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Larry Fink is CEO of BlackRock.
  • BlackRock is poised to make a founder richer than its own CEO with its latest acquisition.
  • The asset manager has struck a $3.2 billion deal to buy Preqin, a private-markets data provider.
  • Founder Mark O'Hare should make about $2 billion, well exceeding Larry Fink's $1.7 billion net worth.

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Young NEETs — those not in education, employment, or training — are on the rise (stock image.)
  • A fifth of 15-24-year-olds in 2023 were NEETs, per the International Labour Organization.
  • The acronym stands for not being engaged in education, employment, or training.
  • Poor mental health, lack of financial safety, and disconnection from society are partly to blame. 

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While many streamers have a global subscriber base, some have stuck to North America. Tubi, the Fox Corporation's free ad-supported streaming service, is no longer in that second camp with the streamer announcing it will launch in the United Kingdom

Tubi will arrive with over 20,000 TV episodes and movies on-demand, from the likes of Disney and Sony Pictures Entertainment, along with Tubi



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Miles Schwartz.
Schwartz is now the cofounder of his own company, Zūm Rails.
  • In 2014, a game of ping-pong at work cost Miles Schwartz his internship at Salesforce. 
  • Schwartz learned he prefers work environments where he can step away for a break if needed.
  • As the cofounder of his own company, he says employees should be given freedom in how to work.

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A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, operated by Air Europa, is taking off from Barcelona Airport in Barcelona, Spain, on February 23, 2024.
An Air Europa Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
  • An Air Europa flight from Spain to Uruguay was diverted after encountering severe turbulence.
  • A video appears to show a man being helped down from the overhead luggage bins.
  • "He flew and got stuck in the roof, in the bin," a passenger sat close to him told Uruguayan TV.

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The Spotify logo is visible on a smartphone.

Spotify appears to be testing an emergency alert — but the whole thing is still in the very early stages.

The music streamer is carrying out tests in Sweden, where its headquarters are located, with lines in the app's code referencing the new feature. A spokesperson from Spotify confirmed to Techcrunch that the test was happening, but that it was currently localised to Sweden only.

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A small home sits next to a larger home in Naples, Florida, which has one of the highest rates of cost-burdened renters in the country.
Naples, Florida, has one of the highest rates of cost-burdened renters in the country.
  • The US faces a severe housing affordability crisis as rents and home prices soar.
  • Rents have increased by 26% since early 2020, with three in five markets still rising.
  • Here are the metro areas with the highest proportion of cost-burdened tenants.

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The nagging discontent with the aesthetic of new homes reveals big problems with how they're built — and even larger flaws in the American dream itself.

Bailey McInnes first noticed the house during one of her lunch hours. She likes to walk on her midday breaks, admiring the charming, little craftsman homes that dot her Northern Virginia neighborhood. The homes she


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Noah Berlatsky (not pictured) says his 20-year-old daughter lives at home with him and his wife to save money, and it works out well for all of them.
  • My 20-year-old daughter is living at home while attending college.
  • She's busy, but my wife and I see her more than if she wasn't at home with us, and she saves money.
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Salesforce CEO and cofounder Marc Benioff
Shareholders voted against a pay package for Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and other top executives.
  • Salesforce shareholders rejected the company's proposed compensation plan for top executives.
  • Major advisory firms recommended voting against the plan.
  • But shareholders voted against a plan for an independent board chair.

Elon Musk's Tesla investors approved a