While the U.S. scrambles to crack down on vaping, Britain has embraced electronic cigarettes as a powerful tool to help smokers kick the habit. The Royal College of Physicians explicitly tells doctors to promote e-cigarettes “as widely as possible” to people trying to quit. Public Health England’s advice is that […]
CNBC News
Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO took a controversial stance on gun control. Then he wrote this book.
Chairman and CEO of DICK’S Sporting Goods Edward W. Stack. Scott Dalton | Invision for DICK’S Sporting Goods | AP Images CORAOPOLIS, PA — It was the summer of 1968, and Ed Stack, 13 years old at the time, hated working for his dad, Richard Stack, the founder of Dick’s […]
Apple’s big iPhone update brings a lot of changes to CarPlay, here’s a look at what’s new
CarPlay in iOS 13 Apple Even though I review a lot of cars for CNBC, a lot of people were surprised to hear that I didn’t use Apple CarPlay very much. If you’re unfamiliar: CarPlay lets you plug in an iPhone into your car and bring up your apps on […]
5 ways to build a million-dollar solo enterprise on a shoestring
Lise Gagne | E+ | Getty Images Rajesh Srivastava always loved trading stocks and options. When he found a way to turn that passion into a software that helps traders analyze and respond to the market, he started a one-man business around it in 2015. He eventually left behind his […]
Secret tricks to get the most out of Apple’s latest iPhone update
The iPhone 11 Pro max Todd Haselton | CNBC Apple rolled out its big new iPhone update recently. It’s called iOS 13 and includes a bunch of new things you can do. Some of them are hidden, so it’s just a matter of knowing where to look. There’s a keyboard that […]
The clock is ticking for taxpayers who filed for an extension
Julie Thurston | Getty Images It’s cram time for entrepreneurs and other taxpayers with complicated income tax returns. That’s because the Oct. 15 deadline for taxpayers who filed for an extension with the IRS is right around the corner. Though these same taxpayers were able to get more time to […]
29% of Americans are considered ‘lower class’—here’s how much money they earn
Nearly one-third of American households, 29%, live in “lower class” households, the Pew Research Center finds in a 2018 report. The median income of that group was $25,624 in 2016. Pew defines the lower class as adults whose annual household income is less than two-thirds the national median. That’s after […]
More deaths, investigations and turmoil at Juul: What happened in the vaping crisis this week
In this April 11, 2018, file photo, a high school student uses a vaping device near a school campus. AP Photo | Steven Senne The furor over vaping reached a crescendo this week with two congressional hearings, hundreds of new cases of a mysterious lung disease, upheaval at e-cigarette maker […]
Tesla’s Musk says solar panels on cars make little sense, but that’s not stopping Toyota, Hyundai
In August Hyundai released a version of its Sonata HEV with roof solar panels for the South Korean market. Hyundai Motor Group It sounds like a Utopian concept: drivers being able to power their vehicles simply by leaving them out in the sun. Even tech leaders know their bold visions […]
Bill Gates has a brilliant method for taking risks—and he says it’s very similar to Warren Buffett’s
Bill Gates takes risks that very few people in this world will. He took a risk in 1975, when he dropped out of Harvard to build Microsoft. In 2008, he took a risk in leaving Microsoft to work full-time at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. And in 2013, he […]