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☆ Even Elon and Zuck don't have the juice to make an all-in-one 'super app' happen
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Mark Zuckerberg and Evan Spiegel harbor super app ambitions; Microsoft reportedly wants to build its take on a super app that would rival Google. At Facebook's parent company Meta, "super app" is a taboo word precisely because it's too abstract, Insider's Kali Hays reported last month. A newcomer super app has a tougher sell accessing this sophisticated, less trusting type of user. Silicon Valley's gatekeepers stand in the way of the super app dreamUS tech firms harboring super app ambitions will need to fend off their own regulators, overseas regulators, and Apple's App Store. As the CPP Investments white paper notes, super apps "can be thought of as operating platforms for mobile devices."

☆ Factbox: UK axes economic 'growth plan' to restore market confidence
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Here are some of the policy reversals announced by Hunt, which he said would raise 32 billion pounds ($36.19 billion) for the government finances. Hunt announced this will now stay at 20% indefinitely. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterThe finance ministry said this will raise around 6 billion pounds a year. CORPORATION TAXBritain will now press ahead with its original plan to raise its 19% corporation tax rate - the lowest among the G7 club of rich nations - to 25% in 2023. The finance ministry had estimated that keeping the rate at 19% would have cost the taxpayer 67.5 billion pounds over the next five years.

☆ William Shatner describes space travel in new book "Boldly Go"
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN interviewed him in June about the book, his trip to space with the Jeff Bezos-backed space tourism company Blue Origin, and what’s next for the 91-year-old. William Shatner: Fifty-five or 60 years ago I read a book called “Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson. Shatner: The whole idea here is to get people accustomed to going to space, as if it’s like going to the Riviera. The song “So Fragile, So Blue,” is very much about my experience in space. And then I have my book, called “Boldly Go,” coming out in the fall.

☆ 'Don't just buy the dip': How to adjust your portfolio to benefit from the Fed's rate hikes and rising inflation, according to 3 investing experts
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Three investing experts say bonds, CDs, and dividend-paying stocks are good portfolio adjustments. It's not news that the economy has entered a stage of slow growth and rising rates. On Wednesday, The Federal Open Market Committee hiked rates by another .75 basis points, bringing the overall rate above 2.5%. One example could be high yield bonds, he added. As rates continue to rise, investors need to become more discerning in terms of what they're buying the dip on.

☆ Here’s our September rapid-fire update on all 33 stocks in Cramer’s Charitable Trust portfolio
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

Here's a rapid-fire update on every stock in the CNBC Investing Club portfolio. Halliburton (HAL) — The only energy stock in the portfolio that we haven't trimmed in recent weeks. (See here for a full list of the stocks Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust.) 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.

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