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This tutor booking app is trying to revolutionise the way Indian parents have preferred to select tutors for their children for decades
Launched in February this year, this tutorial booking app is seeing 70% of its customers as repeat …
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'I've got a plan': Elizabeth Warren's running as the policy wonk candidate and her poll numbers keep going up
"I have three brothers - they all served in the military and I know the kind of sacrifice that the …
Joe Perticone
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Here's how a former New York City policy wonk transitioned from a City Hall job to running an early-stage VC fund
Bahat ran a nonprofit, founded his own company, and served as senior policy director under Michael …
Sherin Shibu
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A 35-year-old numbers wonk is helping revive one of the financial crisis' most controversial products
Chen's no newcomer to CDOs, either. While still relatively young by industry standards, the "number…
Graham Rapier
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Wall Street is fixated on Powell's speech Jackson Hole this week after his 'Volcker Moment' there 2 years ago
Expectations are rising for Fed interest rate cut after inflation slowed in July. Meanwhile, the US…
Huileng Tan
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Kamala Harris says she makes sure Biden doesn't get 'sugarcoated' information
Harris said she has a "keen and very deep sense of understanding of the significance and the weight…
Bryan Metzger
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The awkward debate moment where GOP candidates reluctantly backed Trump shows why they don't stand a chance to unseat him
Nearly every GOP candidate said they'd support Trump even as a convicted felon, proving they are st…
Paul Squire
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Kamala Harris has 'rabbit ears' for any criticism about her, a new book claims
Vice President Kamala Harris seemed "instantly aware" of any criticism of her, a new book by Frankl…
Alia Shoaib
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The Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes and was litigious, filing numerous lawsuits against motorists
At one point, Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann owed nearly half a million dollars to the IR…
Michelle Mark
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A mysterious new Chinese military blimp was spotted by a satellite in a desert military base
The satellite images, taken by private firm BlackSky, show a 100 foot long blimp on a runway at a r…
Tom Porter
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Denmark has the solution to America's broken housing market
In a cruel twist, millions of Americans are trapped in their homes by low mortgage rates. Denmark's…
James Rodriguez
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has trashed bitcoin as useless, inefficient, and largely a Ponzi scheme. Here are his 12 best quotes about crypto from the past decade.
Krugman has cautioned that bitcoin could become worthless overnight, and has slammed crypto as pred…
Theron Mohamed
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I thought the Apple Vision Pro would bring about utopia. Now it scares the hell out of me.
I thought Apple's augmented reality headset would bring about utopia. Now it scares the hell out of…
Albert Fox Cahn
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Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has slammed bitcoin as pointless, wasteful, and in large part a Ponzi scheme. Here are the economist's 12 best quotes about crypto over the past decade.
Krugman has warned that bitcoin could become worthless overnight, and has blasted crypto as predato…
Theron Mohamed
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NASA is evacuating its prized moon rocket from its Florida launchpad as Hurricane Ian approaches
NASA has been thwarted again in its efforts to launch its Space Launch System. Hurricane Ian is bri…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Ray Dalio once interrogated his pregnant protégé in front of his top execs until she cried
The billionaire Bridgewater founder once yelled at a pregnant employee and was most unforgiving wit…
Rob Copeland
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Who is Nouriel Roubini, Wall Street's 'Dr. Doom' economist who has warned of catastrophe for 2 decades?
The economist has been loudly calling for the economy to enter a tailspin, continuing a long run of…
Jennifer Sor
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George W. Bush told Mitt Romney that Rick Perry was dumber than he was: book
"People thought I was dumb. Well, wait till you get a load of this guy," Bush told Romney, accordin…
Kimberly Leonard
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Rex Heuermann, suspected in Gilgo beach murders, compared himself to a hammer in an interview last year
Gilgo Beach murders suspect Rex Heuermann described dealing with people, sometimes having to be a "…
Laura Italiano
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If we want to keep America from collapsing, we have to do the unthinkable
My totally radical, completely sure-fire plan to blanket the country with affordable homes and clea…