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2021-05-23 17:21:01 Wall Street is returning to the office. NYC's restaurants and bars are ready for a surge as bankers embrace lunches, happy hours, and deal dinners.

Ian Osborne built a career around behind-the-scenes relationships with billionaires from Silicon Valley to Hong Kong. Now the Social Capital Hedosophia founder is reluctantly center stage.

Experts explain why the technology that made COVID-19 vaccines available in record time could be the answer to incurable diseases, heart attacks, and even snake bites. Read more.

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2021-05-21 18:27:18 Coca-Cola spent millions to acquire trendy drinks such as Zico coconut water and Odwalla juice. Now, emerging brands are a smaller part of its plan.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett got 211 billionaires to pledge half their wealth to charity. Now some are falling short — and still getting massive tax breaks.

Small businesses are popping up in malls to grab a slice of the more than $21 billion industry. Read more here.

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2021-05-17 19:11:59 India is facing a severe medical oxygen shortage as it battles a devastating second COVID-19 wave, leaving desperate family members to source their own oxygen canisters for their infected loved ones. 3 people in India repainted fire extinguishers to look like oxygen cylinders and sold them to families of COVID-19 patients, police say.

And because of India’s outbreak, COVAX has received zero shipments — making it 140 million doses short — since March.

And as the crisis continues in India, and is beginning to emerge in neighbouring countries, the way the South Asian diaspora has been grieving loved ones has changed amid the pandemic – a once collectivist experience has been replaced with isolation and anxiety, having unique effects on how they view their cultural identities. Read more here.

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2021-05-13 16:02:01 A recent surge of love for "unsexy" local services like lawn care, self-storage, and car washes is democratizing business ownership. Here’s why millennial entrepreneurs are embracing the sweaty-startup movement.

Wells Fargo's mortgage business has seen an exodus of talent as some producers feel their ability to do business has been hampered. Read why top mortgage bankers are quitting Wells Fargo in the middle of a red-hot housing market.

Meanwhile, some Republicans are threatening to form a spinoff party if the GOP doesn't reject Donald Trump. They plan to release a letter outlining principles to save the party, an organizer told Insider.

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2021-05-12 17:05:07 Meet Google's $55 million man, Prabhakar Raghavan. Insiders detail how he quietly rose to become one of Sundar Pichai's most powerful lieutenants.

A developer who sold his company to $95 billion Stripe explains how he found the right idea after his first 4 companies failed. Read more here.

Recently, Basecamp's CEO banned employees from talking about politics and social issues at work. Diversity consultants say the move is a leadership failure.

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2021-05-11 15:54:07 The executive in charge of recruiting at CloudKitchens, the food delivery startup led by Uber cofounder Travis Kalanick, has resigned after an investigation related to a recent work trip, Insider has learned. 

Two years after their launches, it's clear that Amazon Care and Walmart Health are just getting started. Read more on their bets to transform healthcare as the shopping rivals carve out a new battleground.

In other Amazon news, insiders say the company puts underperforming employees on ambiguous 'coaching' plans with unrealistic goals and no clear path to get off of them. Read more here.

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2021-05-06 17:02:01 For now, vaccines are holding up against variants of the virus. But more powerful strains could send us back to where we were over a year ago.

And as people prepare for a wild summer of hookups, people are flocking to sextech startups to stock up on lube and lingerie. And VCs are taking notice.

And in wider business news, the CEO of Goldman Sachs has steered the bank to blowout profits and a record stock price. But with partners quitting and burnout soaring, some insiders say the executive's hard-charging style has come at a cost. Here’s what it’s really like to work for CEO David Solomon.

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2021-05-05 18:29:55 Trump isn't coming back to Facebook yet – the platform’s Oversight Board has ruled to indefinitely ban the former president’s account.

Peloton just recalled its treadmill, but customers reported injuries and safety concerns as early as January 2019.

The US economy is barreling toward a boom — and it's going to be bigger, faster, and weirder than you expect.

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2021-04-28 16:52:30 Leadership in 2021 is marked by transformation. Of business models, of workforces, of organizations themselves.

Insider's inaugural list of the Most Transformative CEOs celebrates the four executives who are best meeting the needs of their many stakeholders. Take a look at them here

Here’s how Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has used people-centric policies and a strategic mindset to lead the software giant.

Albert Bourla is ushering in a new era at Pfizer after leading a historic launch with a COVID-19 vaccine.

CEO Jensen Huang has evolved the $300 billion Nvidia from video-game hardware to AI to autonomous car tech –– here’s how he sees around every corner.

General Motors used to be a dinosaur. Now it's a dynamo. Here's how Mary Barra turned the American icon around.

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2021-04-25 18:08:26 Hello. In case you missed it:

Travis Kalanick's stealth $5 billion startup, CloudKitchens, is Uber all over again, ruled by a 'temple of bros,' insiders say.

14 apps that Gen Z loves, according to 14 VCs under the age of 25.

Amazon's most senior execs are leaving in droves, citing stalling growth, higher pay elsewhere, and a tough culture — setting the stage for Andy Jassy's first major challenge as CEO.

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