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Having already raised $500,000 in less than 48 hours, Memeinator has entered the third stage of its presale on its relentless mission to redefine the memecoin…
Elon Musk has sold shares on his company’s stock worth $5 billion (£3.73 billion) after promising to abide by a Twitter poll.
European regulators said Google gave preferential treatment to its own price-comparison shopping service over rival services.
Diplomats announced a plan to make good on an unkept promise of climate aid, a key point of tension in upcoming global climate talks.
Britain is to phase out a tax on revenues made by the likes of Facebook, Google and Amazon – which was expected to have raised billions – after global reforms were agreed.
The Arizona senator, who started in politics as an environmentalist, is one of two centrist Democrats who could make or break a spending bill at the center of President Biden’s legislative agenda.
Google was fined for using its Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals and cement its dominance in general internet search from 2011.
The technology giant has built a sprawling campus on the West Side of Manhattan and has 12,000 employees in the city.
Intuit said that the cash-and-stock deal would help it sell additional services to small businesses, many of which already use the company’s TurboTax and QuickBooks software.
The deal is part of Intuit’s effort to position itself as a one-stop shop for small and medium-sized businesses.
Amazon will fully fund college tuition for over 750,000 of its frontline employees, the e-commerce giant said on Thursday, stepping up its efforts to attract and retain workers in a tight domestic labor market. It plans to spend about $1.2 billion in the next four years on its US employees, funding full college tuition and…
Reddit is looking to hire investment bankers and lawyers as part of its plans to go public early next year at a value of more than $15 billion, Reuters reported Thursday. Reddit most recently raised money in a private fundraising round in August at a valuation of $10 billion — meaning that an IPO at…
The ruling in bankruptcy court caps a long legal battle over the fate of a company accused of fueling the opioid epidemic and the family that owns it.
Robert Allbritton, the owner of Politico, is weighing a lucrative payday against maintaining full control over a widely read Washington news site.
Just six months ago it was valued at $6 billion. It raised $410 million in its latest round.
DraftKings plans to buy online betting rival Golden Nugget Online Gaming for $1.56 billion, the companies said Monday — sending Golden Nugget’s stock soaring more than 50 percent.
Under a draft plan Democrats are circulating, the Treasury Department would tax a handful of the biggest emitters of planet-warming pollution to pay for climate change.
The agreement would allow funds to begin flowing from the companies to states and communities to pay for addiction and prevention services.
The agreement would end thousands of lawsuits against the three largest distributors and Johnson & Johnson and require them to pay billions for addiction treatment and prevention.
Zoom’s stock tanked Monday morning after the video conferencing company revealed plans to buy call center software company Five9 for $14.7 billion. An hour after markets opened, Zoom shares were trading down 3.9 percent at $348.00, according to MarketWatch data, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index was down just 1.5 percent. Meanwhile, shares of Five9…
As extreme climate-related events continue to strengthen in intensity and frequency across the world, wild animals are often the first to be impacted.
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is now worth $214 billion, according to the latest data from Bloomberg Billionaires Index dated July 8.
The states, including Massachusetts and New York, agreed to drop opposition to the bankruptcy organization plan of the company, the maker of OxyContin.
The 10-year contract had been awarded to Microsoft in 2019 after a fight among Amazon and other tech giants for the deal.
An NFT is a crypto asset, representing an intangible digital item such as an image, video, or in-game item.
The stock-trading app unveiled its initial public offering prospectus on Thursday, pulling back the curtain on its financial performance for the first time.
OnlyFans is reportedly looking to raise new funding in a deal that values the company at more than $1 billion.
Etsy said it is buying the social shopping app Depop — which has a reputation for selling TikTok-worthy vintage clothing — for $1.63 billion in cash.
The legislation, which has bipartisan support, would be the first major industrial policy effort in decades.
Amazon said it will help preserve MGM’s film archives, which includes 4,000 titles, including the James Bond franchise, “Raging Bull” and “Rocky.”
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, while diminished, commanded a premium price, with Amazon seeking to bolster its crucial Prime membership offering.
The legislation has drawn bipartisan support amid the coronavirus pandemic as Democrats and Republicans have become increasingly concerned about Beijing’s supply chain dominance.
Amazon is reportedly several weeks into negotiations on a deal to buy MGM, the Hollywood studio behind the “James Bond” franchise.
Verizon offloaded its media business to Apollo Global Management in a deal valued at $5 billion as the mobile phone giant focuses on building out its 5G network.
A one billion-year-old fossil found in the highlands of Scotland suggests the earliest forms of life on earth may have developed in freshwater lakes instead of the ocean.
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers on Wednesday introduced legislation calling for $100 billion in government spending over five years on basic and advanced technology research and science in the face of rising competitive pressure from China. The measure, sponsored by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, Republican Senator Todd Young and others, would also authorize…
The Covid vaccines are here, but the ApiJect syringe is not yet approved by federal regulators and a new factory in North Carolina is not yet built.
NASA said on Friday it has awarded billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft to bring astronauts to the moon.
Elon Musk’s company bested Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and others in the contest to carry American astronauts to the lunar surface.
One Tyrannosaurus rex seems scary enough. Now picture 2.5 billion of them. That’s how many of the fierce dinosaur king probably roamed Earth over the course of a couple million years, a new study finds.
