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Sasha Rogelberg

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Starbucks barista says his store has a ‘panic button’ behind the counter, but fears it won’t be enough to quell angry customers after open-door policy reversal

Some baristas anticipate an increase in customer altercations due to a new policy requiring an item purchase to use the bathroom or hang out in...

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Trump’s 80% stake in his memecoin is a ‘huge red flag’ for investors because of a potential rug pull that would rocket the president’s net worth

Trump could multiply his estimated wealth if his family’s conglomerate suddenly sells its substantial ownership in the token, finance professor...

22.01.2025 2

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AI offers a rare look inside the minds of CEOs—and can tell if they’re depressed just based on how they sound on earnings calls

Results of vocal analyses, published this month in the Journal of Accounting Research, can identify whether a CEO is depressed.

19.01.2025 10

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is still causing flight delays years after a single rocket launch disrupted 563 planes

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch in 2018 caused 4,645 minutes, or more than 77 hours, of commercial flight delays.

15.01.2025 1

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Walmart’s new logo was inspired by founder Sam Walton’s iconic trucker hat. Here are 3 rules from his blueprint for business

"First he learned all the rules,” Harvard Business School professor Richard S. Tedlow said. “Then he broke all the rules which did not make sense...

15.01.2025 9

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Elon Musk says AI has already gobbled up all human-produced data to train itself and now relies on hallucination-prone synthetic data

“The cumulative sum of human knowledge has been exhausted in AI training,” Musk said. “That happened basically last year.”

10.01.2025 2

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Polymarket users are hoping to profit from the devastation in California, betting on how far the deadly fires will spread 

The betting pools for some predictions have exceeded $100,000.

09.01.2025 6

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Caitlin Clark is the hottest new WNBA player in a decade—but she’s making less per year than the average New York worker

The WNBA’s No. 1 draft pick makes $76,535 in her first year, over 137 times less than the NBA’s first pick’s salary of $10.5 million.

09.01.2025 6

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Gamers are accusing Elon Musk of cheating at popular video games by allegedly turning to loopholes and hiring better users to play for him

“I don't see the reason to do this,” one Diablo IV gamer said, “because he's already famous—very famous.”

09.01.2025 10

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Dead bodies found in wheel well of JetBlue plane will sound the alarms for FBI and Homeland Security over national safety, aviation expert says

“This is not just about two people, unfortunately, dying in this situation,” Flight Safety Foundation president and CEO Hassan Shahidi told...

07.01.2025 6

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Sam Altman says Airbnb’s CEO and a ‘legendary’ VC saved OpenAI and ‘stopped me from making several mistakes’ after he was briefly fired in 2023

Immediately following his brief firing from OpenAI, Altman considered starting another AI company, something Chesky and Conway helped talk him out of.

06.01.2025 4

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TGI Fridays’ ex-CEO—who introduced sushi to a restaurant chain famous for potato skins and mozzarella sticks—will step up to oversee hundreds of locations post-bankruptcy

Ray Blanchette served as CEO from 2018 to 2023, a time when Fridays struggled during the pandemic.

03.01.2025 2

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Rolex quietly raises prices more than 8% after gold bashes through new records

The cost of gold per ounce increased about 27% in 2024, reaching an unprecedented high of $2,790 per ounce.

02.01.2025 3

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Despite missing deadline, Congress avoids government shutdown by passing spending bill without Trump’s debt ceiling raise

Republicans, keen to dodge a shutdown, decided to only introduce a one-vote spending package.

21.12.2024 5

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House speaker vows to avoid government shutdown as Congress eyes new spending bill without Trump’s debt ceiling raise

Republicans, keen to dodge a shutdown, decided to only introduce a one-vote spending package.

21.12.2024 10

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Trump admits he would prefer to eliminate the debt ceiling under Biden so he can avoid taking the heat for more government borrowing

The president-elect is hoping to avoid “extraordinary measures” that would push a deadline to default on the U.S.’s debt during the early months...

20.12.2024 10

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The Fed is bracing for ‘Trump 2.0’ and a deluge of fiscal policy shakeups, economists say

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said he was uncertain as to how Trump’s proposed policies would impact the economy.

20.12.2024 6

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SEC says former Express CEO secretly took advantage of $1 million in company perks, including a private jet, as the company was sliding into bankruptcy

Former chief executive Tim Baxter left the retailer in September 2023, seven months before Express filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

18.12.2024 4

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Trump says ‘we’re going to knock out the middleman’ and eliminate pharmacy benefit managers that he claims are jacking up drug prices

Health care stocks such as Cigna and UnitedHealth Group dipped after Trump’s comments at his Mar-a-Lago press conference Monday.

17.12.2024 3

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Bitcoin would need over 300 days of downtime to adequately defend itself from the ‘imminent’ threat of quantum computing, research finds

“Bringing your technology down … can be very, very costly, even if it's on for a few minutes or a few hours,” University of Kent lecturer Carlos...

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Costco CFO warns Trump’s tariffs could mean widespread price hikes: ‘When it rains, it rains on everybody’

Gary Millerchip became the latest retail executive to admit costs will rise across retail should Trump carry out heavy taxes on imports.

13.12.2024 8

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Former Aetna CEO says he’d eliminate employer-sponsored insurance to fix the U.S. healthcare industry in wake of UnitedHealthcare shooting

Employees should be free to choose their own health care plans, but be given the same contributions from their workplaces, Mark Bertolini argued.

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Return-to-office mandates are associated with an exodus of high performers, research finds

When S&P 500 companies discouraged remote working, skilled employees quit—leaving hard-to-fill vacancies for employers.

11.12.2024 2

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Luigi Mangione, accused UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter, came from a prominent real estate family and attended a $37,000-a-year private high school

The 26-year-old suspect’s grandfather was a first-generation Italian immigrant who achieved millionaire status later in life.

10.12.2024 2

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Boeing whistleblower claims ‘thousands’ of broken parts, including crucial steering tools, ended up on airplanes

Boeing denied the allegations and said it investigated quality investigator Sam Mohawk’s claims and found no evidence of missing defective parts...

10.12.2024 8

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NYPD received hundreds of tips about the backpack worn by the gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare’s Brian Thompson. The brand’s CEO said he’d do ‘whatever is possible’ to help

Peak Design CEO Peter Dering said the gunman likely purchased the bag identified in photos between 2016 and 2019.

06.12.2024 4

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What is a Fortune 500 company? The story behind the list

The Fortune 500 is the ranking of the largest companies in the U.S. based on revenue.

06.12.2024 5

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Slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s tenure was marked by rocketing profits—and myriad accusations of insider trading and coverage denial

Following Thompson’s death, social media erupted with grievances about the health care giant and private insurers in the U.S.

05.12.2024 2

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What is known so far about the gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

The suspected shooter was last seen in Central Park early this morning and he may have known New York well.

04.12.2024 2

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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan. Police say it was a targeted attack, and the gunman is still on the loose

Thompson was in New York for the company's investor day scheduled for Wednesday.

04.12.2024 4

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Budget-friendly Frontier Airlines is ripping out economy rows on its planes and adding first-class seats to tempt wealthy travelers

Despite record travel, low-cost carriers are hemorrhaging money and are trying new strategies to stop the bleed.

03.12.2024 5

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 LinkedIn co-founder and Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman might leave the U.S. after Trump win

The tech entrepreneur fears retribution from the president-elect after he bankrolled private litigation against him.

02.12.2024 8

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Thanks to poor company performance, Starbucks employees won’t be getting their full bonuses this year—and some won’t even get merit raises

Corporate workers will earn 60% of their bonuses after the coffee chain’s worst year since 2020.

27.11.2024 3

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Walmart must pay a truck driver $35 million after firing him and accusing him of fraud after an accident

Plaintiff Jesse Fonseca worked for the retailer as a freight driver for 14 years.

27.11.2024 10

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Warren Buffett says his white male status gave him confidence early on that he would one day become rich

The Berkshire Hathaway CEO said he has been on a “lucky streak” that began for him at birth.

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Warren Buffett addresses his mortality and distributes another $1 billion to his family’s charities

“Father time always wins,” Buffett said in a Monday letter to shareholders. “To date, I’ve been very lucky, but, before long, he will get...

25.11.2024 10

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An investor says he put 98% of his retirement funds in Trump Media stock and won’t bail because Trump has a ‘secret’ plan

One retiree said he was down hundreds of thousands of dollars on Trump Media stock but then recovered most of his losses.

23.11.2024 10

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A ‘potato cartel’ conspired to make your frozen fries 47% more expensive, lawsuits claim

The prices of frozen potato products—dominated by four companies—increased 47% in just two years, alleges one lawsuit.

22.11.2024 10

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Elon Musk asked people to upload their medical data to X so his AI company could learn to interpret MRIs and CT scans

Healthcare experts are worried about Grok’s potential to breach patient privacy.

20.11.2024 3

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Walmart exec warns customers Trump’s tariffs could mean higher prices

“Our model is everyday low prices,” CFO John David Rainey said. “But there probably will be cases where prices will go up for consumers.”

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Tropicana reignited a 15-year feud with customers over its packaging design, slimming down bottles

The orange juice giant lost 20% of sales in less than two months in 2009 after a wildly unpopular brand redesign.

20.11.2024 10

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TikTok ‘dermfluencers’ have medical students flocking to dermatology, where they can make half a million dollars a year and work four days a week

Applications for MD dermatology programs have increased 15% in two years in the U.S.

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Even if RFK Jr. fires everyone at the FDA, if won’t matter because he doesn’t know anyone with the ‘technical expertise’ to alter the rules, former chief counsel says

Donald Trump has tapped vaccine-skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

15.11.2024 10

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Chipotle lied when it denied viral outrage over portion sizes getting skimpier, investor lawsuit claims

The lawsuit claims the fast-casual chain failed to acknowledge “highly inconsistent” portion sizes until diners’ discontent went viral online.

14.11.2024 3

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After Trump’s win, Mark Cuban deleted all his pro-Harris X posts and is taking a political hiatus on the ‘less hateful’ BlueSky

Cuban joins more than 14.5 million users on BlueSky, which has ballooned since Donald Trump’s reelection.

14.11.2024 10

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After its entire board resigned overnight, 23andMe will cut over 200 employees and its cancer research in an urgent bid to nurse the company back to health

The DNA-testing firm said in a Tuesday SEC filing, “there is substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue.”

12.11.2024 4

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Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt, with whom Trump allegedly shared nuclear secrets, is permanently moving to the U.S.

The paper-and-packaging mogul has been a member of the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago Club since 2017.

11.11.2024 2

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Ray Dalio says ‘all Americans’ should be happy with the election outcome because a peaceful power transfer is a massive ‘risk reduction’

The Bridgewater founder previously expressed anxieties that a close election and Trump loss would increase the risk of a contested outcome.

07.11.2024 2

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Trump’s election victory means ‘his criminal problems have gone away,’ former federal prosecutor says

Legal experts say it's a matter of when, not if, Trump’s remaining criminal indictments are dismissed or postponed indefinitely.

07.11.2024 3

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TGI Fridays is worried it won’t have enough cash if customers redeem $50 million in outstanding gift cards that don’t expire

Franchisees are concerned the restaurant chain will be unable to reimburse them for cashed-in vouchers dating back as early as 2003.

05.11.2024 3

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