Amazon's $35M marketing campaign for Melania is ~10x the budget for similar documentaries like CNN's RBG; some suggest Amazon is currying favor with Trump
The tech giant is spending $35 million to promote its film about the first lady, far more than is typical for documentaries.
DoorDash partners with Klarna to offer payment plans, including credit options for purchases of $35 or more; Grubhub also uses Klarna as a payment option
in Case You Need a Loan to Pay for Your Burrito Jordan Valinsky / CNN : DoorDash will soon let users eat now and pay in installments Niket Nishant / Reuters : NYSE-bound Klarna signs payments deal wit...
Trump Media unveils fintech brand Truth.Fi with an investment of up to $250M, which can be allocated to various investments, like bitcoin and other crypto
Trump's Net Worth Spikes Over $200 Million Mohammad Shahid / BeInCrypto : Trump Media Group to Invest Up to $250 Million in Crypto with Truth.Fi Jai Hamid / Cryptopolitan : Trump Media announces Bitco...
Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth has climbed almost sixfold to $200B+ in less than two years, buoyed by Meta's record-high share price, which is up 60%+ YTD
The Metaverse Masterstroke The Week : What is Mark Zuckerberg's net worth? How Orion glasses, AI push helped Meta CEO become 4th richest person Hindustan Times : Mark Zuckerberg now fourth richest in ...
The FBI says that losses from crypto-related frauds increased 45% YoY to $5.6B in 2023, with losses from investment scams accounting for 71% of the total
FBI Tanzeel Akhtar / Cryptonews : FBI Reports $5.6B Lost to Crypto Fraud, 45% Increase in Loss Since Prev Year Associated Press : Americans lost $5.6 billion last year in cryptocurrency fraud scams, t...
The FCC says 20M+ US households are now enrolled to receive $30/month in subsidies for internet access, up from 16M+ in February 2023 and 10M+ in February 2022
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Meta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $32B, net income up 16% YoY to $7.79B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.07B for June 2023; META jumps 10%+
but most of the new users came from outside the US and Canada Karissa Bell / Engadget : Meta had its best quarter since 2021 despite losing more money on the metaverse Abubakar Idris / The Messenger :...
Pathmatics estimates the monthly revenue from Twitter's top 1,000 advertisers fell 60%+ from around $127M in October 2022 to just over $48M by January 25, 2023
New York CNN — — More than half of Twitter's top 1,000 advertisers in September were no longer spending on the platform …
CNN closes its “Vault by CNN” NFT project, launched in 2021 to “own a piece of history”, and plans to compensate purchasers with FLOW tokens or stablecoins
You may have already forgotten about it, but Vault by CNN launched in the summer of 2021 as a marketplace for its own NFTs …
Binance says 2M BNB, worth ~$570M, were stolen from its BNB Chain in an exploit; “majority” of BNB are in the hacker's wallet, ~$100M worth were “unrecovered”
Then It Got Complicated The Guardian : World's largest crypto exchange hacked with possible losses of $500m Ephrat Livni / New York Times : Binance Blockchain Hit by $570 Million Hack, Exposing Crypto...