Новости за 29.04.2017

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Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn just laid out what's going on with his activist move on General Motors.

Earlier this year, Einhorn announced he had increased his position in the car company.

The activist hedge fund investor proposed that GM create two classes of stock, and accused the company of misleading credit-rating agencies about the plan. He told Business Insider's Linette Lopez earlier this month that rating agencies were getting the analysis of his plan wrong. Читать дальше...

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Carmelo Anthony's career appears to be at a crossroads.

The New York Knicks have missed the playoffs four straight years and are overdue for a rebuild.

However, in order to begin rebuilding, the Knicks would be wise to trade Anthony, whose large contract and ball-dominant style would be an awkward fit with a young, rebuilding team.

Anthony has been resistant to trades, despite the Knicks shopping him and team president Phil Jackson recently saying Anthony... Читать дальше...

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Where do business students want to work these days?

To find out, Universum, a global research and advisory firm, surveyed 81,102 students from 359 universities in the US about their views on employers.

Out of those respondents, 26,809 were studying business.

Universum ranked a number of well-known companies (and a few governmental agencies), based on the percentage of business students who reported that they'd want to work for the organization. Читать дальше...

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The smallest companies in the US stock market have gotten the biggest boost from President Donald Trump's proposed corporate tax cut, and investors see no end in sight for the rally.

Their confidence is manifesting itself in a lack of hedging. Investors are paying the least since the start of the eight-year bull market to protect against losses in the Russell 2000 index of small-cap stocks.

With the gauge just two days removed from a record high, this... Читать дальше...

At Syracuse Hancock International Airport, the last thing separating arriving travelers from their loved ones outside the terminal is a set of futuristic steel and glass doors.

"You're only as good as your last trick."

This could easily be a metaphor for life in general, but in this case it's pretty concrete advice that skateboarding legend Tony Hawk imparts to his pro skater son, Riley Hawk. (You can see a photo of Hawk with young Riley below.)

At 48, Hawk is best known for his vertical-skating prowess. Riley, 24, is known as a street skater. In 2013, Riley was awarded the Best Am [Amateur] of the Year award from the Skateboard Mag.

Business Insider... Читать дальше...

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As a neonatologist, I worry about patients with pulmonary hypertension. This unforgiving disease, sometimes seen after premature birth, can end with sudden death from constricting blood vessels in the lungs. One minute a baby in the neonatal ICU may be sleeping comfortably; moments later, doctors and nurses are giving chest compressions and rescue medications.

A pulmonary hypertension crisis, as these frightening episodes are called, starts with a drop in the blood oxygen level. Читать дальше...

Business Insider

I joined Business Insider Editor-in-Chief Henry Blodget on this week's episode of The Bottom Line.

We discussed the pros and cons of President Trump's proposed tax cuts, which would slash income tax rates on businesses from 35% to 15%.

Most economists will tell you that lower business tax rates tend to lead to higher economic growth and higher job creation. However, they disagree widely on how much higher. Meanwhile, such a large tax cut would add trillions of dollars to the federal debt over a decade... Читать дальше...

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Theresa May, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, decided on April 18 to dissolve Parliament and hold snap elections on June 8. The motion easily secured the required two-thirds majority in the U.K.‘s House of Commons.

The decision marks a stunning reversal and has surprised many people in her own government and abroad. May had repeatedly denied that she would make such a momentous decision.

In the U.S., we’re accustomed to a fixed electoral calendar. Читать дальше...

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President Donald Trump may have criticized Barack Obama for playing too much golf, but he's already beating Obama's pace.

As of  his first 100 days in office end on Saturday, Trump has gone on 19 golf outings, compared to Obama's one during the equivalent time as president.

Regardless of who's in office, it's a quirk of modern American culture that if you haven't liked the president in charge, you've had ample opportunity to paint him as preferring to be... Читать дальше...

Qikpix

As a teenager, Jarek Hamilton attempted to start a company, which would re-manufacture ink and toner cartridges.

"I got laughed at a lot," he says. "When I went to go open up my first business, banks kind of laughed at me."

After that first idea fell through, he ended up working for a barge line company, enlisting in the US Navy, taking a job as a civilian contractor in Afghanistan, and then working for the Army Corps of Engineers.

Now, at the age of 29, Hamilton is back in the startup game. Читать дальше...

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Rupert Murdoch and his sons, James and Lachlan, may be looking for a woman to run Fox News, sources familiar with the Murdochs' thinking told The Hollywood Reporter. 

This latest news comes on the heels of Fox News' decision to oust ratings king Bill O'Reilly from the network after it emerged that O'Reilly and Fox News had paid out $13 million in settlements to five women who had accused O'Reilly of unwanted sexual advances. A mass advertiser exodus from O'Reilly's time slot quickly followed... Читать дальше...

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The New York Times' decision to publish a debut op-ed column by the newly-hired Bret Stephens, a notable denier of anthropogenic climate change, has sparked an uproar from the paper's subscribers, who are furious that the Times decided to publish a column that is contrary to much of the modern-day scientific consensus on the dangers of global warming.

In his column, Stephens compared the "certitude" with which Hillary Clinton's advisers believed she... Читать дальше...

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Nearly two decades after saving Nissan from the brink of financial collapse, CEO Carlos Ghosn is taking on another Japanese reclamation project.

This time, it's Mitsubishi Motors.

"I'm going to dedicate a little bit of my time in order to steer Mitsubishi back to normal development and support their team," Ghosn told Business Insider in an interview. 

Ghosn's words understate the dismal state of the Japanese brand. 

Like Nissan in 1999, which had lost money... Читать дальше...

Equestrian Living

It's fintech week here in New York City, thanks to collaborations between Empire Startups and FinXTech, and we sat down with someone who has her finger on the pulse of the industry.

Amy Nauiokas is the cofounder and president of Anthemis Group, a digital financial-services investment and advisory firm. Since the company's founding in 2010, it has invested in 42 firms, including the likes of Betterment, Trov, and Qover. It also hosts the annual Hacking Finance Retreat in the French Alps. Читать дальше...

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“Kill Your Darlings” is a phrase often used in the world of writing and movies. Made famous by William Faulkner, it refers to deleting material that’s near and dear to the creator's heart for the sake of making their story better.

It’s something writer-director James Ponsoldt ("The End of the Tour") knows all too well after adapting to the screen Dave Eggers’ popular 2013 novel “The Circle” (in theaters Friday).

"I think any novel that is as ambitious as this one... Читать дальше...

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While many large companies use automated résumé-screener software to cut down the initial pool of job applicants, loading your résumé with meaningless buzzwords and phrases is not the smartest way to get noticed.

"Nearly everyone is guilty of using buzzwords from time to time, but professionals are evaluated increasingly on their ability to communicate," says Paul McDonald, senior executive director for professional-placement firm Robert Half.

Some of the major problems with using buzzwords... Читать дальше...

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Jamie Klein had no assumptions that President Donald Trump's first 100 days would be easy.

"I sent him to Washington to kick over the table," Klein said. "That's why I sent him there."

Klein is a 70-year-old delegate from Pennsylvania's 5th district. He is one of the handful of voters who were crucial to Trump's victory, pushing him over the finish line — twice.

Those voters, the Pennsylvania delegates, won seats last summer to the Republican convention in Cleveland... Читать дальше...

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The 21st century is the age of living single.

Today, the number of single adults in the U.S. – and many other nations around the world – is unprecedented.

And the numbers don’t just say people are staying single longer before settling down. More are staying single for life.

A 2014 Pew Report estimates that by the time today’s young adults reach the age of 50, about one in four of them will have never married.

The ascendancy of single living has left some in a panic. Читать дальше...

Courtesy of Noah Kagan

Being an entrepreneur sounds great — except when it isn’t. I speak from experience.

While sharing top marketing tips on OkDork, I founded AppSumo and Sumo, which is now an 8-figure business. (Before that, I saw what it’s like to build a business as employee #30 at Facebook and employee #4 at Mint.com.)

For all the freedom to choose your own schedule, there are 90+ hour workweeks.

For every day working from the beach, there are months spent grinding away in a small apartment. Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump has been in office for exactly 100 days, as of Saturday.

In the company’s first 10 years, Mark Zuckerberg transformed Facebook from a college side-project into a multi-billion dollar platform.

Hollis Johnson

I've sent my spit off for more genetics tests than anyone else I know.

These tests analyzed my saliva sample to find out a host of different things that my DNA can tell me about my ancestry and health. 

Genetic testing companies have proprietary sets of data and various ways of analyzing information, so each one I tried offered a distinc approach to how they presented my results and what information they gave me. One provided details about my great-grand relatives... Читать дальше...

If you want to book former First Lady Michelle Obama for a speaking engagement, you should expect to pay around $200,000, Mike Allen reported for Axios.

North Pole Blockbuster

Blockbuster isn't extinct quite yet.

At least 10 Blockbusters are open across the US — a minuscule percentage of the 9,000 stores that existed in the early 1990s, The Washington Post reported. The biggest cluster of Blockbuster locations that remain open is in Alaska.

"We just keep plodding along," Alan Payne, a licensee who owns eight of the last surviving Blockbusters, told The Post. One of Payne's locations is in Texas, and seven are in Alaska, where... Читать дальше...