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Brands drop David Dobrik

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Hello and welcome to Insider Advertising for March 22. I’m senior advertising reporter Lauren Johnson, and here’s what’s going on: ...

Texas Roadhouse CEO Kent Taylor dies amid COVID-19 struggle

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – Kent Taylor, founder and CEO of the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain, has died. He was 65. ...

Charles Lewis, former DC chief at AP and Hearst, has died

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Charles Lewis, a former Washington bureau chief for The Associated Press and The Hearst Newspapers who tirelessly ...

Investing in sports cards, plus a 3-part bitcoin strategy spanning the entire ecosystem

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Hello everyone! Welcome to this weekly roundup of Investing stories from deputy editor Joe Ciolli. Please subscribe here to get ...

Major auto chip supplier Renesas says it expects to resume production in a month following a fire at its factory

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KAZUHIRO NOGI / Staff Renesas will replace equipment damaged by Friday’s fire. The fire will likely further dent the global ...

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson calls COVID-19 vaccine skepticism among Trump supporters ‘a natural resistance to government’

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Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-Arkansas). AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo, File Gov. Asa Hutchinson said GOP vaccine skepticism is rooted in “a natural ...

The Fed will be forced to buy more bonds as US stimulus drives up interest rates, Ray Dalio says

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The ‘king of hedge funds’ Ray Dalio had a nightmarish 2020 Kimberly White/Getty Images The Federal Reserve will be forced ...

Utz CEO says that Boulder Canyon potato chips are doing well with customers looking for healthier snacks

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AP Some buyers opt for healthier ingredients found in the Boulder Canyon chips, Utz Brands CEO Dylan Lissette told CNBC. ...

25 Bold Predictions for 2021

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2020 was defined by the coronavirus pandemic. While in many ways the world was brought to a halt, digital transformation ...

Trump plans social media return with his own platform, adviser tells Fox News

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump, suspended from Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites after the Jan. ...

Canadian Pacific agrees to buy Kansas City Southern for $25B

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NEW YORK (AP) – Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. has agreed to buy Kansas City Southern for $25 billion in cash ...

Trump is planning to launch his own social-media platform in the next few months, aide Jason Miller says

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Photo showing the suspended Twitter account of Donald Trump on a smartphone outside the White House on January 8, 2021. ...

The wild life of billionaire Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who eats one meal a day, has faced attempted oustings, and had to defend his company in front of Congress

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Jack Dorsey at the digital fair dmexco in Cologne, Germany, September 13, 2017. Rolf Vennenbernd/picture alliance via Getty Images Jack ...

Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says the ‘border is closed’ but the US ‘will not expel young, vulnerable children’

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Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks speaks at a White House press briefing on March 1, 2021. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik ...

SpaceX’s Starlink: Everything you need to know about Elon Musk’s internet service

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Hannibal Hanschke-Pool/Getty Images Starlink is SpaceX’s broadband service that beams down internet from satellites launched into ...

Pelosi baited Republicans by collecting positive news coverage about Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus deal from their districts

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Speaker Pelosi’s office collected positive news coverage of Biden’s stimulus in Republican districts. ...

The Super Nintendo World theme park has finally opened in Japan. Here are 5 things you can do at the park, from Mario Kart racing to riding Yoshi.

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The theme park is located in Universal Studios Japan in Osaka. Twitter Super Nintendo World has finally opened at Universal ...

THE STATE OF VIRTUAL CARE IN THE US: The coronavirus is pushing telehealth into the mainstream – here’s how traditional healthcare players are using it to retain business now and where the market is headed

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Business Insider Intelligence This is a preview of the Business Insider Intelligence The State of Virtual Care in the US ...

Trump’s Scottish golf course trashed the environment and locals fear his new one will do even more damage

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Getty EXCLUSIVE: The Trump Organization’s plan to build another golf course in Scotland could wreck the local environment, environmentalists and ...

Hitler-loving Capitol insurrectionist with a history of multiple arrests and Jew-baiting had an Army award for ‘exemplary behavior’ and secret-level security clearance

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Images of Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, 30, sporting a Hitler mustache. These images were recovered from his cellphone by NCIS special agents. ...

Asian Americans are increasingly purchasing guns to defend themselves amid a spike in hate crimes

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Rifles displayed in a gun shop in Salem, Oregon. AP More Asian Americans are buying firearms to protect themselves against ...

THE PAYMENTS ECOSYSTEM: The biggest shifts and trends driving short- and long-term growth and shaping the future of the industry

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Business Insider Intelligence This is a preview of The Payments Ecosystem research report from Business Insider Intelligence. Purchase this report. ...

BIG TECH IN HEALTHCARE: Here’s who wins and loses as Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft target niche sectors of healthcare

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Consumer demands for fast healthcare services is causing companies to adopt digital tech. The Big Tech in Healthcare report explores ...

Republic of Congo polls open; candidate sick with COVID-19

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BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) – Republic of Congo pressed ahead Sunday with an election in which President Denis Sassou ...

Oil giant Saudi Aramco sees 2020 profits drop to $49 billion

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Saudi Arabia’s state-backed oil giant Aramco announced Sunday that its profits nearly halved in ...

Renesas says it will take at least a month to restart fire-damaged chip line

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Renesas Electronics, a key automotive semiconductor supplier, said on Sunday that production at a fire-damaged plant ...

Saudi Aramco 2020 net profit slumps 44.4% as COVID-19 bites

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DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian state oil giant Aramco on Sunday reported a 44.4% drop in 2020 net profit, hit ...

Mar-a-Lago hosted large parties before a COVID-19 outbreak, and the resort has another planned this weekend

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Mar-a-Lago resort owned by President Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida. AP Photo/Lynne Sladky Trump’s Mar-a-Lago will host a 500-person ...

Biden is spending $86 million on hotel rooms for migrants as his administration struggles to handle the surge of families and kids trying to come to the US

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Central American asylum seekers arrive to a bus station after being released by U.S. Border Patrol agents on February 26, ...

Portland police officers used force more than 6,000 times against protesters last year

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A demonstrator is pepper sprayed shortly before being arrested during a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mark O. Hatfield ...