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☆ The tech we couldn’t live without in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Bone conduction headphones, TV streaming devices and Bluetooth speakers are among the tech gadgets topping holiday wish lists this year. Other notable products – ahem, the new 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max – are near impossible to find. Since my move to New York, I’ve had to find all new favorite spots for good food and drinks. – Victor Blackwell, co-anchor of CNN NewsroomHBO MaxNow that I commute home at the ungodly hour of 1 a.m., I lean heavily on my HBO Max app (starts at $9.99 a month). – Samantha Kelly, CNN senior tech writerRev.comI remember being an intern over a decade ago logging half hour long interviews for producers.

☆ Delisting risk eases for Alibaba and other US-listed Chinese companies after American officials get audit access
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Carla Mozée | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Alibaba and other US-listed Chinese firms face a lower risk of delisting after officials got access to audit data. Inspectors conducted on-site work in Hong Kong but have yet to gain access to mainland China. The work lessens the potential that roughly 200 Chinese companies will be booted from American exchanges. Chinese officials have cited national security concerns for shutting down inspection demands. The watchdog said it's continuing to demand complete access in mainland China and Hong Kong and is already planning for regular inspections starting in early 2023.

☆ Risk officers are the next hot hire for fintechs reaching consumers in new industries, VCs said. Startups are poaching from big companies to find them.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Emilia David | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Risk officers don't just safeguard data: They take charge of many regulatory and technological issues in financial-services businesses. But only some fintech companies may benefit from thinking about hiring risk officers early. Large banks still dominate hiring for risk officers, but startups are gaining groundFintech startups want to hire risk officers, but they face a hurdle: There aren't enough risk professionals. But fintech startups have been attracting risk officers from banking giants for a while. Still, according to White, there are benefits to hiring risk officers for both types of companies.

☆ World Cup 2022 Round of 16: qualified teams, schedule and how it works
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Dec 3 (Reuters) - With the World Cup knockout phase having begun, here is an overview of the teams advancing to the last 16 at the tournament in Qatar:HOW DOES THE KNOCKOUT STAGE AT WORLD CUP 2022 WORK? * In the knockout stage the teams will play each other once, with the winning team going to the next round. There are total of four rounds: Round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final, which will take place on Dec. 18. * Australia claimed a spot in the last 16 as Group D runners-up with 6 points from wins over Tunisia and Denmark. * Croatia joined the last 16 after two goalless draws with Morocco and Belgium and a 4-1 victory over Canada.

[1/4] A view of a construction site where concrete pouring work is suspended due to a nationwide strike by truckers in Seoul, South Korea November 25, 2022. "We need to establish a rule of law between labour and management," Yoon said on Monday, according to the presidential office. Yoon will personally preside over a cabinet meeting on Tuesday which will consider a 'work force order' demanding striking truckers return to their jobs, his office said. According to South Korean law, during a serious disruption to transport the government may issue an order to force transport workers back to their jobs. While stations secured inventory before the strike, about 80% of truckers for major refiners such as SK Innovation's (096770.KS) SK Energy and S-Oil Corp (010950.KS) are striking union members.

☆ Elon Musk Tells Twitter Staff to Work ‘Long Hours at High Intensity’ or Leave
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Sarah E. Needleman | Alexa Corse | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Elon Musk emailed Twitter Inc. employees demanding that they commit to “long hours at high intensity” or leave, further roiling a staff already dealing with sweeping layoffs, mass executive departures and repeated business missteps under the billionaire’s ownership. Twitter employees must fill out a Google form by Thursday, 5 p.m. ET, to indicate if they want to remain at the company and are willing to work an intense regimen, according to the overnight email from Mr. Musk that many employees woke up to on Wednesday, with the subject line “A Fork in the Road.” Those who opt not to commit would be given three months of severance, he said.

☆ Layoff memos from tech companies illustrate how leaders need to show authentic regret over job cuts — and how damaging it can be when they don't
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Shana Lebowitz | Rachel Durose | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Job cuts are never easy, but leaders' actions can lessen the sting of layoffs. Cuts at Meta, Twitter, and Stripe offer examples of what works — and what doesn't. Those contrite statements stand in contrast to a November 3 email that went to some 3,700 laid-off Twitter employees, about half of the company's workforce. Instead of apologizing, Musk, who is also the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, doubled down on his claims that the business was losing too much money to avoid workforce cuts. Twitter didn't tell employees why they were losing their jobsThe email to laid-off Twitter employees didn't explain the rationale behind the job cuts, though HR experts said that kind of clarity around what businesses sometimes call a "reduction in force," or RIF, is important.

Elon Musk told Twitter employees that the company needs roughly half of its revenue to come from subscriptions. Elon Musk ordered the end of remote work for most Twitter Inc. employees as the departure of senior security and privacy executives from the company drew concern from federal regulators. “There is no way to sugarcoat the message,” Mr. Musk wrote in the overnight email, his first to the whole company, according to a copy of the message viewed by The Wall Street Journal. “The economic picture ahead is dire, especially for a company like ours that is so dependent on advertising in a challenging economic climate.”

☆ How social media platforms plan to fight Election Day misinformation
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty ImagesSocial media platforms including Meta's Facebook and Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and Google's YouTube are readying themselves for another heated Election Day this week. The company is once again banning new political ads in the week before the election, as it did in 2020. Political ads, including information on how much money was behind them and how much they were viewed, are included in the company's transparency report. The NYU and Global Witness study found YouTube performed the best out of the platforms it tested in blocking ads with election misinformation. WATCH: The messy business of content moderation on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube

SEOUL, Nov 3 (Reuters) - SK Innovation Co Ltd (096770.KS), the owner of South Korea's top oil refiner SK Energy, said on Thursday it expects a gradual recovery in refining margins this quarter as stronger Western sanctions on Russia and the winter season push up fuel demand. However, the company said margins will likely remain not far from third-quarter levels due to global recession worries. SK Innovation's operating profit rose to 704 billion won ($493 million) in the July-September period from 669 billion won a year earlier, it said. Revenue rose 82% to 22.8 trillion won, beating an average analyst estimate of 19.8 trillion won according to Refinitiv SmartEstimate. SK Innovation shares were trading up 0.8% in morning trade, versus a 0.6% fall in the broader KOSPI (.KS11).

☆ Goldman Sachs shares exactly how to position your stock portfolio as a make-or-break Q3 earnings season kicks into high gear
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Goldman Sachs shared the investing playbook it recommends following right now. Since 1974, those three groups have had the best relative performance to the S&P 500 during periods of weak economic growth, Kostin wrote. "Our economists expect GDP to decelerate further, and risks to their forecast are tilted downward," Kostin wrote in the note. Goldman SachsFinally, Goldman Sachs recommends that investors avoid the following sectors and industries: technology hardware, industrials, media & entertainment, semiconductors, automobiles & components, and materials. Those parts of the market are economically sensitive and will be disproportionately hurt if the economic slowdown worsens, Kostin wrote.

☆ Futures fall as focus turns to Fed
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Traders work on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 13, 2022. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register"The fundamental environment has hardly changed." Focus will also be on the updated economic projections and dot plot estimates for cues on policymakers' sense of the endpoint for rates and the outlooks for unemployment, inflation, and economic growth. ET, Dow e-minis were down 139 points, or 0.45%, S&P 500 e-minis were down 19.75 points, or 0.5%, and Nasdaq 100 e-minis were down 70.5 points, or 0.59%. read moreRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Devik Jain in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak DasguptaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ After 10 rejections, here's the résumé that finally got me into Google without a background in tech
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-26 | by ( Tennessee Watt | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

She applied over 10 times before finally getting in and says tweaking her résumé to focus on transferable skills made all the difference. I finally landed my dream job just four years out of undergrad as a product marketer at Google, all without a tech background. Optimize your résumé using the X-Y-Z formatMy first step was to improve my résumé to meet Google's standards. Once I knew I wanted a product or brand marketing role in tech, I was able to network even more strategically in niche groups. Tennessee Watt is a marketing manager at Google and a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant at Tennessee Watt Consulting.

A day trader in her 20s will have much different view of stock diversification than a retiree looking to limit risk. Last week, we spoke about how to diversify a stock portfolio to both balance a longer-term view of your holdings while sharpening a shorter-term focus on factors that might necessitate changes. We're breaking this tutorial into seven sections: Understanding correlations Getting a portfolio started Is S & P 500 diversified? To better illustrate, let's consider the current make up of the S & P 500 — the diversification you'd achieve if you put an initial investment into an S & P 500 exchange-traded fund, or ETF. As of March 31, the end of the first quarter, the S & P 500 weighting was as follows: When you buy into an S & P 500 index fund, roughly 28 cents of every dollar goes into technology, while only 2.6 cents go into materials.

Situația precară în care se află azi Moldova e descrisă în articol destul de exact. Ce-o fi cu datoria istorică a României de „a întinde o mână de ajutor sireacului moldovean”, invocată de autor? Moldova e mama României? Biserica ortodoxă română a apărut cu jumătate de veac mai târziu și a fost recunoscută de Constantinopol abia în 1855. Moldova a fost folosită în acea vreme de Germania și Romănia ca forță de muncă ieftină și carne de tun.

Persons: jun, Plahotniuc, Aureliu Busuioc, Daniel Ioniță, Moldovei, Antonescu ., Antonescu, Maia Sandu, Maia, Donald Tusk, Laura Kovesi, Risipeni, El, ., Grigore Teologul Organizations: NATO, Washington Times, PD Locations: Moldova, -, României, București, România, Prut, Paris, Occident, mezat, Bruxelles, Kiev, Moscova, Germania, Austria, Serbia, Muntenegru, Cehia, Slovacia, Rusia, Constantinopol, Imperiul otoman, Basarabia, Basarabiei, Europa, Europa de Est, Roma, Europei, Polonia, Apus, Răsărit

Associated PressGreenfield We began writing drafts, and the first drafts were the Pentagon Papers often mixed up with the writers’ own past reporting and commentary. If this is going to be called the Pentagon Papers, it can’t be the Pentagon Papers and The New York Times Papers.” So we came up with a system. So my job became to verify or discredit information in the Pentagon Papers. Who knows what goes on in hotel rooms in Manhattan?” We were just doing another strange thing in a hotel room in Manhattan. Amster I think it was Al who said the most impressive thing about the Pentagon Papers was that no one leaked anything.

Persons: Allan M, Hilton, Sheehan, Abe, Greenfield Abe, Neil —, “ Neil, Neil Sheehan, A.M . Rosenthal, James L, John Lent, Press Sheehan, Greenfield, Jerry Gold, Al Siegal, Fox Butterfield, Rick Smith, Ned Kenworthy, it’s Abe Rosenthal’s, “ Fox, Rosenthal, ”, “, ” Hedrick Smith, Neil, Ngo Dinh Diem, Robert S, McNamara, Diem, ” Horst Faas, Robert J, We’d, “ Robert, there’s, ” Linda Amster, James Greenfield, Peter Millones, Jim, Peter, It’s, Associated Press Greenfield, ’, Jerry Gold’s, Weeks, Linda Amster, E.W, Kenworthy, Hedrick Smith, Renato Perez, The New York Times Butterfield, Smith, Greenfield I, Al, Greenfield Jerry Gold, ” Sheehan Organizations: Press, Fox, New York Hilton Hotel, South, Pentagon, ., The Times, Hilton, Times, American, Da Nang Air Base, Associated Press, New York Times, The New York Times Locations: Greenfield, Taipei, Vietnam, Saigon, United States, South Vietnam, Long, flabbergasted, Manhattan, Levittown

☆ „Aveţi o bombă la bord”, au transmis autorităţile de la Minsk echipajului zborului Ryanair
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-25 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: AFP„Aveţi o bombă la bord”, au transmis autorităţile de la Minsk echipajului zborului RyanairAutorităţile belaruse au transmis echipajului zborului Ryanair că avionul lor avea la bord un dispozitiv explozibil şi i-au "recomandat" să aterizeze la Minsk, potrivit transcrierii discuţiei între pilot şi turnul de control publicate marţi, relatează AFP și Agerpres. Transcrierea acestei discuţii cu turnul de control atestă că acesta a recomandat cu insistenţă o aterizare la Minsk. Atunci când pilotul a întrebat de la cine vine "recomandarea", controlorul de zbor a răspuns: "Sunt recomandările noastre". Deturnarea avionului a provocat un val de indignare şi Uniunea Europeană a decis să-şi închidă spaţiul aerian avioanelor belaruse pentru a pedepsi regimul preşedintelui Aleksandr Lukaşenko. Departamentul pentru transport aerian din cadrul Ministerului belarus al Transporturilor a anunţat că a invitat să efectueze cercetări în acest sens Asociaţia Internaţională a Transportului Aerian (IARA), Organizaţia Aviaţiei Civile Internaţionale (OACI), care ţine de ONU, precum şi autorităţile americane şi ale Uniunii Europene.

Persons: Ryanair, Aleksandr Lukaşenko Organizations: Ministerului Transporturilor, belarus, Transporturilor, Hamas, Uniunea Europeană, ONU, Uniunii Europene Locations: Minsk, Agerpres, Belarus, Ucraina, Polonia, Atena, Vilnius, IARA

Capacitatea unui râu de a curge într-o direcție a fost tot timpul exploatată de om. Apa râurilor, mai ales a fluviilor, a fost utilizată tot mai des odată cu construcția morilor de apă. Ca urmare a construcției hidrocentralei, a fost format un lac de acumulare (principal), poreclit „Marea Galicia”. Scandalul centralelor hidroelectriceÎn 2016, în Ucraina a fost adoptat Programul guvernului de dezvoltare a energiei hidroenergetice până în 2026. În acel moment, nu a existat disponibilitatea Moldovei și a fost corect asta.

Persons: ., Valeriu Munteanu, Ilia, Munteanu, Filat, Maia Sandu, Volodimir Organizations: Hidrocentrala, Novodnestrovsk, Convenția Europeană, Comisia, Organizației Națiunilor Unite, Convenția, Uniunea Europeană, Uniunii Europene Locations: URSS, Republica Moldova, Ucraina, Moldova, Ucrainei, Republicii Moldova, Ucrainean, omonim, Cernăuți, Galicia, Novodnestrovsk, Nistru, . Nahoreanî, Vinița, Dubăsari, Ivano - Frankivsk, Ternopil, Hotin, Moldovei, Kiev, Suediei, Ilia Trombițchi, Naslavcea

Capacitatea unui râu de a curge într-o direcție a fost tot timpul exploatată de om. În perioada sovietică, a fost planificat un complex de hidrocentrale, menit să regleze debitul apei pentru a preveni inundațiile, dar și de a produce energie electrică. Ca urmare a construcției hidrocentralei, a fost format un lac de acumulare (principal), poreclit „Marea Galicia”. Scandalul centralelor hidroelectriceÎn 2016, în Ucraina a fost adoptat Programul guvernului de dezvoltare a energiei hidroenergetice până în 2026. În acel moment, nu a existat disponibilitatea Moldovei și a fost corect asta.

Însă interesele din jurul centralelor existente și cele planificate ar putea avea efecte devastatoare, atât pentru oameni, cât și floră și faună. Râul Nistru are lungimea de 1362 de km și curge pe teritoriul a două state – foste membre ale URSS – Republica Moldova și Ucraina. Ca urmare a construcției hidrocentralei, a fost format un lac de acumulare (principal), poreclit „Marea Galicia”. Scandalul centralelor hidroelectriceÎn 2016, în Ucraina a fost adoptat Programul guvernului de dezvoltare a energiei hidroenergetice până în 2026. În acel moment, nu a existat disponibilitatea Moldovei și a fost corect asta.

☆ Un băiat de 14 ani și-a ucis toată familia, părinții și trei frați mai mici, când a aflat că mama lui e de fapt mamă vitregă
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-13 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Un băiat de 14 ani și-a ucis toată familia, părinții și trei frați mai mici, când a aflat că mama lui e de fapt mamă vitregă, dar va scăpa de pedeapsa cu moartea, scrie site-ul televizunii americane de știri WSFA12, afiliată NBC, citat de libertatea.ro. Un adolescent american își va petrece, foarte probabil, întreaga viață în închisoare și va primi mai multe condamnări pe viață, după ce anul trecut și-a ucis întreaga familie și nu dă semne că regretă crimele. Tara Pressnell, ofițerul de probațiune juvenilă din Limestone, a declarat, citată de Decatur Daily: „Mason nu pare deranjat de faptul că este acuzat că și-a ucis familia. Imediat după crimă, un văr al lui Mason a dezvăluit poliției că el tocmai aflase că Mary e mama lui vitregă și asta l-a înfuriat foarte tare. Mason și-a împușcat părinții și frații în casa în care locuiau, iar când a venit poliția a spus inițial că au fost atacați și el a scăpat ascunzându-se la subsol.

Persons: vitregă, Mason Sisk, Tara Pressnell, Mason, Sisk, John Sisk, Mary Sisk, Mary Organizations: NBC, americană Locations: american, Limestone County, Alabama, Tara

☆ Un copil de 14 ani și-a împușcat toată familia, părinții și trei frați mai mici, când a aflat că mama lui e de fapt mamă vitregă
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-13 | by ( ) unica.md time to read: +2 min

Persons: vitregă, Mason Sisk, Tara Pressnell, Mason, Sisk, John Sisk, Mary Sisk, Mary Organizations: NBC, americană Locations: american, Limestone County, Alabama, Tara

RISE Moldova a reușit să identifice opt dintre ei. Pe 25 septembrie, cu șapte zile până la lansarea lui Igor Dodon în cursa electorală, la un oficiu de la demisolul unui bloc locativ de pe str. Serghei Lazo, RISE Moldova a reușit să mai identificăm șase cetățeni ruși. Cel puțin asta reiese dintr-o înregistrare video, transmisă redacției RISE Moldova de o persoană apropiată de anturajul actualului președinte. Ludmila Muntean, purtătoarea de cuvânt a lui Igor Dodon (într-un răspuns oficial pentru RISE Moldova) a spus că Igor Dodon și colegii acestuia au fost implicați în mai multe campanii electorale.

Persons: Igor Dodon, Bătrîncea, Ludmila Muntean, Serghei Lazo, Nichita Țurcan, Adela Răileanu, Iuri Gudilin, Olga Grak, Olga, Leonid Gonin, Vlad, Vladimir Odnostalco, Serghei Galiev, Stanislav Patriev, Igor Golubev, Dmitri Dimler, Serghei Perfiliev, OLGA, IURI GUDILIN, LEONID GONIN, Duma de Stat, SERGHEI GALIEV, Nikita Kuzmin, STANISLAV PATRIEV, IGOR GOLUBEV, DMITRI DIMLER, SERGHEI PERFILIEV, Dodon, Ceban Organizations: Moldova, Partidului Socialiștilor, Partidului Forțelor, Dreapta, Partidului, Adunarea, CEC, МРСК Центра, Партия правых сил Locations: Federația Rusă, Republica Moldova, Rîșcani, Federației Ruse, Chișinău, Președinție, Kaliningrad, Yaroslavl, Moscova, Lvov, Ucraina, Republica Udmurtia, Duma, Ruse, Krasnoiarsk, Novosibirsk

☆ How to set up an Etsy store that instantly draws in customers and makes you big money, from people who did it
▼ + stars: | 2020-06-29 | by ( Jenny Powers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Etsy is the perfect platform for sellers looking to attract customers to their shops. Insider asked several key members of the Etsy community to share everything you need to know to run a successful Etsy shop. While she still manages her own virtual storefront, today she's an Etsy employee, serving as a community education specialist for the platform. 1 tip to set yourself up for success is learning how to optimize your shop and product listings for the platform's internal search engine. Scale shot: This shot is meant to properly convey size, dimensions, and the proportions of your product.

Persons: Etsy, Sellers, —, Isabella Diaz, Diaz, it's, there's, Jill Foreman, Jill Makes, Mother's, Lindsey Delacerda, Jahje Ives, Baby Jives, what's, Ives, Jasmine Balgobin Ives, Foreman, Jives, Cayla Carapezza Diaz, Yvonne Leung, Leung, She's, Jill, Jill Foreman Foreman, Toms, Leung's Organizations: Service Locations: Lafayette , Louisiana, California

☆ E. Jean Carroll Accuses Trump of Sexual Assault in Her Memoir
▼ + stars: | 2019-06-21 | by ( Alexandra Alter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s in her forthcoming book. Mr. Trump, in a statement, emphatically denied the incident. It should be sold in the fiction section.”[President Trump called E. Jean Carroll a liar. In her book, Ms. Carroll describes what begins as a friendly encounter, as Mr. Trump, whom she’d met once before, asks her to try on lingerie that he is considering buying as a gift. Once they entered the dressing room, according to Ms. Carroll, Mr. Trump pushed her against the wall, pushed his mouth against her lips, then pulled down her tights, unzipped his pants and forced his “fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I’m not certain — inside me.”

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