Hiring Steve Ballmer Was One Of Bill Gates’ Early Moves At Microsoft. Now, AI Has Helped Ballmer Surpass Gates On The Billionaire’s Index Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft, was one of Bill Gates’ early hires, joining the company in 1980 as its 30th employee. After dropping out of Stanford Business School, he joined […]
New Hampshire is seeing “an alarming increase” in fire-related deaths, and the state fire marshal is warning residents to have working smoke alarms in their homes. The Granite State has seen 13 fire-related deaths in the first half of this year. That’s more than the 12 fire-related deaths in the state in all of 2023, […]
International stocks, at large, are perking up in 2024. Novo Nordisk (NVO), ASML Holding (ASML), AstraZeneca (AZN), SAP (SAP) and LVMH (LVMUY) are names worth getting to know in Europe, one analyst says. Like the Mag 7 stocks, these European megacap stocks delivered market-beating performance recently, Thornburg portfolio manager Nicholas Anderson wrote in a May […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is set to confirm the 200th federal judge of President Joe Biden‘s tenure on Wednesday, about a month earlier than then-President Donald Trump hit that mark, though Trump still holds the edge when it comes to the most impactful confirmations — those to the U.S. Supreme Court and the country’s […]
After gaining 239% in 2023 to become the best-performing component of the S&P 500, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has sustained its momentum so far this year. The stock has nearly doubled — gaining over $1.1 trillion in market cap year to date — and 2024 isn’t even halfway over. At the end of 2022, Nvidia was […]
Bitcoin Shows Highest Daily Gains In 2 Months, Jack Dorsey Says Price Will Surpass $1 Million Known for leading X (formerly known as Twitter) between 2015 and 2021, Dorsey has since shifted his focus toward crypto. He has cofounded Block, Inc, (formerly known as Square) and has also served on the board of directors for […]
You’ve heard it before, or maybe you’ve experienced it in your own community: North Carolina is growing, and fast. The data backs it up. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Carolina Population Center predicts the Tar Heel state will be the seventh most populated state by 2030. Along with a rise in population […]
The Samish Indian Nation announced its Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has passed the one-million pounds of debris in its efforts to clean up the waters and shoreline of Skagit County, Island County, Whatcom County and the San Juan Islands. The tribe said earlier this week 1,095,534 pounds of man-made toxins and objects, including creosote-treated […]
Alarm bells are sounding as the U.S. debt surpassed $34 trillion at the start of 2024. This translates to an average of approximately $259,000 per household and $101,240 per person, according to real-time data from the site USDebtClock.org. Those figures bring the enormity of the debt into a more tangible perspective for American families. The […]
With climate change and an incipient El Niño driving up temperatures, 2024 is likely to eclipse 2023 as the hottest year ever, meteorologists project. According to the World Meteorological Organization, the first 10 months of this year measured 1.40 degrees C warmer than the preindustrial baseline, a product of both human-caused warming and, to a […]
Texas experienced the most population growth in the nation this past year, adding 473,453 residents, according to new population estimates released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau. Between 2022 and 2023, the population grew by 1.6%, bringing the total population to 30.5 million as of July 1. That’s the highest percent growth after the […]