Amateur Fossil Hunters Make Rare Find in U.K. Using Google Earth

LONDON — Millions of years before the Cotswolds, in western England, became a popular vacation destination, romanticized for its ancient woodlands, honey-colored stone villages and medieval abbeys, it was a shallow, warm sea, home to a Jurassic marine ecosystem. Over 167 million years later, two amateur paleontologists, Neville and Sally Hollingworth, uncovered fossils in a limestone quarry there, the largest find of Jurassic starfish and their relatives ever to be made in Britain. More than… Source link

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Real Estate Investing Guru Mindy Jensen Says To Avoid These Types of Properties

Mindy Jensen Mindy Jensen is the co-host of the “BiggerPockets Money” podcast and the co-author of “First-Time Home Buyer, The Complete Playbook To Avoiding Rookie Mistakes.” She’s also a licensed real estate agent in Colorado and has been buying and selling homes since 1998. She is passionate about helping buyers make intelligent, informed decisions about their home purchases. Recognized by GOBankingRates as one of Money’s Most Influential, here she shares the types of properties… Source link

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Should you own (maybe just a little) Bitcoin

MIAMI, FLORIDA – JUNE 04: Jack Dorsey creator, co-founder, and Chairman of Twitter and co-founder & CEO of Square speaks on stage at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, a crypto-currency conference held at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood on June 04, 2021 in Miami, Florida. The crypto conference is expected to draw 50,000 people and runs from Friday, June 4 through June 6th. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Is crypto the (new) trade of our lifetime? I ask this question as the price of Bitcoin… Source link

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China Orders Tencent to Give Up Exclusive Music Rights

(Bloomberg) — Tencent Holdings Ltd. was ordered to give up exclusive music streaming rights and pay half a million yuan in fines, becoming the latest Chinese internet giant to be brought to heel by regulators. An official investigation found Tencent’s 2016 acquisition of China Music Corp.’s stakes violated regulations partly because of a lack of reporting to authorities, according to a statement by the anti-trust watchdog on Saturday. The State Administration for Market Regulation… Source link

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Suze Orman’s Top 26 Tips That Will Save You From Financial Disaster

Stephen Lovekin / Getty Images Suze Orman was working as a waitress and making $400 a month at 29 years old. She then decided to take a chance on a major career change and landed a job as a broker for Merrill Lynch. Having been on both ends of the financial spectrum, Orman knows what it takes to make the leap from broke to wealthy, and is now one of the most respected voices in personal finance — as well as a New York Times bestselling author with more than 25 million books in circulation…. Source link

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Bitcoin Analysts Expect a Short-Squeeze

Bitcoin pulled back on Friday after rising nearly 10% earlier this week. The cryptocurrency was trading around $32,000 at press time and is up about 2% over the past seven days. Ether, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency, is holding above $2,000 and is up about 6% over the past week.  Upside momentum is improving, which could keep crypto buyers active into the weekend. Some analysts expect a short-squeeze to push bitcoin above the 50-day moving average around $34,000 given oversold… Source link

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EV startup Rivian announces $2.5 billion funding round led by Amazon, Ford

By Ben Klayman DETROIT (Reuters) -Electric car startup Rivian said on Friday it has closed a $2.5 billion fundraising round led by investors Amazon.com Inc , Ford Motor Co and T. Rowe Price. The announcement came the day after the California-based company said it was exploring building a second U.S. assembly plant. Reuters, citing unnamed sources, reported on Thursday that Rivian’s planned plant, dubbed “Project Tera,” will include battery cell production. “As we near the start of vehicle… Source link

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Google is finally doing something about Google Drive spam

Enlarge / Blocking individual users in Google Drive! Finally! Google A notification pops up on your phone: “Click here for hot XXX action!” It’s Google Drive again. Someone shared a document containing that title, and now your phone is begging you to look at it. Even if you ban Google Drive from generating phone notifications, you’ll still get emails. If you block the emails, you’ll have to see the spam when you click on the “shared” section of… Source link

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Retail investors bought the dip yet again

The S&P 500 swooned briefly this week, falling around 2.5% on July 19, before recovering through Friday. During that brief time, scores of retail investors trained by the mantra “buy the dip” did just that. So what happened? DataTrek’s Nicholas Colas hypothesized that the retail investor behavior we’ve seen play out over the past 18 months likely recurred. Searches for “Dow Jones” spiked during Monday’s market dip, Colas pointed out, and a note from Goldman Sachs indicated… Source link

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How to watch and what to expect

The online brokerage Robinhood, which aims to “democratize finance for all” through commission-free trading, is having a highly non-traditional IPO roadshow this Saturday, July 24.  Rather than pitching itself to investors in closed-door meetings, Robinhood will livestream its IPO roadshow on this website from 3-4 p.m. ET/12-1 p.m. PT. — anyone can watch, and the public was allowed to submit questions until midday on Friday, July 23. The company, which faces litigation and regulatory… Source link

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