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☆ Edtech venture capital firm Reach Capital raises $215 million for its largest fund ever and has its sights set on backing more generative AI startups
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Madeline Renbarger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Reach Capital has closed its fourth fund with $215 million to invest in education startups. The team is also looking to back more companies using generative AI in education, Reach Capital founding partner Esteban Sosnik told Insider. Near the end of 2022, edtech investing had just reached $8.89 billion in 2022, according to PitchBook. While generalist investors still have some interest in edtech deals, some of the hype has worn off. Reach has also backed several edtech startups that went on to become unicorns, or reach a valuation of over $1 billion, including Outschool, ClassDojo, and Handshake.

Greg Becker, who was the longtime CEO of Silicon Valley Bank, pictured last year. "Looks like Silicon Valley Bank is in some deep shit," Uncommon Capital general partner Jamie Quint tweeted. Startup founders scrambled to get their funds out of Silicon Valley Bank after its collapse. Andreessen Horowitz announced this week that it will continue banking with Silicon Valley Bank "for the foreseeable future" but is crafting a longer-term plan to diversify. Even so, he added, "I think we'd be supportive, as they stabilize, for them to be one of many partners that our founders bank with."

☆ Apple's advertising business is expanding into new areas this year such as TV. Here are 14 behind-the-scenes Apple executives building its advertising empire.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Right now its roughly $5 billion-in-revenue ads business largely consists of search ads sold within the App Store. We asked more than a dozen advertising industry insiders and former Apple advertising staffers to identify the most important executives building Apple's advertising business. Teresi's ascent coincides with the explosive growth of Apple's ad business in recent years. A former Yahoo and Quantcast staffer, Crawford first joined Apple in 2011 to work on global operations for iAd. Lauren Fry - Apple TV+ ad salesApple hired Fry, a TV and video ad sales veteran, in February this year, The Information reported.

☆ A college side hustle made her a self-made millionaire before she turned 30—here's how she got started
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

As Katelyn Alsop recalls, she stumbled into the hobby that would help her become a millionaire before she turned 30 by accident. That blog turned out to be a tremendous asset for Alsop's budding business. "I started sharing personal stories about my life on the blog, and people really gravitated to that," she says. In 2010, when Alsop graduated college, her photography side hustle became her full-time business. Motivated by the success of her blog, Alsop started selling online technical courses for photographers on her website in 2015.

☆ This 35-year-old mom built a side hustle that brings in $230,000/month in passive income: 'I work just 4 hours a day'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Katelyn Alsop | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Katelyn Alsop's photography education business brings in $240,000 a month. Today, at 35, I'm a self-made millionaire and run a wedding photography and education business, Katelyn James Photography. Roughly $230,000 of our monthly revenue was passive income from online courses and training materials. I also took some online courses, attended workshops, and took on projects for free to build my portfolio. Photo: Abby Grace BrandingIn November 2015, Michael and I launched our first online training program to teach photographers how to edit and streamline their workflow.

☆ I wear pigtails as a waitress because men tip better when I do. It grosses me out, but the money is worth it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Fortesa Latifi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Then she tried putting her hair in pigtails to get higher tips from male customers — and it worked. I was making so little money because the minimum wage in Utah for tipped employees is $2.13 an hour. In it, women realized that if they wore their hair in pigtails, they made more money in tips. I think it plays into a fantasy men have of schoolgirls and the innocence they think comes along with that. You might get weird comments from men or some negativity from women, but you'll get higher tips.

The Wall Street Journal is urging Phoenix police to investigate after one of its Black reporters was handcuffed and detained while working on an assignment on the city’s north side. On Nov. 23, Dion Rabouin, who covers finance for the Wall Street Journal, was detained in a police car while conducting interviews outside a Chase Bank. “We’re deeply concerned that Wall Street Journal reporter Dion Rabouin was detained, handcuffed and placed in the back of a police vehicle while reporting,” a Journal spokesperson said in a statement. I’m a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. A Phoenix Police Department spokesperson told NBC News that bank personnel called the police after customers complained Rabouin was approaching them and asking personal questions.

CNN —The House select committee investigating the Capitol riot is dropping several of its pursuits for January 6-related phone records, according to court filings this week, as the panel winds down before it expires at the end of this year. While these witnesses and some others successfully blocked the committee from obtaining their phone records, the panel was able to access unprecedented amounts of information in their investigation, including through other phone records subpoenas, other document requests and witness interviews. But they never got all of the phone records they sought from former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who over the past year became one of the committee’s top pursuits. After turning over some 2,000 text messages to the committee, Meadows lost a court case challenging committee subpoenas for his phone records and for his testimony. Another subpoena target, Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander, said in a statement the committee had informed his lawyer it is withdrawing a subpoena for his phone records.

☆ Justice Department has tried to access GOP Rep. Scott Perry’s text messages
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Katelyn Polantz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

That led the Pennsylvania lawmaker to be in touch with powerful Trump backers, including Meadows, Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and others who pushed false claims of election fraud. Perry previously said that the Justice Department told his attorneys he was not a target of the investigation. Perry sued the Justice Department days after the search, then quickly asked the court to put the public-facing lawsuit on hold. The Justice Department approached Perry’s phone seizure and other phone seizures from Trump allies in two parts, according to sources familiar with the investigation and public filings. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment.

CNN —The special master review of evidence seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is no more. Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday formally dismissed the case, which Trump brought to challenge the Mar-a-Lago evidence collection and in which she appointed special master Raymond Dearie, another judge, to make recommendations on whether prosecutors could access evidence. The dismissal of the case now gives the Justice Department full access to tens of thousands of records and other items found among documents marked as classified in Trump’s beach club and private office. The court told Cannon the case must be dismissed and there will be no further proceedings before Cannon in the Southern District of Florida. That critique culminated in a scathing opinion from an appellate court panel – stacked with GOP appointees – that tore apart Trump and Cannon’s rationale for why the special master was necessary.

☆ A freelancer is suing Kanye West's Yeezy brand, claiming she was only paid $15,000 of a $110,000 fee for a photoshoot
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A freelance creative director is suing Kanye West's Yeezy brand, claiming she is owed $95,000. Katelyn Mooney says she agreed a $110,000 fee for work she carried out, but has only been paid $15,000. The complaint states Mooney had to take out a loan to cover her rent due to the late payment. The complaint states that Yeezy had not complained about Mooney's work or the final product, but had since only paid her $15,000 of the $110,000 fee she had agreed on with Yeezy employees via text messages. West's Yeezy brand has been plagued with controversy in recent months.

Smith takes over a staff that’s already nearly twice the size of Robert Mueller’s team of lawyers who worked on the Russia probe. Smith will also take on national security investigators already working the probe into the potential mishandling of federal records taken to Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House. Those lawyers maintain the former president is unlikely to be indicted, according to two sources familiar. Special Counsel Robert Mueller makes a statement about the Russia investigation on May 29, 2019 at the Justice Department in Washington, DC. Trump allies have consistently maintained that nothing Trump did related to the election and January 6 itself amounts to a crime.

☆ Closed-door contempt hearing related to Trump ends with no outcome publicly announced
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Katelyn Polantz Casey Gannon Hannah Rabinowitz Lauren Koenig Kristen Holmes | Katelyn Polantz | Casey Gannon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Washington CNN —A federal judge declined to hold former President Donald Trump in contempt of court in a closed-door hearing on Friday, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The sources also told CNN that Chief Judge Beryl Howell instead pressed the Trump team and the Justice Department to work together to find a mutually agreeable resolution. The contempt proceedings for Trump ended after almost 90 minutes behind closed doors on Friday afternoon at a Washington, DC, courthouse. The Justice Department declined to comment. But the Justice Department is still unsatisfied with the search and with Trump’s side not asserting all documents have been turned over, CNN previously reported.

☆ 13 behind-the-scenes executives leading Apple's $5 billion advertising division
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Right now its roughly $5 billion-in-revenue ads business largely consists of search ads sold within the App Store. It's been a big year for Apple's ad division. We asked more than a dozen advertising industry insiders and former Apple advertising staffers to identify the most important executives building Apple's advertising business. Teresi's ascent coincides with the explosive growth of Apple's ad business in recent years. A digital advertising veteran — having held senior roles at Yahoo, Quantcast, and Adobe — Teresi joined Apple in 2012 as vice president for its iAd division.

☆ Pence considering request to speak with DOJ about January 6
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

The Department of Justice is seeking to question former Vice President Mike Pence in its investigation into the January 6th insurrection. CNN's Katelyn Polantz has the report.

☆ I wear pigtails to my waitressing job because men tip better when I do. It grosses me out, but the money is worth it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Fortesa Latifi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Then she tried putting her hair in pigtails to get higher tips from male customers — and it worked. In it, women realized that if they wore their hair in pigtails, they made more money in tips. I've thought about why me and so many other waitresses have found such success in wearing pigtails to work, and it kind of grosses me out. If you're flirty and bubbly and wearing pigtails, they really like it. The comments I get while wearing pigtails do make me feel weirdI mean, I know everyone has their own fetishes, and I don't want to judge them.

☆ University of Idaho students, community members are 'getting out of Dodge' after 4 classmates were killed in a 'targeted attack,' police say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

University of Idaho students are leaving town after the shocking off-campus killings of four classmates. Latah County Sheriff's Deputy Scott Mikolajczyk told the Idaho Statesman people were "getting out of Dodge." Police stressed that "there is no imminent threat to the community," but no suspects are in custody. Many people in the Idaho town of Moscow, where the college is located, are "getting out of Dodge" after the Sunday off-campus massacre, Latah County Sheriff's Deputy Scott Mikolajczyk told the Idaho Statesman in a report published on Wednesday. The Moscow Police Department recognized the community's safety concerns on Tuesday, saying, "We hear you, and we understand your fears."

☆ WTA Finals: Caroline Garcia wins biggest title of her career with victory over Aryna Sabalenka
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Caroline Garcia capped off a remarkable six-month period in her tennis career as she won the WTA Finals with a 7-6 6-4 victory against Aryna Sabalenka in Fort Worth, Texas. Garcia was outside the top 70 in the world rankings as recently as June, but since then has enjoyed a superb run of form, culminating in the biggest title of her career on Monday. The victory sees Garcia become the second French player to win the WTA Tour’s season-ending tournament after Amelie Mauresmo in 2005. In a close first set, Garcia produced a ruthless serving performance – hitting 10 aces and winning 81.5% of her first-serve points – and came to the net with good effect. Despite a defeat against Swiatek last week, Garcia recoded victories against Coco Gauff, Daria Kasatkina and Maria Sakkari on the way to beating Sabalenka in the final.

The hottest blonde ever.” This was the infamous script description given for Margot Robbie’s character in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), directed by Martin Scorsese. Widely credited as Robbie’s breakthrough, the role instantly helped establish her as one of the biggest movie stars. Yet Robbie—Australian born and then still relatively new to Hollywood—says that she had little interest in further riffing on the blonde-bombshell theme: “I was going to have to show people that I could do something different. I didn’t want to get pigeonholed.” Accordingly, her next roles gave the middle finger to the hot-blonde paradigm.

☆ Smart bombs were a game-changer for militaries. Smart bullets may be next.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Travis Pike | Sandboxx News | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Smart bullets aren't new, but they're still early in development, and they have some drawbacks. If DARPA, aka the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has its way, smart bullets will become a very real thing. Beyond offensive combative measures, guided smart bullets can be used to defeat future threats from swarming UAVs to incoming missiles. Smart bullets currently availableAs of this writing, smart bullets aren't being deployed. Regardless, smart bullets could provide a new surgical option for snipers, infantrymen, and naval personnel.

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☆ Jan. 6 committee discovers a call made from the White House phone to a rioter
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

Former senior technical adviser to the January 6 select committee Denver Riggleman tells CBS News' "60 Minutes" that the White House switchboard connected to a rioter's phone for nine seconds on the day of the attack. CNN's Katelyn Polantz has the latest.

☆ Time to get your Omicron booster shot. Here's everything you need to know about the 2 vaccines offered, and when to get it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-09 | by ( Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

New, reformulated COVID-19 booster shots are out from Pfizer and Moderna. These may be the last free COVID-19 vaccines you'll getThis fall booster campaign is likely the last chance you'll get to have free COVID-19 shots from the US government. Epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina recommends waiting at least two months after a COVID-19 infection, the same as you would after any previous COVID-19 shot. "One COVID-19 shot, once a year, each fall," he said on Tuesday in a statement. Many are hoping that new kinds of COVID-19 vaccines being developed could be better long-term solutions than the shots we have now.

☆ A day in the life of a YouTube couple who make wacky do-it-yourself projects for their 1 million fans
▼ + stars: | 2021-08-14 | by ( Steven Asarch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Evan and Katelyn Heling create content for their YouTube and Twitch channels nearly everyday. Making elaborate DIY YouTube videos and streaming in a day isn't easy and takes a lot of work. Designing resin coffee tables or making a cat bed out of jeans is just another day in the office for YouTube creators Evan & Katelyn Heling. The couple has built up over 1.16 million subscribers on their YouTube channel with wacky do-it-yourself projects. 2:30-5:30 p.m. — Playing video games on TwitchThe pair start their Twitch stream, reading donations and playing video games.

☆ (foto) Cum arată dormitoarele tinerelor în diferite țări ale lumii
▼ + stars: | 2016-01-26 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | Angelina Aduce Cititorilor | Diez Informații Utile Din Sfera Educației Și Doza De Relaxare Din Lifestyle. Îi Place Jurnalismul | ) diez.md time to read: +1 min

Fiecare țară are propria cultură, propriile obiceiuri, oameni care arată, gândesc și se comportă diferit. Modul de a ne amenaja casa, grădina sau propria cameră, la fel este o urmare a felului în care am fost crescuți și a societății din care facem parte. Fotografii italieni Gabriele Galimberti și Edoardo Delille au călătorit în diferite orașe ale lumii pentru a realiza, într-un final, o serie de fotografii care ne arată cum sunt dormitoarele tinerelor cu vârsta cuprinsă între 18 și 30 de ani. Diferența este uimitoare: de la mobilă luxoasă și curățenie impecabilă, până la decorații „rebele” și dezordine. Proiectul evidențiază diferența dintre oameni, cultură, preferințe și nivelul de trai al acestora.

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