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☆ Here's a first look at the Apple Watch Ultra
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-07 | by ( Sofia Pitt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

In this article AAPLApple Watch Ultra Sofia Pitt | CNBCApple announced two new watches on Wednesday, including the Apple Watch Ultra. Apple Watch Ultra Sofia Pitt | CNBCApple designed the Ultra to be more rugged so it can withstand the elements better if you take it to the mountains or deep under water. Just look at it on my wrist:Apple Watch Ultra Sofia Pitt | CNBCThe screen has other cool features. Apple Watch Ultra Sofia Pitt | CNBCIt's thicker than other Apple Watches, but includes some new functions like a depth gauge for real-time measurements under water. The Apple Watch Ultra is available to order now and arrives on Sept. 23.

☆ From vegan meatballs to ice cream sundaes, airlines are revamping in-flight menus
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-04 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

From vegan meatballs to ice cream sundaes, airlines are offering new options and old favorites to woo returning travelers. The pandemic drove airlines to record losses and had them looking to cut costs wherever possible, such as in-flight food. Chasing high-paying travelersBetter in-flight menus can boost a carrier's image and help it bring more high-paying travelers on board. A plethora of videos have been posted online by airline passengers reviewing meals, plating and service in detail. Veggie and veganEven before the pandemic, airlines were expanding options for travelers who prefer vegetarian and vegan meals.

☆ Ransomware's new business model enables anyone to extort companies for massive payouts. Some insiders say it's a criminal twist on the strategy that made cloud giants so successful.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-02 | by ( Belle Lin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Ransomware is following the business and distribution model that made cloud giants so successful. Experts say it's so easy to buy ransomware tool kits that hackers can make a monthly income from it. In the same vein, ransomware developers are taking care of back-end operations to get hackers up and running. Today's ransomware gig economy includes a network of behind-the-scenes operatorsThe ransomware gig economy behind ransomware-as-a-service programs has also expanded rapidly over the past two years. Record-breaking payouts include a $4.4 million ransom secured by hackers that attacked the fuel-pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline in 2021.

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☆ $6.1 billion cloud startup Benchling hired executives from top software companies like Atlassian, Workday, and ServiceNow as it looks to its next phase of growth
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-25 | by ( Paayal Zaveri | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Benchling, which makes cloud R&D software for life sciences companies, boomed during the pandemic. Benchling has grown in size and valuationBenchling makes cloud software to help life sciences companies make their research and development more efficient. He sees a huge opportunity to bring life sciences companies into the cloud, especially given that there aren't many other software companies serving that specific market. The company's new CTO and product chief will be key to making that happen. Shawna Wolverton, chief product officer at Benchling BenchlingWolverton, meanwhile has experience in helping build out Salesforce's platform, which in turn fostered an ecosystem around the cloud giant's products.

☆ 'Deadly drop': Hotel housekeeper faces avalanche of laundry showing desperate hotel labor shortage in viral TikTok posts
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-21 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

One housekeeper uses TikTok to show how much laundry she must fold in an 8-plus hour shift. Zeiber's TikTok videos showing what she calls "deadly drops" from a linen chute into the hotel's laundry room, have gone viral, shocking viewers. In the comments section of her account, Zeiber clarified that she is not the only housekeeper at the hotel, but she's the only person responsible for laundry. Sometimes her workdays last beyond eight hours and include more than just laundry, according to Zeiber. Kasea Zeiber is the only housekeeper responsible for folding laundry in an 126-room hotel in the Pittsburgh area.

☆ 'Bullet Train' Repeats No. 1, 'Top Gun' Returns to Second Place as Box Office Nearly Grinds to Halt
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-14 | by ( Rebecca Rubin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

That would be one plausible explanation behind the great box office slowdown. Although three new movies opened nationwide, none were able to crack the top five on domestic charts and only two -- A24's satirical slasher "Bodies Bodies Bodies" and Lionsgate's vertigo-inducing thriller "Fall" -- managed to infiltrate the top 10. After two weeks on the big screen, the Brad Pitt-led "Bullet Train" has generated $54.4 million at the domestic box office. In eighth place, "Bodies Bodies Bodies" beat expectations with $3.2 million from 1,290 locations. That means "Maverick" is roughly $5 million away from dethroning Marvel's "Avengers: Infinity War" as the sixth-highest grossing movie in domestic box office history.

☆ Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump, Jr. have all been deposed by NY's attorney general's office — now what?
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-10 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Donald Trump was deposed Wednesday by the NY attorney general's office — after promising to plead the Fifth. So what's next for the Trumps, the Trump Organization and James' three-year investigation? The lawsuit will seek steep financial penalties for an alleged decadelong pattern of playing fast and loose with the assessed values of Trump Organization properties. The Trump Organization probe is the third time the former president has been in the AG's crosshairs. Why did the AG insist on a deposition in this current, Trump Organization case?

☆ Republicans' next big play is to 'scare the hell out of Washington' by rewriting the Constitution. And they're willing to play the long game to win.
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-31 | by ( Grace Panetta | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +27 min

Whether it happens, he said, is highly dependent on Republicans' success winning state legislatures during the 2022 midterm elections. But not everyone in the conservative constitutional convention movement believes such a gathering is so imminent. Constitutional convention boosters include many of Trump's current and former allies, including conservative legal scholar John Eastman, Florida Gov. In 2012, the Republican National Committee went so far as to pass a resolution formally opposing the convention movement. A convention of states would be the first of its kind since the original Constitutional convention in Philadelphia in 1787.

☆ A weird evolutionary quirk in the human eye could be what saves us from climate change
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-19 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The difference: climate change, our dunderheaded anti-terraforming of Earth. Climate change has been going on for a century and a half. Then that derecho — souped up by an atmosphere pumped full of heat energy, thanks to climate change — swept across South Dakota. In the US, only young people and those who identify as Democrats think dealing with climate change should be a top priority, according to surveys from Pew Research. About half of Americans think humans are only partially responsible for climate change, or not responsible at all.

☆ The story of Cookies: How a former Wendy's employee turned a popular weed strain with a controversial name into a $1 billion empire
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-08 | by ( Ben Gilbert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

America's first $1 billion weed brand is here, and it's named Cookies. It's a company that he says is now worth at least $1 billion — the world's first legal $1 billion weed brand. From a logo on a hoodie to a billion-dollar companyThe inside of the Santa Ana, California, Cookies marijuana dispensary. He described this time period, between 2010 and 2018, when the first Cookies retail store opened, as a lengthy learning experience. Though he's repeatedly been offered millions of dollars for his majority stake in Cookies, Berner has thus far refused to sell.

As mortgage rates spike, more and more potential homebuyers are considering adjustable-rate mortgage loans to finance their home purchases. An adjustable-rate mortgage is a type of loan that carries an interest rate that is constant at first but changes over time. Then, once that time period is over, your interest rate will change at certain time intervals depending on market conditions. But with an adjustable-rate mortgage, you start off paying a really low interest rate during what's known as the fixed period. Where to find adjustable-rate mortgagesIf an adjustable-rate mortgage sounds like the best option for you, there are several lenders that offer this type of loan.

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☆ Sustainability manager is one of the most in-demand jobs right now. Here's how to land a role, which can net you above $100,000 in base pay.
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-04 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Insider spoke with specialist sustainability recruiters to find out how to land a role. "There's just been this huge explosion in roles, and every single company is looking for more people," Katie Pereira, the sustainability director at recruitment agency Allen & York, said. Sustainability manager was one of the fastest-growing jobs across Europe and the seventh-fastest-growing job in the UK, according to data from LinkedIn published earlier this year. "The demand for sustainability professionals has really jumped," Andrew Murray, a former senior environment manager at Vodafone, said. While companies often look for a degree, Allen told Insider that some businesses were "starting to remove the need for higher-education qualifications."

☆ Principles of governance: How companies — and their boards — hold themselves accountable for their promises
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-03 | by ( Lily Katzman | Megan Dematteo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A central role for boards is a critical component of ESG standards, an EY executive told Insider. This article is part of the "Financing a Sustainable Future" series exploring how companies take steps to set and fund sustainable goals. In the evolving field of environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, governance is perhaps the most critical pillar for setting and executing sustainability objectives. But governance can also be abstract, compared with sustainability metrics like carbon emissions or data measuring a company's diversity. Environmental issues and corporate governance often intersect at the top.

☆ Side hustle and 'polywork' culture is really just a desperate reflection of a low-paying job market
▼ + stars: | 2022-02-14 | by ( Stephen Moore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The pandemic has seen a rise in "polywork" — people working multiple jobs or side hustles. One aspect of this future is a rise in people holding multiple jobs. Still, the buzz around polyworking fails to consider that many are not pursuing multiple work opportunities voluntarily. For many, working multiple jobs is a necessity. We have to be aware that it's one thing to want to work multiple jobs — it's another to feel like you have to work them.

☆ Actress Elizabeth Hurley says cancer awareness now 'more vital than it's ever been'
▼ + stars: | 2022-02-03 | by ( Tania Bryer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

So, if anything, this World Cancer Day this year in 2022 is more vital than it's ever been." Hurley was speaking to "CNBC Meets" in her role as global ambassador for The Estée Lauder Companies' Breast Cancer Campaign, ahead of World Cancer Day on Feb. 4. Both women and men can be diagnosed with breast cancer which has now overtaken lung cancer as the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the world. The Breast Cancer Campaign and The Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation have since provided over $108 million toward "global research, education and medical services." They're talking about fundraising, they're talking about treatments, they're talking about diagnosis, they're talking about aftercare if you've been diagnosed, how should people be treated, what can we do to help?"

☆ Mississippi banned most abortions to be the 'safest state' for the unborn. Meanwhile, one in three Mississippi kids lives in poverty.
▼ + stars: | 2021-11-26 | by ( Sarah Fowler | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Mississippi lawmakers said the ban on most abortions after 15 weeks makes Mississippi 'the safest state in the country' for the unborn. "We've had so many state leaders who have talked about wanting Mississippi to be the safest state in the country for unborn babies. It's even higher for kids: one in three Mississippi children live in poverty. Each of the women has dedicated their life to helping Mississippi women and families. More than 100,000 Mississippi children should be eligible, but in 2019 – the most recent year for which there's data – just 20,900 benefited from the program.

☆ Republican Party officials made a mysterious $36,000 payment in February to private investigators who advertise their use of surveillance drones and hidden cameras
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-22 | by ( Robin Bravender | Dave Levinthal | Tom Lobianco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Michigan company appears to use drones and secret cameras in its surveillance. "This could be a million and one things," a former RNC official told Insider of the payment. "You'd have to know specifically what they were after before you could draw any conclusions," the former RNC official said. A Cross Xamine Investigations promotional video includes images of surveillance drones and video cameras, as well as eyeglasses that appear to have a camera embedded in them. The RNC's payment to a private investigations firm is "far from common — very, very rare," another longtime Democratic operative familiar with opposition research said.

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☆ How to get into Stanford Graduate School of Business, according to the assistant dean of admissions
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-07 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

A 2019 ranking of business-school admission rates showed Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) at the top of the list of most selective schools. Education specialists Quacquarelli Symonds recently released its 2021 Global MBA Ranking, and Stanford ranked as the best business school in the world. To that end, Insider asked six Stanford business school grads, as well as the assistant dean of MBA admissions and financial aid, for their insights on how to get noticed and tapped by Stanford GBS's extremely selective admissions committee. His top advice for Stanford business school applicants is to not be an imitation of a type. Other Stanford business school alumni validated this advice.

☆ A marketing expert grew her email list by more than 50,000 subscribers in 5 years and recommends these proven strategies
▼ + stars: | 2020-07-26 | by ( Dorie Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

According to Clark, growing your opt-in email list can help you reach new customers, tap into new revenue streams, and minimize reliance on expensive social media marketing tactics. Growing your opt-in email list is important for plenty of reasons. Here are four that I've used personally to grow my own email list by more than 50,000 subscribers in the past five years. Your own email messagesHere's one way to grow your email list that's overlooked by almost all professionals: leveraging the signature file in your own emails. Instead of wasting the opportunity and encouraging them to follow you on Twitter, you can get them to subscribe to your email list ("Download her free 42-page Stand Out Self-Assessment Workbook and learn more at dorieclark.com.")

☆ A father's letter to his kid: The 9 money and life lessons most people learn too late in life
▼ + stars: | 2020-06-19 | by ( Morgan Housel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

But, one day, she'll need some money and life advice. As a father who has spent much of his career studying and writing about money, behavioral finance and business, this is what I'll tell her:1. It's easy to assume that wealth and poverty are caused by the choices we make, but it's even easier to underestimate the role of chance in life. Warren Buffett once said: True success in life is "when the number of people you want to have love you actually do love you." No amount of money can compensate for a lack of character, honesty and genuine empathy towards others.

☆ A top digital-talent exec at WME breaks down the big influencer deals of 2019 and what he's looking for in 2020, from TikTok to touring
▼ + stars: | 2020-01-14 | by ( Amanda Perelli | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Creators on TikTok are surging in the influencer space, having captured the attention of Gen Zers worldwide, and now looking to build lucrative businesses around their massive audiences. "I think TikTok is super interesting," Jad Dayeh, a partner and the cohead of digital at WME, told Business Insider in a wide-ranging interview. Since the rise of digital media, WME has developed a department for influencers who are popular on platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and now TikTok. Dayeh said WME spent a lot of time last year negotiating these "multimillion-dollar multiyear deals" for the gamers the company represents. WME also focused on securing partnerships between digital talent and major brands.

The CareCredit card from Synchrony Bank offers financing for a wide variety of health-related expenses, from beauty treatments to medical procedures to pet care. It offers financing for health, wellness, and beauty-related treatments and other procedures that aren't covered by your insurance. While the CareCredit card is primarily for the main cardholder, it's possible for other family members to use the card for their healthcare needs as well. Long-term financing: reduced interestWith this financing option, you're also given a fixed minimum monthly payment based on your balance and the duration of time you choose. CareCredit offers a 60-month term option, but that is only for purchases of $2,500 or more.

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