How JPMorgan moved $57B in 6 hours so Bayer could pay for Monsanto

BI PRIME: JPMorgan was entrusted with the unglamorous but important work of collecting nearly $57 billion in cash from dozens of banks across multiple time... | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

A woman went from a $20k Trader Joe's job to a well-paid programmer job

When a friend told her he had taught himself to code and landed a job at Apple, she learned to code and overhauled her life, in less than two years. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 70% tax on the super-rich is more popular than Trump'

According to an INSIDER poll, a plurality of Americans support a 70% tax rate on income over $10 million. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Low Earth Orbit billboard for 7B people

Although StartRocket is getting pushback from scientists for these satellites, it believes that commercializing space is inevitable. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Michael Cohen reportedly gave a tech firm $12,000 to rig polls in Trump’s favor

The president's former lawyer reportedly paid the Virginia-based firm with roughly $12,000 a boxing glove previously worn by a Brazilian MMA fighter. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

A hot startup raised $66M in 5 days using these 24 slides

Tech investors are throwing money behind Front, a five-year-old startup that aims to change the way teams get work done. Front CEO Mathilde Collin shared the... | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 5 years ago

Saber Rattling in the South China Sea

China could strike the US Navy's carriers in waters near its shores, but that would start a war that Beijing wouldn't win, experts say. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Guard transporting a 'special load' for Apple was killed in a fatal truck crash

A box truck involved in a fatal crash was carrying "a very special load" for Apple, according to NBC's Bay Area affiliate. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

A typo and bag of kitty litter might cost billions in nuclear waste cleanup

In February 2014, a drum of Cold War-era nuclear waste burst open inside the Waste Isolation Pilot Project, triggering an expensive yet "preventable" cleanup. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Former Gawker president on telling employees they were bankrupt

Daily Beast CEO and former Gawker president Heather Dietrick had to help guide Gawker's staff through its final six months. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Starbucks workers petition for bathroom needle-disposal boxes

Starbucks is installing needle-disposal boxes in some bathrooms as it explores solutions to workers' concerns on improperly disposed-of syringes. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

250 more hospitals joined plan to make their own drugs, upend generic pharma biz

Another 12 health systems joined an organization aiming to lower the price of prescription drugs. The hope is to make generic drugs that are in shortage or... | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Bill Gates warns that nobody is paying attention to gene editing

Bill Gates, the billionaire philanthropist, recently described gene editing as "the most important public debate we haven't been having widely enough." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

China's Economy Hopes World Plays Pretend

China's economy is showing signs of extreme stress, and not just because of President Donald Trump's trade war. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Hidden area in Legend of Zelda that 30 years later one player finally opened

A huge portion of the original "Legend of Zelda" was inaccessible to players for over 30 years — until now. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

The most educated town in every state

Using data from the Census Bureau, we found the town in every state with the biggest share of adults with at least a bachelor's degree. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

China testing creepy drones that look/fly like real birds to monitor citizens

China is a pioneer in surveillance: it introduced biometric surveillance to Beijing's metro and smart glasses to its police force. The latest addition to its... | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Angry California truck drivers are slamming new rule requires unpaid rest breaks

Truck drivers say they're against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ruling. One called it a "travesty." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Angelina Jolie hints she might run for president

Angelina Jolie told the BBC she would have laughed at the idea of running for president 20 years ago, but she would now go where she is 'needed.' | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

A 33-year-old American just became the first person to cross Antarctica unaided

Colin O'Brady just became the first person to cross Antarctica alone with no resupply. He carried 220 pounds of food and ate the same meals every day. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Chinese scientists turn copper into a material that's 'almost identical' to gold

Chinese scientsists have turned copper into a material that is "almost identical" to gold, a new study says. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Someone is trying to take entire countries offline

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@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Universities should ban PowerPoint

PowerPoint slides "are toxic to education." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Price-fixing lawsuit accuses nearly 20 drug co's, a billionaire, and others

Business Insider is the first to report on the unredacted suit, which alleges frequent, close communications among employees of rival companies about how to... | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Professor who knew Gates at Harvard: He was the smartest person I've ever met

It's all about pancakes. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Boy Scouts Considering Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

Chapter 11 bankruptcy may allow them to stall the sexual harassment lawsuits against the organization and settle with the victims. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Delhi Metro vs. New York City Subway

I rode the Delhi Metro during the most crowded time of the year, and it was still much more enjoyable than the New York subway system. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Why I became a nerd to survive on the trading floor of Goldman Sachs

The spread of technology is creating an uneasy feeling among salespeople and traders at big banks, says a former Goldman Sachs sales executive. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Millennials kill industries because they're poor: Fed report

Millennials have been blamed for killing plenty of industries. But according to the Federal Reserve, it's not their fault. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Exactly what I've earned every year of my tech career so far

In my sixteen year career, I averaged a pay increase of $10,000 per year. As such, I'd be making around $250,000 if I was working full time today. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Black box reveals the futile struggle between pilots and computer

The pilots of Lion Air Flight JT610 fought in a hopeless struggle with a malfunctioning automated flight system, new black box data shows. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Zuckerberg could be humbled by a creepy bikini app

Mark Zuckerberg faces a new risk, as documents involving Facebook and an app called Six4Three could shed light on the CEO's approach to user privacy. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

The FDA just approved a drug that targets cancers based on DNA

The FDA just approved a new cancer treatment in an unconventional way: not by tumor type, but rather by the genetic mutation the drug targets. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Bitcoin crashes through $4,000

Bitcoin crashed through $4,000 in a sudden move Saturday evening, dragging the market for digital coins with most seeing double-digit declines. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Russia's GRU spy agency head dies from 'serious illness' after Putin berated him

Igor Korobov died from an unspecified illness on Wednesday. His death comes after GRU agents botched a number of missions abroad. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Scientists may now know how to kill cancer cells without chemotherapy

US scientists recently discovered a genetic "kill code" in our own cells that could theoretically be used to treat cancer without chemotherapy. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Black Friday is dead – and constant discounts could be to blame

Black Friday is dead. Costco, TJ Maxx, and Nordstrom have all said they will keep stores closed on Thanksgiving. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

A day in the life of an HSBC exec who wakes up at 5:30 a.m

Melania Edwards is part of HSBC's International Manager Program, which trains senior executives for leading the international bank by putting them in top... | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

This is what your smartphone is doing to your brain – and it isn't good

Smartphones and social media are changing the way our brains work. Scientists are zeroing in on what's happening, and the problems may go well beyond... | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Zuckerberg told execs the company's at 'war,' called media coverage 'bulls---'

Zuckerberg's new, more aggressive management style, was reported in a Wall Street Journal article published Sunday. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Brexit uncertainty means UK is uninvestable

"With UK politics in the midst of Brexit turmoil what are investors meant to do?" — Bernstein's Inigo Fraser-Jenkins and his team asked in a note. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

JPMorgan is poaching developers who work on video games

JPMorgan Chase co-president Gordon Smith said the bank is having no trouble competing for top tech talent — including poaching developers who work on video... | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Effort to 'barter' a US resident to convince Turkey to ramp down Khashoggi probe

The White House's reported effort to extradite Fethullah Gulen sheds light on President Trump's efforts to ease rising tensions with Turkey. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

A top Apple executive statement shows why the iPad is a bad computer replacement

For the past couple of years, Apple has been pushing the idea that the iPad, particularly the iPad Pro, can replace your computer or laptop. But in a Wired... | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Alibaba just eclipsed Amazon's estimated Prime Day sales in less than 10 minutes

Alibaba's Singles' Day has already surpassed Amazon's biggest shopping day of the year, just a few minutes into the 24-hour shopping event. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

The US just elected 9 new scientists to Congress

On Tuesday, nine new science-credentialed candidates were elected: one senator and eight members of the House. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

What is blue and how do we see color? (2015)

Is the sky really blue? Or do you just think it is because you know it is? | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago

Reddit users complain that Apple is 'nickle and diming' them with new products

A thread on Reddit has hundreds of comments from users complaining about Apple's prices for iCloud storage, dongles, and other examples of added costs. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.de | 6 years ago