NASA’s Orion spacecraft made its closest approach to the moon on Monday morning during day five of the Artemis 1 mission. The uncrewed capsule flew about 81 miles above the lunar surface, the ag...
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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...
Ripple Announces ‘Record Growth’ of Successful ODL Technology Amid XRP Lawsuit
Money transfer network Ripple says that its crypto-based settlement solution, On-Demand Liquidity (ODL), is seeing rapid growth in 2022. Ripple’s ODL solution uses the XRP to enable faster and cheape...
Markets will shift to a ‘hope’ phase next year, and investors would be wise not to miss it, says Goldman Sachs
Fresh China COVID-19 worries are threatening to nix any preholiday gains for Wall Street, with stocks struggling, oil tumbling and the dollar higher as Monday’s session gets underway. In a shortened w...
Tuition Coin Incentives Global Educational Content With Cardano Technology
[PRESS RELEASE – Delhi, India, 21st November 2022] Tuition Coin aims to enhance the appeal of the Cardano ecosystem through its Teach to Earn nature. The venture will streamline participation in educa...
How NFT technology is building a ‘no risk’ sports prediction market?
Sports betting dates back to the ancient times when chariot racing was a popular form of entertainment in ancient Greece, around 700 BC. Today, it is a billion-dollar industry featuring all forms of s...
Collapsed crypto exchange FTX owes top 50 creditors $3 billion: Filing
The collapse of FTX has sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency industry. The price of bitcoin and other major digital coins have fallen sharply as problems at FTX emerged. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphot...
Fintech banking app Dave wants to dispel doubts after 97% stock plunge
Mobile banking app provider Dave has enough cash to survive the current downturn for fintech firms and reach profitability a year from now, according to CEO Jason Wilk. The Los Angeles-based company g...
Tuition Coin Incentives Global Educational Content With Cardano Technology
Delhi, India, 21st November, 2022, Chainwire Tuition Coin aims to enhance the appeal of the Cardano ecosystem through its Teach to Earn nature. The venture will streamline participation in educat...
Sam Bankman-Fried tries to broker FTX bailout from his Bahamas home
Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO and Founder of FTX, walks near the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., September 15, 2022. Graeme Sloan | Sipa via AP Images Nassau, Bahamas — Despite being pushed out of the cry...
Is Patagonia the end game for profits in a world of climate change?
A Patagonia store signage is seen on Greene Street on September 14, 2022 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images News | Getty Images Many brands are aligning profits with purpose, but Pat...
A big new Exxon Mobil climate deal that got assist from Joe Biden
Could it be that Big Oil’s next big thing got a big assist from Joe Biden? Maybe, if carbon capture and storage is indeed as big a deal as ExxonMobil’s first-of-its-kind deal to extract, t...
FTX Collapse: 50 Creditors Seeking $3 Billion
Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX said its top 50 creditors are seeking $3 billion in claims. The insolvent company released the amount of the claims of each of the top creditors, but did not name ...
The Technology Behind The Epic Livestream Of ‘Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium’
Elton John’s final live concert in the United States will be streamed live on Disney+ on “Elton John … [+] Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium.” Disney+ It is the end of an era....
The PC boom has gone bust, and we are about to see the results ahead of Black Friday
The pandemic-fueled personal-computer boom has ended, so how will that affect demand and pricing for PCs and the retailers that sell them this holiday season? A sense of the fallout will be provided i...
Bankman-Fried’s FTX Was a Wild West And a Personal Bank
It was the Wild West. A place where everything was acceptable. Everything was allowed and there was no control to call to order those who went too far. There was no red line. The CEO considered the ...
Match Group Stock Has Been Knocked Down. It’s Time to Pick It Up.
Online dating has been a heartbreaker for investors in Match Group this year. The stock, however, now looks like a keeper. It hasn’t been an easy year for Match (ticker: MTCH). Its stock has fallen 65...
Retail Discounter TJX Is Thriving as Inflation Pressures Consumers
Text size These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the vi...
This British Clean-Energy Developer Is Making Big Bets
Europe’s urgent rush for new energy sources since Russia invaded Ukraine is creating a wide range of investment opportunities, including some intriguing speculative plays. Clean-energy developer Ceres...
FTX Sends Crypto Reeling. The Whales Move in to Profit.
Cryptocurrency markets have been slammed by the sudden bankruptcy of FTX. But amid the carnage, some big traders—whales—were buying. Bitcoin the largest crypto, was plumbing two-year lows at $16,600 o...
Former Silicon Valley Star Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to Prison
Failed startup founder Elizabeth Holmes received a sentence of over 11 years for the fraud she perpetrated when she duped investors about the effectiveness of a blood testing company. Holmes was sente...
Fed Tightening Is Having More Impact Than You Might Think
We’ve learned a lot about the transmission of disease in the past few years. Ideas, good and bad, are spread similarly. Robert Shiller, the Yale University Nobel laureate, wrote in Irrational Exuberan...
FTX Collapse: Bankman-Fried and His Ties to Democrats
Former cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried sought to court the favor of Democrats during the 2022 midterm election cycle by making massive donations. His political action committee gave over ...
Palo Alto Networks one of 2022’s best software stocks after another beat-and-raise quarter
Palo Alto Networks Inc. shares rallied Friday into rarified air for a tech company — and especially for an enterprise software company — in 2022, following another beat-and-raise quarter and praise fr...