Forty-seven percent of social-media managers surveyed in a 2020 study said that they worked more hours than their colleagues. SOPA Images/Contributor Social-media managers face a variety of challenges, which has led to many quitting and pivoting. Four former managers said they faced a lack of support and expectations beyond the job. Other reasons for quitting…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Brittany Chang/Insider Washington-based Pallet is building prefab tiny homes to provide shelter for people who are unhoused. Its smallest $7,500 64-square-foot unit “Pallet 64” is now being used in villages across the US. See inside a Pallet 64 at Everett Gospel Mission’s tiny home village near Pallet’s headquarters. Bigger isn’t always better, according to the…
Courtesy of Kelly Fitzsimmons Kelly Fitzsimmons is the owner of Light Up Your Holidays, a holiday decorating service in Chicago. Fitzsimmons started the business from the trunk of her car in 2001. Now, she has six-figure clients. She decorates for holidays like Halloween and Christmas, and said she tailors designs to clients’ budgets and moods….
Prerolled joints are displayed alongside marijuana paraphernalia. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Two customers are suing a California marijuana company for false advertising. The class action lawsuit claims a range of prerolled joints had lower THC content than was advertised. The lawsuit refers to a Weed Week report, which accuses the company of inflating the THC content…
Threats to federal judges increased significantly during Donald Trump’s administration. Evan Vucci/AP Some 60 Manhattanites were questioned for the Trump Organization’s tax-fraud jury. Just one expressed positive opinions about the former president; she did not make the jury. Other rejected jurors said Trump is “a scam artist” and “has a diagnosable personality disorder.” They called…
The biggest tech stocks have lost $300 billion in value this past week. Rachel Mendelson/Insider The biggest tech stocks have shed about $3.2 trillion in value this year. The market cap of “GAMMA” stocks is down by more than $300 billion this past week. The effects of inflation and signs of a possible recession have…
Former President Donald Trump. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Three people who dislike Trump made it onto a jury deciding a criminal case involving his company. Insider spoke to two experts who explained how this was possible. They said that Trump’s lawyers ran out of strikes to dismiss jurors with negative opinions of Trump. Three of the…
Apple today seeded the first beta of macOS Ventura 13.1 to its public beta testing group, allowing non-developers to try out the new features ahead of the software’s release. The public beta comes one day after Apple provided the beta to developers. Public beta testers can download the macOS 13.1 Ventura update from the Software…
The excitement around generative AI is palpable as the technology’s use cases advance. Enterprise partnerships are also on the rise for everything from AI to securing Web3 identities — showing that growth is continuing, and tech spending is right along with it, despite the economic downturn.Read MoreRead More
Jordan Peele and Keke Palmer. | Image: Universal Pictures Nope director Jordan Peele and star Keke Palmer have mixed feelings about how much is too much to know about a movie before you go see it Continue reading… Read More