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For entrepreneurs, connections with other business leaders are just as valuable as the ideas and products they bring to market. Through meaningful connections, you can open doors to exciting opportunities, gain valuable insights, and establish a strong support system. Here, we explain why networking is essential and how you can put it to work for you. One of the great benefits of networking is that it gives you access to new tools, technologies, events, and industry-specific knowledge that you wouldn’t get anywhere else. Networking can also help you find mentors who can provide you with careful guidance and support as…

Investors who shorted Tesla (TSLA) found out the downside this week, losing roughly $3.5 billion in market valuation, according to data from S3 Partners reported by CNBC.Traders who take a short position are making a bet against a stock: they borrow shares, sell them, and hope to be able to cover their position later by buying cheaper shares and pocketing the difference. The electric-car maker may have been on the right track after its sales fell for the second straight quarter, dropping 4.7% from a year ago. But the results still beat Wall Street expectations. CNBC reported the consensus estimate…

AP, Reuters US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. CNN — President Joe Biden met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday to discuss progress on the hostage issue and a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. Vice President Kamala Harris also participated in the call, according to a White House official. The call came as Israel and Hamas appear to be close to agreeing on a framework for a deal, an Israeli source familiar with the negotiations told CNN. Hamas recently provided its response to the framework to Qatari and Egyptian intermediaries, which Israeli officials…

David Plazas is director of opinion and engagement for USA TODAY Network Tennessee.In 2020, Americans posted black squares on social media to demonstrate protest against racism and police brutality following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers on Memorial Day.Companies issued grandiose statements promising to better deliver on their promises to fully embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion — hiring more people of color, investing in organizations led by underrepresented groups, and conducting more training over the summer in what became known as “racial cleansing.” The aim was to strengthen their businesses while investing in their talent.While diversity efforts…

Adam Johnson spoke in an apologetic tone as he stood before a federal judge in Washington, DC.The Florida native became an iconic face of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot after he was photographed smiling and waving as he carried a podium emblazoned with the U.S. House of Representatives seal around the Capitol rotunda.”I’m ashamed that I was involved in this,” Johnson told the judge.Nearly two years later, a Manatee County man posted on the social platform X, formerly known as Twitter: “Feeling more guilty than a J6 for leaving the toilet seat up at the airport.””The Lectern Guy” has posted…

Summit Tribune Staff Caleb Renner of Clem won third place at the University of Iowa’s 2024 Venture School Opening Ceremony on June 13. The event, which featured 10 teams from across Iowa, took place at EntreFEST, a two-day entrepreneurial conference in Cedar Rapids. The total prize money was $37,000.Renner won the third place prize of $6,000 for his company, Renner Ag Solutions, and his invention, AgriNet, a safe alternative to grain bin cleaning that eliminates the need for farmers to go inside while cleaning grain bins, saving both life and limb.Lennar is currently a student at North Iowa Area Community…

The Fourth of July is inextricably linked to patriotism. But what does patriotism mean today? What are modern American values? And do we agree on them? Our three columnists, Theodore Johnson, Karen Attia and Jason RezaianLet’s look for a hopeful way forward.Use an audio player or The Post’s “Impromptu” podcast feed Listen to the entire conversation.Karen Attiah: I still remember when my parents finally became naturalized in the ’90s, and my mother in particular really embraced what people think of as patriotism today. She was really interested in what it meant to be an American in American culture, in football…

Amnesty International welcomes the call by a major investor in a Dutch manufacturer of cameras deployed in occupied East Jerusalem for human rights safeguards to be applied. ASN Impact Investors said it would lose its investment if TKH Group did not adopt a human rights due diligence policy within a year. This sets the right precedent to hold investors accountable for the actions of the beneficiaries of their investment. The move comes just over a year after Amnesty International released its report in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), “Automated Apartheid: How Facial Recognition Technology is Dividing, Segregating and Controlling Palestinians,”…

Sitting by a window at Boston’s Four Seasons Hotel, overlooking the duck pond in the city’s Public Garden, Ray Kurzweil held up a paper showing the steady increase in the power of a computer you can buy for a dollar over the past 85 years.Neon green lines rose steadily across the page, rising like fireworks in the night sky.That diagonal line, he said, illustrates why humanity is just 20 years away from the singularity, the long-hypothesized moment when humans merge with artificial intelligence, augmenting themselves with millions of times the computing power our current biological brains can provide.”Even if you…

Jimmy Brian Levitt, Global Market Strategist Is the U.S. national debt really a problem? It’s approaching $35 trillion, more than 120% of gross domestic product, and growing fast. But a big number doesn’t necessarily mean imminent disaster or trouble. For investors. The roughly $20 trillion in new debt added over the past 15 years may not bring us any closer to Judgment Day.3 For many reasons, the reality of the debt for investors and the American public as a whole differs from public perception. Large deficits have usually been the result of recessions or crises. Most years and under most…