| | | |  | | | | Raising the Stakes | | Virtual Weapons Are Turning Teen Gamers Into Serious Gamblers | | Reasonable people can debate whether competitive video gaming is a sport, but it has at least one thing in common with football, basketball, and soccer: People like to bet on the outcome. This kind of betting is far from mainstream, but plenty of people are figuring it out. By one estimate, more than 3 million people wagered $2.3 billion on the outcome of e-sports matches in 2015. | | | | | | | | |  | Abolitionist Harriet Tubman will appear on the front of the $20 bill, replacing former President Andrew Jackson and becoming the first woman featured on U.S. paper currency in modern times, a Treasury official said. Despite earlier rumors, Alexander Hamilton will remain on the $10 note. | | | | |  | Ford paid $55,000 more than the sticker price for a white Model X. But it's not just any Model X; it was the 64th one made at Tesla's California factory, according to vehicle registration documents obtained by Bloomberg. Automakers often buy competitors' cars for road testing and for "tear-downs" to reveal components and materials, but it's unusual to pay such a high price for such an early model. | | | | |  | Technology and consulting firms took 24 of the 25 spots on Glassdoor's list of highest-paying companies in America this year. The only exception on the list is Visa, at No. 11. (Spoiler: Facebook doesn't make the cut for top 10.) | | | | |  | While "Trump and tonic" may have a nice ring to it, Trump Vodka was a flamboyant exercise in failure. Naturally, The Donald insists it was a triumph, but good luck finding a bottle today. Its slogan was "Success Distilled." | | | | |  | Taking inspiration from Starbucks, General Mills is introducing later this year a pumpkin spice version of its flagship Cheerios brand, after years of sluggish sales. But brace yourself — it's only April. | | | | | | | | A Liquid Facelift | | The Makers of Botox Are Pushing a Cure for Your Double Chin | | Bring on the blitz for Kybella, the first injectable treatment for what the medical industry terms "submental fat," aka the extra junk in your jowls. The active ingredient is a form of bile that destroys fat cells in the digestive tract, and it does the same in the chin. The treatment involves 20 to 30 tiny injections by a doctor, with care to avoid the nerves and major blood vessels running under the jawline, for about $1,500 per session. Yum. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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