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08 Aug

The new Miss USA went from West Point to the pageant stage

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Before competing at her first pageant, all Alma Cooper had was just her mom and a dream.She competed at Miss Michigan Teen USA 2016 in a dress from Facebook Marketplace, which her mother had bejeweled with hundreds of beads."I can't even put into words this surreal feeling," Cooper told Business Insider after she won the crown in Los Angeles on Sunday night. "I have so much gratitude toward the shoulders that I stand upon and all the people who have supported me to get to this point." Cooper has dreamed of winning Miss USA since she was a little girl.…

08 Aug

Malaysia Boasts of Chip Clout as Infineon Opens €7 Billion Site

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Malaysia is gaining more heft in the global supply chain as Infineon Technologies AG opens a major semiconductor manufacturing complex in the country, the Southeast Asian nation’s leader said. “We are now be able to receive and expand the technology. It shows Malaysia is now going up the ladder,” Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said at the opening ceremony of the first phase of Infineon’s €7 billion ($7.7 billion) production site in the northern Malaysian district of Kulim on Thursday. Source link lol

08 Aug

Ukrainian troops were seen pushing 6 miles into Russian territory, and the Kremlin can’t decide if it’s a ‘large-scale provocation’ or ‘under control’

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Ukraine launched a rare assault into Russian territory this week, pushing into the Kursk oblast with infantry and armored vehicles on Tuesday.The Russian region's acting governor, Alexey Smirnov, announced a state of emergency on Wednesday in response to the incursion.Ukraine has announced nothing officially about the attack, which Russian officials said involved 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers. The Russian Ministry of Defense said that Ukraine had also sent 11 tanks and dozens of armored vehicles.The exact scale of the resources committed by Ukraine to this attack is still unclear.However, Kyiv appears to be pushing hard into Kursk in the last two days.…

08 Aug

Deutsche Telekom Improves Profitability Buoyed by US Growth

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Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe’s largest telecommunications operator, reported increased profitability in the second quarter, buoyed by strong subscriber growth in the US and resilience in its home market of Germany. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization after leases rose 7.8% from a year earlier to €10.8 billion ($11.8 billion) in the second quarter, the carrier said in a statement on Thursday. Analysts had forecast €10.7 billion, according the average of estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Source link lol

08 Aug

JD Vance, who’s totally not mad about being called ‘weird,’ says he’s just a ‘normal guy’ who plans to wear the label like a badge of honor

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On Wednesday, a reporter asked the Ohio senator in Eau Claire airport, Wisconsin, what he thought about the label."I think this argument honestly came from a bunch of 24-year-old social media interns who were bullied in school, and they decided they're going to project that onto the entire Trump campaign," he said.He then went on to say that he's a "normal guy."Reporter: What do you make of that weird argument?JD Vance: "I think this argument honestly came from a bunch of 24-year-old social media interns who were bullied in school and they decided they're going to project that onto the…

08 Aug

Google Workspace VP Bob Frati has left after just over a year at the company

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Robert Frati, a leader on Google's Workspace, has departed the company, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. Google spokesperson Ted Ladd confirmed that Frati had left to "explore other opportunities."Frati joined Google last April as VP and general manager of Workspace go-to-market, running the team responsible for selling Google's suite of productivity tools to customers.He was a notable hire at a critical moment for Google, which had started furiously building new generative AI features into its Workspace suite of apps, which includes Gmail, Docs and Meet.He joined Google from Slack, where he was the company's chief…

08 Aug

Weapons Startup Anduril Hits $14 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round

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Defense technology startup Anduril Industries Inc. has raised $1.5 billion in a new funding round and plans to spend hundreds of millions on a new facility to manufacture its rockets, underwater vehicles and other autonomous weapons systems at greater scale and speed.The deal, which values Anduril at $14 billion, is one of the largest venture capital financings of the year so far, and reflects the company’s success getting government contracts, as well as rising investor enthusiasm for defense technology companies. Source link lol

08 Aug

Mark Cuban says he once supported Trump. Then he got to know him: ‘He was unethical then, and he’s still unethical.’

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Mark Cuban has made it clear that he won't vote for former President Donald Trump this November, but the "Shark Tank" star says he wasn't always against the GOP presidential nominee."I actually started off supporting Donald and then I got to know him better. I was like, 'He's great, he's not a typical Stepford candidate.' I thought that was a positive, and then I got to know him," Cuban told former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy in an interview released on X and YouTube on Wednesday.Trump, Cuban said, mainly appealed to him because he was an underdog who could upend and…

08 Aug

Everyone from Starbucks to Chinese giants wants in on the global boba tea craze. Meet the family who started it all.

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It's an unexpected turn for Chui Shui Tang, the teahouse in Taiwan that says it pioneered the beverage in the 1980s.Chun Shui Tang started as a traditional teahouse selling tea leaves — a dime a dozen in Taiwan. But, as Liu Han-Chieh, the teahouse's founder, found out, selling tea was harder than loving tea.Speaking to Business Insider at his company's headquarters in the central Taiwanese city of Taichung, Liu was candid about how the move benefited his business."In Taiwan, we need to sell tea leaves with a human touch — customers need to try some tea before buying tea leaves,…

08 Aug

He won the NYC housing lottery after applying more than 60 times. Now, he pays $2,300 in rent for his Brooklyn apartment.

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When Josh Ayala first received a call about a Brooklyn apartment he had applied for under New York City's affordable-housing lottery, he was surprised.It was February 2023, over 8 months since he sent in his application for that apartment building."I was like, wait, what? I totally forgot I applied to this," Ayala, 26, told Business Insider.The affordable-housing lotteries are run by the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, or HPD, and the Housing Development Corporation.Ayala was 21 when he first learned about the program from a colleague at his old job. Josh Ayala was 21 when he…