Month: February 2022

Major tech companies are opening offices in Atlanta, hoping to capitalize on the technology talent in the city, especially the Black talent. Silicon Valley-based Apple and Google parent Alphabet as well as Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft have all set up shop in Atlanta in recent years. Headquartered near San Francisco, payments giant Visa is also opening
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In this article FB CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday reiterated his long-term confidence in Facebook parent Meta Platforms, but said investors who want to take advantage of the stock’s post-earnings plunge should be patient. “I say Meta-Facebook will be a buy because eventually the sellers do get exhausted… and this will be no different from
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In this article F Ford Motor Co. signage at the Washington Auto Show in Washington, D.C., Jan. 21, 2022. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images DETROIT — Ford Motor‘s shares slid after it reported fourth-quarter earnings Thursday that significantly missed Wall Street’s earnings expectations and slightly missed on revenue. The company’s shares tumbled by
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CEO Rafal Modrzewski inspects some of the company’s satellite hardware. ICEYE Finnish satellite-imagery venture ICEYE has raised $136 million in new funds, the company announced on Thursday, as it looks to add to its spacecraft fleet in orbit and further develop its product line in natural catastrophe detection. The latest round of venture capital fundraising,
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In my prior article, I laid out the Illinois General Assembly’s repeated unanimous, near-unanimous or strong bipartisan majority support for a series of bills increasing pension benefits for public employees from 1989 – 2000. But what more can we learn from what the senators and representatives themselves said about the bills? Their comments are quite
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As he takes over as New York’s new mayor, Brooklyn Democrat Eric Adams faces both immediate and longer-term economic challenges.  How he copes with them will say a lot about the future of New York, and by extension America’s cities.  Adams is only the second Black mayor in the city’s history. He ran as a working-class candidate
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Franz Weber, world-famous Olympian, six-time World Speed Skiing Champion and former world record holder (Weber still holds the North American record), is a visionary and a man for all seasons. A long-time resident of Lake Tahoe, Weber and his wife, Janet, founded Franz Weber Inc., a Reno-based sports management and consulting company, in 1984. Today,
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Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022 is a Winter Games-themed game that incorporates non-fungible tokens (NFTs). nWay The International Olympic Committee has become the latest organization to jump into the non-fungible token craze. The association that organizes the Olympic Games said Thursday it has launched a mobile game based on the upcoming Beijing 2022 winter event.
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Ken Griffin, Founder and CEO, Citadel Mike Blake | Reuters Billionaire investor Ken Griffin’s hedge funds scored gains in January despite the tech rout that crushed the market, as the spike in volatility and steep sell-off in growth stocks created an ideal environment for fast-money traders. Citadel’s multistrategy flagship fund Wellington increased 4.71% last month,
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