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Summary List PlacementRyan Cohen is invested in three things that we know of: Apple, Wells Fargo, and GameStop.  The entrepreneur and investor can attribute much of his wealth to the success of Chewy, which he cofounded and sold for $3.35 billion.  He sat in tears outside the NYSE the night before the company went public in June 2019. "It was emotional," he told the...

Summary List PlacementThe Miami Heat are back in the NBA finals after just six years away.  It's a remarkable feat for a relatively new franchise — founded in 1988 — and the Heat has an impressive trophy cabinet, with six conference titles and three championships. But most impressive of all may be that this 2020 Heat team, unlike its previous championship runs with LeBron James...

Summary List Placement TikTok is struggling to scrub its platform of video clips appearing to show a man dying by suicide. Clips from the video in question have been circulating on TikTok since Sunday night, after the video first appeared in a livestream on Facebook, TikTok said in a statement. Despite TikTok's efforts to remove uploads of the video, first reported on by The...

Summary List PlacementThe coronavirus pandemic led 2020's Burning Man, planned for the week leading up to Labor Day, to go virtual for the first time in 30 years. But this didn't stop thousands of fans from holding their own makeshift festivals. Despite social distancing guidelines and restrictions on in-person gatherings, crowds of Burning Man's most avid fans were spotted celebrating the festival on beaches...

The creators of a short-form video app called Triller filed a lawsuit Wednsday against TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance. In the lawsuit, Triller alleges TikTok is infringing on its patent, approved in 2017, for the video-editing, sountrack-adding software made notable by TikTok. TikTok currently faces an uncertain future in the US, as the Trump administration weighs banning the app due to its ties...

A mysterious invite-only app captured the attention of the tech industry on Twitter after a combination of three emoji —  👁👄👁 — flooded their feeds starting Thursday. The purpose of It Is What It Is — and whether it's even real — is unclear. Purported users have posted screenshots on Twitter, and more than 40 young tech employees have added the app's Twitter handle...

Reddit moderators on Monday penned a letter calling on the platform to add a policy that explicitly bans racism and hate speech. The platform has a long history of providing a home to hateful rhetoric and hate-based communities after being founded 15 years ago as a place for free expression. Reddit has faced increased criticism recently after CEO Steve Huffman wrote a letter to...

Quibi is reportedly considering laying off 10% of its more than 250 employees, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The bite-sized streaming platform had a much-hyped launch in April, but its downloads and user numbers have been lackluster in the months since. The Journal also reports that senior executives, including CEO Meg Whitman, are taking 10% pay cuts to offset Quibi's poor performance. Visit...

Companies around the world are ordering their employees to work from home to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Even before the outbreak, tech companies were increasingly building all-remote workforces. Working from home everyday comes with its own perks and challenges: Business Insider spoke with three people who have worked at fully-remote startups GitLab and Zapier to hear their best practices and...

Facebook Messenger is getting a design overhaul that is soon rolling out to users, TechCrunch reports. The redesign has two significant changes: the removal of the Discover tab, which houses chatbots from games and brands; and an increased emphasis on Facebook Stories. By prioritizing Stories in the Messenger app, Facebook is likely trying to replicate the success it found after bringing the feature to...

The demand for face masks and other preventive products have reached a fever pitch due to the coronavirus outbreak, and many are turning to e-commerce sites to make purchases. So many people are turning to Etsy that "face masks for germs" became one of the top searches, and more than 200 postings for face masks have sprung up in the past two days. Even...

Airbnb has revealed its most popular properties from every year since 2011. The rankings are based on the number of times a property was wishlisted on the site. Properties include a remote Balian treehouse, a seashell house in Mexico, and Hector Cave House, carved into the cliffs of Santorini, Greece. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. 2011: Villa Near Florence, Tuscany, Italy The Villa Near...

The Queen doesn't get all her money from taxpayers. She profits from a land trust called the Duchy of Lancaster in addition to the estates and artwork she inherited from her father. Prince Charles paid Harry and Meghan, William and Kate, and their children a combined $6.5 million (£5 million) in 2019, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Sunday Times estimated the Queen's...

Australia is currently suffering through unprecedented deadly bushfires, and people from around the world have harnessed creative means to raise money toward the relief efforts. Sex workers have been selling their nudes in exchange for donations to relief funds, including Kaylen Ward, whose cause has went viral and has netted more than $1 million in donations. Even with the success of her campaign, Ward...

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders recently announced a $150 billion, four-point plan that would fundamentally transform how the internet works in the United States. The plan would effectively turn the internet into a publicly-provided utility, similar to how water and power are distributed. The broadest goal of the proposal is to provide every American with access to affordable high-speed internet. "High-speed internet service...

A three-year-long Newsday investigation published Sunday found Long Island real estate agents' widespread unequal treatment against Hispanic, Asian, and black homebuyers. In what the New York newspaper called one of its most extensive investigations ever, reporters found real estate agents treated prospective homebuyers from minority groups differently from those who are white. "The three-year probe strongly indicates that house hunting in one of the...

Huge skeletons appear to be erupting through streets in Mexico City's Tláhuac neighborhood for Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). The skeletons took a year to make, according to Riviera Maya News, and are meant to encourage Mexican cultural preservation and identity. The sculptures could remain if the weather cooperates. The undead installation comes amid concerns Día de los Muertos is being...

Inside a bright room lined with exposed brick on the third floor of a downtown Manhattan townhouse, members of the investment community sipped cucumber-and-mint-infused water and discussed recession fears, geopolitical issues, and the yacht market. At this wealth management event held on Wednesday, thrown in part by a lifestyle media company and an asset management firm, the chatter captured what elite investors, economists, and...