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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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Employment • May 08

Kevin O'Leary says Steve Jobs gave him the best career advice: 'There's only 3 things you have to get done every day'

By Dave Smith
Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare.

Employment • May 08

Cloudflare offered 1,100 laid-off staffers full pay through year’s end. Here's how that compares to typical severance

By Dave Smith
Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View, California.

News • Oct 30

Alphabet lost $482 billion in market cap in 1 day. The fix? Have its chatbot suggest you stuff to buy

By Dave Smith
A person in handcuffs holding a cell phone, with a bubble inlay of Pam Bondi

News • Oct 29

North Dakota woman, 93, lost $45K to scammers invoking Pam Bondi’s name — and one was texting from federal prison

By Dave Smith
A smilling woman accepts her food delivery order at her home's front door

News • Oct 29

DoorDash’s average order is about $34. Instacart’s is $115 — the grocery math behind its blockbuster $17 billion buyout

By Dave Smith
Elon Musk smiling big with his eyes wide

Investing • Jun 17

SpaceX just obliterated Facebook's 14-year options record by more than 4X — 1.6 million bets in a single day

By Dave Smith
Elon Musk laughing on stage

Investing • Jun 09

'You are some rich guy's exit strategy': Vivian Tu says 'your guy friends are getting duped' by Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO

By Dave Smith
Bill Ackman

Investing • Jun 01

'The capital will find you': Bill Ackman says what you know is more important than who you know — and 1 skill is crucial

By Dave Smith
Bundles of cash on fire

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

By Dave Smith
Giannis Antetokounmpo points to the camera during a basketball game against the Indiana Pacers.

Managing Money • Jun 03

Giannis Antetokounmpo blows the whistle: Athletes get burned when their financial advisors are too comfortable

By Dave Smith
An aerial view of Chateau Plaisance in Lake Sherwood Country Club, with Hugh Cassar's face in a bubble

Life • Jun 09

Millionaire Hugh Cassar's secret to success: 'Being honest makes you money. Not being honest destroys your life’

By Dave Smith
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Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View, California.

News • Oct 30

Alphabet lost $482 billion in market cap in 1 day. The fix? Have its chatbot suggest you stuff to buy

The company behind Google search just had its worst day on Wall Street ever. Here’s why its next move could change how you search, and what you end up buying.

By Dave Smith
A person in handcuffs holding a cell phone, with a bubble inlay of Pam Bondi

News • Oct 29

North Dakota woman, 93, lost $45K to scammers invoking Pam Bondi’s name — and one was texting from federal prison

Sumit Kumar Singh was already serving a 78-month sentence for preying on older Americans. Now he’s pleaded guilty again.

By Dave Smith
A smilling woman accepts her food delivery order at her home's front door

News • Oct 29

DoorDash’s average order is about $34. Instacart’s is $115 — the grocery math behind its blockbuster $17 billion buyout

Each Instacart order moves more than 3X the money of a DoorDash order, bringing in more than 2X the revenue.

By Dave Smith
An old woman looking concerned while holding her phone

News • Oct 29

Maine woman on Social Security, 88, said rising rents would leave her nowhere to go. Neighbors stepped in within minutes

Norway, Maine, voters capped increases at a corporate-owned senior park in about five minutes.

By Dave Smith
Dan Conley and Suzanna Buchanan put up shutters before the arrival of Hurricane Isaias

News • Oct 09

Hurricane Isaias has switched on Florida’s hurricane deductibles, which can top $6,000 before insurance pays out

Florida law puts the higher deductible in force from the first hurricane watch until 72 hours after the last warning ends.

By Dave Smith
Susan Dell, left, wears a red dress in the Oval Office next to Donald Trump and her husband Michael

News • Oct 08

Trump keeps telling Americans to ‘buy a Dell.’ His latest filing reveals his account sold up to $1M of Dell stock

A new ethics disclosure lists two August sales of Dell shares from the president’s account. It went public a day after he hosted Michael and Susan Dell in the Oval Office.

By Dave Smith
Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, wearing sunglasses and looking suave

News • Aug 27

What the heck is Hugging Face, and why did Nvidia drop an eye-watering $12.9 billion just to buy it?

It started as a chatbot for teenagers. Now it's home to the world's open-source AI models.

By Dave Smith
Sam Altman arrives at the Sun Valley Conference on July 7, 2026

News • Aug 13

Sam Altman says he was 'peer-pressured and tricked' into an internship at Goldman Sachs — then turned it down anyway

The internship he walked away from now takes fewer than 1% of applicants.

By Dave Smith
Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom flanked by Joe and Anthony Russo at Comic-Con

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.

By Dave Smith
Tons of Spider-Man comics spread out on a table

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.

By Dave Smith
Bundles of cash on fire

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.

By Dave Smith
Jensen Huang smiles holding a microphone in front of a green background

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.

By Dave Smith
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma smiling on stage holding a microphone

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."

By Dave Smith
A young woman in front of a laptop, in the dark, with her hand covering her face

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.

By Dave Smith
Bernie Sanders speaks into a microphone angrily pointing his finger to the sky

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.

By Dave Smith
Karoline Leavitt speaks in front of a White House podium

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.

By Dave Smith
Charlie Javice arrives at court with a woman next to her holding a shopping bag

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.

By Dave Smith
Donald Trump smiles while talking with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

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.

By Dave Smith
An egg on the ground, broken open, sitting in the dirt

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.

By Dave Smith
Elon Musk looking concerned with his hands folded near his face

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.

By Dave Smith
An open laptop on fire

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.

By Dave Smith
A man cringes while playing a game in front of a giant X logo

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.

By Dave Smith
Apple CEO Tim Cook looking down and sad

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.

By Dave Smith
An old woman in a bucket hat holds a fan in front of a temperature reading during a heatwave

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.

By Dave Smith
Sean Evans smiling at the camera on a red carpet

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.

By Dave Smith

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