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☆ Your teen wants to get in shape this summer? What to say and when to worry
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Analysis Oona Hanson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —If your children say they want to start exercising or working out more this summer, don’t celebrate just yet. Eating disorder experts warn that setting fitness goals could mean trouble for kids. But eating disorder symptoms can be incredibly sneaky, as Darpinian has seen in her therapy practice more often in recent years. And just as important, parents can approach questions about bodies, food and exercise in a way that builds connection and trust. Oona Hanson is a parent coach in private practice and a family mentor at Equip, an eating disorder treatment program.

Persons: don’t, Signe Darpinian, Wendy Sterling, Shelley Aggarwal, ”, Darpinian, ” Darpinian, she’s, Sterling, aren’t, they’re, influencers, MoMo, Aggarwal, —, ” Aggarwal, “, Oona Hanson Organizations: CNN, San Francisco Bay Area Locations: don’t, San Francisco Bay, Menlo Park , California, Northern California

☆ What Tesla charging partnerships with Ford and GM mean for the EV industry
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( John Rosevear | In Jrosevear | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Most other EVs and charging stations in the U.S. use the public domain Combined Charging System (CCS) plug standard. Currently, Tesla EVs can use CCS chargers with an adapter, but only Teslas can use NACS chargers. An August 2022 study by JD Power found similar results for CCS chargers in other parts of the country. Notably, it also found Tesla's charging network to be much more reliable. Potential buyers of a Ford or GM EV might like what they experience on a test drive, but without a reliable charging network, both have been at a disadvantage to Tesla.

Persons: Harry Langer, Tesla, JD Power, we've, Barra, CNBC's, Jim Farley, Farley Organizations: American, Detroit, University of California, San Francisco Bay Area, JD, CCS, Ford, GM, ICE Locations: Merklingen, Germany, U.S, Berkeley, San Francisco Bay, Canada

☆ The 10 least affordable places to live if you're an expat in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Reena Koh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

New York, Hong Kong, and Geneva are the top 3 unaffordable cities to live in if you're an expat in 2023. Read further for the 10 least affordable places to live if you're an expat in 2023, ranked from the most expensive to the least expensive. Alberto MazzaThe average monthly rent for a four-room apartment in Geneva's city center is about $4,600. GettyThe median monthly rent for a two-bedroom flat in London touched a high of $2,895 in December, according to CNBC. JaCZhou 2015/Getty ImagesThe average monthly rent for a four-room apartment in the city center of Zurich sits at around $4,200, per The Local.

Persons: —, Lee Quane, Read, Sharp, ANTHONY WALLACE, Alberto Mazza, LondonlovesBusiness, Justin Sullivan, Alexander Spatari, Marielle, Allan Baxter, Tokyo Kantei Organizations: Service, York, ECA, Big Apple, NBC, New York Times, Getty, expats, Bloomberg, CNBC, San Francisco Bay Area, Jerusalem Post, Central Bureau of Statistics, CBS, South Korea Skyline, South, Financial Times Locations: . New York, Hong Kong, Geneva, London, Singapore, New York, Asia, expat, Manhattan, expats, NBC New York, China Hong, Switzerland, Geneva's, Swiss, NurPhoto, Zurich, San Francisco, US, San Francisco Bay, Tel Aviv, Israel, Jerusalem, Seoul, South Korea, South Korean, —, Korean, Tokyo, Japan

☆ NWSL's new Bay FC hope to ride World Cup wave of excitement
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Nathan Frandino | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

SAN FRANCISCO, June 3 (Reuters) - The founders behind the new National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) expansion team in California's San Francisco Bay Area believe this year's Women's World Cup will only add to their momentum as they kick off their inaugural season next year. Some of us are going to be calling the World Cup, so to see Bay FC involved in the World Cup and vice versa, it's only going to help build the momentum." Chastain's role at the World Cup is among the most iconic for the U.S. She scored the deciding penalty in 1999, sealing the win against China at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena. Chastain said that holding onto the World Cup excitement this year and bringing it to their games next year will be about making fans feel valued as part of the team. Roughly a third of the U.S.-based league's players are expected to feature, NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman said this week.

Persons: Brandi Chastain, Leslie Osborne, Danielle Slaton, Aly Wagner, Osborne, it's, Chastain, " Chastain, Jessica Berman, Sheryl Sandberg, Tom Bernthal, Rory Carroll, Daniel Wallis Organizations: FRANCISCO, National Women's Soccer League, California's San Francisco Bay Area, FC, U.S, China, Rose, Energy, Thomson Locations: California's San Francisco Bay, U.S, San Francisco, Pasadena, Australia, New Zealand, Los Angeles

☆ Staff at several Subway stores in San Francisco missed out on $265,000 of wages after the franchisee gave them checks that bounced, Labor Department says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Bay Area Subway franchisee paid staff more than $265,000 in bounced checks, the DOL said. The stores also violated child-labor laws, kept tips, and got staff to falsify records, a DOL investigation said. Between July 26 and December 26, 2022, alone, 297 checks bounced from just one bank account belonging to one of Meza's businesses, a DOL investigator said in a declaration. The investigation by the DOL's Wage and Hour Division covered 14 franchise stores in total, but the department did not say how many had given bad checks to staff. Meza's business associate also threatened to file a false police report against two 15-year-old employees who asked for their unpaid wages, the DOL wrote in the lawsuit.

☆ I felt strung out in the San Francisco Bay area so I moved to a small mountain resort in Washington state with my husband — here's why it was the right choice.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Leslie Cousins was born and raised in the Bay Area, but started to feel strung out living in California. Cousins and her husband moved to a small mountain resort community in Cle Elum, Washington. I was born and raised in the Bay Area, while my husband Joe grew up in Boston and Chicago. Suncadia is located in a city that has a population of 2,299 compared to the 7.5 million population of the Bay Area. We belonged to a golf club in the Bay Area, and my husband was hoping to find a similar club community.

☆ California Rep. Ro Khanna again calls on Dianne Feinstein to resign over health concerns: 'It's painful to watch.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rep. Ro Khanna said it was "painfully obvious" that Sen. Feinstein should no longer serve in office. "I think they should have a loving conversation about it being time," Khanna said of Feinstein's confidantes. "First, let me say, I admire her career," Khanna told Wagner. Upon her return to the Senate, Feinstein appeared disoriented as an aide whisked her through the Capitol, according to The Times. "While she has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties.

☆ Elon Musk called downtown San Francisco — where Twitter is headquartered — a 'derelict zombie apocalypse' amid its huge homelessness and drug issues
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk commented on the drugs and homelessness crisis in San Francisco calling it a "disaster." The billionaire CEO said the "once beautiful and thriving" area has become a "zombie apocalypse." Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted his thoughts about downtown San Francisco lamenting the decline of the "once beautiful and thriving" area and called it a "disaster." San Francisco is also a major tech hub with the likes of Google, Twitter, Apple, and Meta headquartered in or near the city. She considered the conditions in San Francisco as bad as in cities like Mumbai and Delhi, which are notorious for having some of the worst poverty crises on earth.

☆ BeeHero: 2023 CNBC Disruptor 50
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Cnbc.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Enter agtech startup BeeHero with a solution. Last December, BeeHero snared $42 million in a Series B round led by impact growth fund Covent Capital in Amsterdam. But BeeHero is not the only startup providing honeybee pollution services, a market estimated by the USDA at $320 million annually. Last year, Limor Farchy, who previously worked at two acquired Israeli tech startups, was recruited as CFO. The agtech startup supplies several top almond growers in California and expects to expand to other crops that rely on pollination.

☆ How Singapore's giant sovereign wealth fund is investing in generative AI technology
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

As CEO of GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, he must keep the country's savings growing ahead of inflation. AI retoolingThe 2 investors were most animated when discussing the recent explosion of generative AI technology, including large language models. Chris Emanuel, head of the Technology Investment Group at GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GICThere's already a generative AI startup feeding frenzy among venture capital funds. Secondary market actionFinally, GIC is keen on doing more in the secondary market, where private stakes in startups and VC funds change hands. That means general partners, the people running VC funds, already know GIC and are more comfortable dealing with the organization, Lim explained.

☆ I toured an apartment built in a factory, and I'm convinced that these high-tech homes are the future of city living
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

The two-year-old firm in the San Francisco Bay Area is pitching a new way to put up apartment buildings: Rectangular units, or modules, are built in a factory, then trucked to a site where they are stacked and combined to create the final structure. Cloud Apartments created a rendering of what the modular units look like when stacked together. This design is similar to what will end up getting built after the company's first official projects are finalized this year. Cloud Apartments

☆ How an ex-police officer made $12 million in 3 years after buying ATMs for $2,100 and operating them as a side hustle
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

By 2021, he quit his job and began providing ATM machines for others. His company Merchant Task Force, which provides credit-card terminals, shows an income of $844,000 and a net profit of $742,000 for the same period. They had a net profit of about $250 to $500 a month per location from fees charged for withdrawals. When he purchased his first set of six machines, Alex assumed he got a good discount, which was $2,100 an ATM. Each brought in anywhere from $250 to as much as $1,500 a month in net profit.

☆ A housing economist shares the top 5 markets with the highest risk of price declines, plus where mortgage rates could be by year-end
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Mortgage rates are expected to be in the high fives by year-end, says Selma Hepp. Five US metros including Salt Lake City and Boise are highly vulnerable to price declines. It is a rough time for the real-estate market as mortgage rates remain volatile. Although mortgage rates are difficult to predict, Hepp says they could be in the high fives or about 5.8% by year-end. Below is a list of the markets with the highest risk of price declines, according to CoreLogic data.

☆ The 9 US cities with the most billionaires, from famous glitzy locales to newer hot spots for ultrarich residents
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The US is home to 770 billionaires, according to London-based consulting firm Henley & Partners. Here, the 9 US cities with the most billionaires, from the San Francisco Bay Area to Austin, Texas. Some of America's richest residents, though, choose quieter cities for their home bases. And one of America's fastest-growing cities — Austin, Texas — has emerged as a relatively new billionaire hot spot, counting nine as residents. Check out the full list of the US cities where the most billionaires live.

☆ US foreclosure filings jump 22%, and repossessions hit highest level in 3 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Foreclosure filings climbed 22% in the first quarter compared to a year ago, analytics firm ATTOM said. Foreclosure activity has increased for 23 consecutive months after a federal moratorium was lifted. Foreclosure activity has increased for 23 consecutive months after a federal moratorium was lifted, reaching 95,712 filings last quarter. Now Illinois, Delaware and New Jersey are undergoing the highest foreclosure rates, ATTOM said. But while foreclosure rates are on a continued uptick, they are still significantly below historic levels.

☆ Home prices see largest decline since 2012 as banking crisis hits demand: 'There's this fear that everything will crash'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"That killed the buyer momentum that had been building, and brought us right back to where we were last year when mortgage rates shot up. For example, prices in Boise surged a record 40.9% in May 2021 amid low mortgage rates, the remote-work trend, and relative affordability. But since then, mortgage rates have soared amid Federal Reserve rate hikes. While they have come off last year's peak of 7%, the 30-year-fixed mortgage rate averaged 6.54% in March, up from 4.17% a year earlier. Meanwhile, the higher mortgage rates are keeping buyers and sellers on the sidelines, and March saw new listings drop 23.3% year over year, Redfin said.

☆ These are the 10 cities worldwide where the number of millionaires is rising the fastest. 3 American cities made the list.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Chinese city topped Henley & Partners' list of cities where the number of millionaires is rising the fastest. Two further Chinese cities, three US cities, and two Indian cities, also ranked in the top ten. The top ten also includes two further Chinese cities, three US cities, two Indian cities, and one city in each Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates. Austin, meanwhile, is the highest-ranking US city on Henley & Partners' list, coming second. New York City, meanwhile, has the most residents worth $1 million or more, at around 340,000, per Henley & Partners' report.

☆ I swear by ChatGPT as a recruiter. Here's how it saves me 10 hours a week and helps me hire the best candidates.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

She started using ChatGPT to complete tasks and said it saves her at least 10 hours a week. I quickly started using ChatGPT for my agency, which specializes in hiring top engineering and healthcare talent. Before using ChatGPT, it took me a long time — around 15 hours a week — to manually put together lists that matched my criteria. Now, I only spend roughly five hours a week making lists of items for my Boolean search strings. ChatGPT saves me a minimum of 10 hours a weekPreviously, I did the research and writing for my Boolean search string manually.

☆ How Unusual Was This Winter’s Snowfall Across the U.S.?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Zach Levitt | Elena Shao | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

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☆ HSBC hires Silicon Valley Bank bankers to focus on tech, healthcare
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

NEW YORK, April 11 (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings plc's (HSBA.L) U.S. unit has hired dozens of Silicon Valley Bank bankers led by David Sabow, who most recently led the technology and healthcare banking segment for the California-based bank that collapsed last month. HSBC USA said in a statement the hiring will help the bank establish a dedicated banking practice focused on serving companies in technology and healthcare, as well as investors who support them. HSBC has initially assembled a team of more than 40 bankers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston and New York City as part of this initiative, it said. Reporting by Saeed AzharOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Churches are building tiny homes across the US to help house the homeless
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Churches are working with homeless charities to build micro homes across the US, The AP reported. The homes can be built on spare church land and use existing water and electricity supplies. Tiny homes are becoming an increasingly popular solution to help tackle the homelessness crisis. APWashington-based social purpose company Pallet has seen rising interest in its tiny homes that cost $5,500 and can be set up in less than an hour. Donald Whitehead, director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, told The AP he welcomed the churches' moves and regarded tiny homes as a "great emergency option".

To report this story, Reuters contacted more than 300 former Tesla employees who had worked at the company over the past nine years and were involved in developing its self-driving system. The company requires car owners to grant permission on the cars’ touchscreens before Tesla collects their vehicles’ data. Reuters found that Tesla employees shared clips that captured sensitive and embarrassing personal moments. Tesla’s own data labelers initially worked in the San Francisco Bay area, including the office in San Mateo. According to several ex-employees, some labelers shared screenshots, sometimes marked up using Adobe Photoshop, in private group chats on Mattermost, Tesla’s internal messaging system.

☆ The 25 best companies to work for in the Bay Area
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Comparably published its latest iteration of the top companies to work for in the Bay Area. The ranking also included those who work remotely but noted their office is in the San Francisco Bay Area. That includes the annual ranking for the best companies to work for in the San Francisco Bay Area. Therefore, Comparably also used the ratings of those who work remotely at least part of the time, but who noted a Bay Area office. Below are the top 25 companies in the Bay Area.

☆ Tesla rival Lucid plans layoffs, as manufacturing and production challenges mount for EV startups
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Paayal Zaveri | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Lucid, a Tesla rival, is planning layoffs. The EV startup is planning to lay off hundreds of employees, my colleague Alexa St. John reported. Lucid has had a challenging few months, as it works to nail down manufacturing and production and get cars on the roads. It's not the only EV company that's struggling. Insider's Tim Levin tested out charging a KIA EV at a former Tesla supercharger that's open to all EVs.

☆ I transform garages into upscale apartments so homeowners can rent them out and make passive income
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

So I designed a product that's modular — that can go inside a garage — and San Jose preapproved it. Then they are trucked to the site of the garage, along with the wall panels, and installed inside the garage. So far, I've built four units — with five more in the pipeline — throughout San Jose, San Mateo, and Mountain View. The floors are cork and bamboo, and there are solid-core barn doors inside the units. I really started doing this as a way to to solve a problem.

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