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Business Insider - 17 Oct 2023 15:25Best Buy will stop selling DVDs and Blu-rays after the 2023 holiday season
New York Post - 17 Oct 2023 03:55
Best Buy customers looking to purchase DVDs or Blu-ray discs will have to find another retailer after the 2023 holiday season. Starting in 2024, sales of hard copies of movies and TV shows by the consumer electronics sel...
Scott to introduce anti-Iran funding bill amid violence in Middle East
American Banker - 17 Oct 2023 11:00
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, is pushing a bill to re-freeze Iranian funds made available after a Biden-negotiated hostage deal last month. Scott says the move is motivated as a ...
I'm a 23-year-old gay man training to be a priest. Though I'm living on only $740 a month, I don't regret it one bit.
Business Insider - 17 Oct 2023 03:34Ethereum Layer-2 Scaling Solution Scroll Goes Live
Crypto News - 17 Oct 2023 22:30
Scroll, an Ethereum layer 2 (L2), has announced the launch of its zkEVM mainnet, which allows developers to have increased speeds, latency, and lower fees to build decentralized applications (dApps). According to the ope...
US extends first full deployment of its newest supercarrier, another twist for the powerful warship amid the Israel-Hamas war
Business Insider - 17 Oct 2023 20:49Choice Hotels Unveils $7.8 Billion Takeover Offer For Wyndham
Wall Street Journal - 17 Oct 2023 18:22
Wyndham rejects the offer, saying it involves significant business and execution risk.
How much Goldman Sachs' profit plummeted in the third quarter
New York Post - 17 Oct 2023 17:08
It's the eighth straight quarter the bank has seen a year-over-year profit decline.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: Bitcoin Rally Reflects Crypto's Growing Appeal
Crypto News - 17 Oct 2023 15:00
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has attributed the recent rally in Bitcoin (BTC)'s price to the increasing interest and demand for cryptocurrencies. Fink made these remarks in response to a false news report about the approval ...
A Goldman partner reportedly blasted Apple's savings accounts as a mistake: 'We should have never done this f—ing thing'
Business Insider - 17 Oct 2023 02:26Evergrande's Economic Tremors Trigger Bank Run in Northern China
Bitcoin.com - 17 Oct 2023 01:30
Several reports say that the major Chinese real estate developer Evergrande’s downfall triggered a bank run in northern China last week. The bank run began after rumors spread that the financial institution, Bank of Ca...
DeepMind UniSim simulates reality to train robots, game characters
Venture Beat - 17 Oct 2023 22:48
UniSim can also simulate rare events, a feature that is particularly useful in robotics and self-driving car applications, where data collection can be costly and risky.
Going Tough But Albertsons Moves Kroger Deal Ahead With Store Sale
Forbes - 17 Oct 2023 19:09
Ahead of its long-proposed merger with Kroger, grocery chain Albertsons outperformed expectations today but was still buffeted by consumer headwinds.
Here's what we know about Jim Jordan and the Ohio State University wrestling scandal
Business Insider - 17 Oct 2023 16:47CHART OF THE DAY: Here's the simple reason why home prices won't fall anytime soon
Business Insider - 17 Oct 2023 16:40How to Buy Bitcoin Anonymously Without ID
Crypto News - 17 Oct 2023 16:35
Although Bitcoin offers a way to transact on the internet completely anonymously, buying Bitcoin isn't always anonymous. Most major crypto exchanges require ID to buy Bitcoin, forcing Bitcoin users to reveal their identi...
Goldman Sachs Reports 33% Profit Drop
Wall Street Journal - 17 Oct 2023 15:56
The bank is pinning much of its hopes on its asset and wealth-management unit. Quarterly revenue in that business fell 20%.
WPP Combines VMLY&R With Wunderman Thompson to Form VML
AdWeek - 17 Oct 2023 15:39
WPP has merged Wunderman Thompson and VMLY&R to create VML, a new agency that combines brand experience, customer experience and commerce under the leadership of Jon Cook as global CEO and Mel Edwards as global president...
US stocks slump as bond yields rise after September retail sales blow past estimates
Business Insider - 17 Oct 2023 15:37Earnings Results: Bank of America's profit climbs 10%, boosted from interest rates and loans
Market Watch - 17 Oct 2023 14:59
Nation's second-biggest bank by market capitalization adds accounts and clients "across all lines of business."
Women face a 'broken rung' early on in the corporate ladder and are missing out on their first big promotions
Business Insider - 17 Oct 2023 12:09Country Garden draws closer to debt deadline, as default risk looms
CNBC - 17 Oct 2023 03:39
All of Chinese property giant Country Garden's offshore debt could be in default if it fails to make $15 million coupon payment on Tuesday.