Weekend QOTD Roundup January 06, 2024

Weekend QOTD Roundup January 06, 2024

Here we present our weekly Jalopnik series that recaps the latest in QOTD. We’ve showcased our most read offerings as well as some you may have missed. 2024 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 Bison | First Drive What Are Your Automotive Predictions For 2024? Photo: FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP (Getty Images) I’ve made a tradition out … Read more

United Airlines to ground Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after panel blew off Alaska Air flight

United Airlines to ground Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after panel blew off Alaska Air flight

A United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft lands at San Francisco International Airport on March 13, 2019 in Burlingame, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images United Airlines is preparing to ground dozens of its Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft for inspections, a day after a panel blew out of an Alaska Airlines flight, according … Read more

Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 fleet after section blows out midair

Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 fleet after section blows out midair

An Alaska Airlines plane takes off from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on December 4, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.  Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty Images Alaska Airlines will temporarily ground its fleet of 65 Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after a section of the plane blew out midflight on Friday, forcing … Read more

Top 10 best-selling cars in the U.S. in 2023

Top 10 best-selling cars in the U.S. in 2023

2023 Ford Super Duty F-350 Limited Ford DETROIT – America maintained its love affair with pickup trucks in 2023 — but a top-selling vehicle from Toyota Motor nearly ruined their tailgate party. Sales of the Toyota RAV4 compact crossover came within 10,000 units of Stellantis‘ Ram pickup truck last year, a near-No. 3 ranking that … Read more

Rolls-Royce Is Having A Clearance Sale And You Can Save 4 Percent On A New Ghost Or Cullinan

Rolls-Royce Is Having A Clearance Sale And You Can Save 4 Percent On A New Ghost Or Cullinan

Photo: Rolls-Royce It’s relatively common for automakers to offer cash incentives designed to move inventory. Not enough people buying Nissan Altimas at full price? Just knock a few thousand dollars off the price and see what that does. Your typical Altima buyer actually has to think about money, though. A Rolls-Royce buyer, on the other … Read more

Radio reporter fired over comedy act reinstated after an arbitrator finds his jokes ‘funny’

Radio reporter fired over comedy act reinstated after an arbitrator finds his jokes ‘funny’

A reporter who was fired for his standup comedy has been reinstated to his job at a Philadelphia-based public radio station through an arbitrator, who agreed that his jokes were, in some part, funny. Jad Sleiman, 34, is to be fully reinstated to his position with WHYY, a Philadelphia-based NPR station, after an arbitrator determined … Read more

Cramer names biopharma companies as industry mergers start to accrue

Cramer names biopharma companies as industry mergers start to accrue

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday pointed out the number of biopharma mergers and acquisitions that have closed or been announced over the last few months. He told investors to keep an eye on these moves in advance of the JPMorgan health care conference next week. “I know that drug companies are tough to own in … Read more

Follow CEOs at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference

Follow CEOs at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday told investors what to watch for on Wall Street next week, highlighting JPMorgan‘s market-moving health-care conference in San Francisco. Taking place from Monday to Thursday, the conference is one of the year’s largest gatherings of major industry CEOs where they reveal earnings guidance and updates on clinical trial research. “The … Read more

Microsoft, OpenAI sued over copyright infringement by authors

Microsoft, OpenAI sued over copyright infringement by authors

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, right, greets OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during the OpenAI DevDay event in San Francisco on Nov. 6, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Two nonfiction book authors sued Microsoft and OpenAI in a would-be class action complaint alleging that the defendants “simply stole” the writers’ copyrighted works … Read more

Apple shares slip on report US government preparing antitrust lawsuit

Apple shares slip on report US government preparing antitrust lawsuit

Apple CEO Tim Cook listens as President Joe Biden speaks during a roundtable with American and Indian business leaders in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 23, 2023. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Apple shares slid less than 1% during trading on Friday after The New York Times reported … Read more