This mysterious billionaire just beat out Jeff Bezos to become the...
The mysterious founder of Zara just beat out Jeff Bezos to become the second-richest person in the world. Amancio Ortega claimed the No. 2 spot on the list of the world’s richest people on Tuesday,...
View Article“It was like the scene from ‘Gladiator'”: Senators detail ‘roller coaster’...
The Senate voted down the Republican proposal to repeal parts of Obamacare last week, and according to a new oral history from The Washington Post, it was as tense inside the chamber as it was for...
View ArticleApple CEO Tim Cook completely dodged a question about what Trump said about him
Last week, President Donald Trump said Apple and its CEO Tim Cook had personally promised to build three “big beautiful plants” in the United States. Apple has been silent about Trump’s remarks,...
View ArticleAn unhelpful Larry Page throws Uber’s lawyers lots of shade during his...
Uber’s lawyers are asking a judge to order Google co-founder Larry Page to sit for two more hours of questioning in the massive lawsuit between the two companies. The lawsuit centers on trade secrets...
View ArticleTesla says it has started solar roof installations for employees — but demand...
With so much fanfare surrounding Tesla’s long-awaited Model 3 launch, news of the company’s solar roof has fallen by the wayside. Tesla’s second-quarter investor letter provided some clarity to the...
View ArticleA British volunteer fighting ISIS in Syria reportedly killed himself to avoid...
A British man who had volunteered with the Kurds to fight ISIS in Syria reportedly killed himself after getting surrounded by militants. Ryan Lock, 20, from West Sussex, sustained a leg injury while...
View ArticleSteph Curry is playing in a professional golf tournament — here are 15 other...
Two sports will collide this week when Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry plays in the Ellie Mae Classic, the Bay Area’s annual Web.com Tour event. Curry is an avid golfer who will inject...
View ArticleThe Powerball jackpot just hit $261 million — here’s the best time to buy a...
The Powerball lottery jackpot for August 2 has hit $261 million and the winner will be announced just before 11 p.m. EST. Former Business Insider writer Walter Hickey did the math to figure out the...
View ArticleElon Musk just made a surprising announcement about Tesla’s next car
Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a surprise announcement during Wednesday’s second-quarter earnings call. Musk said Tesla will no longer use an entirely different vehicle architecture to build the Model Y,...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s recent sales team shake up was the ‘most significant’ in the...
In July, Microsoft announced a big reorganization of its sales forceto focus on cloud computing. That reorganization resulted in thousands of layoffs, mostly in its global sales organization. It may...
View ArticlePhotos show how close an Air Canada jet came to causing one of the worst...
On Wednesday, the National Transportation Safety Board released an update on its investigation of the near-disaster involving an Air Canada jet’s aborted landing in San Francisco on July 7. According...
View ArticleNeymar’s move to PSG will cost the French soccer giant more than $500 million
The much-anticipated move of Neymar to Paris Saint-Germain is expected to be announced this week after the football superstar told Barcelona he was leaving, according to several reports. According to...
View ArticleA tech conference in LA had a live giraffe in a pen that delighted, and...
Tech conferences have always had a circus-like atmosphere: hordes of people roam around taking pictures as special attractions are showcased and crowd-pleasing demonstrations draw big applause. This...
View ArticleYelp is selling Eat24 to Grubhub for $287.5 million
Yelp is selling its Eat24 food delivery service to Grubhub for $287.5 million in cash, the company announced today. Yelp shares are up 19% in after hours trading on the news. Shares of Grubhub were up...
View ArticleESPN is rebranding one of their networks to ‘ESPN 8: The Ocho’ for one day in...
When the movie “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” was released in 2004 it immediately became fodder for references and in-jokes for an entire generation of movie-goers and sports fans, and now one of...
View ArticleJa, het is veilig om je telefoon ‘s nachts aan de oplader te laten
Je hoeft niet teveel bezig te zijn met genoeg batterij over te laten in je telefoon voor de nacht. Al jarenlang heerst de mythe dat de batterij beschadigd raakt als je smartphone ‘s nachts aan de...
View Article‘Cryptocurrency mania’ burned a $1 billion hedge fund that was betting...
Dallas-based Carlson Capital’s Black Diamond Thematic fund has lost 14.2% net this year through July 31, according to a client update reviewed by Business Insider, and bitcoin mania is partly to...
View ArticleHow Michelle Carter urging her boyfriend to kill himself over hundreds of...
What started out as a summer string of text messages led to one teenager’s death and another’s jail sentence. Massachusetts Judge Lawrence Moniz sentenced 20-year-old Michelle Carter Thursday to a...
View ArticleFox News anchor says Trump ‘misrepresented the truth’— again
Fox News anchor Shep Smith excoriated Donald Trump on Thursday, saying the president “misrepresented” the truth about his phone calls with two foreign leaders earlier this year. Transcripts of the two...
View Article‘Oranje Leeuwinnen’ na overtuigende 3-0 overwinning voor het eerst in EK-finale
De Nederlandse voetbalsters kunnen ‘hun’ EK bekronen met de Europese titel. De ploeg van bondscoach Sarina Wiegman bereikte donderdag de eindstrijd van het toernooi in eigen land, door Engeland in...
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