Dave Smith
Dave Smith is the VP of Content at Wise Publishing and Editor-in-Chief at Moneywise and Money.ca. His work has also been published in Fortune, Business Insider, Newsweek, ABC News, and USA Today.
Bringing over 15 years of journalism experience, he has deep expertise in headlines and audience development. Previously, Dave served as U.S. News Chief at Fortune Magazine and deputy editor at Business Insider, where he led global O&O and SEO efforts. He holds a degree from the University of Maryland and lives in Toronto with his wife and two kids.
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FFortuneU.S. News Chief 2024–2026
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TThe MessengerDeputy Editor 2023–2024
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BBusiness InsiderDeputy Editor 2014–2023
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UUniversity of MarylandBA Journalism 2010
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News • Jul 21
Avengers can't get an IMAX screen this December, so Disney invented its own premium format to fight back
The first full trailer for "Avengers: Doomsday" quietly introduced "Infinity Vision." It's Disney's answer to losing every IMAX screen to "Dune: Part Three" on the same December weekend.
News • Jul 21
Avengers can't get an IMAX screen this December, so Disney invented its own premium format to fight back
The first full trailer for "Avengers: Doomsday" quietly introduced "Infinity Vision." It's Disney's answer to losing every IMAX screen to "Dune: Part Three" on the same December weekend.
News • Jul 16
100+ Marvel employees now have just 1 year to uproot their lives and move across the country
Marvel Comics is leaving its New York home of nearly 90 years for Burbank, home to Disney and Marvel Studios.
News • Jul 16
100+ Marvel employees now have just 1 year to uproot their lives and move across the country
Marvel Comics is leaving its New York home of nearly 90 years for Burbank, home to Disney and Marvel Studios.
Managing Money • Jul 08
'$106,000 and a prayer': A founder bet more cash than he had on packaging he'd never seen — now he's making millions
Hank Murphy quit his job to sell frozen bean and cheese burritos out of an old Taco Bell. Then he gambled six figures he didn't have on packaging he'd never laid eyes on.
Managing Money • Jul 08
'$106,000 and a prayer': A founder bet more cash than he had on packaging he'd never seen — now he's making millions
Hank Murphy quit his job to sell frozen bean and cheese burritos out of an old Taco Bell. Then he gambled six figures he didn't have on packaging he'd never laid eyes on.
News • Jul 06
'We'll be out of business': Jensen Huang bet his last dollars on a chip he never held in his hands — and it saved Nvidia
In 1997, with dwindling cash, the Nvidia CEO ordered mass production of a graphics chip tested entirely in a simulator.
News • Jul 06
'We'll be out of business': Jensen Huang bet his last dollars on a chip he never held in his hands — and it saved Nvidia
In 1997, with dwindling cash, the Nvidia CEO ordered mass production of a graphics chip tested entirely in a simulator.
News • Jul 06
Microsoft says 'we lost 64 cents for every dollar we invested' into game studios as Xbox says goodbye to 3,200 people
New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is calling it "the most significant restructure in Xbox history."
News • Jul 06
Microsoft says 'we lost 64 cents for every dollar we invested' into game studios as Xbox says goodbye to 3,200 people
New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is calling it "the most significant restructure in Xbox history."
News • Jul 05
'I can't get on the AI train': A 3 a.m. rejection email pushed an engineer to leave tech and go into nursing
After nearly a decade writing software in Silicon Valley, Cristina Estupiñán is joining a wave of white-collar workers betting on jobs that AI can't easily touch.
News • Jul 05
'I can't get on the AI train': A 3 a.m. rejection email pushed an engineer to leave tech and go into nursing
After nearly a decade writing software in Silicon Valley, Cristina Estupiñán is joining a wave of white-collar workers betting on jobs that AI can't easily touch.
News • Jul 04
Bernie Sanders wants the government to own half of every U.S. AI company — here's what that could mean for your wallet
Sanders has already spoken with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who is now considering giving the Trump administration a 5% stake in his company.
News • Jul 04
Bernie Sanders wants the government to own half of every U.S. AI company — here's what that could mean for your wallet
Sanders has already spoken with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who is now considering giving the Trump administration a 5% stake in his company.
News • Jul 03
'Send them to Iran': Karoline Leavitt suggests forcing Gen Z into the military for complaining about the economy
The 28-year-old press secretary — herself a member of Gen Z — said young people frustrated with the cost of living should be shipped to Cuba or Iran to appreciate the USA.
News • Jul 03
'Send them to Iran': Karoline Leavitt suggests forcing Gen Z into the military for complaining about the economy
The 28-year-old press secretary — herself a member of Gen Z — said young people frustrated with the cost of living should be shipped to Cuba or Iran to appreciate the USA.
News • Jul 03
Charlie Javice scammed JPMorgan out of $175M — now the bank must keep paying for her first-class tickets and gummy bears
A Delaware judge ruled the bank must keep footing the fraudster's bills, a tab topping $100 million that includes a lavish meals, hotel upgrades, and hundreds of dollars worth of gummy bears.
News • Jul 03
Charlie Javice scammed JPMorgan out of $175M — now the bank must keep paying for her first-class tickets and gummy bears
A Delaware judge ruled the bank must keep footing the fraudster's bills, a tab topping $100 million that includes a lavish meals, hotel upgrades, and hundreds of dollars worth of gummy bears.
News • Jul 03
Billionaire Sam Altman is weighing giving the Trump administration a 5% stake in OpenAI
The proposed handover would be worth about $42.6 billion — and Altman wants every major AI lab to pay a matching slice into an Alaska-style public fund.
News • Jul 03
Billionaire Sam Altman is weighing giving the Trump administration a 5% stake in OpenAI
The proposed handover would be worth about $42.6 billion — and Altman wants every major AI lab to pay a matching slice into an Alaska-style public fund.
News • Jul 02
The June jobs report laid an egg: The US only added roughly half of what economists had forecast — what it means for you
Payrolls badly missed the 115,000 economists expected, and the unemployment rate's dip to 4.2% masked a shrinking labor force. Now it's Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's problem.
News • Jul 02
The June jobs report laid an egg: The US only added roughly half of what economists had forecast — what it means for you
Payrolls badly missed the 115,000 economists expected, and the unemployment rate's dip to 4.2% masked a shrinking labor force. Now it's Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's problem.
News • Jul 02
Tesla paid a Russian hacker $15,000 per bug found — then he cracked open the case that cost them $243 million
"Green" used to help Tesla uncover software flaws through its bug bounty program. Years later, the same hacker recovered the crash data the company swore didn't exist — while sitting at a Starbucks, sipping hot chocolate.
News • Jul 02
Tesla paid a Russian hacker $15,000 per bug found — then he cracked open the case that cost them $243 million
"Green" used to help Tesla uncover software flaws through its bug bounty program. Years later, the same hacker recovered the crash data the company swore didn't exist — while sitting at a Starbucks, sipping hot chocolate.
News • Jul 01
South Korea to the rescue: The world's biggest chipmakers will drop $590 billion to end RAMageddon, but there's a catch
Samsung and SK Hynix are pouring half a trillion dollars into new factories that would relieve the components crisis making consumer electronics exorbitantly expensive.
News • Jul 01
South Korea to the rescue: The world's biggest chipmakers will drop $590 billion to end RAMageddon, but there's a catch
Samsung and SK Hynix are pouring half a trillion dollars into new factories that would relieve the components crisis making consumer electronics exorbitantly expensive.
News • Jun 25
'The entire consumer electronics industry is struggling': Xbox will hike prices due to the AI-driven 'components crisis'
The new prices will go into effect on August 1, 2026. This will be the second major price increase in less than a year.
News • Jun 25
'The entire consumer electronics industry is struggling': Xbox will hike prices due to the AI-driven 'components crisis'
The new prices will go into effect on August 1, 2026. This will be the second major price increase in less than a year.
News • Jun 25
'A hundred-year flood': Tim Cook's worst nightmare just came true, forcing Apple to raise prices amid 'RAMageddon'
The increases hit nearly every Mac and iPad — up to $1,300 on the priciest Mac. The culprit: AI data centers.
News • Jun 25
'A hundred-year flood': Tim Cook's worst nightmare just came true, forcing Apple to raise prices amid 'RAMageddon'
The increases hit nearly every Mac and iPad — up to $1,300 on the priciest Mac. The culprit: AI data centers.
News • Jun 25
Museums are offering 'salvation' — free access and cold drinks — as protection from the deadly heatwave baking Europe
As record heat scorches London and Paris, museums with air conditioning are throwing open their doors — some for free.
News • Jun 25
Museums are offering 'salvation' — free access and cold drinks — as protection from the deadly heatwave baking Europe
As record heat scorches London and Paris, museums with air conditioning are throwing open their doors — some for free.
News • Jun 22
'Hot Ones,' YouTube’s hottest show, is coming to Netflix — with a twist
Netflix just ordered a spinoff of Sean Evans' wing-eating interview hit. But "Extra Heat" leaves the YouTube studio behind.
News • Jun 22
'Hot Ones,' YouTube’s hottest show, is coming to Netflix — with a twist
Netflix just ordered a spinoff of Sean Evans' wing-eating interview hit. But "Extra Heat" leaves the YouTube studio behind.
News • Jun 22
Valve's Steam Machine starts at an eye-watering $1,049, and the memory shortage behind it is coming for all your tech
Valve's gaming console will cost over $1,000 — more than the PS5 Pro, for significantly less storage.
News • Jun 22
Valve's Steam Machine starts at an eye-watering $1,049, and the memory shortage behind it is coming for all your tech
Valve's gaming console will cost over $1,000 — more than the PS5 Pro, for significantly less storage.
News • Jun 22
China is poking the bear by hitting the two companies Trump is counting on to break free from Beijing
China may have just escalated the U.S.-China rare-earth trade fight.
News • Jun 22
China is poking the bear by hitting the two companies Trump is counting on to break free from Beijing
China may have just escalated the U.S.-China rare-earth trade fight.
News • Jun 22
Alan Greenspan was two months into his Fed job when stocks crashed on Black Monday — what he did next defined his legacy
Greenspan died Monday. He was 100.
News • Jun 22
Alan Greenspan was two months into his Fed job when stocks crashed on Black Monday — what he did next defined his legacy
Greenspan died Monday. He was 100.
News • Jun 18
'Fame gets me in the right rooms': Jake Paul raises 9-figure fund to be the 'best 'celeb' investor of my generation'
The YouTuber-turned-boxer's Anti Fund just closed a $100 million growth vehicle, pushing its assets to $180 million.
News • Jun 18
'Fame gets me in the right rooms': Jake Paul raises 9-figure fund to be the 'best 'celeb' investor of my generation'
The YouTuber-turned-boxer's Anti Fund just closed a $100 million growth vehicle, pushing its assets to $180 million.
News • Jun 18
Morale is so bad at Mark Zuckerberg's Meta even the company's own CTO admits it's 'probably the worst it's ever been'
Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said the only time he could remember the mood being worse than it is currently was back in 2018, during the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
News • Jun 18
Morale is so bad at Mark Zuckerberg's Meta even the company's own CTO admits it's 'probably the worst it's ever been'
Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said the only time he could remember the mood being worse than it is currently was back in 2018, during the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Investing • Jun 17
SpaceX just obliterated Facebook's 14-year options record by more than 4X — 1.6 million bets in a single day
Traders and speculators are going wild for SpaceX, which just achieved the biggest IPO in history, minting Elon Musk as the world's first trillionaire.
Investing • Jun 17
SpaceX just obliterated Facebook's 14-year options record by more than 4X — 1.6 million bets in a single day
Traders and speculators are going wild for SpaceX, which just achieved the biggest IPO in history, minting Elon Musk as the world's first trillionaire.
News • Jun 12
Red Lobster's CEO says he's going to transform the chain into 'the most AI-forward restaurant company that exists'
Red Lobster has been around since 1968. Damola Adamolekun, its millennial chief executive, has already pulled the company out of bankruptcy.
News • Jun 12
Red Lobster's CEO says he's going to transform the chain into 'the most AI-forward restaurant company that exists'
Red Lobster has been around since 1968. Damola Adamolekun, its millennial chief executive, has already pulled the company out of bankruptcy.
Life • Jun 09
Millionaire Hugh Cassar's secret to success: 'Being honest makes you money. Not being honest destroys your life’
The 89-year-old entrepreneur built a fortune importing clove cigarettes after reading a newspaper tip.
Life • Jun 09
Millionaire Hugh Cassar's secret to success: 'Being honest makes you money. Not being honest destroys your life’
The 89-year-old entrepreneur built a fortune importing clove cigarettes after reading a newspaper tip.
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