Mark Zuckerberg passes Elon Musk on billionaires list for first time since 2020

Musk got Zucker punched. Mark Zuckerberg slid into third place on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index on Friday — surpassing his rival, Elon Musk, for the first time in four years. Zuckerberg, 39, added $58.9 billion to his net worth this year as Meta Platform Inc. soared to new heights, Bloomberg reported. The 52-year-old Musk, on … Read more

IIM Rohtak concludes placement season for 13th batch of Post Graduate Programme, alliances forged with 200 companies

IIM Rohtak concluded the placement season for the 13th batch of its flagship 2-year Post Graduate Programme (PGP) recently. IIM Rohtak concludes placement season for 13th PGP batch. The institute forged alliances with more than 200 companies this year, including 70+ new recruiters. According to the press release, the institute forged alliances with more than … Read more

JSX offers charter flights for business class ticket prices: report

An airline company is offering the private jet experience at business-class prices — and it’s earning them plenty of industry enemies. JSX, a Dallas-based carrier, is exploiting a loophole in US Federal Aviation Administration regulations that would allow the company to sell single-seat tickets for scheduled charter planes for affordable prices and much quicker security … Read more

These three food items have gotten cheaper

This moderate increase has confirmed the central bank’s prediction that struggling consumers may continue to get relief with food prices. According to Bloomberg’s Shisa Nyama Index, the average price increase for a shisa nyama/ backyard braai (barbecue) was 6.2% compared to the same month last year. This is the same as December but much lower … Read more

Apple Working On Own EV, Launch Reportedly Delayed To 2028

Apple Working On Own EV, Launch Reportedly Delayed To 2028. Apple plans to launch its electric vehicle in 2028, after scrapping plans to develop a fully self-driving car. Project Titan, Apple’s highly anticipated electric vehicle (EV) initiative, is once again in the news. The company’s initial goal for the project, which started in 2015, was … Read more

Meet the First $100 Billion Woman in the World

Françoise Bettencourt Meyers was already the richest woman in the world, but on Thursday, she hit a new milestone—the first female to accumulate a staggering fortune of over $100 billion ($100.2 billion, to be exact), according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bettencourt Meyers, the granddaughter of L’Oreal founder Eugène Schueller, is the vice-chair of L’Oréal’s … Read more

Calif. city Lancaster chose people over cars in its downtown. Did it work?

Not many California downtowns feature an idle F-4 Phantom supersonic jet tilted on a cement perch, but that’s exactly how the east end of main street in Lancaster begins.  The jet is in Boeing Plaza, at the mouth of a central boulevard in the Southern California city. From there, the road diverts into two slow … Read more