Neurosci shows that 50-yos can have the brains of 25-yos if they sit quietly

You can see significant positive changes in just 15 minutes a day. | Continue reading


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Why Companies Like Google, Square, and Atlassian Are Using Kotlin

Companies like Google, Square, Atlassian, and Capital One are increasingly using Kotlin, the fastest-growing programming language according to GitHub. | Continue reading


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The Information may experiment with ads this year

Lessin said she still remains "leery" of traditional forms of advertising, saying they lead to bad incentives and devalue the journalism. | Continue reading


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The chaos at HQ Trivia after its young cofounder’s sudden death

This is the inside story of the meltdown at HQ Trivia, including how one woman's HR complaint became a tug of war for control. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 5 years ago

The average Pinterest employee has $700k in equity according to a report

Pinterest's IPO valuation is lower than its last private funding. But the hefty equity of employees poses a big risk if the stock price is volatile. | Continue reading


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The rise and fall of Donald Trump's $365 million airline

In 1988, Donald Trump bought an airline, but within 18 months, it lost over $125 million. We talked to three former employees of Trump Shuttle. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 5 years ago

Oracle and IBM officially out of the race for $10B defense cloud contract

The Department of Defense confirms that Amazon and Microsoft are the only two companies left in contention for the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 5 years ago

Too many people are pretending to be rich (2015)

The big reason that many people don't save for the future is that they would rather spend their money now. | Continue reading


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Oracle customers fear Oracle's reaction if they use AWS or Azure, survey shows

They fear Oracle will attempt to fine them for contract violations even though Oracle allows its software to run on Amazon and Microsoft's clouds. | Continue reading


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Levi's CEO explains why jeans should never go in the washing machine

Good for your jeans and the environment. | Continue reading


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We're in the age of the wordless logo

Jaded consumers are transforming corporate logos. | Continue reading


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Next stock market crash: high valuation being enabled by Wall Street

John Hussman says US equities are still too expensive, even after the late-2018 sell-off. He also thinks Wall Street is giving investors false hope. | Continue reading


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PG&E E files for bankruptcy

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$60B Wall Street machine transforming the unusual into investment grade

The $60 billion Wall Street business of turning unusual assets like Taco Bell franchises or cell-phone towers into investment-grade bonds is flourishing. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 5 years ago

Consumers are doing everything they can to avoid ads. Here are P&G's workarounds

P&G knows that consumers are doing everything in their capacity to avoid ads, and is rethinking how it targets them. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 5 years ago

True Story of the 1980s, When Everyone Was Convinced Japan Would Buy America

Japan's Eighties America Buying Spree | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 5 years ago

Marijuana could be the biggest growth opportunity for struggling beverage-makers

Young people in Canada and legal marijuana states are ditching beer for pot. Expect that trend to drive deal-making, says a top Wall Street analyst. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 5 years ago

International money transfers hit $613B this year

In this report, Business Insider Intelligence will identify what young, digitally savvy users value in remittances. | Continue reading


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Uber's business model is in jeopardy after losing its latest legal battle

Uber is planning another appeal, pointing to the fact that the Court of Appeal judgement was not unanimous. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 5 years ago

Uber is 'hell-bent on stifling competition,' an out-of-business startup claims

Defunct startup Sidecar is suing Uber, alleging it engaged in predatory pricing and anticompetitive practices that ultimately put it out of business. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 5 years ago

Australia's tech industry savages the ALP for backing anti-encryption bill

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@businessinsider.com | 5 years ago

A Roku exec predicts the future of streaming

As more and more over-the-top options for users crop up, consumers seek an easy, well-organized way to access their subscriptions. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

These founders got rejected from YC four times. Here’s how they finally got in

Natalie Gray and Karn Saroya applied to Y Combinator four times before they were finally accepted on their fifth application. Here are some of their tips. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Submarine to visit deepest parts of the ocean in Five Deeps Expedition

The Five Deeps expedition aims to explore the bottom of each of the world's oceans. The first stop is in Puerto Rico this December. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Mary Meeker looking to raise $1.25B for her new growth fund

Meeker, who garnered the nickname "Queen of the Internet" for her prescient analysis of internet stocks, oversaw late stage investments for more than 10 years at Kleiner Perkins | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

A company that Apple gave $390M to last year just got bought for $3.2B

Laser and optical parts maker II-VI Inc said it would buy Apple supplier Finisar for about $3.2 billion, to grab a bigger slice of 5G investments and sell more sensors for iPhones and driverless cars. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

The average millionaire's college GPA is 2.9

People with a high GPA can find success, but they don't often reach the highest level of wealth. They don't become the millionaires or billionaires. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

MIT is launching a dystopian internet game on Halloween called 'BeeMe'

MIT Media Lab is launching a dystopian online social experiment called "BeeMe" on Halloween at 11 p.m. EDT. Users will control a person through their browsers by suggesting and voting on commands. The project aims to stoke conversations about privacy, ethics, entertainment, and s … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Volkswagen reportedly tried to buy a $13B stake in Google's Waymo

Waymo — Google's self-driving car unit — was reportedly approached by Volkswagen about a potential investment totalling more than $13 billion. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

The 10 safest countries in the world for women

Australia, Malta, and Iceland made the top three, but the UK didn't make the top 10. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Uber raised $2B in first ever bond-offering

A Morgan Stanley banker who moonlights as an Uber driver could be the company’s secret weapon in buddying up to banks — and keeping its dealings private. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Converse sneakers or slippers?

The fuzzy felt soles on Converse and other imported shoe soles are actually just another example of "tariff engineering." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Former students say that Apple founder Steve Wozniak's coding bootcamp is broken

Last fall, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak launched a coding bootcamp called Woz U. But course materials were of low-quality and many students felt like they did not get enough value out of the bootcamp to justify the $13,200 it cost to enroll, according to a new CBS report. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Bloomberg News Pays Reporters More If Their Stories Move Markets

Bloomberg News rewards its reporters financially for publishing market-moving stories. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

More details on the anti-SpaceX smear campaign

Boeing and SpaceX are competing for billions of dollars in NASA contracts to launch astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Boeing appears to be using a Washington public-relations firm that some evidence suggests planted an opinion piece critical of SpaceX in US … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

How it's possible for spies to insert malicious chips into circuit boards

A bombshell report from Bloomberg says that spies inserted tiny chips into servers that were sold to major tech companies. An expert says that yes, it could happen. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Boeing may have used a lobbying firm to plant a scathing story about SpaceX

Boeing and SpaceX are competing for billions of dollars in NASA contracts to launch astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Boeing appears to be using a Washington public-relations firm that some evidence suggests planted an opinion piece critical of SpaceX in US … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Tesla just released a new software update – these are the new features

Tesla said on Friday that the latest version of its vehicle software had begun rolling out to customers. New features include the ability to record and store video taken from a front-facing camera and the addition of classic Atari video games as hidden Easter Eggs. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

MoviePass owner announces it recently raised $65M in new funding

The CEO of MoviePass owner Helios & Matheson said on Tuesday that is has raised $65 million last month and the movie-ticket subscription service is "not going anywhere." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

An economist has a proposal to give all kids in the US up to $60,000 at birth

Economist Darrick Hamilton has a radical plan for leveling the socioeconomic playing field: give every baby born in the US a trust fund of up to $60,000. The money would be set aside for use when the kids reach adulthood, funding "asset-enhancing" activity, like higher ed, housin … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

INSIDE MONSTER JAM: What it takes to be a monster truck driver

Monster Jam driver Brianna Mahon is one of the few female monster truck drivers in the world. We talked to her about how she got the job and what it's like to drive the massive vehicles in stadiums around the world. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Teenage tech prodigy wants to fix Bitcoin's energy consumption problem

Coding at 10, creating his first app at 13, and ranked by Forbes as one of the most influential young Europeans under 30 in 2017, Álex Sicart is a prodigy — and the Spanish teen is about to revolutionise cryptocurrency mining at Spain's biggest solar farm. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Leaked a16z data reveals how muchstartup execs get paid, from CEOs to Sales VP

BI PRIME: Every year, one of tech’s hottest investment firms quietly conducts confidential salary surveys. Find out what you’re really worth. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Cultivated meat without serum

A new lab-grown meat startup called Meatable is taking on the industry's key hurdle by coming up with a way to make truly slaughter-free meat without relying on cow fetus blood, or "serum." The Dutch startup partnered with Cambridge and uses proprietary stem cell technology for f … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

The $1249 iPhone XS Max is made out of only $443 worth of parts

Apple shaved some parts from the display in its largest new iPhone, helping keep costs under control in what has become the priciest component of its phones in recent years, according to a new cost analysis of the device. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Ray Dalio: the economy looks like 1937 and a downturn is coming in two years

Ray Dalio is the founder and co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world. Dalio is sharing his template for understanding debt crises which he says helped him and his fund forsee and navigate the financial crisis. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

12 reasons this is a terrible résumé for a mid-level employee

Don't stand out for the wrong reasons. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Robinhood is targeting an IPO

Fintech unicorn Robinhood, which offers zero-fee stock, option, and crypto trading, has begun preparations to go public, Baiju Bhatt, the company’s chief executive, revealed at TechCrunch Disrupt SF last week. | Continue reading


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