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The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you’ll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase. Maybe it’s because we feed them and rub their bellies, or maybe it’s because they can’t understand exactly what we’re saying, but pets are among the very few […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images San Francisco’s median rent price is $ 4,450, nearly three times the median rent in Houston, Texas. Instead of hiring expensive local talent in the Bay Area, one Houston-based law firm flies its lawyers in on a private jet once a month to meet with clients. The firm uses the jet — […]
Melia Robinson/Business Insider Residents of a private street in San Francisco were outraged after one couple scooped up their cul-de-sac in an online auction and tried to sell it back to them for nearly $ 1 million. City leaders are now moving to rescind the sale. SAN FRANCISCO — Tina Lam is an engineer with […]
Melia Robinson/Business Insider Tina Lam and Michael Cheng said all they wanted was their “American dream.” In 2015, the couple dropped nearly $ 100,000 on the purchase of Presidio Terrace — a private cul-de-sac in San Francisco lined by 35 mega-mansions. The city put the parcel up for sale in an online auction after residents […]
Matthias Nareyek/Getty Lisa and Lena Mantler, 15-year-old twins from Germany, have one of the fastest-growing fan bases on the internet. You’ve probably never heard of them, but the teen in your life has. The girls are the reigning queens of Musical.ly, the social-media app of choice for Generation Z. Teens record and post 15-second clips […]
Their professional partnership has just passed the five-year mark and it’s claimed that one in 50 women now owns a bra from Rosie’s range – making it the 133-year-old store’s best-selling line of all time. While much of the M&S business is struggling and profits have nosedived recently, the deep affection British women rthave for […]
Getty Images/Brad Barket Serena Williams has a new baby and a new ZIP code. The 23-time Grand Slam singles winner recently purchased a $ 6.7 million home in Beverly Hills — the city most famous for its 90210 ZIP code — about a month after giving birth to her first child with fiancé Alexis Ohanian. The 6,000-square-foot […]
Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Five judges from the television show ‘Shark Tank” share the best thing they’ve purchased for little money that reaped a big return. Kevin O’Leary says one of his wisest investments was a stack of Post-It Notes. Rohan Oza says the car service he bought to close a deal with 50 Cent […]
The Liberal government’s point man on pot legalization says strict safeguards will be put in place for home delivery of the drug once it is available for purchase online as planned. CBC | Health News
Enlarge (credit: GM) General Motors has acquired Strobe, a lidar startup that could give the giant automaker a leg up in the race to make self-driving cars a mainstream technology. Kyle Vogt, founder of the self-driving car startup Cruise (which GM acquired last year), announced the acquisition in a Monday blog post. Lidar—short for light radar—is widely seen […]
