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Here's the latest:ELECTRIC VEHICLE FRICTIONBiden's domestic policy is embodied in working to electrify roadways across the United States. Getting more electric vehicles on the roads is central to his climate change agenda, ensuring the vehicles are "Made in America" is part of his commitment to restore manufacturing jobs. But the IRA's consumer tax credits are tightly linked to the cars' and batteries being made in the U.S., roiling allies in Europe and Asia whose companies sell into U.S. markets. Instead, Japanese and U.S. officials struck a trade deal on electric vehicle battery minerals that expands eligibility for the $7,500 per vehicle EV tax credits in the IRA. NEW RACE FOR SUBSIDIESThe promise of corporate tax credits has renewed interest in investing in the U.S., and Europe has responded with subsidies of their own.

As the base on which your credit score is calculated, credit reports don't actually include your credit scores. Checking credit score frequently asked questionsWill checking my credit score lower it? Your credit reports do not show when you check your credit score, so the credit scoring algorithms have no way of knowing if you checked your credit score. Similarly to your credit score, checking your credit report doesn't change your credit score. While the average Gen Z consumer has a 679 FICO score, the average member of the Silent Generation has a 760 FICO score.

☆ We're making five price target changes and one rating upgrade after a crazy week of earnings
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

AAPL YTD mountain Apple YTD performance Apple (AAPL): We're raising our price target to $185 per share from $175 in response to the strong quarter Thursday evening. LLY YTD mountain Eli Lilly YTD performance Eli Lilly (LLY): We're increasing our price target on Eli Lilly again, this time to $460 per share from $430. Our new price target is in reaction to the positive Alzheimer's drug trial data that was much better than what we expected. HAL YTD mountain Halliburton YTD performance Halliburton (HAL): We are lowering our price target on this North American-focused oil services giant to $40 per share from $48. SBUX YTD mountain Starbucks YTD performance Starbucks (SBUX): We're bumping up our price target to $125 per share from $120 and upgrading our rating to a 1 following the stock's pullback in reaction to the recent earnings result .

☆ CDC will have less data to track Covid and new variants after public health emergency ends
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

"The end of the public health emergency means CDC will have less authority to collect certain types of public health data — that means less data will be available to us," Dr. Nirav Shah, the CDC's principal deputy director, told reporters during a call Thursday. Congress required these labs in March 2020 to send results to the federal government, but that mandate was tied to the public health emergency. "In some of the jurisdictions or some of the states those authorities will go away with the end of public health emergency," he said. The spotty reporting of case data also means the CDC will no longer report virus transmission at the county level after the public health emergency ends. Shah said the CDC will still have ways to monitor Covid after the public health emergency ends.

☆ Twitter to allow publishers to charge users on a per article basis starting May
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

April 29 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday that the social media platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click, calling it a win for both the public and media organizations. Since taking over the social media firm in October, Musk has swiftly moved through a number of product and organizational changes. The company rolled out Twitter-verified blue tick as a paid service and shrunk the employee base by about 80%. Musk has been bringing in changes to boost revenue at Twitter after the social media platform saw advertising income drop last year in the run-up to his on-again-off-again acquisition that closed. Reporting by Juby Babu in Bengaluru; Editing by Andrea RicciOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Al-Jamil Al-Fadil, a resident of Tuti in Khartoum, told CNN that projectiles fell on the neighborhood. And in the Kafouri area north of Khartoum, warplanes overhead came under fire from anti-aircraft missiles, eyewitnesses told CNN journalists in Sudan. Food and water shortagesAndou Dieng, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Sudan, said looting as well as fighting is continuing across the country despite attempted ceasefires. In the capital Khartoum, eyewitnesses and CNN journalists in the north of the city told CNN that RSF paramilitary soldiers are occupying at least one water station, causing shortages to vital water supplies. More than 2,700 people from around 76 countries have arrived in Saudi Arabia in recent days after being evacuated from Sudan, the Saudi ambassador to the UK told CNN on Thursday.

☆ Where to watch Man City vs. Arsenal live stream online from anywhere
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Brendan Griffiths | Senior Commerce Director | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

It's the biggest game of the Premier League season and could well decide the title, so here's where to watch a Man City vs. Arsenal live stream online today. Where to watch Man City vs. Arsenal live stream (US)Watching a Man City vs. Arsenal live stream online in the US via Peacock is the only option today as it's not being broadcast on TV. If you want to take advantage of the super cheap live stream of Man City vs. Liverpool that US viewers get, but you're not in the US right now, you'll find online geo-restrictions will block access to your usual Peacock live stream. How to watch Man City vs. Arsenal online with a VPNSign up for a VPN if you don't have one. Is there a free Man City vs. Arsenal live stream option?

☆ How HBO survived merger after merger and changed television forever
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Darren Geeter | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The network has survived merger after merger with one of the mergers, AOL Time Warner, considered the worst deal in modern American corporate history. The birth of HBO coincided with the modernization of television across the United States with the emergence of cable in the 1960s and 70s. HBO debuted on November 8, 1972, and it was one of the first paid television networks with 344 total subscribers in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. We're going to have to do original series," Bewkes told CNBC. The Time Warner era ushered in a multiplex model for HBO to reduce churn and debuted original programming "Dream On" and "The Larry Sanders Show."

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☆ Amazon services AWS and Alexa back up after brief outage
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

April 16 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said its cloud computing division Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its voice assistant service Alexa were back online after a brief outage on Sunday. Alexa was down for thousands of users in the United States, according to Downdetector, while hundreds of users reported issues with accessing AWS. Users also reported issues accessing Amazon's mobile app. Alexa is now operating normally, an Amazon spokesperson told Reuters in an email. AWS on its website said services have recovered from an issue in which AWS users were unable to complete the account signup process and were receiving error messages regarding their billing console.

☆ Twitter to let users offer content subscriptions in monetization push
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

April 13 (Reuters) - Twitter-owner Elon Musk said on Thursday users of the social media platform will be able to offer their followers subscriptions to content, including long-form text and hours-long video. loadingUsers offering the subscription, a feature they can access through the "Monetization" tab in settings, will get all the money subscribers pay apart from the charges platforms such as Android and iOS levy. "That's 70% for subscriptions on iOS & Android (they charge 30%) and ~92% on web (could be better, depending on payment processor)," Musk said in a tweet, adding Twitter will also help promote the creators' work and maximize earnings. Musk has been bringing in changes to boost revenue at Twitter after the social media platform saw advertising income drop last year in the run up to his on-again-off-again acquisition that closed in October. The social media firm was now "roughly breaking even", Musk said in a Twitter Spaces interview on Wednesday.

☆ When to-do lists fail, some highly successful people boost productivity by hiring a babysitter—for themselves
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

On Monday morning, Sarah Isenberg began her workday by logging onto a 9:30 a.m. Zoom session with a bunch of strangers. For the next three hours, they worked alongside each other in mostly silence, breaking every hour or so for collective stretching or deep breathing. Welcome to the world of "productivity babysitters," "accountabilibuddies" and "procrastination nannies" — paid services to keep tabs on you for a set time period to help you get work done. "At the base level, productivity babysitters are someone who plays the role of the person that says, 'Keep going,'" Jeremy Redleaf, a Caveday co-founder, tells CNBC Make It. Redleaf likens the cave experience to a fitness class or trainer, but instead of training physical muscles, you train your focus.

☆ China proposes measures to manage generative AI services
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Josh Ye | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

HONG KONG, April 11 (Reuters) - China's cyberspace regulator unveiled draft measures on Tuesday for managing generative artificial intelligence services, saying it wants firms to submit security assessments to authorities before they launch their offerings to the public. The CAC said that China supports AI innovation and application and encourages use of safe and reliable software, tools and data resources, but content generated by generative AI had to be in line with the country's core socialist values. Providers will be responsible for the legitimacy of data used to train generative AI products and measures should be taken to prevent discrimination when designing algorithms and training data, it said. Providers will be fined, have their services suspended, or even face criminal investigations if they fail to comply with the rules. The public can comment on the proposals until May 10, and the measures are expected to come into effect sometime this year, according to the draft rules.

☆ Healthcare, college education, and childcare started getting worse decades ago. Now we're all finally feeling it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Americans are accruing billions in debt to pay for things like education and healthcare. But that would require shifting the idea of childcare, education, and healthcare and thinking of them as public goods — not businesses. That ultimately meant millions in funding for public childcare. "If the US health system was a country, it would be about the fourth-largest country in the world," Cooper said. There's much less government involvement in the US healthcare system than in other countries, Cooper said.

☆ Elon Musk: Only paid subscribers will show up in your Twitter ‘For You’ feed
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Elon Musk has announced Twitter’s latest push to get people to pay $84 a year for the social network: Twitter will promote only paid subscribers’ tweets, and non-subscribers will not be allowed to vote in polls. The For You tab will soon only recommend people who pay for the premium Twitter Blue service. Voting in polls will require verification for same reason.”Appearing in the “For You” feed helps users build their number of followers. Musk and actor William Shatner clashed on Twitter over the weekend, when Shatner objected to the idea of paying for the checkmark. “Hey @elonmusk what’s this about blue checks going away unless we pay Twitter?” Shatner tweeted.

☆ UK's Ocado Retail keeps profit guidance after quarterly sales rise
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( James Davey | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The jv said retail revenue in the 13 weeks to Feb. 26 reached 584 million pounds ($719 million), up from 565 million in the same period last year. Average orders per week rose 3.6% to 381,000, with active customers reaching 951,000 at the end of the quarter, up 13.8% year-on-year. It said average basket value was flat, with a 7.5% fall in the average number of items bought to 45, offset by an 8.3% rise in average selling prices. Last month Ocado Group, whose shares have fallen 58% over the last year, said annual losses had ballooned to 501 million pounds after it took a big accounting charge. ($1 = 0.8120 pounds)Reporting by James Davey; Editing by Kate Holton and David HolmesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

An under-the-radar software company could yield investors as much as 35% upside, according to Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley began research coverage of Model N with an outperform investment rating and $43 price target. Model N is down more than 19% so far in 2023 after jumping 35% in 2022. "We're positive on Model N's leadership position and 85% exposure to secular growth of Life Sciences and emphasize their best-in-class profitability relative to [competitors]," Morgan Stanley equity analyst Craig Hettenbach wrote. Model N, which went public 10 years ago this month , has "an attractive combination of near-term defensive characteristics and long-term secular growth drivers" thanks to a robust roster of pharmaceutical clients, Morgan Stanley said.

☆ T-Mobile to buy Ryan Reynolds’ Mint Mobile in a $1.35 billion deal
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

T-Mobile announced Wednesday that it’s buying budget wireless provider Mint Mobile in a larger deal for up to $1.35 billion. “I never dreamt I’d own a wireless company and I certainly never dreamt I’d sell it to T-Mobile,” Reynolds wrote on Twitter Wednesday. Mint Mobile was created in 2016 with the goal of delivering an “affordable, premium wireless” service direct to consumers, according to its website. In his 2019 statement, Reynolds said he was “excited to champion a more practical approach to the most essential technology.”T-Mobile hopes to boost its own prepaid services with the acquisition of Mint Mobile. “Over the long-term, we’ll also benefit from applying the marketing formula Mint has become famous for across more parts of T-Mobile.” wrote Sievert.

☆ Budget airline seeks to limit disruption after 4 planes were reportedly seized by a New York-based hedge fund in an 'extreme and unusual' move
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Canadian budget carrier Flair Airlines had four planes seized by a hedge fund, per reports. They told Insider the carrier was engaged in ongoing communications with the lessor. A spokesperson for the airline described the incident as an "extreme and unusual" action taken by a New York-based lessor of the aircraft. They said in a statement to Insider: "This is a commercial dispute, which has impacted four of Flair Airlines' aircraft." A spokesperson for Flair Airlines told Insider that payment had been initiated and the airline was in ongoing communications with the lessor to remedy the situation.

A deeper look at the company's billing practices revealed what appeared to be Medicare fraud, Pérez Aybar said. Fraud flourishesThat's just one of thousands of examples of how Medicare fraud is flourishing — not only in south Florida, but across the country. Taxpayers are losing more than $100 billion a year to Medicare and Medicaid fraud, according to estimates from the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association. This convicted felon says Medicare and Medicaid fraud is "very easy" to get away with. The same pills could be sold and resold multiple times with different phony patients, billing Medicare each time.

☆ How to delete yourself from the internet
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Cheryl Winokur Munk | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

With so much personal data floating publicly on the internet, consumers have a legitimate interest in controlling the information flow. Self-help tools to remove personal informationFor those who are so inclined, there are ways to limit the amount of personal information available on the internet. If that fails, Google says it may remove personal information "that creates significant risks of identity theft, financial fraud, or other specific harms." It can be hard to gauge the effectiveness of these services, partly because there's so much personal information in the public domain. DeleteMe's website says that 2,389 pieces of personal information, on average, are found over a two-year subscription.

Led by quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs are playing in their third Super Bowl in the past five seasons. How to watch Super Bowl LVIIYou can watch Super Bowl LVII on Fox starting at 6:30 p.m. Matt Sayles/APRihanna headlines the Super Bowl LVII halftime show with her first live televised performance since the 2018 Grammys. There's no set time for the Super Bowl halftime show, as it depends on the pace of the game. Who's singing the national anthem at Super Bowl LVII?

☆ How Netflix leaders, including its new co-CEO, are thinking about a fast streaming service that could supercharge its ads business
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Netflix said it's open to adding a free, ad-supported streaming service. A FAST offering could help Netflix scale its nascent ads business, which has been slow to take off. Could Netflix launch a free, ad-supported service? A FAST channel — free, ad-supported television — is a linear stream, a model media companies are increasingly using to complement traditional TV and paid streaming services. For Netflix, a FAST could be a quick way to scale its ads business.

☆ An influencer started a newsletter after her TikTok engagement dropped. Here's how she amassed 25,000 subscribers in 4 months.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Shriya Bhattacharya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

She built an email newsletter last year, and explains how its helped increase her income. Applying to college was a stressful time for Carlynn Greene because she had to apply for financial aid to afford the steep tuition. While some TikTokers have tried to combat the issue by making more SEO friendly content, Greene sought another solution. She built a free email newsletter on Convert Kit, a website for building email templates, and sent the first iteration to subscribers in September 2022. Here is an example of Carlynn Greene's email newsletter from February 2023:Carlynn Greene's newsletter Carlynn GreeneCarlynn Greene's newsletter Carlynn GreeneThe newsletter reads:Hi there carr!

☆ Robocallers are preying on the elderly with fake Medicare calls. It's a no-brainer to stop it, but nobody has.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

These honeypots comprise only a sliver of the total number of US phone numbers but provide valuable insights into how robocalling scams operate. Every day, the honeypot numbers get inundated with calls from scammers purporting to be from Medicare. Many of those calls spoof the services' "1-800-MEDICARE" (1-800-633-4227) hotline in the phone's caller ID. "Many seniors are targeted by scammers who want to steal their Medicare numbers to do things like rack up fake health care charges and commit identify theft," the representative said. With this in mind, it's unclear why the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services use the phone line for both outbound and inbound calls.

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