After facing legal pressure from a court-order to buy Twitter, Elon Musk finally closed the $44-billion-dollar deal and took ownership of the company on October 27. However, in less than a week since the takeover, he faced tremendous pushback from advertisers on his decision to allow unrestricted free speech as well as accounts of the […]
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Dr. Reza Sanai is the founder of PicassoMD and a former chief fellow cardiology at the George Washington University Medical School. PicassoMD is a firm that connects PCPs with a specialist for a comment on a patient’s situation. It was founded in 2019 after the founder discovered that roughly 40% of the referrals to his
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In recent weeks, Google and Meta’s stocks crashed after the release of their Q3 earnings report which failed to meet investor expectations. Google’s shares dropped 33% due to poor performance from their core business offerings including Google Search and ad revenues which fell 26% lower than expectations. At the same time, YouTube experienced its first
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The giant chip producer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. provides chips to major electronic products including those of Apple Inc. The company recently built its first Japanese factory on the country’s southern island Kyushu, looking forward to reducing its future geopolitical risks from Beijing while receiving subsidizations from the Japanese government. The semiconductor industry has been
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On Thursday Oct. 20, the Texas attorney general sued Alphabet Inc.’s Google on its biometric data collections of its users’ face and voice features, stating that the company did not seek the users’ full consent. Meanwhile, Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda argued that Google Photos helps users organize their pictures via a feature that’s easy to
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On Aug. 4th, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) reported revenues of $30.4 billion for its April-June 2022 quarter, which are down by 0.1% compared to the same period in 2021. It’s the first time since listed in 2014 that the firm failed to post revenue growth due to China’s COVID-19 outbreaks
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In a recent earnings statement, Tesla revealed that they sold 75% of their Bitcoin holdings. Bitcoin has plunged by more than 50% in value since 2021 when Tesla famously invested $1.5 billion into the crypto currency because of the currency’s “long-term” prospects. Lots of consumers followed the lead of the electric car manufacturer and Bitcoin
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At the 2022 Equity Crowdfunding Week scheduled to take place from September 21st -23rd, Canada will be represented on the world stage by FrontFundr – Canada’s leading crowdfunding platform. During the 3-day conference, entrepreneurs and investment companies from all over the world will have the opportunity to learn about the latest developments in the crowdfunding
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Acquired by Microsoft in 2014 for $2.5 billion, Minecraft marked its spot in history as one of the highest best-selling games of all time selling more than 238 million units. Its creator, Mojang, stated that it will not support non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in Minecraft as they’re “not inclusive of all our community and create a
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Elon Musk sent a letter to the Twitter board Friday in which he announced that he was terminating the $44 billion dollar deal that has been in the works for the past three months. In response, Twitter’s chair, Bret Taylor, said the board is “committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed
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