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☆ USC's Bronny James Picks up Technical Foul After a Blocked Shot Against UCLA
  + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Associated Press | Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +1 min
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It didn't take long for Southern California's Bronny James to make an impact in his first game against rival UCLA. The freshman blocked the shot of UCLA's Dylan Andrews as he drove to the basket, but the son of Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James ended up celebrating a little too much. James picked up a technical foul with 12:06 remaining in the first half when he yelled “give me that (stuff)" toward Andrews and the crowd at the Galen Center. It was James' first technical foul in a collegiate game. James went to the bench after the technical before coming in later in the first half.
Persons: Bronny James, UCLA's Dylan Andrews, LeBron James, James, “, Andrews, UCLA's Lazar Stefanovic Organizations: ANGELES, UCLA, Los Angeles Lakers, Galen, Bruins
☆ Chris Paul Ejected in Return to Phoenix, Adds to Long-Running Feud With Referee Scott Foster
  + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Associated Press | Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +2 min
PHOENIX (AP) — Chris Paul's return to Phoenix ended in the second quarter on Wednesday night after the 12-time All-Star was ejected by his old nemesis: referee Scott Foster. The Golden State Warriors guard and Foster have a long, acrimonious history, with the point guard complaining about Foster's officiating for nearly a decade. Now Paul says that a years-old issue that involves his son is at least part of the reason for the friction. Foster walked away but Paul kept yelling and the referee quickly turned and gave the point guard another technical, which caused the ejection. Everybody gets frustrated out there, but that’s up to the official.”Warriors team personnel had to get between Paul and Foster before the guard left the court.
Persons: Chris Paul's, Scott Foster, Foster, Paul, ” Paul, “, There's, I'm, “ I've, Paul —, Green, Rudy Gobert, Chris, Steve Kerr, Kerr, ___ Organizations: PHOENIX, Phoenix, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Clippers, Suns, Warriors, NBA, ” Warriors, Foster, Golden State Locations: Phoenix
☆ AI's most doomsaying godfather sure would like you to believe his invention is godlike
  + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
However, overemphasizing the dangers of AI risks paralyzing debate at a pivotal moment. 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 . Advertisement"I'm not scared of A.I.," LeCun told the magazine. While Hinton and Meta's chief AI scientist LeCun have butted heads, fellow collaborator and third AI godfather Yoshua Bengio has stressed that this unknown is the real issue.
Persons: what's, Geoffrey Hinton, —, Hinton, Yan LeCun, Turing, LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Yann, Joshua Rothman, it's Organizations: Service, Big Tech, Google, Yorker Locations: Hinton, Canadian
☆ Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others
  + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk announced his new company xAI which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe. Meet Grok, the first technology out of Elon Musk's new AI company, xAI. Leading up to the release, Musk posted on X, formerly Twitter, an example of Grok responding to a request for a step-by-step cocaine recipe. Musk, on Sunday, posted a side-by-side comparison of Grok answering a question versus another AI bot, which he said had less current information. Eventually, Musk said on X, Grok will be a feature of X Premium+, which costs $16 per month.
Persons: Elon Musk, Grok, Elon, Musk, I'm, xAI, Robert A . Heinlein, Critics, Webster Organizations: Twitter, Space Locations: Merriam
☆ I'm a two-time NBA All-Star who's made the switch to entrepreneurship. Here's how I got my MBA from the NBA.
  + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Yoonji Han | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Baron Davis is a former NBA player who's making a name for himself off the court in the business world. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. When I saw the court he'd built in his backyard, it was just like, "I'm going to do this every day." From there, it was every day, all day, basketball, basketball, basketball. That's when I realized I needed to go and find great athletes doing dope stuff, that are doing great investments, creating incredible businesses, and branding themselves as entrepreneurs.
Persons: Baron Davis, who's, Davis, Yoonji Han, —, it's, Los Angeles , Cleveland —, Clark Hodgin, Let's, Alec Castillo Organizations: NBA, Business, Service, UCLA, —, Shutterstock Locations: Santa Monica, South Central, — New York , New Orleans, Charlotte, Los Angeles , Cleveland, San Francisco, Golden State
☆ Billionaire Mark Cuban used this sales pitch for his first tech startup in 1989—here's why it worked
  + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
When Mark Cuban launched his first tech startup, he couldn't have known he'd end up a billionaire today. He was confident, though, that his sales pitch for the company — a software startup called MicroSolutions — would work. In the proposal, Cuban wrote that his tool would be a great resource for attorneys looking to streamline their workflow — by having information "immediately published electronically to the organization," as opposed to using notebooks. Basically, it was our version of Slack long before Slack," Cuban wrote in a follow-up post. A year after sending his pitch to the law firm, Cuban sold MicroSolutions to now-defunct internet services company CompuServe for $6 million.
Persons: Mark Cuban, Cuban, Gilchrist, Slack Organizations: Twitter, GQ, Cuban, CompuServe, Yahoo, Forbes, CNBC, Global Locations: Dallas, Cuban
☆ John Legend Hopes for a Hit With First Tech Startup
  + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Berber Jin | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones
☆ John Legend Looks to Take on Yelp and Google Reviews With His First Tech Startup
  + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Berber Jin | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones
☆ The 52 most important VCs in Boston, according to other VCs
  + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
In September, one of Boston's own homegrown companies, Klaviyo, was among the first tech startups to pry open the IPO market, which had been closed for a two-year stretch. According to research by Carta, Boston has a healthy lead on other cities for total capital raised across biotech, health-tech, medical devices, and energy companies so far this year. It's also worth mentioning that funding to Boston startups has cooled from the peak in 2021, as has funding everywhere. In celebration of this vibrant scene, Insider is recognizing the most important venture capitalists in the greater Boston area. We asked VCs from across the country about the Boston investors to know, and we also referred to our past reporting on the top seed investors to find more picks.
Persons: Andrew Bialecki, It's, VCs Organizations: Boston, Carta Locations: Boston, Austin, Seattle, Los Angeles
☆ SoFi CEO talks second-quarter growth and 'stealing share' from big banks
  + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Anthony Noto, CEO of digital banking and personal finance company SoFi , told CNBC's Jim Cramer the company has been able to grow immensely since it received its banking license. The company has its roots in financing student loans but was licensed to become a bank last year. SoFi's second-quarter report showed the company had gained more than 584,000 new members during the quarter, with more than 6.2 million total members, up 44% year over year. Noto added that SoFi is attracting customers with its mobile-first technology and financial products such as personal loans to pay off credit card debt, as well as student loan refinancing. "If you have a student loan, you want to lower your monthly payment, you're able to do that either via a lower rate or extending the term," Noto said.
Persons: Anthony Noto, CNBC's Jim Cramer, we've, SoFi's, Noto Locations: FactSet
☆ I moved to Seattle for a high-paying tech job. It turned out to be the loneliest time of my life.
  + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Aria Yang | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Alexander Nguyen, a software engineer who moved from New York City to Seattle for a job at Amazon. It was his first job out of college, and he says it was the loneliest time of his life. Finally, after a three-month job search, things started looking up: I received a software-development-engineering job offer from Amazon in 2020. Back when I got the job at Amazon, all I was thinking about was my tech career and the $150,000 salary. Looking back now, I realize perhaps I should have looked a little bit harder for opportunities in New York before taking the first tech job that came my way.
Persons: Alexander Nguyen, Boba Guys, —, Alexander Nguyen Nobody, it'd, I've, It's, I'm, it's, you've, Aria Yang Organizations: New York University, White Oaks, Amazon, Facebook, University District, NYU, CS, Netflix, Microsoft, Google Locations: New York City, Seattle, Greenwich Village, University, San Francisco, New York, ayang@insider.com
☆ Factbox: U.S IPO market poised for strong finish in 2023 amid a flurry of listings
  + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Chibuike Oguh | Thomson Reuters | Chibuike Reports On Mostly Large U.S.-Based Private Equity Firms | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
A Wall Street sign is pictured outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York, October 28, 2013. Barclays (BARC.L), Goldman Sachs (GS.N), JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N), and Mizuho Financial Group (8411.T) are the lead underwriters for the offering. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup are lead underwriters on the offering, the company said in its filing. Its shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "KVYO". Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Bank of America are underwriters of the IPO, according to the filing.
Persons: Carlo Allegri, T Rowe Price, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Instacart, Fidji Simo, confidentially, Klaviyo, Morgan Stanley, Chibuike Oguh, Lance Tupper, Michelle Price, Aurora Ellis Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, REUTERS, Arm Holdings, Japan's Softbank, U.S . Securities, Exchange Commission, SEC, Apple, Nvidia, Devices, Intel, Samsung Electronics, AMD, Samsung, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Barclays, JPMorgan, Mizuho Financial Group, underwriters, Nasdaq, Norges Bank Investment Management, Norges Bank, Sequoia Capital, D1 Capital Partners, Valiant Capital Management, Facebook, Reuters, Summit Partners, Citigroup, VNG Corp, HK, Temasek, UBS, Bank of America, Thomson Locations: New York, U.S, Russia, Ukraine, Baltimore, TCV, Sequoia, Canadian, United States, Chi Minh City, Singapore
☆ Vietnamese internet startup VNG files for IPO in the US
  + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
SINGAPORE, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Vietnamese internet company VNG Corp has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States via VNG Ltd, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing showed. IPO proceeds will be used to pay original foreign investors who were direct shareholders of the company and repay outstanding loans, among others, the filing showed. Founded in 2004, VNG was Vietnam's first unicorn, or startup valued at $1 billion or more, and it inked a preliminary agreement in 2017 with U.S. bourse operator Nasdaq Inc to explore an IPO. The Ho Chi Minh City-headquartered company's businesses include online games, payments, cloud services and Vietnam's most popular messaging app, Zalo. Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Bank of America are underwriters of the IPO, according to the filing.
Persons: VNG, Morgan Stanley, VinFast, Seth Farbman, Yantoultra Ngui, Jacqueline Wong, Sonali Paul Organizations: VNG Corp, VNG Ltd, U.S . Securities, Exchange Commission, HK, Temasek, U.S . bourse, Nasdaq Inc, Citigroup, UBS, Bank of America, underwriters, U.S ., DoubleDragon Corp, Nasdaq, Carsome, New, VStock, Thomson Locations: SINGAPORE, United States, Vietnam, U.S, Singapore, Chi Minh City, U.S . Philippine, New York
☆ Snap is ending employees' cash food benefit, citing 'on-site' meals ahead of full RTO mandate
  + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
That benefit is disappearing as Snap wants to get people in the office at least four days a week. Instead of the food benefit, workers have been told to "explore" on-site lunch offerings. Snap is ending a benefit for employees to buy food during the work week. It also afforded Snap employees who worked in other offices that did not offer catered food some parity on a company perk they'd never had access to. Snap was one of the first tech companies, after Apple, to reveal to employees such a strict RTO policy .
Persons: they'd, It's, RTO, Elon Musk's, Kali Hays Organizations: Santa, Apple, Meta, Facebook, Twitter Locations: Santa Monica, khays
☆ 32-year-old tech worker got a $54,000 pay bump without looking for a new job—here's how
  + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
She wasn't happy in that line of work and researched what in-demand skills she could pick up to change careers. After taking a few free courses online, Chaze jumped into an analytics associate job in 2018 that paid $70,000 per year. Charlotte Chaze went from earning $28,000 to $158,000 as a tech worker in four years. She's now founder of Break Into Tech, a career resource to help others get their first tech jobs. And if a year or two later you're looking for a job, you're going to have a hard time remembering, what exactly did I do for this job?
Persons: Chaze, Charlotte Chaze, She's, It's, it's Organizations: Economic, undergrad, Towson University, University of Delaware, CNBC Locations: Philadelphia
☆ The Gatsby of Silicon Alley: Meet the 27-year-old Google employee who's throwing tech's hottest parties
  + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +12 min
Despite throwing events attended by thousands, Andrew Yeung has never made a cent off his parties. They've all gathered at the personal invitation of a 27-year-old Google product lead named Andrew Yeung. The terms of his visa stipulate that he can only derive income from his day job at Google. And there was nothing bigger in his father's mind than a tech job in the United States. It was the first Andrew Yeung party.
Persons: Andrew Yeung, techies, who's, Yeung, revelers, He's, hasn't, he's, Connor Roach, Benjamin Franklin, Yeung doesn't, Cliff Lerner, it's, Melissa Glazar, Lior Cole, I've, Cole, Glazar, Lerner, Keyser, didn't, Connor Roach Yeung, Monica, Sunny Yeung, Andrew, Sunny, he'd, Andrew doesn't, It's Organizations: Junto, Google, Cornell, CCP, Yeung's, Party, SXSW, The University of Toronto, Facebook, Art Basel, of Homeland Security Locations: Brooklyn, Belarusian, cabanas, Gowanus, New York, Austin, Miami, LA, phoniness, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Hong Kong, United States, Central Park, Basel, Canada, Toronto
☆ ​Meet Ethan, an AI robot helping real estate companies decide what properties to buy
  + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A generative AI tool is designed to help real estate firms decide which properties to buy and sell. The AI tool does the work of a real estate analyst. It then drafts memos recommending which properties real estate companies should buy and sell, Sahil Rattan, Termsheet's chief operating officer, told Insider. The client is looking to snap up commercial real estate properties whose prices have cooled from just a few years ago. Since the AI tool ChatGPT went live to the public in November, businesses in nearly every industry have been racing to capitalize on AI.
Persons: Ethan, Termsheet's, That's, Roger Smith, Smith, Airbnb, Brian Chesky, Chesky, ChatGPT Organizations: Service, RSM Locations: Wall, Silicon
☆ Municipal Credit Union Personal Loans Review 2023
  + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Ryan Wangman | Elias Shaya | Richard Richtmyer | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +15 min
Municipal Credit Union Personal Loan DetailsMunicipal Credit Union offers personal loans for a variety of purposes. See our picks for the best debt consolidation loans »Municipal Credit Union Personal Loan Pros and ConsPros Cons Excellent rates. Municipal Credit Union TrustworthinessMunicipal Credit Union has an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau, a nonprofit organization focused on consumer protection and trust. Municipal Credit Union Personal Loans CompetitorsMunicipal Credit Union Personal Loans vs. First Tech Personal LoansFirst Tech Personal Loan and Municipal Credit Union have similar minimums. Municipal Credit Union Personal Loans vs. Navy Federal Personal LoansYou can get the smallest loan amount with Navy Federal Credit Union Personal Loan, as the credit union offers loans as small as $250Navy Federal has more stringent membership requirements than Municipal Credit Union, as you only qualify if you are an active military member, veteran, or employee or retiree of the Department of Defense.
Persons: You'll, you'll, Formally, Municipal Credit Union hasn't Organizations: Municipal Credit, Credit, Municipal Credit Union, New, Loan, Municipal, Chevron, Union, Better Business Bureau, BBB, First Tech, Financial, Navy, Navy Federal Credit, Federal, Department of Defense Locations: New York, New York City, York, Oregon
☆ 32-year-old tech worker listed the salaries of all her jobs on LinkedIn—but doesn't recommend others do it
  + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Young workers are going all in with salary transparency, whether they're sharing how much they're paid with social media followers or co-workers and friends in real life. And Charlotte Chaze, 32, a Philadelphia-based tech worker took it another step further: She recently posted the salaries of all of her previous jobs to her LinkedIn profile. "I believe in salary transparency, and I wanted to show others what's possible," Chaze tells CNBC Make It. Despite the buzz of her experiment, Chaze says she doesn't actually recommend other workers do the same because it could work against them. Rather, Chaze would rather companies carry the responsibility of salary transparency.
Persons: Charlotte Chaze, Chaze, I've, doesn't, they've Organizations: Towson University, CNBC, LinkedIn Locations: Philadelphia, Norway
☆ Mark Cuban: Here's what my younger self got right—and why so many people still get it wrong
  + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Don't seek out an investor, says billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban. Cuban — who is, notably, an investor on ABC's "Shark Tank" — launched his first tech company, a computer systems startup called MicroSolutions, using his own money. In 1994, Cuban and his friend Todd Wagner invested $10,000 in a small startup called Cameron Audio Networks. "What really gets me going is when people have an operating business where they've already gone for it. For unpredictable expenses, Moran recommended using your own funds.
Persons: you'll, Mark Cuban, Cuban, —, Todd Wagner, they've, I've, They've, Ryan Moran, Moran, Warren Buffett Organizations: Cuban, Cameron Audio Networks, Yahoo, LinkedIn, CNBC
☆ DA Davidson says this software stock has 'Buffett-esque' qualities and can surge nearly 40%
  + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Sarah Min | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
ZoomInfo Technologies is a "Buffett-esque" stock with big upside ahead, according to DA Davidson. ZI 1D mountain ZoomInfo Technologies shares 1-day ZoomInfo made its public debut in June 2020, jumping more than 60% in its first day on the Nasdaq. Since then, trading has been volatile for the software stock. The provider of sales software should also get a boost from tech layoffs that's expected to reduce sales departments. "We see the long-term opportunity not only from the base data product, but mostly from continued expansion as the leading Sales Enablement provider," Luria wrote.
☆ Bank of America's top information-security exec is taking on a brand-new role at the bank focused on the developer experience
  + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Bianca Chan | Carter Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Kristopher Fador is Bank of America's new chief information security officer, succeeding Froelich. Craig Froelich is taking the helm as the chief information officer of architecture, developer experience, and policy, a newly created role at Bank of America. Froelich previously served as chief information security officer for the nation's second-largest bank, a role he held for more than eight years. He also spent time in Hong Kong for BofA, leading regional information security teams, according to his LinkedIn. At Goldman Sachs, for example, CIO Marco Argenti has made developer experience a key focus of his strategy.
☆ Tech leaders are urging caution on AI
  + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Paayal Zaveri | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Insider asked ChatGPT, the viral AI chatbot sweeping the internet, to whip up a layoff memo for a pretend tech company, Gomezon. Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, researchers at Alphabet's DeepMind, and other AI leaders are calling for a pause on training AI models more powerful than OpenAI's GPT-4. My colleague Emilia David looked at why Elon Musk and other tech leaders are right: AI needs to slow down. An Apple Watch is an essential for many of us these days, but the right band can make all the difference. Check out Insider's review of the 18 best Apple Watch bands in 2023.
☆ CEOs are quietly backtracking on remote work—and more companies could follow
  + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
More companies are backtracking on earlier pledges to let employees work from home on a full or part-time basis. Across industries, major corporations including Disney, Twitter and Starbucks are requiring employees to spend more time at the office. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, is the latest leader to appear to reverse course after embracing remote work and criticizing return-to-office mandates. "Our hybrid approach empowers leaders to make decisions for their teams about how and where they work," a Salesforce spokesperson said in a statement. "And if leaders at big companies are adjusting their return to office policies, others will see that and think, 'I can do the same.'"
☆ Europol sounds alarm about criminal use of ChatGPT, sees grim outlook
  + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Foo Yun Chee | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/2] A smartphone with a displayed ChatGPT logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken February 23, 2023. It singled out the harmful use of ChatGPT in three areas of crime. "ChatGPT's ability to draft highly realistic text makes it a useful tool for phishing purposes," Europol said. It said ChatGPT's ability to churn out authentic sounding text at speed and scale also also makes it an ideal tool for propaganda and disinformation. Criminals with little technical knowledge could turn to ChatGPT to produce malicious code, Europol said.
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