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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — When Rob Coverdale started his job in 2023 as superintendent of the K-12 Crow Creek Tribal School in South Dakota, there were 15 unfilled teaching positions. Within nine months, he had filled those vacancies with Filipino teachers, the majority of whom arrived on the H-1B, a visa for skilled workers in specialty occupations. “We’ve hired …

Liv McMahonTechnology reporter Getty Images “Half of my life is on this app and now they expect us to pay for it.” One-star reviews and a sense of injustice have dominated online discussion since the popular messaging app Snapchat became the latest tech firm to put a price tag on a service people previously enjoyed using for free. The app’s …

Rising Fees Force Premium Credit-Card Holders to Choose Sides  The Wall Street Journal Source link

You come back from vacation and find that you’ve taken more than 1,000 pictures. What do you do with them? I used to upload all of my images to Google Photos. When the service debuted in 2015, Google promised free, unlimited cloud storage for photos and videos. I loved it because it allowed me to access my full library of …

More than three months after Justin Baldoni‘s $400 million defamation suit against Blake Lively, the New York Times, Ryan Reynolds and others was tossed out, the Gray Lady wants the It Ends With Us director to cough up some cash. Around $150,000 in attorney’s fees, damages and more, actually. “The District Court’s opinion makes clear that Wayfarer and its affiliates …

Danielle KayeBusiness reporter Karen Brady Karen Brady, the chief executive at Ryther, a behavioural health nonprofit, said her sector has been grappling with a workforce shortage – and hiring employees through the H-1B programme has helped address the crisis. When US President Donald Trump signed an executive order last Friday to add a $100,000 (£74,000) fee for applications for H-1B …

Trump’s new visa fees spur offshoring talks, hiring turmoil  Reuters Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee Puts Many Tech Start-Ups in a Bind  The New York Times RBC CEO Says US Visa Fee Gives Canada a Chance to Grab Tech Talent  Bloomberg ‘Unprecedented’: Trump order stuns pilot at SFO  SFGATE What to Know About Changes to the H-1B Visa Program  The Wall Street Journal Source link

The Trump administration’s abrupt decision to slap a $100,000 fee on H-1B visas has stunned and confused employers, students and workers from the United States to India and beyond. Since announcing the decision Friday, the White House has tried to reassure jittery companies that the fee does not apply to existing visa holders and that their H-1B employees traveling abroad …

A car dealer has shown exactly how some dealerships allegedly sneak hidden fees into customers’ final bills. It has people both skeptical and grateful. In a recent TikTok, @geebo4, a salesman with Long-Lewis Auto Group—a seven-location dealership chain in Alabama—walks viewers through what he called a common “trick” used by competitors. “I’m going to show you one of our competitors,” …

Microsoft is allowing developers to submit apps to its Windows store without having to pay any onboarding fees. Individual developers in nearly 200 countries can now sign up to publish apps on the Microsoft Store with just a personal Microsoft account, and no more one-time fees. Microsoft started cutting its $19 one-time fee to publish apps to its Windows store …