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Limp joins Blue Origin at a key phase of the company's multiple space projects. Earlier this year Blue Origin won a $3.4 billion NASA contract to build a lunar lander for the agency's astronauts. However, Blue Origin has since hired aggressively. Read Bezos' message to Blue Origin employees on Monday:I'm excited to share that Dave Limp will join Blue starting December 4th as CEO, replacing Bob, who has elected to step aside on January 2. JeffRead Smith's message to Blue Origin employees:Team Blue, It's been about six years since I joined Blue Origin.

Persons: Limp, Shepard, Smith, Panos Panay, Bezos, Alexa, Limp's, Andy Jassy, Jeff Bezos, Blue, Bob Smith, Origin's, Glenn, –, Read, Dave Limp, Bob, I'd, we've, We've, I've, Dave, Jeff Read, It's, Jeff, I'm, Ferociter, Dave Limp's Organizations: Amazon, Alexa, CNBC, NASA, Blue Origin, Bloomberg, Microsoft, Billionaire, Blue Origin's, Origin, Honeywell, Shepard, Pentagon, U.S . Space Force, Elon, SpaceX, Blue, Amazon Devices, Services, Apple Locations: Van Horn , Texas, U.S, Alabama, Florida, California , Arizona, Colorado, Kent

☆ Reruns and reality fill out strike-struck fall TV season
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Lisa Richwine | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

REUTERS/Todd Korol/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLOS ANGELES, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Broadcast television networks kick off the fall TV season this month with strike-depleted lineups featuring game shows, reruns and a 72-year-old widower looking for love in the reality TV dating pool. The fall season has been a staple of American TV for decades, the time to roll out the best that broadcast TV has to offer. New episodes of scripted shows will be in much shorter supply. ABC's hit comedy "Abbott Elementary," Paramount Network's top-rated drama "Yellowstone" and NBC's long-running crime series "Law & Order" will show reruns. It’s time for Sad TV Fall," the Los Angeles Times wrote.

Persons: Kevin Costner, Todd Korol, Gordon Ramsay, Brad Adgate, ABC's, Abbott, We've, Dan Harrison, Guy, Steve Kern, Kern, Dick Wolf's, Frasier, Kelsey Grammer, Lisa Richwine, Mary Milliken, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Calgary Stampede, REUTERS, Fox, CBS, Networks, Hollywood, Actors, Paramount, Walt Disney, Hot Labor, Sad, Los Angeles Times, Nielsen, ABC, Disney, Charter Communications, Fox Entertainment, NBC, NBC Entertainment, Paramount Global, Paramount Network, Netflix, Apple, Thomson Locations: Calgary , Alberta, Canada, Midwestern, U.S, Chicago, Sydney

A tray of Rolex watches are seen on a dealer's stand at the London Watch Show on March 19, 2022 in London, England. Prices for luxury watches are near a two-year low on the secondhand market, reversing a rally that brought timepieces like Rolex, Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet to record highs during the pandemic. The average price of a watch sold secondhand has fallen 31% since March 2022, according to WatchCharts, a luxury watch price tracker. At the market's peak, the average price of a luxury watch sold secondhand soared to $45,108, with buyers paying up to five times the retail value for in-demand watches. "It was interesting that the price hike mainly happened among three family-owned brands: Rolex, Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet.

Persons: Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Paul Altieri, Audemars, Tim Stracke Organizations: London, Rolex Locations: London, England, German

☆ These are the watch brands most popular with Silicon Valley's tech elite
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Insider asked style experts about the most popular watch brands worn by technology titans. Since the pandemic, those in the know say people in the tech industry are fixating more on watches than ever before. Victoria Hitchcock, a fashion lifestylist and personal brander in Silicon Valley, told Insider by email. Unlike professionals in finance who have long seen the value of "a statement," those in tech industry have been characterized — and even mocked — for their fixation on utility and simplicity. With that in mind, here's a closer look at the watches trending in Silicon Valley right now:

Persons: Cartier, Victoria Hitchcock, —, Paul Altieri, Patek Philippe, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, here's Organizations: titans, Casio, Omega, Morning, Technology, Rolex Locations: Silicon Valley

☆ A viral clip of Johnny Cash singing 'Barbie Girl' is uncanny and indicative of the internet's latest AI obsession — and its creator wants to incorporate the tech into live performances
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Dustin Ballard, who runs the channel, said he wants to take AI covers to the live stage. Dustin Ballard, who runs the channel, told Insider in an email that videos like these take a few days. Finally, I use an AI voice model trained on snippets of the original artist's singing to transform my voice into theirs. "AI voice training is currently not a very user-friendly process, but it's rapidly getting easier," Ballard told Insider. Legal ramifications concerning music and copyright law, are what is driving the debate on AI covers in the music industry.

Persons: Johnny Cash, Dustin Ballard, Greta Gerwig's, Elvis, Sir, Frank Sinatra, Lil Jon, Ballard, It's, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Spongebob's Patrick belting, Drake, Jered Chavez, it's, Travis Scott, Evan Dhillon Organizations: YouTube, Universal Music Group, Financial, Arpeggi Labs Locations: Folsom, Argentina

☆ Jim Cramer's plans for Disney stock after everything we learned from CEO Bob Iger
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Hulu As part of Disney's future streaming business, Hulu is expected to be a strategic asset. "I don't think that Bob's going to get out of paying very little for Hulu," Jim said, which could lead to further pressure on the entertainment giant's balance sheet. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. If Jim has talked about a stock on CNBC TV, he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade. Disney CEO Bob Iger speaking with CNBC's David Faber at the Allen&Co.

Persons: Walt Disney, Bob Iger's, —, Jim Cramer, Bob, Jim, Bob Iger —, Iger, Bob Chapek, ESPN Iger, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, Iger's, Jim Cramer's, Bob Iger, CNBC's David Faber, David A Organizations: Disney, CNBC, Sun, ESPN, Apple, Apple Vision, Hulu, Comcast, Parks, Flordia, Netflix, Disney Entertainment, Allen, Grogan Locations: Idaho, Wells Fargo, Hulu, Florida, Sun Valley , Idaho

☆ A management professor shares how to resolve time-wasting conflicts between coworkers — without punishment
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Susie Allen | Kellogg Insight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Measuring Office MisconductHow do you go about studying negative workplace behavior? Analyzing these dimensions separately allowed the researchers to develop a nuanced portrait of negative workplace behavior and its aftermath. When it comes to engaging in negative workplace behavior, everyone appears to be on equal footing. Since negative workplace behavior is relational, meting out punishment to individuals may not break the cycle. And because negative workplace behavior breeds further negative workplace behavior, the most important thing leaders can do is prevent people from becoming instigators in the first place.

Persons: Cynthia Wang, Wang, —, there's, Lindsey M, Ernest H, O'Boyle, Joongseo Kim, Jennifer A, Whitson, What's, Joe mistreats Bob, Joe, Wang —, they're, Susie Allen Organizations: Kellogg School, Service, Oklahoma State University, Indiana University, Pennsylvania State University, Erie, University of California Locations: Los Angeles, Chicago

☆ Meet GoDigital, the happiness-obsessed company that wants to buy Vice Media
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Alex Sherman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Vice Media Group logo Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesWhen Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes and Shane Smith founded Vice magazine, which later expanded to Vice Media, they built a business based on a punk rock, counterculture image. GoDigital Media Group is a privately held conglomerate that owns video and music rights, especially in the Latin genre, and an array of different businesses. GoDigital plans to bid for Vice on Tuesday at a price between $300 million and $400 million, according to people familiar with the company's thinking. He will preach that message to Vice's employees on Day One if GoDigital acquires the company, he said. Smith, Vice's executive chairman and former CEO, couldn't be reached for comment.

Persons: Pavlo Gonchar, Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes, Shane Smith, Smith, Jason Peterson, Logan Mulvey, GoDigital, Jason DeRulo, Peterson, Berkshire Hathaway, what's, Mulvey, John Leguizamo, Craig Greiwe, Sean, Diddy, Combs, couldn't, haven't, ' Peterson, Alex Wallace, Wallace, Gay Hendricks, We're, Adam Neumann's, I'm Organizations: Media, Lightrocket, Vice Media, GoDigital Media, Berkshire, Eastern Mountain Sports, NGL, Fortress Investment, Soros Fund Management, Monroe Capital, Fortress, Yahoo, CNBC Locations: Brooklyn , New York, Los Angeles

☆ Hollywood actor becomes latest arrested in Jan 6 Capitol assault
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LOS ANGELES, June 7 (Reuters) - A Hollywood actor who has appeared on such TV shows as "Arrested Development" and the cartoon hit "Bob's Burgers," was arrested on Wednesday for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, that sought to keep Donald Trump in the White House. Johnston surrendered on Wednesday to the FBI field office in Los Angeles, where he is a resident, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. Johnston has appeared in dozens of films and television shows, often portraying law enforcement officers, including recurring roles as a cop on the comedies "The Sarah Silverman Program" and "Arrested Development." He was banned from the show in 2021 after he was identified as having participated in the Jan. 6 mob, according to the Daily Beast. Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editing by Christian SchmollingerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jay Johnston, Joe Biden's, Johnston, sleuths, Trump, Sarah Silverman, Jimmy Pesto, Steve Gorman, Christian Schmollinger Organizations: U.S, Capitol, District of Columbia, FBI, U.S . Department of Justice, U.S . Capitol Police, NBC News, Electoral, Republican, Fox, Daily Beast, Thomson Locations: ANGELES, District, Los Angeles, U.S

☆ Jay Johnston, actor in 'Mr. Show' and 'Bob's Burgers,' charged with felony related to January 6 insurrection
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Walt Hickey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Show with Bob and David' actor has been charged with a felony over his alleged actions at the January 6 Capitol siege. The actor was arrested in California, according to Ryan J. Reilly of NBC News. In December, Johnston was removed from the cast of "Bob's Burgers," and a number of his former colleagues — including actor and comedy writer Tim Heidecker — suggested on Twitter that Johnston was the man in the photo. Three current or former associates of Johnston identified him in the photographs circulated by the FBI, according to the federal complaint. Johnston has been charged with felony obstruction of officers during civil disorder, unlawful entry on restricted buildings or grounds, and impeding passage through Capitol grounds.

Persons: Bob, David, Ryan J, Reilly, —, Jay Johnston, Johnston —, Johnston, Tim Heidecker — Organizations: FBI, NBC News, Service, NBC News ., Independent Nations, Twitter, Lower Locations: California, Lower West

Ron DeSantis and Disney , Nike CEO John Donahoe said it's important for corporations to choose their battles, but fight for the values integral to their brands. In response, Donahoe said companies don't need to weigh in on every political kerfuffle but should be a loud voice when their brand's values are under attack. "I think Bob's doing a great job at this," Donahoe said of Disney CEO Bob Iger. "If it's core to who you are and your values, then no, you stand up for your values," he said. "In addition, our core consumer for the Nike brand, the Jordan Brand, the converse brand, are urban Black and brown communities — that's where sneaker culture started," Donahoe explained.

☆ Nike CEO praises Disney's Bob Iger, saying he's 'doing a great job' in his feud with Florida's Ron DeSantis
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-23 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Nike CEO John Donahoe said Tuesday that Disney CEO Bob Iger is "doing a great job." "I think Bob's doing a great job at this," Donahoe said of Iger. Donahoe's remarks are the latest chapter in a yearlong feud that started in early 2022 when then-Disney CEO Bob Chapek objected to the DeSantis administration's "Don't Say Gay" bill. Iger, who returned as Disney CEO in November, has continued to battle with DeSantis. Disney and Nike have long supported each other and shared connective tissue.

☆ A discontinued Rolex just sold at auction for a record-breaking $2.5 million — the winning buyer reportedly was the watchmaker
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A rare Rolex Milgauss "mad scientist" watch sold at auction for $2.5 million. The winning buyer purchased the timepiece on behalf of Rolex itself, sources told Bloomberg. Phillips in Association with Bacs & RussoThe winning buyer was acting on behalf of Rolex itself, sources told Bloomberg. Earlier this year, the Swiss brand quietly discontinued production of the Milgauss, known to many as Rolex's "mad scientist" watch for its magnetic interference-resistant design. The world record auction price for any wrist watch remains $17.8 million in 2017 for Paul Newman's very own Daytona Reference 6239.

☆ You can now buy secondhand Rolex watches as the luxury brand's certified pre-owned program hits the US
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Rolex introduced its certified pre-owned program to US customers on Wednesday. Starting this week, shoppers can buy pre-owned Rolex watches from an official Rolex reseller. "This new program, therefore, attests to the authenticity of these pre-owned Rolex watches at the time of resale by the Official Rolex Jewelers." Rolex first introduced its secondhand program to the world in December 2022, launching in countries including Switzerland, Germany, and France. Prior to the announcement, American watch collectors had to seek out resellers with authentication programs like Bob's Watches for pre-owned luxury watches.

☆ Investing Club mailbag: You called a stock a 'buy.' Why didn't you buy it?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Zev Fima | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

My question is this: If you issue an alert like this — " Buy, Buy, Buy . One of our disciplines is to try to always ensure that the next buy is lower than the last buy. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio. If Jim has talked about a stock on CNBC TV, he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade.

☆ Everyone was wrong about how the pandemic would change shopping — here's how experts are betting on e-commerce now
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The idea that e-commerce will keep growing forever, and betting on it will lead to an almost inevitable rising tide, didn't survive the pandemic. Public flame-outs of entire categories of startups, like ultra-fast deliveries and Amazon seller aggregators, have further demonstrated the boom-and-bust nature of pandemic e-commerce investing. Apple's recent moves to give consumers more online privacy has had ripples through the e-commerce ecosystem, leading investors to take a beat. E-commerce logistics — fulfillment and last-mile delivery — said Sloane is fairly well-saturated at this point, he said. For many retailers, the pandemic offered a harsh lesson in how integrated their stores and their websites weren't, she said.

☆ The San Francisco cafe that inspired 'Bob's Burgers' closes its doors after 43 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( Aidan Pollard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Just For You Cafe, the San Francisco joint that inspired "Bob's Burgers," has closed its doors. According to SFGate, the restaurant closed after rising inflation and mounting debt brought the establishment to its knees. In the mid-aughts, "Bob's Burgers" creator Loren Bouchard and writer Nora Smith wandered around San Francisco, searching for inspiration for the setting of their developing cartoon. In an interview with SFGate, Bouchard said he took photos all around San Francisco, but nothing quite matched Just For You. "I looked in the window and saw something big," he told SFGate last year.

☆ Hawkish tech critics have labeled San Francisco 'lawless' following the stabbing death of Cash App creator Bob Lee. The city's crime rate tells a different tale.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The stabbing death of Cash App creator Bob Lee spurred fresh criticism of San Francisco crime. While critics call the progressive city "lawless" with "horrific" crime, violent offenses are down. Compared with cities of similar size, San Francisco has far fewer homicides per year. Michael Arrington, the founder of the industry blog TechCrunch, agreed, posting "I hate what San Francisco has become." Representatives for the San Francisco Police Department, as well as Ocko, Musk, Arrington, and Benedicto, did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.

☆ Inside Disney it's 'Revenge of the Creatives' and 'Shields Up!' against outside foes as returned CEO Bob Iger is taking no prisoners
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Claire Atkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Since returning as Disney CEO, Bob Iger has vanquished foes and dumped many of predecessor Bob Chapek's hires. But it's a supercharged Bob Iger who is really taking command. "If I'm inside Bob's head coming back, after the downfall of Bob Chapek, this is all about taking no prisoners," said Will Schutte, a high-level executive coach. Disney World is scheduled to host a major conference on gay rights in September, according to the Miami Herald. Even if he wants to be the Bob Iger of old he can't be.

☆ Rolex is discontinuing its $9,300 'mad scientist' Milgauss watch — and now some resellers are listing it for over $13,000
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rolex has quietly discontinued one of its professional watches, the magnetic field-resistant Milgauss. Bob's Watches CEO Paul Altieri told Insider he's holding off selling until prices find a new steady state. The original version was worn by the scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Rolex says. It even ranks near last place among the 16 Rolex models tracked on the site. Of course, Rolex could resurrect the Milgauss in a few years, but until it does, mad scientists will have to content themselves with a pre-owned model.

☆ I'm a 34 year old who lives on a boat in the canals of England. It was the least expensive way to buy a home and allows me to lead an extraordinary life.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Elizabeth Earle is a freelance author and illustrator in England who lives on a 70-foot narrowboat. Earle said living on a boat is cheaper than a house, but licenses and insurance also come at a cost. I moved to the Caribbean, renovated this boat, and adopted a street dog who hated sailing. I don't have a mortgage, but I still have monthly expenses to payThere are several things you need to live the boat life. Earle is happy living on a boat and has no current plans to settle on land.

☆ The US military once blasted airships with nukes on balloons to see if they could drop nuclear bombs on submarines and survive
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Airships were popular in naval combat and briefly considered for the delivery of nuclear weapons. In the 1950s, the military tried to nuclearize almost anything it could, a nuclear history expert said. The tests were a part of Operation Plumbbob's 24 above-ground nuclear tests from May to October 1957. "If we had already used blimps and airships effectively in World War II, then why wouldn't we consider putting nuclear weapons on them?" The US military eventually developed better aircraft and more effective ways of launching nuclear weapons, and the wild idea of using airships to drop nuclear weapons was lost to history.

☆ Robert De Niro was almost my 50-50 partner in MoviePass — and he showed me the 'Raging Bull' boxing ring to try to seal the deal
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Stacy Spikes | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

One night, I said to Marianne, "What if we made a Netflix for the movie theater industry? I tried to push my subscription idea, but it fell flat. I continued to tread water on my subscription idea, but things were slow going. One Saturday, a dear friend of ours named Peter called and asked how the movie subscription idea was coming. They're interested in buying both the Urbanworld Film Festival and the movie subscription company for one million dollars.

☆ The 10 best and worst brands for influencers to work with, according to data from about 9,600 creator reviews
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Nhari Djan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Creator-review platform FYPM ranked the 10 best and worst brands for influencers to work with. F*** You Pay Me, a platform for creators to anonymously review brands, published in January its first list of the best and the worst brands to work with, based on data from 9,578 responses from influencers on its platform. The list, which was published on FYPM's blog, described some of the characteristics that the best brands have in common. Adobe, at the top of the "best" list, garnered good feedback about its relationships with influencers. Lugrin also said that the variety of businesses that made the "best" list may surprise people, and shows that influencer marketing touches everything.

☆ Rolex watches have outperformed gold, real estate, and stocks over the past 10 years, and sellers believe their future value will continue to deliver
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Dominick Reuter | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Prices for luxury watches like Rolex, Patek Philippe, and Audemars Piguet skyrocketed in 2022. Demand for second-hand luxury watches will likely stay high next year, according to Chrono24 founder Tim Stracke. Around 14% of the platform's sales come from Rolex watches, and 80% of those are pre-owned. "The new programme makes it possible to purchase pre-owned watches that the brand itself has certified and guaranteed. Its aim is to bring added value to the existing supply of pre-owned Rolex watches.

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