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☆ We asked hairstylists their biggest pet peeves at the salon — here are their 8 rules of customer etiquette
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Su-Jit Lin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Insider asked three hairstylists the things they wish clients knew, and not all of them are obvious. Now that salons are back with full steam, it's as good a time as any to brush up on salon etiquette. Insider spoke with seasoned and newer hairstylists in urban and suburban salons to find out their best customer etiquette tips across the board. Expect to get what you pay forWhen you enlist the service of a professional, you're not paying for that one service — you're paying for the years of experience that led to it. "There's one lady that comes to my salon who always tips $40 for a blowout, which is a lot," Fernandes said.

☆ Robinhood is pivoting to retirement accounts as novice traders shun the get-rich-quick appeal of meme stocks
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Robinhood announced plans to add retirement accounts for customers on Tuesday. The move comes as Robinhood faces a slump in retail trading activity. The retail trading platform popular with meme-stock enthusiasts launched the waitlist for the product on Tuesday. The offering, dubbed Robinhood Retirement, will match 1% of what customers put it into their Roth or traditional IRAs on every eligible dollar. Robinhood offers crypto trading for user brokerage accounts, but will only allow equities and ETFs for its retirement account.

☆ Robinhood to pay a 1% 'match' on customer contributions to retail individual retirement accounts
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The retail brokerage will pay a 1% "match" on contributions its customers make to a Robinhood individual retirement account, the firm said Tuesday. The firm is billing it as the first-ever match paid to retail IRA customers (i.e., outside of a workplace retirement plan.) A 401(k) match is a common retirement benefit offered by employers that sponsor a workplace retirement plan. How the match worksA 401(k) match is generally structured as a share of employee contributions. There aren't any contribution or account minimums to get the Robinhood match, and trades don't carry commissions.

☆ Amazon is offering customers $2 per month for letting the company monitor the traffic on their phones
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Under the company's new invite-only Ad Verification program, Amazon is tracking what ads participants saw, where they saw them, and the time of day they were viewed. Through the program, Amazon hopes to offer more personalized-ad experiences to customers that reflect what they have previously purchased, according to Amazon. The deal is part of the Amazon Shopper Panel, an invite-only program where select Amazon customers can earn $10 per month if they upload 10 eligible receipts from purchases made outside of Amazon. When pressed on its privacy concerns, an Amazon spokesperson referred Insider to its Shopper Panel FAQs and Amazon's privacy notice. Both the Facebook and Google programs were shut down in 2019 due to privacy concerns, The Verge and TechCrunch reported.

☆ Peter Thiel's VC fund backs TreeCard, a fintech that plants trees when you spend
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

TreeCard offers users a spending and money management platform tied to a debit card made from wood. TreeCardTreeCard, a climate-conscious digital money app, raised $23 million from investors in a new financing round. Though based in the U.K., TreeCard chose the U.S. as its launch market. The TreeCard app includes a game that lets users visualize how many trees their activity has helped produce. TreeCard offers clients up to 3% of annualized interest on their deposits, a feature it offers through third-party vendors.

☆ New San Francisco clubhouse represents a milestone moment for executive women in tech
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Executive women platform Chief opened a new clubhouse in San Francisco this week. ‘Sense that this is a first'On the opposite coast, a counterpart executive clubhouse just opened in San Francisco and it holds great meaning beyond its four walls. Chief's San Francisco clubhouse includes a full-service bar. A month after the San Francisco Chief club's opening, women say they already see it as a milestone moment that represents more than just a new building. “It’s interesting coming full-circle and it feels long overdue.”Executive women platform Chief opened a new clubhouse in San Francisco this week.

☆ What is Hive? I tried the latest Twitter alternative to gain steam
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

This week, Hive Social garnered the top spot in the social networking category on the US App Store. As I tried to download the Hive app on my Apple device, however, I was greeted with a series of errors. Hive Social, which lists just two employees on LinkedIn, did not respond to CNN Business’ requests for an interview or further comment. On its website, Hive Social also outlines goals for keeping the community respectful. To be fair, Hive started in 2019 and never sought to be a Twitter clone or to welcome a sudden influx of disgruntled Twitter users.

☆ An ex-Shopify employee used her severance to found a new startup after getting laid off with 1,000 others. Here's why that can be a smart move in a downturn.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Stella Alexandrova was one of 1,000 employees laid off by e-commerce giant Shopify in July. She saw the layoff and five months of severance as an opportunity to launch a business. Alexandrova was one of 1,000 employees laid off at the e-commerce giant this summer. Shopify offered her five months of severance after being laid off, effectively "paying for me to be able to start my own thing," she said. A week after being laid off, Alexandrova started her travel app Mave to help people plan trips in minutes.

☆ Weight loss startups offer access to new drugs, but do they provide good care?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Darius Tahir | Kaiser Health News | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +11 min

Now a wave of startups offer access to a new category of drugs coupled with intensive behavioral coaching online. These patients pay hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, to access new drugs, called GLP-1 agonists, along with online coaching to encourage healthy habits. (That price includes generic drugs, but not the newer GLP-1 agonists, like Wegovy.) The firms say they’re on the vanguard of weight care, both citing the influence of biology and other scientific factors as key ingredients to their approaches. Found said older generics like zonisamide are more accessible than the GLP-1 agonists advertised on social media and their own website.

Every day of the year on the homefront, however, active-duty military families leave behind neighbors and local ties to little fanfare as they relocate to other bases. Right now, military families are not getting enough financial assistance in coping with the cost of constant moves. Since military families move on government orders, they do not have the option of choosing less expensive regions or staying put. Supporting our military families shouldn’t fall solely to the Defense Department, however. Military families are part of our communities, and they need our support.

K9s for Warriors, an organization that has rescued over 1,500 dogs from shelters and trained them as service dogs for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, matched Romero with Puppy — an Australian shepherd — in June. His wife, Brenda, who is a nurse practitioner in psychiatry, encouraged him to apply for a service dog. So far, O’Haire said, research based on participants from K9s for Warriors is showing that veterans with service dogs are struggling significantly less. And for those who are employed, there’s five times less absenteeism from work due to health.”But getting a service dog for veterans with PTSD is still a challenge. “The waitlist for service dogs on average tends to be two years.

☆ Scoop: Andreessen Horowitz beats out Benchmark and NEA to lead Series A funding round for Partiful, the 'Eventbrite for Gen Z'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Ben Bergman | Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Andreessen Horowitz beat out other firms to lead Partiful's series A round, according to sources. Neither the cofounders of Partiful nor Andreessen Horowitz responded to a request for comment. After an intense bidding war, Andreessen Horowitz beat out rival VC firms, including Benchmark and New Enterprise Associates, to lead Partiful's series A funding round, according to three people with knowledge of the financing who were not authorized to speak publicly. Andreessen Horowitz also did not respond to a request for comment. Venture investors, eager to find the next buzzy consumer app, have marveled at Partiful's growth.

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFidelity launches crypto waitlist, and Robinhood shrinks quarterly losses: CNBC Crypto WorldCNBC Crypto World features the latest news and daily trading updates from the digital currency markets and provides viewers with a look at what's ahead with high-profile interviews, explainers, and unique stories from the ever-changing crypto industry. On today's show, Budd White of Tacen explains how crypto investors could change strategy after the Fed's latest rate hike.

☆ Fidelity to open commission-free crypto trading to retail investors
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Tanaya Macheel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Fidelity Investments is launching a commission-free crypto trading product for retail investors. The service, called Fidelity Crypto, will allow investors to buy and sell bitcoin and ether and use custodial and trading services provided by its subsidiary Fidelity Digital Assets. "A meaningful portion of Fidelity customers are already interested in and own crypto. Fidelity follows Robinhood and Binance.US in offering commission-fee crypto trading. Historically they have leaned on trading fees for revenue, but fee-free trading in crypto has become an increasing inevitability.

☆ Tiger Global-backed unicorn trading app Public.com set to expand into the European market in 2023 and make acquisitions
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Callum Burroughs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

New York-based trading app Public.com is set to launch in the European market in 2023. The startup, which is valued at $1.2 billion, is backed by Tiger Global and a string of celebrities. Public's shift into the European market comes as talks to acquire Dutch counterpart Bux collapsed. Public.com, a US trading app backed by Tiger Global and a string of high-profile celebrities, is set to enter into the European market next year. The move comes as talks to acquire European counterpart Bux collapsed, a source familiar with the matter said.

☆ More than 100 election jurisdictions waiting on federal cyber help, sources say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Julia-Ainsley-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Julia Ainsley | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, known as CISA, offers the services on a voluntary basis. But some election information does run through the internet, like voting registration, official information about how and where to vote, and election officials’ email systems. The sources declined to say which states and election jurisdictions have not received the help they asked for, or how many. State and local election officials sought to beef up their security software after the 2019 report from special counsel Robert Mueller revealed Russian interference in the 2016 election. “And we have made this the top priority at CISA over the past year to ensure that we are supporting those election officials.”

☆ For the first time in years, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter are 'weak' and VCs are eager to back alternatives, they say.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

VCs see an opportunity to back the next big social network and take on existing giants. "Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, they're weak, and they're just losing that edge," one investor said. And there may be room for even more young social media companies to rise. For her, identity verification and responsible content moderation are non-negotiable in any new social platform that she backs. "There is a sense of decline for some of these large social media platforms," Lee said.

☆ Warby Parker, once online-only eyeglasses retailer, plans hundreds of more stores
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Barbara Collins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Fighting back against these high price tags, Warby Parker marketed their frames, including lenses, starting at $95. Warby Parker works with more than 100 optometrists across the country and is making large investments into in-person exams. In 2019, more than 60% of Warby Parker transactions were taking place in-store. Gilboa said the optical labs allow Warby Parker to have tighter quality control, faster turnaround times and higher margins. Warby Parker first made its stock market debut in September 2021 through a direct listing as opposed to an IPO.

☆ About 17 Americans die waiting for transplants each day. Scientists are trying to make more organs in 5 creative ways.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Courtesy of Leilani GrahamIf pig organs turn out to be just as effective as human organs, she added, "That is more appealing to me than using marginal donors." If the technique works for human organs in the future, it could allow clinicians to preserve many more organs for donation after death. Changing organs' blood typeEnzymes are delivered to a lung inside a perfusion machine at Dr. Marcelo Cypel’s lab. Growing synthetic organs from stem cellsResearcher Stormy Chamberlain holds a tray of stem cells at the University of Connecticut's Stem Cell Institute. Hanna started a company called Renewal Bio to pursue the possibility of turning stem cells into organs for transplants.

☆ Artists say AI image generators are copying their style to make thousands of new images — and it's completely out of their control
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

"My name is being used a lot to generate AI images, along with the names of other working artists." "So if an AI is copying an artist's style and a company can just get an image generated that's similar to a popular artist's style without actually going to artists to pay them for that work, that could become an issue." Representatives from Open AI said both publicly available sources and images licensed by the company make up DALL-E's training data. Copyright laws around AI images are murkyIt's unclear whether copyright laws will protect the new artwork that AI programs generate. "I have friends in the industry who will storm out of the room if I even bring up using AI," he said.

☆ US Bank will soon launch the Shopper Cash Rewards card — and its earning rate of up to 6% cash back at popular retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and Target will be tough to beat
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Tessa Campbell | Personal Finance Reviews Fellow | Read More | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The new US Bank Shopper Cash Rewards card will earn up to 6% back at popular retailers, including Walmart, Chewy, Lululemon, and Macys. YakobchukOlena/ Getty ImagesUS Bank has released a sneak peek at its new U.S. Bank Shopper Cash Rewards. The U.S. Bank Shopper Cash Rewards™ Visa Signature® Card isn't currently accepting applications, but you can join the waitlist. US Bank Shopper Cash Rewards Visa Signature Card earning ratesThe U.S. Bank Shopper Cash Rewards™ Visa Signature® Card earns bonus cash back at popular retailers. The card will be most appealing as a no-annual-fee rewards card.

AmazonIf you want to shop Amazon Prime Day Lightning Deals, remember that you have to be an Amazon Prime member first. Typically, Amazon Lightning Deals run the gamut from cleaning supplies to smart home gear. During Amazon Prime Day and the Prime Early Access Sale, however, they are Prime-member exclusive. Along with Amazon Prime Day access, members get tons of other perks like two-day and same-day shipping, Prime Video, Prime Music, and much more. A second Prime Day event, called the Prime Early Access Sale, is live right now and runs through October 12.

☆ SoftBank-backed Elemy aimed to transform autism care. But current and former employees say the $1.15 billion startup overpromised on its capacity to treat kids.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

Elemy, a $1.15 billion startup, promised families and healthcare providers quick access to autism care for kids. The current and former Elemy employees who spoke to Insider for this story requested anonymity because they feared retaliation from the company. ABA therapy, while somewhat controversial, is the most widely used treatment to teach kids with autism new skills and discourage challenging behaviors. At the direction of leadership, Elemy employees on the business-development team told those organizations to send their kids with autism, according to four former employees directly involved in forming referral relationships. Each ABA company performs its own expensive, time-consuming behavior assessments, and some insurers pay for only one assessment every six months, he said.

☆ Long waiting lists, long drives and costly care hinder many kids’ access to mental health care
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-06 | by ( Brenda Goodman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Nearly half of those parents, 47%, say the pandemic has negatively affected their kids’ mental health, with 17% saying it had a major negative impact. Mental health providers who specialize in care for kids are concentrated in urban areas but missing from rural communities. One, TeamUp for Children, has placed full-time mental health providers in seven federally qualified health centers around the Boston area. She says this model – integrating mental health services into primary care – is being copied to varying degrees in pilot projects across the country. The KFF CNN Mental Health Survey was conducted by SSRS from July 28 through August 9 among a random national sample of 2,004 adults.

☆ Robinhood partners with USD Coin issuer to bring first stablecoin
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Sept 28 (Reuters) - Robinhood Markets Inc (HOOD.O) said on Wednesday it has joined forces with crypto firm Circle to provide customers the option to buy and sell stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) on the brokerage's platform. The addition of USDC brings the total number of assets available to buy and sell through Robinhood Crypto to 17, and is the first stablecoin listed on the app, the company said. USDC, which is principally issued by Circle, is the second largest stablecoin with over $50 billion in circulation today. Robinhood's partnership with USDC comes amid a crypto rout and a collapse of major stablecoins in recent months that drew intense scrutiny. read moreRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Mehnaz Yasmin in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra EluriOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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