers in 2023, compared with the 6.4 million additions it reported in 2022. Reporting by Eva Mathews in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli and Mark PorterOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ T-Mobile says investigating data breach involving 37 mln accounts
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Jan 19 (Reuters) - U.S. wireless carrier T-Mobile (TMUS.O) said on Thursday it was investigating a data breach involving 37 million postpaid and prepaid accounts and that it expected to incur significant costs related to the incident. The company said it identified malicious activity on Jan. 5 and contained it within a day, adding that no sensitive data such as financial information was compromised. However, some basic customer information was obtained, such as name, billing address, email and phone number, T-Mobile said. T-Mobile has over 110 million subscribers, making it the third-largest wireless carrier in the United States. Reporting by Eva Mathews in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila and Maju SamuelOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ NYC machete attacker arrested, faces charges of attempted murder
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-02 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

A spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office told NBC News Monday afternoon it is unclear when he will be arraigned "based on a number of factors." The three officers were hospitalized, according to Sewell, who said one had a fractured skull and another had a bad cut. The sources added that Bickford is believed to have traveled from Wells to lower Manhattan on Thursday mainly via Amtrak. FBI agents were outside Bickford's Wells home on Sunday, NBC affiliate WCSH of Portland, Maine reported. Neighbors told NBC affiliate WJAR of Providence, Rhode Island they were shocked by the attack.

☆ Suspect in New Year's Eve NYC police attack reportedly linked to Islamic extremism
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-02 | by ( Kanishka Singh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Jan 2 (Reuters) - A teenager accused of attacking three policemen with a machete on New Year's Eve near Times Square was charged with attempted murder and attempted assault, New York police said on Monday, in an incident the New York Times said was linked to Islamic extremism. Authorities did not comment on the motivation for the attack, but the Times reported that the suspect was driven by Islamic extremism. The newspaper quoted an unnamed senior law enforcement official, who said that Bickford may later face extremism charges. The Times said Bickford had converted to Islam sometime in the last year and a half. Before the attack, Bickford wrote a farewell letter to his family in a diary, the Times reported.

☆ NYU's emergency room gave special treatment to donors and VIPs including Chuck Schumer, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Sarah Braner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The New York Times reports NYU Langone gave "VIPs" like donors and trustees preferential treatment. NYU Langone broadly denied the claims in a statement to Insider. Langone told the Times that he never asked for or was offered special treatment. Ambulance workers who brought these patients to NYU Langone were sometimes pressured to take them elsewhere, the report says. New York Senator Chuck Schumer once went into Room 20 with his wife, who was experiencing shortness of breath, the Times reported.

☆ Bunge to build $550-mln soy processing facility in Indiana
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Dec 15 (Reuters) - Agriculture commodities trader Bunge Ltd (BG.N) said on Thursday it would invest about $550 million to build a soy protein concentrate facility in Indiana to cater to a rising demand for plant-based food products and processed meats. The new facility, which is adjacent to the company's soybean processing plant in Morristown, is expected to process an additional 4.5 million bushels of soybeans. Soy protein concentrate is used to make meat alternatives, but also helps to increase nutritional value in existing meat and poultry products. The global plant-based meat market size, according to a report by Grand View Research Inc, is projected to reach $24.8 billion by 2030. Bunge also operates a soy protein concentrate operation in Bellevue, Ohio.

Participants who were offered cash incentives for either pounds lost or for completing certain activities were more likely to lose weight compared with those who were simply offered tools, such as diet books, fitness trackers and access to a weight loss program, the study found. On average, participants in the goal-directed group earned $440.44, as compared to $303.56 in the outcome-based group. “Even if less weight is lost, adopting lifelong physical activity or better eating habits may be more important,” she said. Kushner, who was not involved with the new study, agreed that low-income people face extra challenges when it comes to weight loss. What’s not clear, however, is how the strategy of offering cash for weight loss could be implemented in a real-world setting, outside of academia.

☆ I used a HELOC to become an Airbnb millionaire. It was risky, but the strategy paid off big time — here's how I set up this secondary income stream.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Bryce Decora | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

This was the beginning of a world of real estate that would change our lives foreverDeCora's Bellevue Airbnb. If the real estate market started trending downward at this time, this story may not have had such a happy endingExtending your debt to the max in real estate is the equivalent of an all-in poker move. Our three-house real estate portfolio is worth around $2.5 million and we only have $1.35 million in mortgage and HELOC debt. Once you get over the scary leap, you'll see real estate as a simple way to building a massive empire. Bryce DeCora is a former engineer turned real estate investor and a father of two.

☆ As Trump Org's jail-bound ex-CFO testifies, Harvey Weinstein's prison consultant is watching
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Jail-bound Allen Weisselberg, Trump's ex-CFO, is testifying in the Trump Org tax-fraud trial. Harvey Weinstein's prison coach, Craig Rothfeld, is sitting with the ex-CFO's lawyers, watching. Clearly still loyal to Trump, his boss since the mid-'80s, Weisselberg has been doing a delicate dance on the witness stand. If he displeases prosecutors, the 75-year-old accountant could find himself serving a state prison term. Prosecutors, though, must prove that Weisselberg intended this benefit to the company, something he has yet to say.

☆ Mark Zuckerberg apologized for laying off 11,000 Meta staff, but Elon Musk didn't say sorry to Twitter workers who lost their jobs
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Stephanie Stacey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologised to employees and said the layoffs were a "last resort." The cuts at Meta come after Lyft let go almost 700 workers, Stripe cut 14% of its staff, and Twitter axed half its workforce. That compares with Twitter employees receiving blunt emails titled "Your Role at Twitter" that stated: "Today is your last working day at the company." Twitter employees have only been offered three months' pay. Elon Musk has defended Twitter's mass layoffs — saying he had "no choice" but to cut thousands of workers as the company loses $4 million a day.

☆ Republican Jim Pillen faces off against Democratic state Sen. Carol Blood in Nebraska's gubernatorial election
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Explore more race results below. Republican Jim Pillen is running against Democratic state Sen. Carol Blood in Nebraska's gubernatorial race. The race is pegged as "solid Republican." Prior to being elected to the state senate, Blood served two terms on the Bellevue City Council as the at-large representative. What experts sayThe race between Pillen and Blood is rated as "solid Republican" by Inside Elections, "solid Republican" by The Cook Political Report, and "safe Republican" by Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.

☆ Former 'SNL' star Chris Redd makes first public comments following assault
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Former “Saturday Night Live” star Chris Redd is publicly detailing his experience being attacked last month outside a famed New York City comedy club where he was scheduled to perform. I thought it was brass knuckles because it cut my nose to the bone," Redd said on "The Last Laugh." After being hit, Redd briefly fell to the ground before jumping back to his feet, he said: "He hit me, he was gone, I was gushing blood so I couldn't look around." Now, he's preparing to make the assault part of his next set, he said: "I got some jokes, for sure," Redd said. He was last seen wearing a blue jacket; blue shirt; black pants; black, gray and white sneakers; a multi-color fedora hat; and a black face mask.

☆ Taylor Swift used my company's casket for her 'Anti-Hero' music video. We saw a huge spike in traffic and thank her profusely.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Chris Stokel-Walker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Joshua Siegel cofounded Titan Casket, a direct-to-consumer casket seller. It sold a casket to a production company, which Taylor Swift used in her new video for "Anti-Hero." When Scott described the industry structure to me, I immediately saw the opportunity to create a direct-to-consumer business selling caskets. Liz and Scott ran the business full-time, and we brought on an intern from the University of North Carolina for the summer of 2020. Because funeral caskets don't constitute a highly competitive space, we could book Google Ads without much competition.

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