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Bookkeeping automation solutions provider Botkeeper is shutting down. The company made the announcement over the weekend.Processing ContentCEO and founder Enrico Palmerino described a sudden and unexpected end after 11 years. By the end of last year, he said, the platform had become what he said was “the AI powerhouse we always dreamed of” and was preparing to launch “Cassie,” its voice-activated assistant, as well as a new autonomous check-scanning solution. Despite this, he said, the company faced what he said was a “perfect storm of macroeconomic shifts that arrived more swiftly than we could course-correct.” “Over the years, we oscillated between…

A nine-bedroom, 11,000-square-foot oceanfront home in Bridgehampton, available for rent at $700,000 for any two weeks this summer.Courtesy: Gary DePersia | CorcoranMedian home prices in the Hamptons hit an all-time high in the fourth quarter, as Wall Street bonuses and tech wealth fueled a new wave of buyers in the New York beach communities, according to brokers.The median sales price in the Hamptons hit a record $2.34 million in the fourth quarter, up 34% from last year, according to a report from Douglas Elliman and Miller Samuel. The average sale price soared to $3.76 million. The number of homes selling…

Novo Nordisk on Monday said it is suing online telehealth provider Hims & Hers for mass marketing cheaper, unapproved copies of the drugmaker’s new Wegovy obesity pill and injections in the U.S. Novo is asking the court to permanently ban Hims from selling compounded versions of its drugs that infringe on the company’s patents and is seeking to recover damages.”This is a complete sham, and it has been a sham since the shortage ended,” said John Kuckelman, Novo’s group general counsel of global legal, intellectual property and security, in an interview. “The fact is that their medicines are untested, and they’re…

A waterfront Hamptons mansion. A five-star hotel in Las Vegas. Posh resorts in Aspen and the Bahamas.Luxurious? No question. But whether these and other costly locales are also crime scenes is a central question in the Alexander brothers’ sex trafficking trial, which on Monday starts its third week before a federal jury in Manhattan.The wealthy brothers — Tal and Oren Alexander sold high-end real estate, and Alon Alexander was a security firm executive — are accused of using luxury homes and resorts as bait in a decadelong sex trafficking conspiracy.And so throughout the trial, six alleged trafficking victims are slated…

A Super Bowl ad is meant to serve as a victory lap for tech companies. But on advertising’s biggest night of the year, some brands were undone by the very thing they were supposed to be showcasing: technology.Mr Beast and Salesforce teamed up to offer viewers a $1 million prize if they could be the first to crack clues hidden in a Super Bowl ad, and elsewhere, in an online treasure hunt. However, some hopeful contestants were immediately foiled by delays in receiving their registration emails.In a message on the contest website, Salesforce said the glitch was caused by an…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is transforming the company’s culture during his tenure, leaving a lasting impression on some current and former employees.That includes Jeffrey Snover, a retired Microsoft chief technology officer and Google engineer, who recalled an “actionable lesson in leadership” he learned from Nadella in a recent blog post.In short, he said, Nadella stressed that executives need to figure out how to succeed with the resources they have, rather than complain.”If you are an exec and don’t have the resources to support your strategy, you have the wrong strategy,” Snover wrote. “Quit whining and wasting time trying to get…

In the world of high finance, the secondary market — selling off pre-owned investments — was once considered Wall Street’s version of a used-car lot. Few junior bankers clamored for the role, and bulge-bracket giants largely left the field to specialized boutiques.But those days are over, and America’s biggest investment banks are aggressively piling in.”I used to have to explain the first 10 minutes of an interview what we do,” Todd Miller, the global cohead of secondary advisory at longtime key player Jefferies, told Business Insider. “It’s a very hot industry. Everyone’s trying to get into this space.”In the post-pandemic…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Pronnoy Goswami, 31, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. The following has been edited for length and clarity.When I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2022, I thought: Why me?I didn’t have lots of bad habits, I hadn’t abused my body, and it took me a long time to accept what was happening to me.I considered giving up my dream of solving meaningful problems in tech at scale, taking a career break to focus on my health, and leaving the US to go back to my home country of…

As a mom of three kids, Christina Mott had been counting the days until her oldest son, Colton, got his driver’s license.It falls on her to drive each of them — age 10, 12, and 16 — to three different charter schools every day, and then to extracurriculars and social outings. “Having him able to drive himself would free up a lot of time,” she says. If only.While out one day on his learner’s permit, Colton rolled through a red light and a stop sign. He panicked and decided to put his license on hold indefinitely. “Getting in crashes, that’s…

2026-02-09T00:32:33.402Z 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. OpenAI debuted its Super Bowl LX ad on Sunday. The one-minute ad encouraged people to build things using AI. The ad didn’t mention Anthropic, which mocked OpenAI in its own Super Bowl ad. OpenAI is running a Super Bowl LX ad that encourages people to use its coding agent…