Why China’s COVID policies are rattling investors again

Investors in China-related assets who had expected a significant easing of COVID curbs were left disappointed this week as the country battles the worst wave of cases since Shanghai’s outbreak earlier...

How Mainstream Media Is Sponsoring Confusing Narratives about SBF’s Atrocities

The FTX collapse has stirred a major awakening for all industry stakeholders and it may stir a more stringent assessment of companies to pitch tents with in the future. Even though the liabilities of ...

Solana’s flagship gaming and social media funds have been only partially deployed

At Breakpoint 2021, Solana Labs announced two flagship funds: a $100 million fund focused on decentralizing social media and a $150 million fund to encourage blockchain-based gaming. The social ...

Mega-Companies Messed Up America’s Job Market. They’re Doing it Again.

Part of what has made America’s job market so tight is that big, publicly traded companies hired like crazy after the pandemic struck. Now that many are slamming into reverse, it seems like there is a...

The Disney CFO Who Raised Concerns About Bob Chapek Has Respect on the Street

Christine McCarthy, Walt Disney Co. ’s longtime finance chief, took an unusual step when she expressed a lack of confidence in the chief executive to directors of the entertainment giant.  Finance chi...

Caroline Ellison, hate, misogyny, FTX, and the media – Making sense of it all

There is something unequivocally spellbinding about the bear market. It reveals investors’ prudence and flushes out faint-hearted tourists. You can look at it as a catharsis of sorts. Above all that, ...

With changing definition, Meta becomes India’s largest media company

Meta Platforms is nowhere among the world’s largest media companies. In India, however, it tops the list, thanks to the large user base of its three brands Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, according...

Elon Musk Trolls SBF Says He Was Better At ‘Bribing The Media’ Than Running FTX

– Advertisement – Musk trolls SBF and asserts he was better at bribing media platforms than running his exchange. In a tweet today, Elon Musk trolled former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, alle...

Sam Bankman-Fried Was Bribing Media – Says Elon Musk

The post Sam Bankman-Fried Was Bribing Media – Says Elon Musk appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News The Twitter CEO made clear that Bankman-Fried ‘does not own shares in Twitter as a pr...

Elon Musk Believes SBF Is Better at Bribing Media Outlets Than Running FTX

Twitter’s new CEO – Elon Musk – thinks Sam Bankman-Fried is much better at “bribing media” than managing a cryptocurrency platform. The South African entrepreneur also dismissed the rumors that FTX’s ...

Spotlight on layoffs: Cuts at Amazon, Cisco, Roku, Meta, Twitter, Intel and more

From HP, Amazon, Roku and Beyond Meat to Meta and Twitter, big names across a number of sectors have announced major layoffs in October and November. Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +1.45% GOOG, +1.53% is consid...

I got laid off by a big tech company. What’s my next career move? 

Being let go from a job is hard, especially at a moment when the cost of living is rising and a recession is looming. This Thanksgiving, tens of thousands of recently laid-off tech workers will be ask...

Disney CEO Bob Iger to hold town hall with employees on Monday

Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger will speak to employees at 9 a.m. PT Monday in a town hall, marking his return to the company. Iger said in a memo to em...

News Corp, Fox reunion faces opposition from large shareholder

Rupert Murdoch, Chief Executive Officer of News Corp. Getty Images Rupert Murdoch’s proposed plan to reunite News Corp and Fox is facing opposition from one of the largest shareholders in both c...

The best-performing sector in 2022 is not finished crushing it, says Citi, offering three stocks to buy

You can count on it, says our call of the day provided by Citigroup, though they say investors can’t expect as lofty returns. “We see market rotation into energy equities as having further to run, eve...

Best to worst NFT projects of 2022 and the impact of social media

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Best to worst NFT projects of 2022 and the impact of social mediaNFTs have boomed in the past months, and it’s safe to say we wer...

Disney is counting on Iger to make hard choices about TV, streaming

Bob Iger, chairman and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company, pauses while speaking during an Economic Club of New York event in Midtown Manhattan on October 24, 2019 in New York City. Dr...

Trump Media partner DWAC delays Truth Social merger

This illustration photo shows Donald Trump’s new social media app Truth Social’s logo on a smartphone in Los Angeles, February 21, 2022. Chris Delmas | AFP | Getty Images The blank check c...

Taylor Swift tour promoter says it had no choice but to work with Ticketmaster

Taylor Swift accepts the Artist of the Year award onstage during the 2022 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 20, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Kevin Winter | Getty Images Entert...

Top Disney exec Kareem Daniel to leave as Bob Iger returns

Kareem Daniel, the chairman of Walt Disney Co.’s vast media and entertainment distribution segment, is leaving the company as part of an organizational reshuffling that comes a day after Robert Iger r...

Disney CEO Bob Iger plans restructuring, Chapek loyalist Kareem Daniel to leave

Bob Iger attends the World Premiere of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures ‘Avengers: Endgame’ at Los Angeles Convention Center on April 22, 2019. Jeff Kravitz | FilmMagic, Inc | Getty Ima...

Paramount scraps deal to sell Simon & Schuster to Penguin

The Penguin logo is visible on the spines of books displayed on a shelf at Book Passage on Nov. 2, 2021 in Corte Madera, California. The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Penguin Random House and Si...

Disney blindsided Chapek with decision to replace him with Iger

Disney chose to rehire Bob Iger as chief executive after receiving internal complaints from senior leadership that Bob Chapek was not fit for the job, according to people familiar with the matter. The...

Disney’s decision to replace Chapek with Iger makes everyone look bad

Bob Iger Stephen Desaulniers | CNBC The Disney board’s decision to swap out Bob Chapek for Bob Iger as CEO may be the right one for the company’s future. But the process to get to this cho...

Bob Iger is back. He’s the steady hand that Disney needs as CEO to get it back on track

Bob Chapek is out as chief executive of Disney (DIS), the company said late Sunday, a leadership shakeup that nearly two weeks ago we began to champion as necessary to get the entertainment giant back...

How Elon Musk’s Twitter Faces Mountain of Debt, Falling Revenue and Surging Costs

To make the deal work, Mr. Musk has been trying to add subscription revenue and reassure advertisers about the platform’s future. Twitter was losing money before Mr. Musk bought the company, and the d...

Disney (DIS) shares rise after Iger replaces Chapek as CEO

Disney World celebrated its 50th anniversary in April 2022. Aaronp/bauer-griffin | Gc Images | Getty Images Shares of Disney popped in premarket trade Monday, the morning after the company announced i...

What Bob Iger’s return means for Disney and Chapek’s decisions

Robert Iger, Chairman and CEO at The Walt Disney Company speaks in Laguna Beach, California, October 22, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters Bob Iger’s shocking return as Disney‘s chief executive o...

Bob Iger returns as Disney CEO effective immediately

Bob Iger is back. Disney, in a shocking late Sunday announcement, said it had re-appointed Iger as chief executive, effective immediately, after Iger’s handpicked successor as CEO, Bob Chapek, c...

Mainstream Media Turns Against Crypto as Bitcoin Dies 466 Times

The slew of FUD emanating from mainstream media has reached a crescendo. Salacious headlines foretelling the death of crypto have been rolling out over the weekend, but we’ve seen it all before. The c...

The Myth of the Tech God Is Crumbling

Tech is full of smart people who build, run and invest in successful companies that have produced a tremendous amount of innovation. But the industry’s recent spate of failures and reversals has made ...

GameStop’s Ryan Cohen Wants to Be More Than a Meme-Stock King

Ryan Cohen is the face of an investing revolution that captivated amateur traders, punished Wall Street and favored memes over fundamentals. Many of his other bets belong to a more conservative playbo...