A fake Gaza invasion to lure fighters into tunnels

Reports that Israeli troops had entered Gaza apparently prompted fighters to rush to the tunnels under the enclave where they were bombed by 160 jets. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Amazon's high pay may choke restaurant industry comeback

While restaurants were bleeding workers, Amazon went on a hiring spree. It may be difficult for chains to lure workers back from Amazon warehouses. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

WeWork's CEO – people who are comfortable working at home are the least engaged

"No one is saying they don't want to go to work. They are saying, 'I wanna go to work two or three days a week,'" Sandeep Mathrani, WeWork's CEO said. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Coinbase is no longer allowing new hires to negotiate their salaries

"If you pass our bar and are hired to do the same work, you get the same offer as the next candidate for a role," Coinbase said of the change. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

CDC to announce that vaccinated people can drop masks pretty much everywhere

The latest announcement, expected today, marks the next step in the return to normal, and a huge win for COVID-19 vaccines. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Will the housing market crash? Experts see prices rising instead

The housing market looks safe from a crash, but that means prices should keep rising the rest of the year, with affordability remaining a big concern. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Shopify CEO Email to Managers: We Are Not a Family

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke told managers to help employees stay focused but "poor performance and divisiveness cannot be tolerated." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

WhatsApp will gradually stop working if you reject its new privacy policy

The WhatsApp privacy policy was delayed over confusion about whether users would share more data with Facebook, WhatsApp's parent company. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

US officials believe Russia may be behind the suspected directed-energy attacks

The US investigation into personnel falling ill around the world is focusing on whether Russia's GRU spy agency is involved, officials told Politico. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Amazon Managers Say They 'Hire to Fire' to Meet Internal Turnover Goal

The practice is internally called "hire to fire," in which managers hire people they intend to fire within a year just to meet their turnover goal. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

McDonald's franchisees say an 'inflationary time bomb' will cause price hikes

"When people can make more staying at home than going to work, they will stay at home," the National Owners Association wrote in a letter. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Apple Hired Antonio García Martínez, the Author of “Chaos Monkeys”

Having thrown a wrench into the mobile-ad industry with its app-privacy changes, Apple is quietly expanding its own ads business. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

New evidence that hyenas hunted Neantherthal man

The knawed bones of Neanderthals who were hunted and mauled by hyenas have been found in an Italian cave just outside of Rome. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Jeff Bezos Is Said to Be Building a Luxury Mega-Yacht and a Support Yacht

Bezos hasn't previously had a boat of his own, but he's often spotted on mega-yachts belonging to the likes of David Geffen and Diane von Furstenberg. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Scientists have taught bees to smell the coronavirus in seconds

Every time the bees are exposed to an infected sample, they stick out their tongues to collect a reward. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Clubhouse Downloads Drop to 900k in April, February Peak Was 9.6M

Clubhouse took off like wildfire during the pandemic as the audio app provided community for its users, but that growth appears to be tapering off. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Pitching to Steve Jobs at Pixar

Tim Milliron says the entire process caught him off guard and that it was like a graduate-level course in thinking like an entrepreneur. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

1 in 5 EV owners in California switched back to gas because charging is a hassle

New customers have to become returning customers in order to reach government goals for electric vehicle sales. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

A Chinese rocket could fall back to Earth uncontrolled

China plans 10 more launches to build its space station by the end of 2022. It's not clear whether there's any plan to safely discard the rockets. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Google's push to bring employees back to offices, some say they'll rather quit

Googlers are expected back in September. Some don't plan to go: "A lot of my colleagues have moved away with no real intention of coming back." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Ingenuity helicopter failed to lift off from Martian surface for its 4th flight

Ingenuity didn't get off the ground for its ambitious fourth flight. NASA engineers have just a week left to push the Mars helicopter to its limits. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

US Labor Secretary: Most Gig Workers should be classified as employees

US top labor official said most gig workers should be classified as "employees" deserving of related benefits. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Miss Excel Is Full-Time Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Influencer

Kat Norton, aka Miss Excel, has netted 264,000 TikTok followers and 153,000 Instagram followers, racking up a six-figure income in the process. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Iterable CEO fired for using LSD

Justin Zhu, the founder of Iterable, told Bloomberg he was terminated for micro-dosing LSD before a work meeting. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Raising the minimum wage to $15 will save the US billions of dollars per year

By raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, we could lower dependency on safety net programs, saving the country $65 billion a year. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Several countries have imposed travel restrictions on visitors from India as it battles a catastrophic second coronavirus wave. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Electric car startup Lordstown ginned up 10k pre-orders per year

The questionable practice underscores that using pre-orders as a proxy for sales may not be the best way to evaluate aspiring automakers. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

800 Tech patent lawsuits assigned to one Waco, TX, judge in the past year

A Waco federal judge has made his courtroom the go-to spot for patent cases. That could mean more litigation for Big Tech companies flocking to Texas. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

The NYT is readying a big newsletter push as Substack tries to poach top writers

The Times said in an internal memo Friday that managers have been fielding a number of requests about staffers wanting to start their own newsletters. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

The New York Times is readying a big newsletter push as Substack tries to poach its top writers

The Times said in an internal memo Friday that managers have been fielding a number of requests about staffers wanting to start their own newsletters. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Postal Service monitoring Americans' social media for 'inflammatory' content

The law-enforcement arm of the USPS is running iCop, a "covert" program that tracks Americans' social media posts, according to Yahoo. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

How to Use Siri I'm Getting Pulled over to Record Police

The Siri shortcut can be activated when you're pulled over by police, and will send your location to designated contacts and start recording video. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Brin's Brilliant Blimp

If Sergey Brin has anything to do with it, the future of humanitarian aid could come in the form of massive airships roaming the skies. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

XWing Self-flying Cessna just completed a fully automated flight

Pilots merely monitored the systems and spoke with air traffic control while the self-flying plane performed every other aspect of the flight on its own. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

A Florida McDonald's is paying people $50 just to show up for a job interview

The McDonald's franchisee who owns the restaurant, Blake Casper, told Insider that restaurants are "scrambling for help." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Regulators urge safety recall of $4,295 Peloton treadmill after child dies

"This doesn't happen with other treadmills," an official told The Washington Post after reports of the child's death and numerous other injuries. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

People will likely need a booster shot of Pfizer's vaccine within 12 months

Many experts, including Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, suspect that coronavirus vaccines will become a yearly routine. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

West Virginia is offering remote workers $12K cash if they relocate for 2 years

The program is funded by a $25 million donation from Intuit executive chairman Brad D. Smith and his wife, Alys. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

The purpose of Russia's 100-megaton underwater nuclear doomsday device

Until Putin's Russia, nobody had ever built a weapon like this, because there's almost no military utility in so badly destroying the world. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Uber is revoking CA drivers ability to set prices and preview destinations

Uber is curbing California drivers' ability to set prices and see trip destinations in advance, saying too many drivers rejected low-paying rides. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Robinhood and other 'low cost' brokers still quietly screwing over their users

Robinhood and other "free" retail brokers are quietly making it so that their users don't get the best prices on their trades. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

The data includes phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and — in some cases — email addresses. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Uber Must Pay $1.1M to Blind Passenger Who Was Denied Rides

Uber unsuccessfully argued it wasn't responsible for drivers denying rides to the woman and her guide dog because its drivers are contractors. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Amazon is sending employees into trenches on Twitter as it battles union vote

As reports of Amazon workers peeing in bottles resurface amid an ongoing unionization push, Amazon is again having employees defend it on Twitter. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

GameStop stock is 'extremely volatile' leadership: Completely out of control

Months after a short squeeze sent shares soaring more than 1,600%, GameStop's stock remains extremely volatile, the company told investors. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Selloff likely a “forced liquidation of positions” held by Archegos Capital MGMT

Shares of ViacomCBS and Discovery fell as much as 35% Friday, while US-listed shares of China's Baidu, Tencent Music, Vipshop and others also plunged this week. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

The plan in the 1960s to blast a canal through Israel using 520 nuclear bombs

The plan, drawn up in 1963, would have carved the canal through the Negev desert but did not take into account "political feasibility." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago

Court rules Uber and Lyft must face worker-misclassification lawsuit

Maura Healey is the latest state attorney general to accuse Uber and Lyft of illegally misclassifying drivers as contractors. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 3 years ago