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Tori Dunlap is the founder of Her First $100K Tori Dunlap, the founder of Her First $100K, launched a blog as a side hustle in 2016 with just $40. Six years later, her business has booked more than $4 million in annual revenue. She shared her advice for starting a business with little or no money. Sign up for our weekday newsletter, packed with original analysis, news, and trends — delivered right to your inbox. Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Tori Dunlap launched her blog in 2016 with just $40. At the time, her only expenses were the domain name and website registration. Six years later, the financial-advice platform is booking $4 million in annual revenue. Dunlap created her blog as a side hustle, initially offering tips for life as a 20-something, before rebranding it in 2019 into Her First $100K . There, she documented her progress toward saving $100,000 by the age of […]

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Bugs asks the key question to Zaslav: What’s up Doc?What is the path to a money making WBD? Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBD ) price at writing: $13, dead pooled for the present. Fair value calculated by SWS: $6.47 Overvalued by ~50% Margin of safety: -106.73% Net income 3 yr average: ( $5.727b ). Data by YCharts Mr. Market mostly likes WBD CEO David Zaslav’s cost-cutting, but remains wary about the prospects of him getting his arms around the multiple ailments of the marketplace and a debt load not easily solved. It is solvable, but not at its current size. Below: Our thoughts about a strategy that might be worth considering based on the theory to learn from history, not repeat it, which is the pouring of old wine into new bottles. A bit of ancient WBD history with resonance today follows For those too young or generally disinclined to believe that there is much more to explain as to why a stock moves than data sets on its recent performance, join us in a bit of archeological digging. What WBD once was, i.e., WCI (Warner Communications Inc.), comprises a lot more of what it IS now than […]

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Jack Sweeney has used the ADS-B Exchange site to track the private jets of Elon Musk and other celebrities. Jet-tracking student Jack Sweeney is calling for people to boycott ADS-B Exchange. JetNet announced it had purchased the public flight-tracking site on Wednesday. Sweeney uses the site to share flight data on celebrities, including Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Sign up for our newsletter for the latest tech news and scoops — delivered daily to your inbox. Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . The college student who tracks Elon Musk’s jet says he’s worried the tracking software he uses to keep tabs on celebrity aircraft could soon be yanked from the public after it was sold Wednesday. Aviation data company JetNet said on Wednesday that it bought ADS-B Exchange , a free website that tracked thousands of commercial aircraft around the world. Now it’s unclear whether the flight information on the ADS-B exchange will remain free […]

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Facebook-parent Meta Platforms ( META ) took a painful gut punch last year after Apple ( AAPL ) changed its privacy policies. But those troubles have eased for Meta stock, leading to an improved outlook for 2023, according to one analyst. "We are looking at a scenario in which Meta will have more or less ramped ad products to replace the lost revenue following Apple’s privacy moves, previously pegged at about $10 billion," Credit Suisse analyst Stephen Ju wrote in a note to clients. Ju raised his price target on Meta stock to 180 from 145 and maintained a rating of outperform. Meta lost roughly $10 billion in ad revenue last year after Apple changed privacy policies for the iPhone. That change made it more difficult to accurately target users with ads. But with technology improvements made by the company with its advertising strategy approach, Ju expects to see "gradual improvements to Meta’s revenue dollar growth." Meta stock dropped 1.2% to close at 141.50 on the stock market today . Meta Stock: A Less Optimistic View Monness Crespi Hardt analyst Brian White also issued a Meta report Wednesday, but was less optimistic. "Meta faced a host of headwinds in […]

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With its security business continuing to surge, Microsoft is ‘taking share across all major categories we serve’ in the cybersecurity market, CEO Satya Nadella said this week. ARTICLE TITLE HERE As Microsoft has evolved into a juggernaut of the cybersecurity industry in recent years, it’s clearly had some help. In a blog post Wednesday, one of Microsoft’s top cybersecurity executives, Vasu Jakkal, pointed out that the company’s security business is surging thanks in part to the work of a lot of partners — more than 15,000 at present. On Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella disclosed on the company’s quarterly earnings call that its security business revenue passed the $20 billion mark during the prior 12 months. That’s up from $15 billion — the size of the annual Microsoft security business as disclosed in January 2022 — and $10 billion in January 2021. While Microsoft CFO Amy Hood on Tuesday blamed a “slowdown in growth of new business” for constraining the company’s revenue in several businesses during its fiscal second quarter, which ended Dec. 31, demand for the Microsoft security portfolio is undoubtedly a bright spot. Advertisement And partners deserve their share of the credit, Jakkal noted. Amid surpassing the […]

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Semiconductor manufacturing equipment maker Lam Research Corp. plans to lay off 1,300 employees from its overall workforce. The cuts amount to roughly 7% of the Fremont-based company’s global workforce and will affect a wide swath of its staff, CEO Tim Archer said on a conference call with analysts and investors Wednesday afternoon. Lam’s layoffs arrive as demand for certain types of chips — and the equipment that makes them – has slowed in recent months. "While the reductions are broad-based across the company, we have taken special care to preserve, and in some cases increase, our investments in the critical (research and development) efforts, which I believe are key to Lam’s long-term growth and competitiveness," Archer said. It was not immediately clear how many Bay Area employees would be affected by Lam’s cuts. Company representatives declined to comment on where the cuts will take place. Of its 17,000 employees, 3,693 people are based in Silicon Valley, according to Business Journal research from 2022. Technology Employers Ranked by Total Silicon Valley employment Rank Business name Total Silicon Valley employment 1 Alphabet/Google LLC 36,603 2 Apple Inc. 25,000 3 Tesla Motors Inc. 22,000 View This List Despite the cuts to staffing, […]

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"Happier employees equate to more productive employees," Brist Manufacturing Owner Brendan Pape said. He knows time is money, but to him, time with his wife and kids is much more valuable. "I’ve got two little boys, 1-and-a-half and 4. That family time is really precious," Merklinghaus said. So, when workers needed a morale boost, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, someone suggested moving to a four-day workweek. Owner Brendan Pape was reluctant. "I couldn’t see how it could work," Pape said. "This doesn’t pencil out. No way." But Pape eventually agreed — switching his 50 employees to a work week of four, 10-hour days. The experiment was supposed to last six weeks. That was two years ago. "I think at that six week mark we didn’t even really circle back because things were working," said Pape. "We were able to maintain numbers and output. Everything was great." Under the four-day plan, Brist saw growth increase by 35%, and employee happiness go off the charts. That falls in line with a a trend seen around the world. In the first large scale study of the four-day workweek, the nonprofit 4 Day Week Global partnered with Harvard Business School, Oxford University […]

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Compton College President Keith Curry at commencement Photo Credit: Tracy Breshears/Courtesy of Compton College Compton College was in serious trouble. Because of significant financial problems and reports of corruption on its governing board, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges revoked the institution’s accreditation in 2005. It took 12 years to get it back. There’s a real chance that reaccreditation wouldn’t have happened had its trustees not hired Keith Curry in 2011 to serve as the College’s 12th president. This proved to be a really smart business decision. “What Dr. Curry and the Compton College community accomplished in regaining ACCJC accreditation isn’t a miracle – it’s instead a testament to what excellent, focused leadership and a dedicated college that wants to serve its community can do when they work together,” says Pasadena City College President Erika A. Endrijonas. Since Curry became its CEO, Compton has completed nearly $118 million in renovations and new building construction projects. He also has secured over $250 million for additional construction and student success initiatives. In impressive fashion, Curry has drastically improved the institution’s business affairs while simultaneously establishing it as a nationally-recognized leader on equity in higher education. “Racial Equity is essential […]

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When it comes to the spread of cockamamie conspiracy theories, Twitter was a maximum viable product long before Elon Musk paid $44 billion for the keys. But as soon as he took the wheel, Musk removed many of the guardrails Twitter had put in place to keep the craziness in check. Anti-vaxxers used an athlete’s collapse during a game to revive claims that COVID-19 vaccines kill people . ( They don’t .) Freelance journalists spun long threads purporting to show that Twitter secretly supported Democrats in 2020. ( It didn’t .) Musk himself insinuated that the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband was carried out by a jealous boyfriend. ( Nope .) Like a red thread connecting clippings on Twitter’s giant whiteboard, conspiratorial ideation spread far and wide. By some measures more than half of Americans believe at least one tale of a secret cabal influencing events. Some are more plausible than others; a few are even true. But most — from classics like the faked moon landing to new-school stuff like 5G cell towers causing COVID — defy science and logic. And while social-media platforms like Twitter and Meta may help deranged conspiracy theories metastasize , a fundamental question […]

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ROME, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Morale amongst Italian businesses rose in January but consumer confidence worsened, national statistics bureau ISTAT reported on Thursday, pointing to uncertain economic prospects at the start of the year. ISTAT’s manufacturing confidence index increased to 102.7 from 101.5, beating a median forecast of 101.8 in a Reuters survey of nine analysts. The overall business morale index, which also includes the retail, services and construction sectors climbed to 109.1 from 107.9. Consumer morale, however, dropped to 100.9 from 102.5, missing a Reuters’ forecast of 102.7. Economic growth in the euro zone’s third largest economy held up better than expected for most of last year despite sky-high energy costs exacerbated by the war in Ukraine. However, gross domestic product probably contracted in the fourth quarter of 2022 and will also fall in the current quarter, according to Treasury estimates.

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