On a March 18, 2020 call to NYC media, Zuckerberg confirmed that Facebook is experiencing “big surges” in usage. Voice and video-calls on WhatsApp (owned by FB) and Facebook…
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“I’m practicing as much social distancing as I possibly can” stated Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Director of Disease, “I’m working on getting the boss [Trump] to do this….
Last week, NMC admitted that it identified an additional $2.7 billion in debt, rounding the total debt to around $5 billion. NMC staff were not paid last month….
When the savings and loan crisis in the US hit in 1989, a lot of slow-moving investors lost their dough thinking the worst couldn’t possible happen. When the dotcom…
In 2019, Shopify spent $1 billion to build fulfillment centers in the U.S., trying to compete with Amazon by deliver packages in less than 48 hours. This effort was…
Last spring, in Washington DC, Bezos laid out his long-term vision for Blue Origin, which involves having up to a trillion humans living in “manufactured worlds”. …
One of my friends was absolutely stoked when she got her Alexa for Christmas last year. She took pride of place on the shelf beside her wall-mounted TV, where…
HERE Technologies, an arms-length subsidiary of Intel (INTC.Q), partnered with Rise Against Hunger India to pack 300,000 meals today for the undernourished and less fortunate. Whenever a company does…
Big Bets on Volatility Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund has made a bet worth more than $1 billion that markets across the globe will fall by March…
A few weeks ago, a Chinese Bitcoin trader, Hui Yi, embezzled 2,000 Bitcoins, used them as collateral to take a highly leveraged (100x) short position on the price of…