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• How to watch Cricket World Cup live streams: Free and paid options compared

  07-11-2023 12:38 via businessinsider.com
  
  When you buy through our links, Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn moreWhich country will rein supreme in the 2023 Cricket World Cup? Tune in and find out yourself.Matthew Lewis / ICCWant to watch some free international cricket online? Free Cricket World Cup live streams are available some of the best matches throughout the tournament, including Australia vs. Afghanistan today, Australia vs. Bangladesh on Saturday, the semis, and the final next week. Various affordable subscription
  
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• Adam Neumann, the WeWork founder who became a business school case study in failed management, is 'disappointed' about its bankruptcy

  07-11-2023 12:34 via businessinsider.com
  
  Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann stepped down in 2019. Shahar Azran/Getty ImagesWeWork founder Adam Neumann has spoken out about the company's bankruptcy.He said he was "disappointed" and that it was hard to watch WeWork's collapse from the sidelines.Neumann quit after a failed IPO amid scrutiny over his chaotic leadership and conflicts of interest.Adam Neumann says it is "challenging" for him to watch WeWork go bankrupt. The WeWork cofounder and former CEO, who resigned after overseeing the compa
  
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• Brace for wild swings in US stocks amid elevated interest-rate uncertainty, wealth manager says

  07-11-2023 12:23 via markets.businessinsider.com
  
  Expect stock volatility in the coming months, says David Donabedian, chief investment officer of CIBC Private Wealth US.ANGELA WEISS/Getty Images
  US stocks just had their best week in a year, but don't expect the upbeat trend to last.
  The market could face wild swings into year-end due to uncertainty over interest rates, said CIBC Private Wealth's David Donabedian.
  "While last week was a good one for the equity market, it will not always be that easy," he said.
  The US stocks just had their best
  
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• The fight over return-to-office is getting dirty

  07-11-2023 11:43 via businessinsider.com
  
  Return-to-office mandates indicate a failure of imagination on the part of management and a refusal to do the work necessary to create a positive company culture.Chelsea Jia Feng/InsiderAmazon has built its $1.3 trillion empire largely by tracking and evaluating almost every aspect of a customer's life. From a new TV to a toilet-paper refill, Amazon knows what a customer wants and when they want it, and it's always ready to serve it to them.This obsession with metrics and data, however, does not
  
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• I compared breakfast at Taco Bell and McDonald's. The Golden Arches should be worried.

  07-11-2023 11:25 via businessinsider.com
  
  Nancy Luna, Insider's food correspondent, reviews the breakfast at Taco Bell and McDonald's.Insider/McDonald'sTaco Bell is stepping up its breakfast game to compete with McDonald's.The two chains sell vastly different breakfast items. McDonald's leans on the iconic Egg McMuffin.Taco Bell's biggest asset is the Breakfast Crunchwrap. We tried both menus to crown a champion.I used to think McDonald's had the best fast-food breakfast in the US. No other big chain could compete. But lately, fast-food
  
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• I'm a former Google recruiter. The smartest job candidates always did these 5 things to stand out.

  07-11-2023 11:21 via businessinsider.com
  
  Nolan Church, a former Google recruiter, says interviewees should look for ways to stand out.Nolan Church
  A former recruiter for Google, Nolan Church now runs Continuum, a talent marketplace for executives.
  He says the best job applicants are prepared with anecdotes that illustrate lessons they've learned.
  Look for ways to establish friendly connections with employees before you even apply, he says. 
  This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nolan Church, a 34-year-old former re
  
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• A millennial who moved from London to Bahrain says she loves her cheaper, sunnier, and safer new home

  07-11-2023 11:19 via businessinsider.com
  
  Kate Phillipson in Bahrain.Courtesy of Kate PhillipsonKate Phillipson moved from the UK to Bahrain in 2020 with her navy-sailor boyfriend at the time.Now single, she's since started a new career and loves her life in the tiny island nation.She says Bahrain is safe and sunny and she has a better work-life balance than she did in London.When Kate Phillipson told her family she was moving to Bahrain, they were shocked, as it's a conservative country whose state religion is Islam and near war-torn a
  
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• Andreessen Horowitz is not at all 'techno-optimistic' about this particular AI scenario

  07-11-2023 11:00 via businessinsider.com
  
  APThe famed VC firm is fighting alongside Big Tech against potential copyright rules on AI.a16z sees any requirement to pay for copyrighted AI training data as detrimental to its investments.Using copyrighted data for free is the basis of "enormous investment" in AI, the VC firm said.Andreessen Horowitz is warning that billions of dollars in AI investments could be worth a lot less if companies developing the technology are forced to pay for the copyrighted data that makes it work.The VC firm sa
  
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• Jamie Dimon warns conflict in the Middle East could trigger the most serious global crisis since World War II

  07-11-2023 10:50 via businessinsider.com
  
  JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.Jeenah Moon/Reuters
  Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have pushed the world to the brink of a grave crisis, Jamie Dimon said.
  "Geopolitical matters are very serious – arguably the most serious since 1938," he told the Sunday Times.
  There's no point worrying about the market at times like these, the JPMorgan boss added.
  Conflicts in Europe and the Middle East risk triggering the most serious global crisis since the Second World War, Jamie Dimon has warned.Th
  
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• Amazon FBA for beginners, how to turn a side hustle into profitable full-time work

  07-11-2023 10:05 via businessinsider.com
  
  Employees sort parcels from online retailer Amazon at a distribution center.Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images
  Amazon FBA is one way to start a side hustle or grow your business as an entrepreneur.
  Amazon does the labeling, packing, and shipping to customers on sellers' behalf.
  The top tier of sellers make millions; others find the space crowded and challenging.
  Fulfillment by Amazon, or FBA, enables Amazon sellers to leverage Amazon's vast network of warehouses, order proc
  
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• Air freight demand has cooled so much, FedEx is telling its pilots to fly for American Airlines instead

  07-11-2023 08:32 via businessinsider.com
  
  The FedEx flight used by Teri Eidson and Nicole McCallister on their record breaking journey.FedExFedEx is encouraging its pilots to apply for a job with PSA Airlines, a unit of American Airlines.The move came on the back of a decline in air cargo demand.Meanwhile, US passenger airlines are experiencing a pilot shortage.Demand for air freight was a bright spot in the aviation industry during the COVID-19 pandemic amid shipping disruptions and passenger travel whittling down to next to nothing &m
  
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• An American nurse who was evacuated from Gaza describes the hospital staff who stayed behind: 'We're going to die saving as many people as we can'

  07-11-2023 08:18 via businessinsider.com
  
  A woman reacts while holding a pillow as she stands amidst debris outside the site of the Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City. Emily Callahan not pictured.MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images
  An American nurse working with Doctors Without Borders has returned home after working in Gaza.
  Emily Callahan told CNN some of her colleagues chose to stay behind, knowing they may die there.
  "We're going to die saving as many people as we can," Callahan said her colleagues told her.
  An American nurse who returned
  
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• Read the email the CEO of WeWork sent to US-based members as the company filed for bankruptcy

  07-11-2023 06:20 via businessinsider.com
  
  The WeWork logo is displayed outside of an office space rental location in Santa Monica, California on March 20, 2023.Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty ImagesWeWork filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US on Monday.The coworking giant was once a hot startup worth $47 billion.WeWork CEO David Tolley assured US-based members in an email that its spaces remain open.On Monday, coworking giant WeWork filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US, marking a dramatic fall from grace for a
  
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• 35 elephants suddenly dropped dead in 2020. Their case has finally been solved.

  07-11-2023 05:22 via businessinsider.com
  
  Jeremy Woodhouse/Getty imagesIn 2020, 35 elephants dropped dead in Zimbabwe over a month timespan. There were no signs of external trauma or intentional poisoning.Now, scientists said they believe they have the answer.It took a team of scientists nearly three years to figure out what caused a mass die-off of elephants in Zimbabwe, but they finally closed the case.Between August and September 2020, 35 elephant carcasses were retrieved from various safaris and protected lands in Zimbabwe &mda
  
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• John Fetterman says Gavin Newsom is lowkey running for president against Joe Biden but doesn't have 'the guts' to announce it and go all in

  07-11-2023 04:40 via businessinsider.com
  
  Sen. John Fetterman (left) and Gov. Gavin Newsom (right).Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images; Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty ImagesSen. John Fetterman says Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn't want to admit that he's running for president. Fetterman talked about Newsom during an Iowa Democratic Party dinner on Saturday, per NBC News.Newsom said in November 2022 that he "enthusiastically" supports Biden's bid for the presidency.Sen. John Fetterman says Gov. Gavin Newsom of California doesn't have "
  
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• NFL live streams: How to watch free games without cable

  07-11-2023 03:57 via businessinsider.com
  
  When you buy through our links, Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn morePatrick Mahomes.Photo by Getty ImagesWe're crossing the halfway mark of the 2023 NFL season, which means teams are starting to mature and each game becomes more meaningful as they jostle for playoff hopes. You'll want to know how to watch the NFL action all season long. There are several ways to get around local blackouts, view out-of-market NFL games, and tune into every NFL game internationally. To help you cat
  
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• WeWork files for bankruptcy in latest sign of commercial real estate reckoning

  07-11-2023 03:39 via businessinsider.com
  
  WeWork filed for bankruptcy.Justin SullivanWeWork has filed for bankruptcy on Monday.On Monday, WeWork's stock trading was halted ahead of the opening bell.The company's valuation has plummeted since it first attempted to go public in 2019.Embattled real estate giant WeWork filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday.Trading was halted for WeWork shares ahead of the opening bell on Monday morning. At the time, the stock was trading at about 84 cents per share.The bankruptcy filing was expected fol
  
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• Marjorie Taylor Greene says she is just as sick and tired of the GOP as voters are

  07-11-2023 03:37 via businessinsider.com
  
  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.Joe Raedle via Getty ImagesRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told CNN she is just as disappointed in the GOP as many voters are.Greene said she's tired of Republicans not doing anything to hold the government "accountable."It took four speakership bids before the GOP elected Mike Johnson as Kevin McCarthy's successor.Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she shares the same feelings of disappointment in her own party as GOP voters."Republican voters across the country are sick a
  
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• The average age of Ukrainian soldier is older than 40 as the country grapples with personnel problems

  07-11-2023 02:37 via businessinsider.com
  
  A Ukrainian soldier in a cemetery in Lyman on October 11, 2022.Ashley Chan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesThe average Ukrainian soldier is 43-years-old, according to Time Magazine.When the war began in February 2022, the average Ukrainian soldier was between 30 and 35 years old.Ukraine is battling mounting manpower problems more than 20 months into the war. Soldiers in Ukraine are veering increasingly older as the country grapples with a shortage of soldiers after roughly 20 months
  
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• Google contractors who helped train the Bard AI chatbot vote to unionize

  07-11-2023 02:16 via businessinsider.com
  
  Google workers gathered for a protest staged by Unite the union outside the Google headquarters in Kings Cross, in response to what they call appalling treatment and union busting of staff facing redundancies.Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesContract workers for Accenture voted to unionize on Monday, following layoffs in August.The workers write Google Help articles, and workshopped the Bard AI chatbot's responses. YouTube contractors working with Cognizant also voted to u
  
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• I'm a 24-year-old straight-A student who has been obsessed with buses since childhood. I skipped college to work my dream job.

  07-11-2023 02:12 via businessinsider.com
  
  Matthew Tay during his time volunteering for a different bus company.Matthew Tay
  Despite college acceptances, Matthew Tay, 24, skipped school to become a bus-operations supervisor.
  The straight-A student said it's a misconception that working with buses is a dead-end job.
  Our desire for paper qualifications can blind us to real opportunities, he added.
  This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Matthew Tay, an operations supervisor in Singapore for Tower Transit, a local bus comp
  
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• Zelenskyy says the Israel-Hamas war is distracting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It is, which benefits Putin.

  07-11-2023 01:04 via businessinsider.com
  
  President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pictured during a joint briefing with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesVolodymyr Zelenskyy said the Israel-Hamas war is distracting the world from the invasion of Ukraine.An international affairs expert told Insider Israel's war in Gaza may benefit Putin in several ways.Protracted war in Israel may force the US to make tough choices about providing aid elsewhere.Ukrai
  
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• Steamy love letters sent to captured French sailors have been opened for the first time in 265 years

  07-11-2023 01:01 via businessinsider.com
  
  A picture shows love letters sent to capture French sailors, that had gone unread for 265 years.The National Archives / Renaud MorieuxLove letters sent to French sailors have been opened for the first time in 265 years.They contain intimate messages sent during the Seven Years' War between 1756 and 1763.The letters got "agonizingly close" to reaching the soldiers, before being seized byofficials. In a steamy letter sent more than two centuries ago, Anne Le Cerf wrote to her husband, an
  
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• Amazon KDP has helped first-time authors publish books — and make a fortune. Here's how it works.

  07-11-2023 00:41 via businessinsider.com
  
  Bringing a kindle would have been useful.Will Ireland/Future via Getty Images
  Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing offers a chance for authors to self-publish on its book store.
  The free platform allows writers to publish books in print and digital to earn a royalty rate. 
  Here's a breakdown of how to start publishing on Amazon KDP and how much writers can earn. 
  Amazon's self-publishing platform Kindle Direct Publishing, commonly abbreviated to KDP, enables authors to self-publish in both
  
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• Tantrums, spectacle, but legal peril, too – How Trump's testimony hurts him

  07-11-2023 00:30 via businessinsider.com
  
  Donald Trump leaves a Manhattan courtroom where he gave all-day testimony in his civil fraud trial.Shannon Stapleton/ReutersTrump grabbed headlinesby insulting the judge, AG, and state's attorney from the witness stand.But behind the spectacle, he suffered dozens of cuts, legally speaking, under questioning.Trump shrugged "yes" through a crippling series of questions about bank docs he personally signed.Donald Trump let fly a fusillade of insults from the witness stand at his Manhattan frau
  
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• Yemen's Houthi rebels are using the Israel-Hamas war to show off their growing arsenal, and US warships are in the crossfire

  07-11-2023 00:23 via businessinsider.com
  
  US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Carney in the Suez Canal on October 18.US Navy/MCS2 Aaron Lau
  A US Navy warship downed missiles and drones launched at Israel by Yemen's Houthi rebels in October.
  The attempted attack was a demonstration of the robust missile arsenal the Houthis have built up.
  Despite their limitations, those missiles can still threaten the US and its allies in the region.
  The Yemen-based Ansarullah movement, commonly known as the Houthi rebels, has launched three missile and
  
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