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Apple CEO Tim Cook says company is upping investment in Vietnam
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) shakes hands with Apple CEO Tim Cook (L) during a meeting at the Government Office in Hanoi on April 16, 2024.Photo: DUC KHANHDUC KHANH/AFP (Getty Images) Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple wants to invest more in suppliers in Vietnam during a meeting with Vietnamese prime minister ... -
Fool’s Gold Might Actually Become Valuable
Pyrite, the yellow metal known as fool’s gold, has another trick up its sleeve: it can contain lithium, a crucial element in the world’s quest for greener energy, according to a team of researchers that studied rock deposits in the eastern United States. Wagner Moura on Playing a Journalist in Civil War The researchers examined ... -
Bill Eggert | Black, gold edition of April Fools’ Day | News
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – April Fools’ Day is fading in life’s rear-view mirror. Jokers and jesters were out in full force. You would think that after 500 years of civilization, folks would be weary of these jokes. I remember in my younger days when radio DJs would pretend to change the station’s music format from classic ... -
Samsung upping Texas semiconductor investment to $44 billion
Samsung office in Seoul, South Korea, August 25, 2017Photo: Chung Sung-Jun (Getty Images) U.S. chipmaking is getting another boost from South Korean electronics giant, Samsung, which reportedly plans to up its investment into a semiconductor hub in Texas to $44 billion. Chase to share customer data with advertisers Samsung committed $17 billion to build a ... -
Jeffrey Epstein’s secret island visitors tracked by data broker
A data broker compiled a report on the geographical movements of visitors to Jeffrey Epstein’s “pedophile island,” culling it from mobile data that it acquired via unknown means, a new investigation by Wired reveals. Is Bitcoin a good speculative investment? The company in question, which was formerly called Near Intelligence, confirmed to Wired that it ... -
A Data Broker Reportedly Tracked Visitors to Jeffrey Epstein’s Island
A data broker compiled a report on the geographical movements of visitors to Jeffrey Epstein’s “pedophile island,” culling it from mobile data that it acquired via unknown means, a new investigation by Wired reveals. The FTC Just Prescribed a Can of Whoop Ass on Health Data The company in question, which was formerly called Near ... -
SK Hynix reportedly planning $4 billion investment in Indiana
Workers at a SK Hynix plant on August 25, 2015, in Icheon, South Korea. U.S. efforts to become a dominant force in the chipmaking industry could be propelled by a planned $4 billion advanced chip-packaging facility in Indiana. Is it too late to invest in Nvidia? | Smart Investing SK Hynix, a South Korean semiconductor ... -
Reddit shares rise 30% to start week after social media company’s IPO
Reddit shares soared 48% when it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock ticker “RDDT,” resulting in a number of moderators and users, known as Redditors, earning millions of dollars as a group. Those Redditers, along with corporate insiders and their friends and family members, were able to partake in Reddit’s ... -
(RDDT) starts trading on NYSE
The stock opened at $47 and reached a high of $57.80. At Thursday’s peak, the company had a market cap of about $10.9 billion. Reddit shares then dropped to $48.64 roughly half-an-hour after they began trading, giving the company a market cap of about $7.9 billion. Trading under the ticker symbol “RDDT,” Reddit is testing ... -
House Passes Privacy Bill Banning Data Brokers From Selling Your Info to Russia and China
The U.S. House passed a bill that would ban third-party data brokers from selling the user data of Americans to geopolitical adversaries like China and Russia. And while it still needs to pass the Senate to become law, it’s a step in the right direction as recent headlines mostly focus on a potential ban on ...