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- Business
iCapital is Opening the Gates to Exclusive Investments for the Everyday Investor
Following Insurance: Redefining Small Business Protection Through Innovation and Inclusion
The future of JD.com is uncertain in light of Walmart’s departure.
UK tech tycoon is among six missing after yacht sinks
Taco Bell drive-thrus are undergoing a radical transformation.
- Entrepreneurship
Mastering Influencer Collaboration: 5 Keys for a Successful Marketing Program
COP28: UAE signs deal with Bill Gates’ nuclear company on advanced reactors
SpaceX’s Martian Dream: Inside Elon Musk’s Mars Colonization Strategy
Nippon Life to buy Nichii Holdings for about $1.41 bln – Nikkei
US retailers hope to draw picky Black Friday shoppers to stores
- Technology
Unlocking the Future of Fintech: Inside Stripe’s $50 Billion Empire
“The benefits of the California AI bill likely outweigh the costs,” according to Anthropic.
Turning off the computer increases output – Number 10
The FBI advises against using public phone chargers.
new ‘advanced voice mode’ makes ChatGPT chattier.
- Economy
Mastering Forex Trading: A Beginner’s Manual
Traders’ focus shifts to Yen strengthens following remarks by Ueda
After the release of an abducted official, the Libyan central bank reopened.
X pulls out of Brazil’s market due to censorship controversy
The ‘totally false’ assertions that Elon Musk made on her upbringing are criticized by her estranged daughter.
- Cryptocurrencies
New York recovers $50 million from fraudulent Gemini Earn cryptocurrency investors.
Hong Kong Poised to Greenlight First Bitcoin ETFs in April, Insider Sources Reveal
Ripple to buy back $285 million of its shares, valuing company at $11 bln – sources
Could-be spot bitcoin ETF issuers start fee fight before approval deadline
S.Korea regulator to take innovation more into account on crypto regulations
- Lifestyle
Fans react after Usher’s 2024 BET Awards speech is muffled.
Alcaraz makes early entry into all-court elite with French Open victory.
Meghan’s Lifestyle Brand Takes Off with Its Premier Product
Female Power: Songwriter Conquers Male Competition in Video Gaming
Ukrainian Amputee’s Survival: The Inspirational Role of His Wife’s Voice
- People
UK’s King Charles urges compassion and care for the environment in times of conflict
In Christmas Day message, pope decries Gaza’s ‘appalling harvest’ of civilian deaths
An ex-FBI official is to be sentenced in the US over work for Russia’s Deripaska
A Ukrainian teen returns to Ukraine after being taken to Russia from occupied Mariupol
Gaza activists on a speaking tour in France were detained, awaiting deportation
Technology
Coinhive, a Javascript application that uses website visitors’ computing power to mine cryptocurrency, launched on September 14. Since, the program has generated controversy, as...
Technology
The Chinese government has disabled Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp, the New York Times reports. Nadim Kobeissi, an applied cryptographer at Paris-based research firm Symbolic...
Business
As Uber’s new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi looks to guide the company back to stability after a flurry of corporate upheaval and operational stumbling blocks....
Business
T-Mobile and Sprint, respectively the third and fourth largest wireless carriers in the U.S., are nearing a merger agreement, undisclosed sources told Reuters Friday....
Technology
Remember when you had to go down to the mailbox or onto your doorstep to pick up items you ordered online? If a program...
Technology
In January, with funding from Lux Capital and other venture capital firms, two former members of Apple’s Special Projects Group, Soroush Salehian and Mina...
Technology
Wednesday, the board of reeling technology giant Toshiba announced that it has approved the $18 billion sale of the company’s flash memory operation, Toshiba...
Business
After a series of struggles, most recently an abysmal fourth quarter of 2016, Crocs, Inc. and its iconic foam clog are making a comeback,...
Technology
Amazon sent several customers e-mail alerts Tuesday notifying them that items on their baby registries had been purchased and were on the way, MarketWatch...
Technology
There are 2,000 thriving Amish businesses in the Lancaster, PA area, Donald B. Kraybill, a retired professor at Elizabethtown’s Young Center for Anabaptist and...
Technology
Proterra, the California-based manufacturer of electric buses, said Tuesday that its new, 100 percent electric Catalyst E2 model set a range record at a...
Business
In an eCommerce age in which every brick-and-mortar enterprise is expected to roll over and die, Best Buy is adapting to the changing market. Under the...
Technology
Last Thursday, credit-monitoring firm Equifax announced that hackers had breached its computer systems and compromised the data of as many as 143 million Americans....
Finance
In yet another effort to appease the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), U.S. pharmacy chain Walgreens will likely revise its June proposal to acquire 2,186...
Business
At 11:00 p.m. Sunday night, workers at General Motors’ CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada left their posts and began picketing in front...
Business
The U.S. Air Force announced Wednesday that on Tuesday it awarded Boeing a $600 million contract to design two new aircraft for the President’s...
Entrepreneurship
Bodega, a San Francisco-based startup that operates fully-automated kiosks roughly the size of vending machines, introduced itself to the world Wednesday. The company has...
Finance
Bitcoin’s value, which nearly quintupled from the first of the year through the first of September, peaking at $4,950.72 per coin on the latter...
Finance
Centene, the United States’ largest Medicaid managed care provider, announced Tuesday that it has reached a “definitive agreement” to acquire Fidelis care for $3.75...
Technology
Credit reporting and monitoring company Equifax is facing at least 23 proposed class action lawsuits in the wake of its announcement Thursday that a...
Economy
Moody’s Analytics estimates that Irma will cost the U.S. economy between $64 billion and $92 billion, CNN reports. Insured losses resulting from the storm...
Politics
The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has fined Facebook €1.2 million (just under $1.44 million) for three violations of data protection laws, TechCrunch reports....
Economy
Markets around the world are rising as Florida missed the worst of Irma this weekend, and as North Korea’s founding celebration, which took place...
Business
Amazon announced Thursday that it intends to build a second headquarters facility in North America, The Washington Post reports. The new location will be...
Business
Toys “R” Us has hired law firm Kirkland & Ellis as restructuring consultants to help the reeling toy giant negotiate its debt as the holiday...
Business
Deere & Co. announced Wednesday that it has signed a “definitive agreement” to acquire Blue River Technology, an agriculture technology company, in a $305...
Technology
IBM will spend $240 million to fund a Watson-branded AI research lab at MIT, CNBC reports. At the facility, MIT and IBM researchers will...
Economy
A recent study conducted by the RAND Corporation suggests that delaying the start of the school day until 8:30 a.m. could boost the U.S....
Business
Tuesday, Lego reported a decline in revenue for the first time in 13 years, The LA Times reports. Net profit also fell. The company’s...
Finance
Carpooling service Via just completed a funding round, the proceeds of which the company intends to use to expand its service in the U.S....
Finance
Monday, the Chinese government banned the practice of creating and selling new cryptocurrencies, Reuters reports. With the rise of Blockchain technology, initial coin offerings...
Economy
Friday, the U.S. Labor Department released hiring and unemployment data for August, The New York Times reports. Employers created 156,000 jobs last month—less than...
Economy
A number of organizations have released estimates of the costs of Harvey’s destruction, The Washington Post reports. If the figures are accurate, Harvey will...
Business
A photo taken at a Best Buy in Houston after Hurricane Harvey shows 12-packs of Smart Water listed for $29.98 and 24-packs of Dasani...
Business
As Uber takes steps to recover from a string of allegations that called its corporate ethics into question, competing ride-share service Lyft is anxious...
Technology
Tuesday, Cummins, an Indiana-based manufacturer of diesel and natural gas engines for commercial trucks, unveiled a fully-operational, one-hundred-percent electric truck cab, forbes.com reports. The...
Business
21st Century Fox announced Tuesday that it will pull Fox News from UK airwaves, The Guardian reports. The network’s final broadcast across the pond...
Finance
Best Buy’s quarter two earnings report, released Tuesday, shattered analyst expectations, Bloomberg reports. But, the company’s stock has plummeted on CEO Hubert Joly’s warning that...
Business
Harley-Davidson, Inc. is set to revamp its Softail lineup with a slew of new 2018 models, Charles Fleming of The LA Times reports. The...
Finance
Since June 2, Starbucks stock has fallen more than 16 percent. Shares dipped just over nine percent (to $54.00/share) in 24 hours after the...
Technology
Apple announced plans Thursday to build a $1.3 billion data storage center in Waukee, IA, a suburb of Des Moines. Construction will begin early...
Finance
Amazon announced in a press release Thursday that it will take control of Whole Foods beginning Monday, The New York Times reports. When Whole...
Politics
Chinese authorities have extradited Ji Wenhong, founder of online clothing retailer xiu.com, from Indonesia to face smuggling charges, the AP reports via New York...
Business
Icelandic budget airline WOW Air announced Wednesday that it will expand its service to four Midwestern US cities—St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Detroit—beginning in...
Finance
Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) signed off on Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods, The Washington Post reports. The $13.7 billion deal, which Amazon...
Business
The Village Voice, the liberal, independent newspaper that has been a fixture in New York culture since the mid-20th century, announced Tuesday that it...
Politics
The US Air Force announced Monday that it has awarded two defense companies—Boeing and Northrop Grumman—each a $359 million contract to design new, land-based,...
Finance
A host of law firms have proposed class actions against Blue Apron accusing the company of misleading its shareholders, TechCrunch reports. Bragar Eagel &...
Economy
On Monday, many Americans saw a total solar eclipse for the first time in their lives. The last time United States denizens had a...
Business
Pharmaceutical giant Mylan will pay $465 million to settle charges that the company had been overcharging Medicaid for EpiPens for a decade, The LA...
Politics
Thursday, by a vote of 59-30, Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled State Assembly approved legislation that would provide $3 billion worth of incentives—mostly cash—to technology manufacturer Foxconn...
Politics
Right wing protesters have a march on Google due to what the group’s website calls “credible Alt Left terrorist threats,” CNET reports. The demonstration,...
Politics
As New York commuters suffer through the complications, repairs and shutdowns at Penn Station this summer, the Regional Planning Association (RPA), a think tank...
Business
In this age of instant gratification, eCommerce retailers like Amazon face a dilemma. A consumer can make a purchase in seconds with a few...
Technology
Italian-American automaker Fiat Chrysler announced plans Wednesday to join an autonomous car development consortium with Germany’s BMW and American tech giant Intel, MarketWatch reports....
Finance
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency system that uses mathematical formulas (“cryptography”) in lieu of traditional, centralized financial institutions to protect users’ currency and...
Business
Streaming video service Netflix has $15.7 billion worth of “streaming content obligations,” CNN reports. It plans to pay $6 billion toward those obligations this year....
Finance
As of 2:18 Eastern Monday, a single bitcoin is worth $4,282—an all time high for the cryptocurrency, invented in 2008. The bitcoin-USD exchange has soared...
Business
Marcel Goldman is suing The Cheesecake Factory over its billing practices, Buzzfeed reports. When diners request a split bill at the restaurant chain, the “suggested...
Finance
Struggling music service SoundCloud just completed a $169.5 million emergency Series F funding round, TechCrunch reports. New York investment bank Raine Group and Singapore’s...
Business
Venture capital firm Benchmark, a prominent Uber investor, is suing the ride-hailing company’s founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick—who, under pressure from Benchmark and...
Finance
In September 2012, South Dakota meat processor Beef Products, Inc. (BPI) sued ABC for defamation over the news agency’s reports concerning a meat additive called...
Technology
Tesla will meet with the California and Nevada Departments of Motor Vehicles to talk about testing a semi-truck in those states, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. ...
Business
Megan Schultz of California sued CVS Health Corporation, the US’s largest pharmacy chain, Monday, accusing the company of charging excessive copayments for certain medicines,...
Not Sure
The 35 mega-mansions on Presidio Terrace in San Francisco each cost many millions of dollars. They have been homes to some of Washington’s political...
Business
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son has indicated intentions to make inroads into the US ride-hailing market with a multi-billion dollar investment in Uber or Lyft,...
Technology
The technology needed for planes to fly 100 percent autonomously, with no input from a human pilot, could be viable as early as 2025,...
Business
According to an Associated Press report published by Business Insider, cannabis company American Green, Inc. announced Thursday that it is in the process of...
Technology
Marcus Hutchins, the cybersecurity researcher who disabled the WannaCry ransomware, was arrested in Las Vegas Wednesday, August 2 following a July 12 indictment on...
Business
Toyota announced Thursday that it will join forces with Mazda to build a $1.6 billion assembly plant in the U.S., The New York Times...
Finance
In its quarterly earnings call Thursday, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. dropped its projections of annual profit for the second time this year. Earnings per...
Business
Amazon is amending its returns policy to make it easier for customers to return items they purchased from third party sellers, Ari Levy of...
Finance
The Dow Jones rose 0.45% Wednesday, closing at 22,014.51, crossing 22,000 for the first time in history, Reuters reports. It dropped slightly in after hours...
Business
Nevada residents now have an extra choice to make as they brew their morning joe: cream, sugar, or…marijuana? According to Claire Shaffer of Newsweek,...
Technology
Müller Battles Corporate Traditionalism As He Pulls Volkswagen Into the Modern Age Volkswagen AG CEO Matthias Müller is fighting against a corporate culture of...
Technology
An unidentified watchdog organization is urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google’s new advertising program Store Sales Management (SSM), which collects purchase data...
Technology
Two utilities companies announced Monday that they will abandon construction of a pair of nuclear reactors in South Carolina, Brad Plumer of The New...
Technology
Starbucks is set to expand its mobile, “cloud-based” Digital Flywheel technology this fall, Michelle Lodge of The Street reports. The new and improved app,...
Finance
Scripps Networks, the media conglomerate that operates HGTV, the Travel Channel, Food Network, and other channels; and Discovery, which runs The Discovery Channel, Animal...
Economy
Friday, the US Commerce Department published national economic data for the second quarter of 2017. After a sluggish 2016, the economy appears to be...
Finance
The FDA announced Friday that it will tighten regulations imposed upon the tobacco industry, with a view toward encouraging manufacturers to produce less addictive...
Finance
In its quarter two earnings report, published Thursday, Twitter reported a flatline in Monthly Active Users (MAUs), despite a 12% year-over-year increase in Daily...
Business
Alexander Vinnik, who police allege ran BTC-e and Tradehill, a pair of popular digital currency exchange services, was arrested in Greece Wednesday on charges...
Technology
On Tuesday, RootMetrics, a renowned independent research company that collects data on the reliability of cellular networks, released its report for the first half...
Finance
A massive selloff, spurred in large part by last Monday’s earnings call, in which outgoing CEO Jeff Immiet said the company expected the lull...
Business
If you realize you’re hungry in the middle of a Lyft ride, can you ask your driver to go through a drive-thru? The quandary...
Finance
Sandell Asset Management, an activist investment firm, has accumulated a large number of shares in Barnes & Noble Booksellers, and is urging the company...
Finance
China’s most prominent ride sharing company, Didi Chuxing, and SoftBank, a leader in the Japanese telecommunications and internet services industries, have invested a combined...
Technology
Ride-hailing company Lyft announced Friday that self-driving vehicles will be picking up customer by the end of the year, Brian Fung of The Washington...
Business
As the FTC investigates Amazon’s pending purchase of Whole Foods for antitrust violations, advocacy group Consumer Watchdog has lodged charges that the eCommerce giant...
Business
A Toyota spokeswoman said Monday the company sold off its shares in American automaker Tesla last year, CNN’s Alec Macfarlane reports. Toyota purchased a...
Business
Sears announced Thursday that it would begin selling Kenmore appliances on Amazon, Phil Wahba of Fortune reports. By partnering with Amazon, Sears will bring...
Technology
Google Glass, the heads-up display apparatus resembling a pair of glasses, is making a comeback on the floors of factories around the country, Viad...
Business
On Tuesday, Disability Rights Advocates, on behalf of a litany of advocacy groups and individuals, filed a class action discrimination lawsuit against Uber in...
Finance
As of 11:17 Eastern Wednesday morning, Harley Davidson, Inc. stock has fallen just under 8%, from $51.96 to $47.82 per share, since the company...
Lifestyle
The marijuana shortage which befell Nevada’s dispensaries after they sold over $3 million worth of marijuana in the first weekend of sales will be...
Finance
As earnings reports for the second quarter of 2017 continue to roll in, the stock market remains strong despite “political gridlock,” disappointing quarterly statistics...
Finance
Monday, the US Federal Reserve Bank fined BNP Paribas $246 million in connection with a widespread scandal involving the fixing of currency markets, the...
Not Sure
Two trains lost power at Penn Station Saturday, temporarily stranding a combined 765 passengers, Thomas Tracy of The New York Daily News reports. Officials...
Business
At the urging of the USDA, Marathon Enterprises, Inc. has issued a class 1 recall on over 7 million pounds of hot dog products,...
Finance
FanDuel and DraftKings have made a joint decision to abandon efforts toward a merger that faced heavy opposition from federal antitrust regulators, Alex Schiffer...
Finance
Delta Airlines, Inc. published its earnings report for the second quarter of 2017 on Thursday, according to Reuters’ Alana Wise and Arunima Banerjee. For...
Lifestyle
Todd Snyder and Raf Simmons, two renowned menswear designers who showcased their work at New York Fashion Week: Men’s this week, have made their...
Business
The state of Minnesota is suing CenturyLink over alleged “deceptive billing practices,” according to a report by Polly Mosendz and Scott Moritz of Bloomberg....
Business
Trump Hotels announced Tuesday that data had been breached at 14 of its locations, including those in Las Vegas and Chicago, CNBC reports. Customers’...
Technology
The Audi A8, which debuted Tuesday at the Audi Summit in Barcelona, represents the company’s boldest foray yet into the next generation of auto...
Politics
By a 9-0 vote this week, Seattle’s city council passed a measure that would require residents to pay a 2.5% tax on income over...
Lifestyle
The American fashion industry is struggling. In the past year, a number of formerly iconic American clothing retailers have shut their doors. True Religion...
Lifestyle
In the first three days after Nevada dispensaries began selling marijuana under the state’s new legislation permitting recreational use of the substance, the state’s 47...
Finance
Shares of Snap, Inc. were valued at $16.99 when the market closed Monday, marking the first time the stock has dipped below its $17...
Finance
Monday, Midwest electric companies Westar Energy and Great Plains Energy announced plans for a merger. According to Morgan Chilson of The Topeka Capital-Journal, no...
Business
Amazon will build a new “fulfillment center” in Orange County, Florida, just south of the Orlando airport, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The company acquired...
Technology
Amidst a flurry of commitments by carmakers and governments around the globe to increasingly adopt hybrids and fully electric vehicles, France announced Thursday that...
Politics
Government’s Antitrust Review of Time Warner-AT&T Merger Could Be Used as Leverage in Trump/CNN Feud
AT&T’s $85 billion proposal to acquire Time Warner, the media and entertainment conglomerate that owns CNN, HBO, and others, has been submitted to the...
Technology
Beginning in 2019, Volvo will stop producing automobiles powered solely by gasoline and will build hybrids and fully-electric vehicles exclusively, CEO Hakan Samuelsson announced...
Business
True Religion Apparel, Inc. announced Wednesday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. The company joins a host of fellow California apparel...
Finance
British payment processing company Wordplay announced Tuesday that JP Morgan Chase and Vantiv had each expressed interest in acquiring it. Wordplay made the announcement...
Technology
Historically, Apple is notoriously hush-hush about its new products, especially its iPhone. Leaks promising new features on a given Apple product are rare, vague,...
Finance
US automakers reported a decline in new vehicle sales for the fourth straight month on Monday. Experts anticipated the dip, which comes on the...
Technology
Tesla, Inc. plans to mass produce a budget-friendly electric automobile for the first time. With a $35,000 price tag and a range of 215...
Technology
When a little drone built with the backing of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg touched down in May at Yuma Proving Ground, an Army testing...
Technology
A newly-designed Chinese rocket slated to carry the country’s heaviest ever satellite failed Sunday, Chinese news outlet Xinhua reports. The Chinese plan to conduct...
Technology
Eugene Kapersky, CEO of security company Kapersky Labs, has agreed to share his company’s source code with the US Government in order to “prove...
Politics
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will allocate an additional $1 billion toward the revitalization of public transit throughout the state, and ease environmental regulations...
Finance
Blue Apron, the $1 billion dollar online food delivery startup that sells “meal kits” containing everything the customer needs to make a meal at...
Finance
The estates of Michael and Andrew Madoff, heirs to the fortune of their father Bernie, will keep just under $4 million dollars after approximately...
Finance
When a company’s name becomes a verb in the dictionary, there may be evidence of a monopoly. Perhaps it is no surprise, then, that...