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​Join the NYC founder community to connect with other founders and hear war stories from a founder who went through the wringer and came out the other side.​Though Ankur Nagpal went to Berkeley and studied engineering and computer science, his is anything but a typical Silicon Valley founder story.​Born in Bombay and raised in Oman, Ankur immigrated to the US to study.

The plug is being pulled on "The News with Shephard Smith."CNBC has canceled its primetime general news show hosted by the former Fox News staple two years after its debut.Network president KC Sullivan announced the move Thursday in an email to CNBC employees, citing a prioritization and refocus on business and personal finance coverage as the cause.

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Rising interest rates are putting pressure on landlords, pushing some to consider selling up, surveyors say.In turn, that could further squeeze the availability of rental properties and raise costs for tenants, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

TV money expert Martin Lewis has urged energy company customers who pay by direct debit and believe they may be being overcharged to use an online calculator to crunch the numbers.Appearing on ITV's This Morning with Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby on Tuesday, Mr Lewis took a question from a viewer named Everett who said he had been paying out 1,681.98 per month to British Gas since November 2022 and had just learned that he was 3,600 in credit.

Wanna buy a car?(Photographer: Eric Thayer/Getty Images North America)Car buyers have had a tough couple of years.During the pandemic, chip shortages led to supply issues at the same time demand was skyrocketing.Now, Wall Street analysts are predicting a shift for 2023, with increased supply, slower demand and price softening.

Women's private pension pots in Great Britain are typically worth 35% less than those of their male colleagues by the time they reach 55, according to the first major government study into what has been termed the great gender pension chasm.Having analysed the data for both sexes between 2018 and 2020, government researchers concluded that, on average, for every 100 accumulated in men's private pensions, women have just 65.

Financial wellness may not be the first area that comes to mind when thinking of well-being, but it is considered one of the eight dimensions of wellness.Inside Higher Ed spoke with three financial aid professionals about their best strategies to strengthen this area for students.What Is Financial Wellness?

A couple of weeks ago I tweeted a call-out for freelance journalists to pitch me feature ideas for the science and sechnology section of the Observer's New Review.Unsurprisingly, given headlines, fears and interest in LLM (large language model) chatbots such as ChatGPT, many of the suggestions that flooded in focused on artificial intelligence including a pitch about how it is being employed to predict deforestation in the Amazon.

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Red Ventures has wasted no time in hitting its tech news site CNET with another round of brutal layoffs, following the revelation that it had been very quietly publishing AI-generated articles for months starting late last year.But in the wake of enormous controversy and its latest culling of CNET's workforce, Red Ventures says the layoffs - which according to The Verge affect some ten percent of its remaining workforce - actually have nothing to do with its pivot to AI.
"Today's decision was not a reflection of the value or performance of our team members, the use of emerging technologies, or our confidence in the CNET Group's future," a CNET spokesperson told Variety, after ignoring our request for comment.

Sign up for CNN's Adulthood, But Better newsletter series.Our seven-part guide has tips to help you make more informed decisions around personal finance, career, wellness and personal connections.In his offline life, Bo Petterson is a dad to his six adult children.But online, he is a father figure to millions.

Michelle Singletary is taking time off for the holiday.In her absence, we are offering this updated column from her archive, which originally ran on Nov. 26, 2019.When you're in debt, the responsible thing to do is to ignore the pressure to give.Suppress, as best you can, the misguided guilt that love comes wrapped in a pretty box with a red bow.

The subject line on the email simply said, "Disgusted.""My husband and I were invited to a friend's house for dinner for takeout," the reader wrote."I asked what to bring, and she said to bring a bottle of wine and a dessert."If you have a personal finance question for Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary, please call 1-855-ASK-POST (1-855-275-7678) ArrowRight  No, worries.

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On the retirement front, a new study has some good news for unmarried women: They're no longer falling behind their married peers.Still, it's tough to celebrate equality when it seems to be driven mostly by the falling fortunes of men.Studies about how prepared US workers overall are for retirement tend to be incredibly depressing - and even more so when they focus on women, who say in staggering percentages that they're worried about running out of money.

Making the most of a bonus is always important, but 2022's payout feels even more precious.Many workers, especially in finance and technology, are likely to see slimmed-down bonuses.Amid economic uncertainty, maximizing those dollars is crucial.But should you sock away as much as you can in a tax-deferred retirement account to minimize the tax liability?

Six months ago I turned 30.As my birthday was coming up, I took a moment to think about the past 10 years and the lessons I had learned.When I think about my 20s, and how reckless I was, there are a few things that really stand out to me that I wish I had known.Theres an old saying and it goes like this:

Sometimes in life, your situation will repeat until you learn your lesson.

Consumers racing to buy the Series I Savings Bond, which is issued by the Treasury Department, has crashed the website.(Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg)With a Fridaydeadline approaching, savers trying to buy inflation-protected I bonds - which pay a guaranteed 9.62 percent - are crashing a Treasury Department website.