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Ex-startup CEO accused of impersonating David Petraeus pleads guilty to fraud charge
New York Post - 29 Mar 2023 19:52
Barend "Barry" Oberholzer, 39, pled guilty to a single count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
PNRGB amends norms to allow unified tariff on natural gas pipelines
livemint.com - 29 Mar 2023 19:06
The regulator has notified a levelized unified tariff of ₹73.93 per MMBTU and created three tariff zones for unified tariff, where the first zone is up to a distance of 300 kms from gas source, second zone is 300 - 1,2...
How Newsom fell short of the oil penalty he wanted but still scored a political win
L.A. Times - 29 Mar 2023 03:18
California Gov. Gavin Newsom launched an offensive in his war with Big Oil. The battle didn't go as planned.
Sam Bankman-Fried reportedly paying legal bills with Alameda funds gifted to his dad
New York Post - 29 Mar 2023 20:25
Bankman-Fried is currently under house arrest while awaiting his trial this fall.
Crypto Crackdown: Here Are All The Major Crypto Firms Facing Charges From Regulators This Year
Forbes - 29 Mar 2023 23:05
Major cryptocurrency exchanges like Binance and Coinbase are drawing scrutiny from regulators, and executives of the failed exchange FTX are facing criminal charges, as U.S. officials seek to tame the "Wild West" of cryp...
Celebrity weddings the new big draw on streaming platforms
livemint.com - 29 Mar 2023 20:48
Unscripted titles, including those centred on the lives of celebrities or glamorous figures, are getting eyeballs
Bernie Sanders grills Starbucks' Howard Schultz about alleged anti-union practices
Business Insider - 29 Mar 2023 22:26
Lawmakers led by Sen. Bernie Sanders grilled former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on the company's alleged anti-union practices.
Yang Bing-yi, Who Brought Soup Dumplings to the World, Dies at 96
The New York Times - 29 Mar 2023 18:46
Starting with a modest shop in Taiwan in 1958, he built Din Tai Fung into a global dumpling and noodle empire, earning a Michelin star along the way.
Swipe your badge or get fired? Employers and workers face a reckoning over returning to the office.
Business Insider - 29 Mar 2023 20:32
Some employers, including Amazon, Starbucks, and Apple, are intent on dragging workers back to 2019 — when offices were full of people.
Google will be more transparent about ads amid growing Biden administration scrutiny
Fast Company - 29 Mar 2023 19:20
This stab at greater visibility follows similar moves made by Facebook and Twitter, albeit years ago. As state and federal regulators turn up the heat on Google’s massive advertising business, the search giant is movin...
Why chef Kristen Kish wanted to step out of her comfort zone with her new show
Fast Company - 29 Mar 2023 18:15
The one-time ‘Top Chef’ winner and host of the new Nat Geo series ‘Restaurants at the End of the World’ talks about why she wanted to showcase other people. Ever since Kristen Kish won Top Chef 10 years ago, she�...
The stock market just flashed the first sign that investors think the Silicon Valley Bank crisis is over
Business Insider - 29 Mar 2023 16:19Next Shares Slump 5.5% On Gloomy Outlook, Leads FTSE 100 Lower
Forbes - 29 Mar 2023 13:11
Retailer falls as it tips revenues and sales to drop this year.
SVB saw $142 billion fly out the door in just 2 days in a tech-driven bank run - and that spells trouble, says Mohamed El-Erian
Business Insider - 29 Mar 2023 12:35ARB price to $2? Ethereum L2 rival Arbitrum will double in April, fractal suggests
Coin Telegraph - 29 Mar 2023 12:26
ARB's price trajectory looks similar to MATIC after its market debut when MATIC rose 1,350% after facing a brutal selloff in its early days of trading.
Hunt sparks review of foreign investment to counter US green tax plan
Sky News - 29 Mar 2023 12:16
The chancellor will this week unveil a review of Britain's foreign direct investment (FDI) framework as the government scrambles to counter the impact of Joe Biden's efforts to turbocharge clean energy industries.
A $140,000-a-Month Apartment Lets You Live Like a Rich New Yorker---For 30 Days at a Time,atLeast
Wall Street Journal - 29 Mar 2023 11:30As Rates Rose, Banks Did a Balance-Sheet Switcheroo
Wall Street Journal - 29 Mar 2023 11:30
Lenders pledged to hold on to money-losing bonds until maturity, allowing them to avoid reporting losses.
Prosecutors say Binance execs cracked jokes when warned terrorists could be moving money on their platform: 'Can barely buy an AK-47 with 600 bucks'
Business Insider - 29 Mar 2023 09:30
"We see the bad, but we close two eyes," wrote one Binance compliance employee in an internal chat, according to the CFTC's lawsuit.
Dow Jones Newswires: German consumer sentiment set to improve in April, helped by lower energy prices
Market Watch - 29 Mar 2023 08:24
Germany's forward-looking consumer-sentiment index forecasts confidence to tick up to minus 29.5 in April from a downwardly revised minus 30.6 in March, the highest level since July 2022,
'When does this milk expire?': Chat GPT-4 is now helping blind people navigate everyday tasks
Fast Company - 29 Mar 2023 05:00
The AI chatbot is already answering queries for visually impaired people with more speed and detail than human volunteers. Lucy Edwards., 27, is legally blind. She lives an independent life in Birmingham, England, with h...
Fed Bank President: Banking Crisis Tips US Economy Toward Recession
Bitcoin.com - 29 Mar 2023 03:30
The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Neel Kashkari, says the current banking crisis has pushed the U.S. economy closer to a recession. “We have fundamental issues, regulatory issues facing our bank...