‘I work just 4 hours a day’
In 2008, I started photography from my dorm room. My goal is to become a professional photographer. It’s not easy, especially at the height of the recession, but I’m glad I never gave up. Today, at age 35, I am…
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Dell job cuts: 6,650 staff axed as PC demand plunges
The head count at computer giant Dell is set to be the lowest in six years after the company confirmed it has axed more than 6,600 jobs – the latest in a string of big tech layoffs. In a company…
Rothschild & Co: bid for weak stock pulls a reverse Goldman Sachs
France’s best-known independent investment bank is set to reverse the ownership structure copied by Goldman Sachs when it floated in New York in 1999. The Rothschild family plans to buy Paris-quoted Rothschild & Co. Everything we do can be perceived…
Stocks moving big premarket: TSN, PYPL, Children’s PLCE
Tyson’s meat products are shown in this photo illustration in Encinitas, California. Mike Blake Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Tyson’s Food – Shares of the food processing giant fell 6% in premarket trade after the…
Yasmin Vossoughian of MSNBC on myocarditis diagnosis
Yasmin Vossoughian wanted to believe the doctors when she told them that the pain she was experiencing in her chest was just acid reflux. Unfortunately, he said, the body is “pretty sure not to believe” the wrong diagnosis. Speaking on…
Powerful earthquake kills more than 1,000 people in Turkey and Syria
The biggest earthquake to hit Turkey in more than 80 years has killed more than 1,000 people in the south of the country and along the Syrian border. The earthquake, which measured 7.8 on the Richter scale, caused massive damage,…
Nissan to buy up to 15% stake in Renault EV unit under reshaped alliance
Pavlo Gonchar Light Rocket | Getty Images Nissan and Renault on Monday announced details of their redesigned alliance, with the Japanese carmaker to buy up to a 15% stake in Renault’s Ampere electric vehicle unit. Alliance junior partner Mitsubishi Motors…
Goldman Sachs makes a bold housing market call
The US housing market can finally getting closer to the bottom. At least according to Goldman Sachs. Just two weeks after Goldman Sachs downgraded the outlook for the US housing market in a paper titled “The worst before it gets…
Disney cuts ‘Simpsons’ episode from streaming service in Hong Kong
Disney has cut the episode from The Simpsons a cartoon showing a “forced labor camp” in China from a streaming platform in Hong Kong. The episode, which first aired in October last year during the latest season, is not available…
U.S.-China relations just got more fragile
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed a visit to Beijing indefinitely because of a Chinese surveillance balloon flying over the United States. Frederic J. Brown | AFP Getty Images BEIJING – US-China relations appear increasingly fragile, analysts say,…