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☆ Al Roker returns to 'TODAY' after two months
  + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Lindsay Lowe | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +1 min
Al Roker returned to "TODAY" on Friday after two months away, and he was in great spirits as he joined Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb in Studio 1A at the top of the show. Roker walked onto set, sharing hugs and kisses with Guthrie and Kotb, while the crew applauded. You are my second family and it’s just great to be back — and wearing pants!” Roker joked. Al Roker returns to "TODAY" on Friday. Roker then spent another stint in the hospital, returning home once more on Dec. 8.
☆ Elon Musk reinstates journalists who were suspended from Twitter after conducting a poll about how to handle accounts that 'doxxed' his location
  + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Twitter on Thursday suspended accounts belonging to several journalists who cover Elon Musk. As of Friday evening, accounts belonging to several journalists had been reinstated. A day prior, the company had suspended accounts run by college student Jack Sweeney — including one that tracked Musk's private jet — and announced new privacy rules. Musk conducted a Twitter poll Thursday asking his followers when he should "Unsuspend accounts who doxxed my exact location in real-time," with the options being "Now" or "In 7 days." At the time of publication, accounts belonging to O'Sullivan, Rupar, Mac, Harwell, and Webster had all been reinstated.
☆ A Harvard Business School grad who now works at Google shares how she got into the top MBA program
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Brina Patel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +10 min
Olivia Melendez graduated from Harvard Business School in May and is a product manager at Google. Plus, I had always heard that MBA programs prefer that candidates have three to four years of work experience before starting a full-time program," Melendez said. In addition to HBS, she applied to several other top-tier programs, including the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Wharton Business School, and Kellogg School of Management, all of which she was admitted to. Melendez said she used the admissions essay as a chance to tie together pieces of her background that needed additional context. For anyone struggling with the admission essay, Melendez recommended an exercise she learned at MLT.
☆ U.S. consumer confidence at four-month low; house price growth slows
  + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Lucia Mutikani | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
The labor market has remained resilient despite the Federal Reserve's stiff interest rate increases, helping to keep consumer spending and the overall economy afloat. "That tectonic shift in consumer confidence from inflation worries to job concerns is coming though." The Conference Board's consumer confidence index fell to 100.2, the lowest reading since July, from 102.2 in October. Though house prices have came off the record highs reached during the COVID-19 pandemic-driven housing market boom, they remain significantly high. A third report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency showed house prices increased 11.0% in the 12 months through September after advancing 12.0% in August.
☆ Rivian’s CEO created buzzy, outdoorsy EVs. Now big automakers are coming after it
  + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +11 min
Even now, as the company’s assembly lines have started churning out its electric vehicles, success still isn’t assured. The 39-year-old is running the car company he founded, building electric vehicles he helped engineer and design. Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesEver since he was a child growing up in Melbourne, Florida, Scaringe wanted to start his own car company. At the time, the idea of starting a car company seemed very farfetched. Robert Joseph "RJ" Scaringe, Rivian's founder and CEO, said he had wanted to start a car company since he was a child.
☆ Rivian’s founder had an early advantage with his electric truck. Now rivals GM and Ford are closing in
  + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +11 min
Even now, as the company’s assembly lines have started churning out its electric vehicles, success still isn’t assured. The 39-year-old is running the car company he founded, building electric vehicles he helped engineer and design. A Rivian R1T pickup truck at the company's manufacturing facility in Normal, Illinois. Robert Joseph "RJ" Scaringe, Rivian's founder and CEO, said he had wanted to start a car company since he was a child. In 2021, Ford revealed the F-150 Lightning electric truck, which went into production this year.
☆ Jessica Korda to miss rest of LPGA season with back injury
  + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Nov 8 (Reuters) - Six-time LPGA winner Jessica Korda said on Tuesday that she will miss the rest of the LPGA season with a back injury but expects to return "healthier and stronger" next year. World number 16 Korda earned six top-10 finishes on the LPGA Tour in 2022 with her best result coming in April at the year's first major where she was runner-up in The Chevron Championship. In her most recent start, Korda tied for 24th place at the Ascendant LPGA benefiting Volunteers of America five weeks ago in Texas. I haven't had the most luck when it comes to injuries in my career, nonetheless I'm going to keep on keeping on," wrote Korda. "Excited to be back next year for my 13th season on tour healthier and stronger."
☆ Elite New York restauranteur Will Guidara on why luxury spending isn't the key to making people happy
  + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Kaitlin Balasaygun | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
Will Guidara, former owner of elite New York City restaurant Eleven Madison Park, thought his soon-to-be wife would love the Cartier necklace he bought her for their one-year anniversary. Guidara was surprised to see that his wife appreciated this gift far more than the thousands of dollars he spent on the necklace. The lesson, according to Guidare: The weight that money holds is incomparable to the weight that time holds to humans. Mal Fairclough | Afp | Getty ImagesUnder the Make it Nice hospitality group, the two went on to open NoMad New York, Nomad Bar, Made Nice, NoMad Los Angeles and NoMad Las Vegas. One night, Guidara recalled, he saw the kids of a family from Spain mesmerized by the snow falling outside his restaurant.
☆ Cramer: 4 things I learned from talking to a dozen Club members and other investors over the weekend
  + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +6 min
This stock market is torturous. I probably spoke to a dozen Club members and we all had a more resigned attitude, accepting that there aren't many opportunities right now. 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. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER .
☆ 'Crazy stuff is happening at my work': Silicon Valley engineers are really freaking out right now
  + stars: | 2022-06-01 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +11 min
Silicon Valley, perhaps even more than the rest of corporate America, has long been engaged in a two-sided battle over the pursuit of happiness. In the Silicon Valley that emerges on Blind, the engineers who strive for work-life balance are just as burned out as the late-night grinders. But Silicon Valley has always overindexed for Optimizers. If this is Silicon Valley today, nobody's happy, and everybody's burnt. Stereotypically, Silicon Valley engineers are grinders.
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