Squeezed by the recessionary COVID-19-era economy and the rising prices of everyday goods, some consumers are increasingly turning to lines of credit to make ends meet. According to a September 2021 survey from Bankrate.com, 42% of U.S. adults with credit card debt increased their balances since the pandemic began in March 2020. A more recent…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
The space industry is on the cusp of a revolution. The cost of launch, which has dramatically decreased over the past five years, will continue to drop as heavy-lift rockets like SpaceX’s Starship and Relativity’s Terran R become operational. Parallel to these developments, multiple private companies have introduced plans to build commercial space stations for…
You have to give credit to Anya Taylor-Joy. Whether it’s starring in a major Netflix show or dramatically reading some odd text exchanges between delivery drivers and their customers, she always gives 110 percent. In the clip above she stars opposite Fallon for the conversations, which range from the mildly bizarre to the mildly terrifying….
Attending sexual health screenings can be a nail-biting experience. But, what happens when you test positive for a sexually transmitted infection (STI) and your partner doesn’t? You may automatically assume that this is because of cheating, that your partner may have slept with another person or had sexual contact outside of your knowledge, prior to…
This clever Sony patent could mean the end of pesky away-from-keyboard timers if it goes into testing. Ever had to drop your controller while playing one of your favorite FPS games to answer the door, only to return to find your character sprawled dead on the ground cruelly slain by some hidden enemy? What if…
Happy Friday eve, team. I’m Phil Rosen. A big part of my job entails keeping an ear to Wall Street, and then telling you about what I learn here in this newsletter. Fair warning: Much of Wall Street sounds pretty downbeat right now. In a Wednesday note to clients, JPMorgan analysts broke down their economic…
CEOs have turned into Chief Hypocrisy Officers: running multiple businesses, sitting on boards, and juggling side hustles while demanding total and complete attention from their employees. Rachel Mendelson/Insider What does Elon Musk do all day? That may seem like a simple question: he works. Musk is currently the CEO of three different companies: SpaceX, Tesla,…
Jess Penkhues. Carolina Marcos Google is continuing to hire despite mass layoffs in the tech industry. Jess Penkhues is a recruiter at Google for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region. She told Insider the four key criteria the company uses to select candidates. This is an edited, translated version of an article that originally…
Hiya! Surprise, surprise, it’s Dan DeFrancesco again. I’d stop introducing myself by now, but then I couldn’t keep shamelessly plugging my Twitter account. Today we’ve got stories on the struggles at a Blackstone-backed media company, Donald Trump losing a big backer on Wall Street, and how to make your Thanksgiving meal bomb-dot-com tasty. But first,…
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) with then-Yandex’s CEO Arkady Volozh (L) on September 21, 2017 in Moscow, Russia. Mikhail Svetlov/Getty A house in Amsterdam owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Arkady Volozh was occupied by activists. Despite the Yandex billionaire’s best efforts, a judge ruled that the squatters can stay. Volozh is not the first sanctioned…