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Learn moreRound 1 of the 2024 WNBA Playoffs is underway, and the Seattle Storm will fight to stay in the tournament tonight. We'll show you how to watch the Seattle Storm vs. Las Vegas Aces from anywhere. The Storm and Aces faced off on Sunday night in a tight game that saw the Las Vegas team win 78-67. How to watch Seattle Storm vs. Las Vegas Aces in the USThe Seattle Storm vs. Las Vegas Aces game will air at 9:30 p.m. Check price at FuboHow to watch Seattle Storm vs. Las Vegas Aces from anywhereYou don't need to worry about missing out on the game tonight if you're traveling outside of the US.

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☆ We spent over $54,000 renovating our house — but these 5 cheap upgrades actually made the biggest difference
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Melissa Noble | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Go to newsletter preferencesSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewWhen we purchased a three-bedroom fixer-upper in Melbourne, Australia, in 2017, we couldn't wait to move in and get started renovating. Over the course of three years, we spent just over $80,000 Australian dollars, about $54,000, transforming it into our dream home. Here are five fairly low cost upgrades that really boosted our property's appeal and got many compliments from friends and family. AdvertisementIt only cost about AU$200 to make, but it really added to the property's street appeal.

Persons: —, Cameron Church Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Melbourne, Australia

☆ Ordering delivery has gotten wildly expensive
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-07 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementThe premium that diners pay to have their food delivered can be hefty. That might make delivery seem like an obvious place for consumers to cut back their spending these days. DoorDash customers have continued ordering food — and, increasingly, groceries and other products — from the service, Xu said. He and his wife still have Thai food delivered, for instance, when they have friends over in the evenings and don't want to interrupt socializing with a trip to pick up dinner. Do you work for a gig delivery service and have a story idea to share?

Persons: —, Ravi Wadan, Wadan, Uber, Taco Bell, Tony Xu, We're, Xu, hasn't, Dara Khosrowshahi, Khosrowshahi Organizations: Service, TikTok, Business Locations: Seattle, FinanceBuzz, McDonald's

☆ Working for Doordash and Grubhub increasingly feels like a 9-5. And that may be bad news for the companies.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-24 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewOn weekends, a gig delivery worker in Utah takes out his phone and opens one of three apps to make some extra money as an independent contractor. However, the people doing the work say that things like performance metrics often eat into that flexibility. "It doesn't feel much like I'm on contract," the Utah gig worker told Business Insider. But metrics such as this are just one aspect of delivery gig work that workers say feels like a traditional job. Related storiesFor example, one Chicago delivery worker told BI that he avoids Grubhub due to the app's scheduling feature.

Persons: —, Uber, Grubhub doesn't, Instacart, DoorDash, they're, Grubhub, David Jacobs, Jacobs, there's Organizations: Service, Business, Costco, Walmart, US Department of Labor, Trump, Kogod School of Business, Wall Locations: Utah, Chicago, Seattle

☆ Golden Opportunity to Boost Job, Labor Market: Raise the Minimum Wage
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-08 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

The federal minimum wage, which has been stuck at $7.25 an hour for 15 years. Given the situation, here's an idea: Why not raise the federal minimum wage right now? Getting anything done legislatively is always a challenge, especially in an election year, but polls indicate a higher minimum wage is broadly popular. AdvertisementOnce the minimum wage gets so high that it starts to cause a bunch of job loss, that's a problem. If a higher minimum wage lifts millions of people out of poverty, that's incredible.

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☆ The Solution for High Rents and Home Prices: Fewer Stairs
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( James Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

More specifically, they're taking aim at a widespread rule that requires almost every new apartment building in the US to include at least two separate stairwells. This part of local codes, they say, is an outdated safety measure that really just makes apartment units smaller, more expensive, and darker (yes, darker). City planners there sometimes call these single-stair buildings "Seattle Specials" — they simply wouldn't be possible in pretty much any other city. Almost all of Europe, as well as Asia, Mexico and South America, allows single-stair buildings of six stories or higher. Germany allows single-stair buildings to stretch to about 20 stories, while Switzerland has no such limit.

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☆ The delivery reckoning is here
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Unlike employees, contractor delivery workers have to cover many of their own costs. "No one wins under this law, including delivery workers," the spokesperson said. Gig workers have had to get choosier about jobsThe dilemma isn't unique to the food delivery world. Timothy Turer, who has worked in rideshare and gig delivery in Florida since 2016, remembers the dirt-cheap fares that Uber and Lyft offered riders early on. But with many telling BI that the job has gotten less profitable for them lately, or setting up their own delivery services, or even begging food delivery customers for better tips, it's clear cracks are starting to show in the well-polished delivery system.

Persons: —, Uber, that's, it's, Instacart wouldn't, Instacart, he's, you'd, They've, Timothy Turer, Lyft, I'm, Turer, hasn't, DoorDash Organizations: Service, Business Locations: California, North America, New York, Seattle, rideshare, Florida

☆ Inside Starbucks' plans to improve stores for customers and baristas
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Kate Rogers | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

At the heart of the plan is Starbucks' "Siren Craft System," a series of processes that aim to make baristas' jobs easier and speed up service times for customers. Starbucks said more than 10% of its 10,000 stores have already implemented the system, which includes changing the production order for hot and cold drinks. Starbucks reported rates of incomplete mobile app orders in the mid-teens and said occasional customers came in less. Losing customers because of slow orders and other store frustrations could cost Starbucks at a particularly vulnerable time. The company plans to train existing workers for the role or potentially add new baristas, if needed.

Persons: Beata Zawrzel, Laxman Narasimhan, Katie Young, Peter Saleh, Young, Howard Schultz, Narasimhan, Schultz, Macoy McGlaughlin, Walker, we're, McGlaughlin, Baristas Organizations: Starbucks, Nurphoto, Getty, CNBC, Workers Locations: Krakow, Poland, North America

☆ Meet Bill and Melinda Gates' Gen Z daughter Phoebe, a Stanford graduate and activist who's dating Paul McCartney's grandson
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Charissa Cheong | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Phoebe Gates is the youngest daughter of Bill and Melinda Gates. Bill and Melinda Gates. Getty/Scott OlsonBill Gates and Melinda French Gates, who married in 1994 and divorced in 2021, have three children: Jennifer, 28, Rory, 25, and Phoebe, 21. The three Gates children will inherit at least some of their parents' wealth: Bill Gates has said he plans to leave them "only" $10 million each. Today, nearly five decades after cofounding Microsoft, Bill Gates has a fortune of about $134 billion, according to Forbes.

Persons: Phoebe Gates, Bill, Melinda Gates, Getty, Scott Olson Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, Jennifer, Rory, Phoebe, Puck, Bill Gates, Gates, Warren Buffett, Fortune Organizations: Lakeside School, Microsoft, Forbes, Gates Foundation

☆ At this comedy show, tech workers are the butt of every joke
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Samantha Stokes | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

But comments like these are par for the course at Socially Inept, a comedy show hosted by former tech employees who make the audience — which is largely made up of tech workers themselves — the material. Socially Inept was founded by Jesse Warren and Austin Nasso, two former Big Tech employees. AdvertisementNasso, Oster, and Warren met through Seattle's comedy scene when Nasso and Warren worked Big Tech jobs in the city. It makes it seem like you're in on the joke, even when you're also kind of the butt of the joke. And for the most part, it seemed like tech workers in the audience were very self-aware and took their roasts in stride.

Persons: —, She's, Peter Jay Sharp, Jesse Warren, Austin Nasso, Nikita Oster, Boston —, Nasso, Oster, Warren, Masha Oster, — Warren, Justin Bieber, James Franco, Tom Brady, revel, they're Organizations: Service, Business, Flatiron District, Union Square Ventures, Google, Big Tech, Boston, Microsoft, SpaceX, Valley Bank, Army, eBay, Tech Locations: New York, Hudson, Manhattan, San Francisco , LA, Miami, Seattle, LA, hurtfulness

☆ One private equity firm controls more than a dozen of the biggest restaurant chains
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementThere's a good chance that just one private equity firm owns one of your favorite restaurant chains. Over the last quarter-century, Roark Capital Group has bought up nearly 20 restaurant brands in the US. Its latest acquisition happened last year when it acquired Subway, which operates the most stores out of any restaurant chain in the US. AdvertisementThe private equity firm also has investments in The Cheesecake Factory, which is publicly traded, as well as midwestern burger chain Culver's. AdvertisementWhile Roark owns a lot of restaurant brands, it's hardly the only private equity player in the industry.

Persons: —, Carl's Jr, Dunkin, Tyler Le, Roark, Jimmy John's, Auntie Anne's, Howard Roark, Ayn, TriArtisan Organizations: Buffalo Wild Wings, Roark Capital Group, Service, Business, Roark Capital, Hooters, TriArtisan Capital, Bay Capital Locations: Subway, Arby's, Carl's, Atlanta, Ayn Rand's, Nestle, Mars

☆ This one private equity firm owns over a dozen of your favorite restaurants
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementThere's a good chance that just one private equity firm owns one of your favorite restaurant chains. Its latest acquisition happened last year when it acquired Subway, which operates the most stores out of any restaurant chain in the US. But Roark's holdings include other restaurants that you've probably visited before:Roark Capital owns almost 20 restaurant brands, from Carl's Jr. to Dunkin'. AdvertisementThe private equity firm also has investments in The Cheesecake Factory, which is publicly traded, as well as midwestern burger chain Culver's. AdvertisementWhile Roark owns a lot of restaurant brands, it's hardly the only private equity player in the industry.

☆ Nadella, Narayen among tech CEOs investing in cricket's American dream
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Seema Mody | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Somasegar and Nadella are among the key owners of Seattle's cricket team, named the Orcas. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen are among the executives investing in the new U.S. professional league, Major League Cricket. Other cricket investors include Iconic Ventures, Madrona Venture Group and executives from Google . As the Men's T20 Cricket World Cup , co-hosted by the U.S. for the first time, ramps up, investors have pumped nearly a billion dollars into their American ambition. Venture capitalist Anurag Jain, part owner of Major League Cricket team the San Francisco Unicorns, said the U.S. national team is primarily made up of players in the league.

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☆ Seattle's gig worker wage law is just four months old. Now a proposed overhaul could result in pay cuts.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewSince January, gig delivery workers in Seattle have been reaping the benefits of a local law mandating a certain pay level. Under the proposal, gig workers would be paid an hourly rate of $19.97 for their time spent retrieving and delivering orders. Instead, gig workers would get paid 35 cents per mile — down from the current 74 cents. In emails and calls to action sent to gig workers, DoorDash, Instacart, Uber, and others have claimed that there are fewer orders for gig workers to claim. Seattle City Council President Nelson did not respond to a request for an interview from Business Insider.

Persons: —, Sara Nelson, They're, PayUp, Justin Taylor, Taylor, he'll, Nelson, Dashers, Instacart, Uber, it's Organizations: Service, Business, Seattle City, Washington, PayUp, Seattle's, Uber, Seattle City Council Locations: Seattle, Seattle's

☆ Instacart, DoorDash, and other apps appear to be trying to roll back Seattle's new laws for gig workers
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-13 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Instacart, DoorDash, and other apps seem to be trying to roll back Seattle's new gig worker pay law. They say Seattle gig workers are making less and delivering fewer orders after many raised prices. But in the preamble to the survey, Instacart indicated it already had thoughts about how things were going. One poster, who included screenshots of the message, encouraged other Instacart shoppers to turn the pre-written letter to the city council around. Uber Eats and Grubhub have also put out statements saying that things have gotten worse for their gig workers since Seattle's law took effect.

Persons: —, Instacart, they've, That's, PayUp, DoorDash, Dashers, Anna Powell, GeekWire, Powell Organizations: Service, Seattle City Council, Business, Instacart, BI, Walmart Locations: Seattle, Seattle's, DoorDash

☆ Women cyclists used a $6,000 bike to fight off a cougar who was mauling their friend: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewFive female cyclists fought off a male cougar in the Pacific Northwest wilderness for 45 minutes, KUOW reports. Five women cyclists in their 50s to 60s had embarked on a ride at the Tokul Creek trail, east of Seattle. Advertisement"Looking to my right, I saw the cougar's face," Bergere told KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio, Seattle's NPR news station. Falling into a shallow ditch with the cougar, Bergere thought her "teeth were coming loose" and could feel her "bones crushing." "These ladies are not big, and they were killing this cougar," Bergere said.

Persons: —, Keri Bergere, Bergere, KUOW, Thomas Barwick, Annie Bilotta, Jeff Sikich, Tietz Organizations: Service, Business, KUOW Puget Sound Public, NPR, Fish & Wildlife Police, National Parks Service, Reuters Cougars, Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife, Department Locations: Pacific, Washington, Seattle, Santa Susana, Southern California

☆ Uber and Lyft are threatening to leave Minneapolis over a ride-hailing proposal supporters say would guarantee drivers earn the city's minimum wage
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The conversation around ride-hailing driver pay has been heating up across the country over the past year. AdvertisementLoren Balazs, a full-time driver in Minneapolis, told BI he's worried the city council's proposal would hurt his ride-hailing business. The study estimated that a minimum pay rate of $1.21 per mile and $0.49 per minute would guarantee drivers earned the city's minimum wage. AdvertisementThe debate over minimum pay for ride-hailing drivers has been building in Minneapolis for over a year. Tim Walz vetoed a bill that would have established minimum pay standards for Uber and Lyft drivers.

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☆ 2026 World Cup final will be played at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

An interior view of the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The 2026 World Cup final will be played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on July 19. Other U.S. sites are Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts; NRG Stadium in Houston; Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri; Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia; Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Hard Rock Stadium will host this year's Copa América final on July 14, while MetLife was the site of the 2016 Copa América final. Artificial turf will be replaced by grass in Arlington, Atlanta, East Rutherford, Foxborough, Houston, Inglewood and Vancouver.

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TORONTO (AP) — Even during the All-Star break, Nathan MacKinnon kept thinking ahead to the second half of the NHL season. “Everyone’s going to be playing a lot of hockey here the next couple months, so consistency’s big,” Crosby said. “There’s other teams playing good hockey, so, yeah, we got to win games.”MVP REPEAT? He trails MacKinnon by 17 points and Tampa Bay's Nikita Kucherov by 18 in the scoring race, but McDavid is arguably playing better all-around hockey than he did last season. “It might not be the most offensively sexy year, but I think we’re doing a lot of good things,” McDavid said.

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☆ I'm a gig worker who argued for Seattle's new minimum pay laws. Now, I'm fighting for my Instacart job.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-03 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Michelle Balzer, an Instacart driver in Seattle. Balzer was among those who advocated for PayUp, a series of bills meant to protect gig workers passed by Seattle's city council. One of the laws, which requires companies like Instacart to pay contractors the equivalent of the city's $19.97-an-hour minimum wage, took effect on January 13. An Instacart spokesperson told BI: "Due to new regulations imposed by the Seattle City Council, we're making several changes to how Instacart operates in Seattle. AdvertisementDo you work for Instacart, DoorDash, Walmart Spark, or another gig work app and have a story idea to share?

Persons: Michelle Balzer, Balzer, I've, Instacart, PayUp, It's Organizations: Service, PayUp, Business, Shoppers, Seattle, Seattle City Council, Safety, Walmart Locations: Seattle, Seattle's, Pacific Northwest, PayUp, Instacart, Washington, DoorDash

☆ DoorDash raises fees for NYC deliveries after warning that a new minimum wage law would hit customers
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Jordan Hart | Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

DoorDash followed through with its claim that delivery orders in New York City would be hit with increased fees. All customers placing orders in New York City will start seeing that fee on Friday in response to new minimum wage rules in the city, a DoorDash spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider. DoorDash warned customers that fees would increase due to these rules. Referring to the Regulatory Response Fee in Seattle, DoorDash said in a statement on January 13 that it helped "cover the costs of these new regulations. AdvertisementUber Eats has added similar fees to orders in New York and Seattle with the advent of those cities' laws.

Persons: DoorDash, Uber, we're, abitter@businessinsider.com Organizations: Business, Seattle, Target, Workers, Walmart Locations: New York, New York City, Seattle, Instacart

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle has agreed to pay $10 million to 50 demonstrators who sued over the police department’s heavy-handed response to racial justice protests in 2020, in a settlement announced by attorneys from both sides Wednesday. The police department — led by then-Chief Carmen Best — used aggressive techniques to disperse the crowds, including flash-bang grenades, foam-tipped projectiles and blast balls that explode and emit pepper gas. A federal judge at one point ordered the department to stop using them against peaceful demonstrators. And when police used them even after Best and then-Mayor Jenny Durkan promised it would stop, the City Council voted unanimously to bar the department from doing so. “This decision was the best financial decision for the City considering risk, cost, and insurance,” Davison said.

Persons: George Floyd, ”, —, Carmen Best —, Jenny Durkan, Aubreanna Inda, “, ” Karen Koehler, Ann Davison, ” Davison Organizations: SEATTLE, Minneapolis police, City Council, City, Peaceful Locations: Seattle

☆ A student was trapped inside an empty Amtrak train after she fell asleep during the ride and missed her stop
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Monica Humphries | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewAria Lockhart boarded an Amtrak train around 3 a.m. out of Carbondale, Illinois, headed for Chicago on Sunday. "I stood up, and I looked around, and the entire car was empty," Lockhart told the outlet. Jackson told WGN that Amtrak's customer service representatives didn't offer much help. "If anyone was trapped on the train that would be some type of urgency, and I didn't see that," Jackson told WGN. AdvertisementAnd in January 2023, Amtrak passengers were stuck on a train for more than 20 hours on a ride from Virginia to Orlando.

Persons: —, Lockhart, Victoria Jackson, Jackson, KIRO, Sam Sweeney, they’re, — Sam Sweeney Organizations: Service, Amtrak, Chicago, Business, Southern Illinois University, WGN, Chicago's, BI, Passengers, ABC News Locations: Carbondale , Illinois, Portland , Oregon, Seattle, Virginia, Orlando, reroute, South Carolina

☆ 2 manatees named Romeo and Juliet that have lived in a tank at a Florida theme park since 1956 will finally be freed after pressure from activists
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Two manatees will be released from a Miami aquarium that has held them since 1956. The US Fish and Wildlife Service is helping to relocate Romeo and Juliet, both in their 60s. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . The aquarium did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, nor did a spokesperson from the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

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☆ NHL roundup: Lightning's Andrei Vasilevskiy wins season debut
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +12 min

Jake DeBrusk and Danton Heinen scored for Boston, which had gained points in seven straight games since a 5-4 loss in Detroit on Nov. 4. Kiefer Sherwood had a goal and two assists for the Predators, who won their fourth straight game. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored one goal and added two assists, while Evander Kane and Evan Bouchard also scored for the Oilers. Johnathan Kovacevic also scored and Cayden Primeau made 31 saves for Montreal, which won its second straight road game. Kirill Kaprizov had a goal and an assist and Joel Eriksson Ek also scored for Minnesota, which lost its sixth straight game.

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