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You can find anything you want online. At this point in time, no one should be surprised by the vastness of information that lives on the internet. But using that information, and simply just scrolling through, are two very different things. And in the world of business where everyone is looking to get ahead (and stay ahead), actually putting knowledge into action is what separates the best from the mediocre.

 

So, if you’re looking to give your business an advantage in 2021, or finally start that business you’ve been thinking about, then heading online is actually a great place to start. From general business tips and funny entrepreneurial quips to legitimately invaluable advice and how-to guides, business blogs have everything you could ever want. In fact, a study done by QuickBooks suggests that almost half of all ready-to-start entrepreneurs rely solely on business blogs and websites for their information. (No business degrees required.)

1. Mashable Business
Filled with a healthy dose of everything an entrepreneur could want, Mashable Business gives you a great idea about current business trends, especially when it comes to the digital landscape. Of course, you can wander a bit too far from the business side of Mashable and end up scrolling for hours, so be sure to keep your composure and focus before diving in. Mashable Business covers topics like payment processing, chatbots, social media, trending statistics, and more.

2. Entrepreneur
One of the most popular business blogs online, Entrepreneur is filled with some incredible articles for business owners, especially its interviews. You can also find fantastic book recommendations and news about the latest events and webinars so that you can stay ahead of the curve. Fully focused on business, you can even see current statistics for publically traded companies directly on their home page.

3. Small Business Administration
While far from the entertaining style of business blogs you can find in other corners of the internet, the SBA blog offers loads of practical information and advice for business owners, making it a great place to start if you’re just launching. You can find business success stories, efficiency tips, ways to protect your business, and much more on their blog. Because the government-owned website does so much, you have to do a little hunting to find the blog, so make sure you bookmark the page once you get there.

4. Copyblogger

Writing copy for your business is essential when it comes to making sales. In fact, writing anything for your business is critical for your success. That’s why the Copyblogger blog is such a great resource. Not only can you learn how to improve your writing, but it also gives you great ideas for creating content, which means you can actually create your own blog to drive traffic!

Trusted by savvy business owners since 2006, Copyblogger lets you set up a free account (which you should) so that you can receive blog articles on SEO and marketing directly in your email inbox.

5. Fast Company
A beautiful blog with solid articles, Fast Company offers a great blend of creative topics and practical advice. With a name big enough to attract almost every business leader in the world, Fast Company can keep you excited about your business so that you continue to learn how to make it successful. This blog publishes everything from socially relevant news stories to business tips and tricks that any entrepreneur would find useful.

6. Business Insider
The Business Insider blog features great articles that are professionally written and well-researched, which means you can dive deeper into certain pertinent topics, including economics and the latest business trends. For those just getting started, the blog provides great inspiration via success stories. And, for those already in the game, Business Insider helps you to get even further ahead. Keep track of the latest stocks while staying in the know about national issues – all of which can affect your business.

Snap cofounder and CEO Evan Spiegel has lost 83% of his wealth over the past year, according to estimates by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Spiegel's net worth fell from $13.9 billion to $2.3 billion between October 21, 2021 and the same day in 2022, the publication reported, a net worth decline of $11.6 billion

The wealth of fellow cofounder Bobby Murphy, who also serves as Snap's chief technology officer, fell 81% in 2022 to $1.9 billion as of Friday, per Bloomberg.
 

Snap, Snapchat's parent company, posted a net loss of $360 million for the third quarter, up from a $72 million loss during the same quarter in the previous year. The loss included $155 million in restructuring charges, it said.
 

This comes amid struggles with its advertising business as well as its user growth appearing to stagnate. The number of daily active users on Snapchat is still growing, reaching 363 million as of the end of September with 19% year-over-year growth, but the rate of growth is slowing down.

Spiegel said in May that Snap was slowing down hiring, before introducing sweeping layoffs that covered around 20% of staff and shutting down projects.

The company is is focused on monetizing users, revenue growth, and getting more older users onto the app, sources told Insider, with its advertising department operating in a "code red" mode.
 

Snap is also giving up its office lease in San Francisco, a person familiar with the matter told Insider.
 

Spiegel, Murphy, and Reggie Brown met at Stanford University. The trio first launched the app in July 2011 under the name Picaboo.

Following his statements last week suggesting aid to Ukraine may be limited if Republicans take control of the House of Representatives in November's election, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is facing criticism that has been levied at him before.
 

"The fact that he's willing to go down the path of suggesting that America will no longer stand for freedom, I think, tells you he's willing to sacrifice everything for his own political gain," Rep. Liz Cheney said during a Sunday interview with Meet the Press.
 

McCarthy last Tuesday expressed skepticism about sending more aid to Ukraine, saying "it's not a free blank check," in a decisive split from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's position that the Biden administration and allies need "to do more to supply the tools Ukraine needs to thwart Russian aggression."
 

A small contingent of GOP lawmakers, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Rep. Thomas Massie of Tennessee, have largely opposed sending aid to Ukraine. As McCarthy hesitated to commit to further financial and military support to the country facing invasion by Russian forces, Rep. Liz Cheney criticized him as positioning himself to be "the leader of the pro-Putin wing" of the Republican party.
 

"[A]t every moment since, frankly, the aftermath of the election in 2020, when Minority Leader McCarthy has had the opportunity to do the right thing or do something that serves his own political purpose, he always chooses to serve his own political purpose," Cheney said during the Meet the Press appearance. "And, you know, that extends to what we've seen just in the last few days with these comments about aid to Ukraine, the idea that somehow the party is now no longer going to support the Ukrainian people."
 

Cheney said she doesn't see McCarthy as "fit for office" and his lack of support for the Ukrainian people is "dangerous," adding: "He knows better."
 

This is not the first time such criticism has been levied at McCarthy. His Democratic challenger, Marisa Wood, told Insider he'd "sell his mother's soul" to protect his career, and even his most enthusiastic Bakersfield, California constituents have said he makes politically-motivated calculations, however unpopular, to stay in office. 
 

"He chose his own political career over what is good for democracy," Wood told Insider, referring to McCarthy's public support of Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. "Over those brave Capitol Police officers, who fought to defend democracy. That's what people are seeing, that's what people are finally seeing. Kevin McCarthy will sell his mother's soul in order to protect his own political career and to do whatever the former president tells him to do. And that's not okay."
 

Even within his own party, members have criticized McCarthy's flimsy resolve, with ABC News reporting Rep. Adam Kinzinger said the House minority leader demonstrated "an utter lack of leadership" in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
 

Despite his public support of the former president, McCarthy drew ire from more staunch MAGA Republicans as well after private condemnations of Trump's actions on Jan. 6 came to light. In leaked audio, McCarthy was heard calling Trump's behavior "unacceptable," saying "I've had it with this guy," before he later publicly met with Trump and signed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to overturn election results in key states. Matt

Gaetz called McCarthy a "weak man" for his criticisms of the former President, while Fox News host Tucker Carlson accused him of being "a puppet of the Democratic Party," ABC News reported.
 

Representatives for McCarthy did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Correction: October 23, 2022 — An earlier version of this story incorrectly referred to Liz Cheney as a "former" member of Congress. She lost her primary but still remains in Congress.

A Colombian ex-moderator for TikTok said she was required to keep her webcam on all night, according to a report by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. 
 

TBIJ spoke to nine moderators who shared their experience but requested that their identity remained secret for fear they might lose their jobs, or risk future employment prospects. All names have been changed, according to the outlet.
 

Carolina, a former TikTok moderator who worked remotely for Teleperformance, a Paris-based company offering moderation services and earned $10 a day, said she had to keep her camera continuously on during her night shift, TBIJ reported.

The company also told her that no one should be in view of the camera and was only allowed a drink in a transparent cup on her desk.

Carolina said the situation was "terrible" because she lived with her family. "So I felt very guilty telling them, 'please don't pass behind the camera because I could be fired.'

Teleperformance is especially paranoid with people seeing what we do."

A TikTok spokesperson told Insider in a statement: "We strive to promote a caring working environment for our employees and contractors. Our Trust and Safety team partners with third-party firms on the critical work of helping to protect the TikTok platform and community, and we continue to expand on a range of wellness services so that moderators feel supported mentally and emotionally."
 

Neither TikTok nor Teleperformance responded to The Bureau of Investigative Journalism's detailed list of allegations. Teleperformance, which has more than 42,000 workers in Colombia, did not respond to Insider's request for comment. 

Current moderators shared with TBIJ that they had to clock in and out and log any breaks on an app called Timekeeper – but they didn't confirm whether they had to work with their cameras on. 

Another former TikTok moderator, Carlos, told TBIJ it was a video of child sexual abuse that had traumatized him. The video showed a girl of five or six years old: "She was dancing, like pointing her back to the camera, it was so close."
 

Luis, 28, worked night shifts moderating videos for TikTok. He listed to the outlet the kind of content he sees regularly: "Murder, suicide, pedophilia, pornographic content, accidents, cannibalism."

He recalled seeing one video taken at a party, with two people holding what initially looked like pieces of meat. When they turned around, it appeared they were holding skin and gristle flayed off human faces. "The worst thing was that the friends were playing games and started using the human faces as masks," Luis said.
 

Read the full story at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. 

Rishi Sunak became the UK's presumptive prime minister on Monday after his only remaining rival, Penny Mordaunt, withdrew from the Conservative Party leadership race.
 

Sunak, a 42-year-old former finance minister, won the race by being the only Conservative MP to secure the backing of at least 100 of his peers. He will become the UK's first non-white leader and its youngest in decades.
 

His rival, the MP Penny Mordaunt, dropped out moments before the deadline to demonstrate her support, saying "Rishi has my full support."

Her decision left Rishi the only candidate, establishing him as the next prime minister only four days after his predecessor Liz Truss quit

He is due to formally take office after an audience with King Charles. As of Monday afternoon in London, a time for this had not been set.
 

It was also barely two months since Sunak came second in a similar contest, losing out to Truss in the race to succeed Boris Johnson, who resigned over the summer after a string of scandals.

Johnson toyed with running again, but ruled himself out late on Sunday. Sunak will be the fifth Conservative prime minister in a row. Changing leader in Britain does not automatically lead to an election.
 

Sunak, 42, has been the MP for Richmond in North Yorkshire since 2015. 

He went to Winchester College, a training ground for Britain's rich elite, before graduating from Oxford University in 2001 and going on to study at Stanford in California.
 

In 2009 he married Akshata Murthy, the daughter of Infosys billionaire Narayana Murthy. The couple have a combined wealth of around £730 million, making him one of the richest politicians in the UK.
 

Sunak was chancellor of the exchequer in Johnson's government during the COVID-19 pandemic, setting out several emergency spending measures that were broadly popular with the public. He soon became tipped as a potential successor to Johnson. 
 

In April, he was fined after it emerged he attended a party along with Johnson, in breach of COVID-19 lockdown rules.
 

In a major blow to Johnson amid the chaos of that scandal, Sunak quit as chancellor in April, saying the country should be governed "properly, competently and seriously."
 

In July, Sunak entered the Tory leadership race after Johnson resigned, but lost to Liz Truss with 43% of the vote from Conservative Party members. 
 

On October 20, Truss stepped down as prime minister just six week into the role, after her mini budget spooked the markets and sent the value of the pound plummeting. Sunak now inherits one of the UK's greatest financial crises in decades. 

A woman resorted to hiring a private investigator to find out why her tiny home had not been delivered months after paying almost $50,000, NBC News reported.
 

Matt Sowash, the founder of Colorado-based nonprofit Holy Ground Tiny Houses, is facing multiple lawsuits after being accused of failing to deliver homes.
 

Lori Birckhead, who runs the By Faith Farm in Tennessee with her husband, transferred $46,504 to Sowash in April for an 8-foot-by-28-foot home to put on their property and was told to expect delivery in July.
 

She told NBC that after multiple attempts at getting in touch with Sowash, an assistant said the home could take more than two years to be delivered. 
 

"That was when I hired a private investigator who did some digging and discovered that he didn't have any assets in his name," she told the outlet.

Court records show Sowash filed for bankruptcy on October 7, despite telling NBC in September that he wouldn't do so "because I can't sit back and watch all those people lose homes."
 

He also told NBC he was not sure if he could construct the 250 homes that had already been paid for.
 

In an update to customers on October 14, he wrote: "This has really been a week of change. I first want to apologize for this situation. Unfortunately, filing for Chapter 11 is the only way I can make sure the business is safe and that we can live up to our obligation of making sure everyone gets their money back."
 

Lender Kinetic Direct Funding filed a lawsuit against him in state court in Brooklyn, New York on September 2.

Sowash told NBC he borrowed $400,000 loan from Kinetic to build the homes, but wasn't able to make the payments.
 

Charles Dowling, 39, a disabled Army veteran who lives near Colorado Springs, told NBC he was sleeping on friends' couches because the 30-foot house he ordered with a $22,000 down payment, failed to arrive in July as well.
 

"He's nothing but a shyster, and no one should ever do business with this man," Dowling said of Sowash.
 

Englewood Police Department in Colorado said it was investigating the allegations against Sowash and his nonprofit, NBC reported. The police department did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
 

Sowash was sentenced in 2009 to five years in prison for defrauding investors of more than $470,000 and was also convicted of stealing $140,000 from three people who thought he was looking for investment opportunities for them.
 

He discovered an interest in tiny homes while in jail, and previously told NBC he built his first home in his garage in 2019, selling it for $12,000. 
 

Sowash did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.