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The gig economy has grown to include apps from Uber to Instacart. They don’t all pay the same.Average hourly pay on the apps varied in 2025, according to data analytics company Gridwise, which analyzed about 1 billion tasks across ride-hailing, delivery, and other gig work apps.Workers for Taskrabbit, a platform where users hire independent contractors for yard work, home repair, and other physical tasks, earned the highest hourly pay rate at $38.Spark, Walmart’s delivery service, took second place at $23 an hour, with Uber just behind at $22. Gridwise estimated hourly pay for 19 different gig-work apps. Gridwise DoorDash’s hourly…

Danielle Shaw, a 31-year-old living in Los Angeles, said her mom used to dress her in Gap clothes as a kid — and that was her only memory of wearing the brand until about two years ago.”I went into Gap, and I honestly became obsessed with everything that I tried on,” Shaw told Business Insider.Shaw said she stocked up on basics like sweatsuits and T-shirts. She left with three or four pairs of denim because the fit and price point were “amazing.” The brand is now a staple in her wardrobe, and she said her friends have bought in, too.Shaw…

For some founders, selling their company to an internationally recognized corporation like SC Johnson is a cause for unbridled celebration. For Monica Nassif, it was more complicated.”It’s really bittersweet,” Nassif, founder of Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day, told Business Insider. “I had to sell my mother.”Nassif’s 93-year-old mother is the inspiration behind the household cleaning products. Thelma Meyers, an avid gardener, raised Nassif and her eight siblings as a homemaker in Iowa. The items she grew in the family’s backyard — basil, lavender, lemon — were the basis for the Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day product scents.”At one time, we had this…

When I spoke to the co-founder of the exclusive Million Dollar Sellers club, Eugene Khayman, last year, he likened their member-only events to a family reunion, “where you’re actually excited to see everybody there.” Loading audio narration… Khayman is the chief operating officer of MDS, a community of elite Amazon sellers and e-commerce founders who generate at least $1 million in annual revenue.The in-person gatherings — where members connect, trade ideas, and swap strategies — are just one piece of the community, but they’re a big one. There are multiple MDS chapters in major cities around the world that meet…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Camillia Nwokedi, a 28-year-old content creator based in Pittsburgh. It’s been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… When the crypto startup I was working for was sold in July 2025, I saw it as the perfect opportunity to go all in on myself as a content creator. I had about $6,000 in savings and less than 40,000 followers on TikTok, but I believed I was worth the investment.In less than a year, I’ve gained brand deals, consulting and coaching clients, and I’m launching my second cohort soon. I’m taking…

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr warned broadcasters Saturday that they could lose their licenses if they air what he described as misleading coverage of the war involving Iran. Loading audio narration… In a post on X, Carr said broadcasters spreading inaccurate reporting should “correct course” before coming license renewals.”Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions — also known as the fake news — have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up,” Carr wrote. “The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do…

2026-03-14T20:32:19.190Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. A fire broke out near a key oil port in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday. Officials said debris from an intercepted drone caused the fire and that operations were suspended. The US attacked Kharg Island, a major oil depot in Iran, on Friday. Fire erupted at a critical…

The Uber-famous founder, Travis Kalanick, says a new golden age is coming — and it’s robots that are ushering it in. Loading audio narration… Kalanick announced a new venture called Atoms on Friday in a 1,600-word screed in which he said the automation of the physical world is the next phase of the AI era.”Software has automated tasks of language and math, but the complete automation of the physical world — autonomy — remains largely untouched territory, the principal unlock to the next era of progress and abundance,” he wrote. “History refers to this kind of moment of radical progress…

I’ll be honest — when I moved into my first apartment after graduating from college, I didn’t know the difference between Tide and Cascade pods, or how to use a plunger. Loading audio narration… But to be fair, I didn’t have the “typical” college experience.The COVID-19 pandemic prevented me from staying in the dorms in 2020, and even after campus reopened, the cost and comfort of living with my parents kept me home through the end of junior year.Instead of fostering independence as I’d planned, I continued residing at home, with my family taking care of me, cooking meals, running…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Stephen Hutyra, a 42-year-old program analyst living in the small town of West, Texas. It’s been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… In November 2020, I was inspired to build a pub in my backyard after seeing a Facebook post.We have a saying that everything is bigger and better in Texas, so I wanted our pub to be bigger and better than the one I saw in the pictures online.I spent three years and $61,000 building the space we call The Thirsty Goat on half an acre of land.…