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• Here's the pitch deck this New York startup used to raise $15 million to expand the services it offers its community of 17 million do-it-yourselfers

  27-04-2019 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hometalk has built a web-based community of do-it-yourselfers who offer each other advice on everything from home-improvement projects to gardening.
  The company just raised $15 million in new funding that it plans to use to experiment with new features and services.
  Below is the pitch deck Hometalk used to raise the new funds.
  Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.If you're looking for ideas on how to give your home a makeover or how to do a particular house project, Yaron Ben Shaul
  
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• 7 companies looked at buying semiconductor firm Mellanox. Here's how Nvidia won the $6.9 billion deal. (NVDA, MLNX)

  27-04-2019 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mellanox, an Israeli semiconductor company, was acquired by Nvidia in March for $6.9 billion.
  New company filings reveal that things could have gone much differently.
  Mellanox spoke with seven different companies about a potential acquisition, and banks JPMorgan and Credit Suisse ran a process that drove its offers up from $102 per share to $125.
  Here's how Nvidia won the deal.
  Read more on Business Insider's homepage.Mellanox spent nearly a year in talks with potential acquirers before the Isra
  
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• Northern Trust is exploring shutting off external email for thousands of its employees; Inside the hellacious hedge-fund money-raising environment

  27-04-2019 15:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Howdy, readers!
  It's BI's hedge-fund reporter Bradley Saacks here, filling in for Olivia this week. 
  If you're reading this, it means Northern Trust hasn't shut off your email yet!
  This week saw big news in the cannabis world, promotions at the world's largest bank, and more headlines from Barclays.
  If you're new to the Wall Street Insider newsletter, you can sign up here.
  But one of the craziest bits of news in the finance world came from the continued fallout of the pay-for-play college-
  
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• GDP growth smashed expectations at the beginning of 2019. But economists say the upswing probably won't last.

  27-04-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The pace of economic growth flew past expectations in the first quarter.But the broad reading may have masked pockets of weakness in the economy.
  Perhaps most concerning for economists, a less volatile measure of private-sector activity came in surprisingly weak in the first quarter.
  Gross domestic product, a measure of all the goods and services produced in the country, grew at a far faster pace than expected in the first quarter. But the broad reading may have masked pockets of weakness in the
  
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• Billionaire investor Howard Marks explains why he's investing with 'more caution than usual' — and lays out a 3-part approach for surviving for the next meltdown

  27-04-2019 12:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Howard Marks, the billionaire co-founder of Oaktree Capital Markets, is urging investors to adopt the same cautious approach that his firm has used for years.
  Marks doesn't see any obvious asset bubbles, but is concerned about the reach for yield in risky corners of the credit markets, he said in an interview with the Swiss newspaper NZZ News.
  He offered a three-part approach to transitioning your portfolio so it's not caught off-guard by the next recession or financial crisis.
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• A female engineer at Google said the company's reporting system for workplace issues discouraged her from filing a complaint about a male colleague’s disturbing obsession with her feet, leading her to seek psychiatric help (GOOGL, GOOG)

  27-04-2019 01:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  A female engineer at Google recently wrote a lengthy post recounting her experience with a coworker who she said had a disturbing obsession with her feet.
  Lea Coligado — a female engineer on the Google Maps team — said that a man in his 50s stared at her feet for three straight hours on a particular bus ride and later made repeated attempts to gain proximity to her, including moving into the same building in which she worked.
  Google did not take action against the potential stalking
  
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• Elon Musk and the SEC reach agreement requiring him to have an 'experienced securities lawyer' preapprove his tweets about Tesla's business (TSLA)

  27-04-2019 00:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Securities and Exchange Commission and Elon Musk have come to a settlement agreement over the Tesla CEO's use of social media. 
  The settlement, announced on Friday, requires all of Musk's communication about Tesla's business via social media, the company's website, press releases, and investor calls to be preapproved by a securities lawyer.
  Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Elon Musk and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have come to a settlement agreement ov
  
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