FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Dean Ceran works for Uber between 50 and 60 hours a week. Driving expenses significantly reduce his business profits. Photo: Dean Ceran.
A boomer Uber driver's business had over $100,000 in earnings but only $20,000 in profits.
Uber commissions and driving expenses significantly reduced his profitability.
The driver shared why he planned to keep working for Uber.
Dean...
FEBRUARY 3, 2024
Many aspiring homebuyers would welcome a recession. - Elena Berd/Shutterstock
With mortgage rates still near the 7% mark and home prices still high, many potential buyers are seemingly sitting on the sidelines until their prospects improve: pending home sales have dropped to their lowest level in more than two decades
The situation has become so unsustainable that 64% say...
FEBRUARY 3, 2024
U.S. Homeland Security sign. - Scripps News
The ongoing cyberwar between the U.S. and China has a new front: The FBI is warning that certain internet routers are being "hijacked" by Chinese hackers.
"It could just be an everyday business or individual, and their device essentially could be turned into a platform for the Chinese government to attack U.S....
FEBRUARY 3, 2024
FILE - Carl Weathers arrives at a special screening for the season three premiere of "The Mandalorian" on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, at The Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. Weathers, a former NFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies, facing-off against Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Predator”...
FEBRUARY 3, 2024
Four people in Washington state have tested positive this month for a rare fungal infection that can be deadly.
It's the state's first known outbreak of the fungus, called Candida auris, according to Seattle and King County health officials, though one locally acquired case was detected there in July. No deaths have been reported.
The cluster comes as Candida...
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Okta is laying off 7% of its workforce. - SOPA Images/ Getty
Okta is reducing its headcount by 7% on Thursday, the company confirmed to Business Insider.
The ID verification firm said it's "necessary" to fulfill its "commitment to profitable growth."
The job cuts continue the layoffs trend, which hit workers hard in January.
Okta is reducing its headcount...
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Former President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he departs the New York State Supreme Court during the civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization in New York City on Jan. 11. (Photo by Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)
Most U.S. voters (51%) say that if former President Donald Trump is convicted of a “serious crime”...
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
While the House Homeland Security Committee was (slowly) marking up articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the (slow) effort to build a case for impeaching President Biden continued apace.
Eric Schwerin, a former business associate of the president’s son, Hunter Biden, appeared Tuesday on Capitol Hill for sworn closed-door testimony before congressional investigators. The appearance...
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. - Getty Images
Chris Williams was the VP of HR at Microsoft and is now an executive-level advisor and consultant.
He says highly paid executives don't take pay cuts because it wouldn't make a big enough difference.
Companies load up execs with stock because they don't cost the...
JANUARY 31, 2024
The asteroid is scheduled to make its closest approach at 2.41pm GMT on Friday - NASA/JPL-CALTECH/ASU/SWNS
An asteroid the size of a football pitch will zoom past Earth on Friday, coming close enough for Nasa to issue a warning.
Asteroid 2008 OS7 is classified as “potentially hazardous” and is expected to come within 1.7 million miles of Earth –...
