How Ivanka Trump lost friends and was shunned by US high society after joining her father in politics

Then-President Donald Trump talks with Ivanka Trump during a meeting at the White House on June 26, 2020. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Ivanka Trump last week said her time in politics was over even as her father seeks a new term. Her time in Donald Trump’s campaigns and administration came at a high social cost for…

I commute on London’s $25 billion railway line every week. It costs me $3, gets me to work 20 minutes early, and has transformed my journey.

An Insider reporter takes the Elizabeth line railway to work every week in London. Transport for London/Kate Duffy/Insider The Elizabeth line is London’s new railway, which has completed 70 million journeys since opening in May. Commuting on the Elizabeth line in the morning cuts my trip by 20 minutes. However, the train drops me further…

The Morning After: UK competition regulator investigates Apple and Google’s mobile dominance

Apple and Google’s domination across the mobile internet is under scrutiny again. Earlier this year, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it was consulting on a possible probe into Google and Apple’s dominance in the mobile phone market. Now, the regulator has announced it received “widespread support” for its proposals and has launched…

Twitter is reportedly failing to pay some suppliers amidst cost-cutting measures

Elon Musk is refusing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel bills accumulated by Twitter employees before he took over the company, The New York Times has reported. The company is on a drastic cost-cutting campaign and Musk has reportedly issued orders to slow or even halt payments to vendors and contract services….

EU puts TikTok and its Chinese overlords under the microscope

The European Commission has confirmed that multiple investigations are underway into how TikTok and its Chinese parent company handle user data. The ownership of TikTok by Chinese outfit ByteDance is something that has long made many uneasy, with reports suggesting that Chinese access to data on United States citizens was already happening. That prompted some…