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Meet the typical Whole Foods shopper, a highly educated West Coast millennial woman earning $80,000
Business Insider - 11 Feb 2022 19:00A Single Ukrainian Tank Brigade Stands Between a Russian Army And Kyiv
Forbes - 12 Feb 2022 00:00Salad Ventures raises $13.5M to build GuildOS platform for P2E gaming
Venture Beat - 11 Feb 2022 22:03
Salad Ventures today announced that it has raised over $13 million to build its guild management platform, GuildOS.
Affirm Stock Plunges 21% After a Slip of the Tweet
Wall Street Journal - 11 Feb 2022 03:00
The company's "great quarter" tweet sent shares up. Investors were less impressed after they saw the results.
Affirm tumbles 10% after the buy-now-pay-later fintech's Twitter blunder revealed details of its earnings early
Business Insider - 11 Feb 2022 15:28
The fintech's shares went on a ride and its results were released early after a now-deleted tweet shared key figures on its quarterly financial performance.
Echoes of the Wage-Price Spiral of the 1970s
Wall Street Journal - 11 Feb 2022 14:30
The economy has changed in a number of ways over the past half century, but there's still a risk that inflationary dynamics can re-emerge.
Headwinds And Tailwinds Clash In Derailed New Mexico Hydrogen Bill
Forbes - 11 Feb 2022 05:24
Such a large concept, that would benefit by integrating with the oil and gas industry, was perceived by many as a tax credit subsidy to the industry.
JPMorgan Predicts Long-Term Bitcoin Price of $150K -- Outlines Challenges Ahead
Bitcoin.com - 11 Feb 2022 04:30
Global investment bank JPMorgan has predicted that the long-term price of bitcoin will reach $150K while the fair value of the cryptocurrency sits at $38K. “The biggest challenge for bitcoin going forward is its volati...
Fitch Ratings Downgrades El Salvador Deeper Into Junk Status Citing Bitcoin Risks
Bitcoin.com - 11 Feb 2022 02:30
One of the largest rating agencies in the U.S., Fitch Ratings, has downgraded El Salvador’s long-term default rating deeper into junk status, citing risks from adopting bitcoin as legal tender as a key reason. “The a...
How Wieden+Kennedy Made 11 Ads for Super Bowl Sunday, Totaling 8 Minutes of Airtime
AdWeek - 11 Feb 2022 22:45
For most brands and agencies, pulling together one Super Bowl ad can be a Herculean task, sometimes taking many months and involving every person within an agency to produce a brand's most visible marketing moment of the...
Data centre boom to spur talent race
livemint.com - 11 Feb 2022 22:11
The data centre industry is of strategic importance to digital infrastructure and for securing data by localization.
What Entrepreneurs Need To Know About The Ever-Evolving NFT Market
Forbes - 11 Feb 2022 16:00
The non-fungible token (NFT) space changes every week.
Coinbase Pulls Buying Instructions for Three Coins Amid Rug Pull Warnings
Crypto News - 11 Feb 2022 15:53
US crypto exchange Coinbase has decided to scrap 'how to buy' instructions for a minimum of three crypto tokens following the emergence of rug pull warnings indicating that investors' cybersecurity and funds were in dang...
Economic growth, airport terminal to reopen and rising e-cigarette sales
Sky News - 11 Feb 2022 15:28
Sky's Ian King delves into the latest GDP figures for the UK economy. Gatwick Airport announced it plans to reopen its South Terminal nearly two years after it was mothballed to save costs. He'll also be speaking to the ...
Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi sued the Biden administration for raising federal contractors' minimum wage to $15 an hour
Business Insider - 11 Feb 2022 15:23
The lawsuit, led by Texas AG Ken Paxton, claimed that the wage hike would lead to unemployment, inflation, and "economic disaster."
Apollo Nears $2.3 Billion Deal for Worldline's Terminal Business
Wall Street Journal - 11 Feb 2022 15:22
The buyout giant is nearing a deal to acquire the point-of-sale terminal business of European payments company Worldline for close to $2.3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
Bitcoin and Ethereum Hold Key Uptrend Support, THETA Trims Gains
Crypto News - 11 Feb 2022 15:16
Bitcoin price started a downside correction below the USD 44,000 level. BTC even declined below USD 43,000, but the bulls appeared near USD 42,500. It is currently (11:02 UTC) consolidating near USD 43,500, with a key hu...
Marketing Morsels: A Velveeta Cheese Heist, Last-Minute Valentines and More
AdWeek - 11 Feb 2022 15:00
Welcome to Marketing Morsels, a menu of delightful news items from the past week. Enjoy the assortment! Morsel #1: Puppy Love If you're struggling to find love on dating apps, that might be because you don't have a dog. ...
Labour suspends Neil Coyle after racist comments to Insider reporter
Business Insider - 11 Feb 2022 14:56
The MP told a British-Chinese journalist he looked "like you've been giving renminbi" to a politician who received money from a suspected Chinese spy.
Dow Jones Newswires: OPEC supply issues threaten further oil-market volatility, IEA says
Market Watch - 11 Feb 2022 14:47
Chronic oil supply issues among a group of major producing nations threaten to heighten tightness and volatility in the energy market and push prices higher still, the International Energy Agency said Friday.
2 prominent senators call for the CIA to be transparent about a secret mass surveillance program that collected data from Americans through 'warrantless' searches
Business Insider - 11 Feb 2022 11:19
A newly declassified letter from Sens. Martin Heinrich and Ron Wyden urges the CIA to address its "warrantless collection of Americans' records."
Earnings Results: Affirm stock slammed after outlook prompts questions about Amazon effect
Market Watch - 11 Feb 2022 05:57
Affirm Holdings Inc. shares plunged more than 20% Thursday after the buy-now pay-later company mistakenly posted earnings results early, then faced tough questions about how new partnerships were affecting revenue.