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[ad_1] Leaders need to know how to pitch — even inside a trillion-dollar company like Google.Shishir Mehrotra helped lead YouTube through its early 2010s boom. He introduced some of the platform’s most notable features like skippable ads, eventually serving as chief product officer. Mehrotra has since left the company, and is now the CEO of Grammarly.Money wasn’t falling from the sky at YouTube, Mehrotra said on the “Grit” podcast. When he wanted money, he needed to ask for it.”Google had a cash pile over there, but I had to go ask for investment from it,” Mehrotra said. “It’s just like…

[ad_1] The opportunity to scoop up municipal bonds at attractive prices isn’t going to last forever, according to strategist Tom Kozlik. The head of public policy and municipal strategy at Hilltop Securities has been warning investors that a ” window of opportunity ” may close fast once the idea that the Federal Reserve is destined to cut interest rates gains in popularity. Now, he’s seeing signs that may have started. “The ship is leaving the port, and investors should stay alert to avoid missing this opportunity,” Kozlik wrote in a note last week. Yields on municipal securities declined recently, reinforcing…

[ad_1] 2025-08-11T18:05:43Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. An explosion occurred at a steel plant near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Several people have been injured and at least one person has died, police said. It’s the largest coking factory in the country. An explosion at a steel plant in Western Pennsylvania has left dozens injured and at least…

[ad_1] Walmart Inc. (WMT) added more than 5% last week, landing back on the radar of technical analysts as it filled its gap from February. The rally reflects not only positive short-term momentum, evident in the daily MACD, but also a positive intermediate-term momentum shift. The weekly MACD has a bullish crossover suggesting the rally may have staying power. WMT is regaining momentum relative to the S & P 500 Index (SPX) after having underperformed the broader equity market since the April low. The ratio of WMT to the SPX has reclaimed its 200-day moving average in a reversal of…

[ad_1] 2025-08-11T17:53:25Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Renaissance Technologies’ two funds available to investors lost money in July, a person familiar said. The long-running money manager also lost money in a tough June, Business Insider previously reported. It’s been a painful summer for quant funds, though the end of July showed signs of a turnaround.…

[ad_1] If you email DoorDash CEO Tony Xu feedback on your recent restaurant order, there’s a decent chance he’ll actually read it.When asked Wednesday during DoorDash’s earnings call about challenges facing the company, Xu pointed to the emails he gets daily from restaurants, gig workers, and customers.Many of them point out areas where DoorDash is “falling short,” Xu said.”I get several hundred emails a week from all of our audiences, whether it’s consumers, Dashers, or merchants,” Xu said. “And I don’t know if they think that our improvements are very impressive.”Xu said he received an email on Wednesday morning that…

[ad_1] Every year, more than 300,000 F-150 pickups roll off the line at Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant. The vehicle — America’s best-selling car — has a complex lineup of trim levels, electrical hardware, wiring harnesses, badges, fenders, and seat variations.As machines whir and workers assemble components with gloved hands, certain new members of the company’s quality-assurance team never get distracted: AI-powered cameras.Ford has rolled out two in-house artificial intelligence systems, called AiTriz and MAIVS, to detect factory defects in real time. AiTriz, implemented in December 2024 and named after its Spain-based creator Beatriz Garcia Collado, uses machine learning and video…

[ad_1] David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance is an underdog, but it’s still coming out swinging at Netflix.Paramount just locked up UFC rights for the next seven years in a $7.7 billion deal with UFC parent TKO, announced on Monday. The news comes less than a week after Paramount’s merger with Ellison’s Skydance. That long-anticipated tie-up was approved by the FCC weeks after Paramount paid $16 million to settle President Donald Trump’s “60 Minutes” lawsuit.Starting in 2026, Paramount+ subscribers will be able to stream UFC fights at no extra charge. That’s a seismic shift away from the current pay-per-view model, where UFC…

[ad_1] Revel is leaving the ride-hailing business behind and going full-speed ahead into electric vehicle charging, including powering cars that drive for Uber and Lyft.The company said Monday that it is ending its ride-hailing service in New York City. Revel provided the option through a fleet of all-electric Tesla vehicles.”After 4 years and countless electric rides, we have made the difficult decision to permanently close our rideshare service today,” the company said in an email sent to customers on Monday and viewed by Business Insider. A Revel spokesperson confirmed the company’s plans to end its ride-hailing service.The company said it…

[ad_1] (This is The Best Stocks in the Market , brought to you by Josh Brown and Sean Russo of Ritholtz Wealth Management.) Josh — I’ll start with a chart that caught my eye showing two of the seven semiconductor companies on our Best Stocks in the Market list essentially being one big trade. You can see that Nvidia and Broadcom basically have an identical chart. These stocks are being walked up into their coming earnings reports, with NVDA posting on Aug. 27 and AVGO due out Sept. 4. Here’s year-to-date percentage gains. There’s very little daylight between how these…