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The product chief at the newly dubbed Skydance is ready to get the ball rolling — and encouraging employees to do the same — on the heels of Paramount Skydance’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.”The leaders who will have the greatest impact here are the ones with a bias for action under ambiguity. They let the best idea win, full stop,” Dane Glasgow, chief product officer at Skydance, told staffers Tuesday in a memo that was obtained by Business Insider.Glasgow told the Paramount and WBD teams that he recognized the months leading up to the merger had been “challenging” and…

“60 Minutes” is finding its footing in the flagship CBS News program’s first full season under top editor Bari Weiss.About 10.2 million viewers tuned into Sunday’s “60 Minutes” episode, according to Nielsen audience data.That’s up modestly from the 10.15 million who watched the third episode of last year’s season, according to Nielsen data. The second installment drew 6.8 million viewers, up from 6.45 million viewers for the comparable episode in 2025. CBS’s Sunday newscast was off last week as CBS hosted MTV’s Video Music Awards on Sunday night.This week’s solid viewership number is an encouraging sign for Weiss after she…

I recently took a career demotion, but not because I lacked ambition. I made this choice because five of our kids were headed to college, and the math was impossible to ignore.When my husband and I married, we blended a family of six children in a western suburb of Chicago. Five were in high school at the same time — two seniors, a junior, a sophomore, and a freshman. We were thrilled to have a big family. We were also staring at the possibility of five college tuition bills arriving almost at once.We found a solution that seemed too good…

Real estate has been the source of some of America’s biggest fortunes, including that of US President Donald Trump.However, despite his extensive property portfolio, Trump ranks 12th among the country’s richest real estate moguls.These magnates rarely own only residential properties. Their portfolios often span some of the country’s biggest office buildings, malls, hotels, and logistics hubs.In several cases, they also hold stakes in sports teams and other assets.This ranking was compiled from the Forbes 400 list for 2026, which provides an estimated snapshot of the net worth of the 400 richest people in America as of September 4.Forbes estimated each…

Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates has been tapped to lead an independent investigation into how Cornell University handled the rape allegations of a former student. Here, Yates speaks at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., in 2017. Steven Senne/AP hide caption toggle caption i Steven Senne/AP Cornell University named Sally Yates, a former acting U.S. attorney general and career federal prosecutor, as head of an independent internal review into how the school handled a former student’s rape allegations. The announcement comes as the school continues to face outrage on campus and nationally after a former student filed a civil…

President Trump’s new executive order allowing the use of red-dyed diesel on highways is aimed at lowering costs for truckers and farmers grappling with diesel prices that remain near record highs. But experts say they are skeptical that the order could deliver sweeping savings.”It might lead to savings for some, but there are a lot of details that will prevent this from having widespread relief,” Patrick De Haan, a petroleum expert at GasBuddy, told CBS News.Mr. Trump announced the executive order on Tuesday during a midterm rally in Nebraska, saying the move will “officially waive the off-road requirement and allow…

The new club world business class cabin on the Airbus A380. Courtesy: British AirwaysBritish Airways is building what it calls the “world’s largest” business class cabin and ripping out dozens of coach-class seats, the starkest example yet of how airlines are betting their future on high-spending travelers.The changes are part of a massive overhaul of the British Airways fleet and its ground services, including lounges at its London Heathrow hub.Here’s what’s changing:British Airways will outfit its Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger plane, with a monster 106-seat business class cabin, up from the current configuration of 97 business class seats.First…

Uber is expanding into the catering business.The delivery service plans to acquire ezCater in a cash deal valued at $2.3 billion, the companies said on Tuesday. Uber expects the deal to close “in the coming months,” depending on government approvals, it said.ezCater’s software and platform allow users to place large orders for meetings and other business events. The company works with about 140,000 restaurants in the US.The company’s Uber for Business arm already offers some food options for corporations, such as group ordering.”Catering is a big business, and can be a huge revenue stream for restaurants,” Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi…

Billionaire Ray Dalio is no stranger to predicting bubbles or crises, and he sees another storm brewing on the horizon.The founder of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates said the supply and demand for debt in the world is out of balance and will spiral into a crisis “somewhere in the next two years.”Speaking in a virtual interview at the annual Greenwich Economic Forum on Tuesday, the longtime investor said he’s short debt as governments and large-scale tech companies flood the market with paper while institutional buyers, such as China and Japan, pull back.”We are certainly in a risky period,” the author…

David Ellison is taking a victory lap after completing Paramount’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, a $110 billion deal that formed the new-look Skydance and will transform Hollywood.”It has taken hard work, perseverance and commitment with many challenges along the way — but we did it!” Ellison said in a memo to employees on Tuesday morning, which was obtained by Business Insider.Ellison expressed thanks to staffers across Paramount and WBD for “your patience, your resilience and, above all, your belief in what we could accomplish together.”Skydance will be “powered by creativity and technology,” Ellison said, adding that the company has…