Deliveroo promises some riders $14,000 when it IPOs. Most will get far less
Amazon-backed food delivery startup Deliveroo has announced plans to give some of its busiest riders £10,000 bonuses ($13,850) when it goes public…
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‘We were the only airplanes in the sky’ — the surreal lives of Covid-era pilots
Darrell Myers remembers the surreal feeling last March when nearly all passenger travel shut down, leaving cargo pilots like him flying all alone.…
Continue ReadingChinese selfie app pours cash into bitcoin and could buy more
Tesla turned heads last month when it revealed that it had invested big in bitcoin. Now a Chinese company is jumping on the cryptocurrency bandwagon,…
Continue ReadingChina faces huge climate and tech challenges in its bid for global leadership
China’s leaders are finalizing their political and economic agenda for the rest of 2021 and beyond. How the country achieves technological…
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You can buy the first-ever tweet. The current bid: $2.5 million
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is selling the first-ever published tweet as an NFT, a kind of digital collector’s item. Dorsey shared a tweet on…
Continue ReadingHow the Murdochs are shaping the GOP for the next 4 years of Joe Biden
Fox News follows the money and the Republican Party follows Fox News. Now, the network is setting the stage for what the next four years of the GOP…
Continue ReadingTesla is about to unveil an updated Cybertruck, Elon Musk says
More than a year since Tesla unveiled the first version of the Cybertruck, the company has been mostly silent about plans for its highly anticipated…
Continue ReadingWhy Apple, Sephora and Nordstrom are jumping on this trend to pull in shoppers
As the pandemic drags on, big chains like Target and Nordstrom are looking for ways to keep consumers coming back to their stores. One go-to strategy…
Continue ReadingIt’s been a year since markets crashed. Is another reckoning around the corner?
It’s been nearly a year since the coronavirus pandemic ended the S&P 500’s longest-ever bull run and sent stocks everywhere into a…
Continue ReadingDow soars more than 570 points in topsy-turvy trading after solid jobs report
It took them a few hours, but investors finally decided that good economic news is good for Wall Street. The Dow skyrocketed more than 570 points, or…
Continue ReadingThe Dow is up 500 points in topsy-turvy trading after solid jobs report
It took them a few hours, but investors finally decided that good economic news is good for Wall Street. The Dow was up more than 500 points, or…
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She lost her husband to Covid-19. Now she wants Texans to keep wearing their masks
Eight months ago, Delia Ramos was unable to say goodbye to her husband, Ricardo, in person as he died in the hospital from Covid-19. Now, after Texas…
Continue ReadingLachlan Murdoch finally says it out loud: Fox is the ‘loyal opposition’ to Biden
A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. On Thursday I…
Continue ReadingJeep boss says it might drop Cherokee name
Jeep’s new boss says the company is open to dropping the name “Cherokee” from its vehicles in response to objections from the…
Continue ReadingUS and EU agree to suspend tariffs linked to long-running Boeing-Airbus dispute
The United States and European Union have agreed to suspend for four months all tariffs related to the long-running dispute over subsidies to Boeing…
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Stocks up in topsy-turvy trading following solid jobs report
Investors can’t decide if good economic news is good for Wall Street. Although stocks opened sharply higher following a solid February jobs…
Continue ReadingJeep boss says it may might drop Cherokee name
Jeep’s new boss says the company is open to dropping the name “Cherokee” from its vehicles in response to objections from the…
Continue ReadingStocks are mixed as a solid jobs report juices inflation fears
So much for good economic news actually being treated as good news on Wall Street. Although stocks opened sharply higher following a solid February…
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Stocks fall despite solid jobs report
So much for good economic news actually being treated as good news on Wall Street. Although stocks opened sharply higher following a solid February…
Continue ReadingFake tax preparer gets six Covid-19 bailout loans worth more than $1 million
His past clients say he’s a scammer who ran off with their money, and a judge barred him from illegally masquerading as a certified public…
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