Amazon The Amazon Echo Show 5 is a budget smart display with plenty of fun features. Today, the Echo Show 5 is on sale for $64.99 on Amazon. We don’t know how long this deal will last, so take advantage soon if you’re interested. Smart displays can be a handy tool for any room in […]
Startup Moveworks has raised $30 million to use AI to automate the most common IT tasks — but it doesn’t want to replace the IT department
Moveworks Moveworks is a cloud startup that uses AI and natural language processing to process enterprise IT tickets faster and more efficiently. Moveworks says it can resolve within minutes problems that typically take days to resolve. The idea, the company says, is to augment the most repetitive tasks performed by an IT department, not to […]
A worker at Britain’s consulate in Hong Kong went missing in China, and his girlfriend is blaming Beijing
Philip Fong / AFP/ Getty Images A Hong Kong permanent resident working for the British Consulate has been missing since August 9, after he traveled to mainland China for a business event. Simon Cheng did not return to work on August 9, and his girlfriend has reported that he is under administrative detention on the […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls the Electoral College a racist ‘scam’ — an argument that a growing number of Democrats are making going into 2020
Eduardo Munoz/Reuters Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the Electoral College "a scam" that undercounts voters of color in a series of Instagram stories on Monday. "Due to severe racial disparities in certain states, the Electoral College effectively weighs white voters over voters of color, as opposed to a ‘one person, one vote’ system where all our […]
Chilton Trust’s CEO, hired away from JPMorgan’s private bank this summer, wants to double advisers at her new firm’s largest offices in two years
Mike Blake/Reuters Chilton Trust, a wealth management firm managing about $5 billion in assets, wants to meaningfully grow its adviser headcount over the next two years. Pepper Anderson, who joined Chilton Trust as CEO in July from JPMorgan Private Bank, spoke with Business Insider at the firm’s New York office about her growth plans. "I’d […]
China’s central bank just took the next step in arming itself for the global trade war
AP Images China’s central bank rolled out a new policy for its loan prime rate — the lowest lending rate reserved for its best borrowers — that will allow commercial lenders to use the rate when pricing loans. The move effectively allows more consumers, banks, and businesses to use the country’s lowest interest rate and, […]