Companies like TikTok and Bumble are hiring students to work as brand ambassadors on campus. These jobs pay off better than typical college jobs like food service and retail – and provide valuable work experience. Students say they learned about marketing, content creation, and management while working as brand ambassadors – and expanded their network…

Gary Oldman plays Herman J. Mankiewicz in Netflix’s “Mank”. Source: Netflix For the past several years, Netflix’s films have had no problem scooping top spots in Oscar votes, but turning those nominations into trophies has been difficult. The streaming service first appeared on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences radar in 2013 when…

Shoppers search for items at a Costco wholesale store on August 4, 2020 in Colchester, Vermont. Robert Nickelsberg | Getty Images Inflation is coming. Look no further than Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble’s plans to hike prices this week to offset rising raw material costs. The cost of raw materials, which range from lumber to…

urbazon | E + | Getty Images You may want to reconsider plans to travel abroad. This is the recommendation from the U.S. Department of State, which this week updated its list of travel advice warnings Americans not to travel overseas to include about 80% of the world’s countries. The State Department described the risks…

SpaceX’s crew Dragon Endeavor docks at the International Space Station on April 24, 2021. NASA TV The second operational SpaceX crew mission arrived on the International Space Station early Saturday morning and carried four astronauts for a six-month stay in space. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship ‘Endeavor’, launched the day before with a Falcon 9 rocket,…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday that investors should be ready to find buying opportunities on the stock market while the earnings season is in full swing. When companies report quarterly results, market participants are quick to digest the numbers and Wall Street is prone to make a lot of mistakes, he said, citing trade measures…

Leon Topalian, CEO of Nucor, told CNBC on Friday that he expected the good times to continue for the rest of the year after the steelmaker reported record results in the last quarter. “Nucor expects the next quarter to be strong, but honestly, for all of the indicators we look at, we assume that 2021…

Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Friday he believes the United States may struggle to achieve “true herd immunity” to Covid, suggesting there will be coronavirus infections in the years to come. However, the former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration stressed that new cases alone should not be the metric that gets…

Daylight saving time in the United States could return to pre-Covid-19 normal if 75% to 80% of the US population are vaccinated, said Dr. Peter Hotez on Friday. “We can vaccinate out of this epidemic if all adults and adolescents are vaccinated by summer. We can have an exceptional quality of life by returning to…

A son hugs his mother as a concession worker hands over napkins and soda at the AMC Cinema in the Westfield Century City Shopping Center in Los Angeles, California on Monday, March 15, 2021. Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Small Business Administration announced on Friday that it will reopen an application portal…