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Bloomberg A Crypto Kid Had a $23,000-a-Month Condo. Then the Feds Came (Bloomberg) — Stefan Qin was just 19 when he claimed to have the secret to cryptocurrency trading.Buoyed with youthful confidence, Qin, a self-proclaimed math prodigy from Australia, dropped out of college in 2016 to start a hedge fund in New York he called Virgil Capital. He told potential clients he had developed an algorithm called Tenjin to monitor cryptocurrency exchanges around the world to seize on price… Source link

Wednesday, February 10, 2021 This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Tesla’s big bitcoin bet Tesla’s (TSLA) revelation Monday that it bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin (BTC-USD) has already paid off for the electric vehicle maker, with its holdings growing by 35% as of Tuesday, according to a Yahoo Finance analysis. But the good… Source link

The Super Bowl’s in the books, and that means it’s time to close the door on this year’s crop of ads, too. We graded every single one of them as they aired last night, but here’s the greatest (and un-greatest) hits version: the best and worst of what we saw last night. The Best Tide Your verdict on how you liked these Super Bowl ads depended largely on how you like your nostalgia served: remixed or just reheated. The Jason Alexander hoodie bit was a clever little montage, and setting… Source link

People involved said both sides developed a friendly relationship with no bad blood from five years ago, when talks went south after Ford reportedly wanted more of a high-profile partnership than the quiet, technical tie-up Google desired. Also at issue in the previous talks: who controls the data. This time around, Ford has said that Google will not have access to customer data, but Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas said Ford is likely to share key vehicle data that’s not… Source link

People involved said both sides developed a friendly relationship with no bad blood from five years ago, when talks went south after Ford reportedly wanted more of a high-profile partnership than the quiet, technical tie-up Google desired. Also at issue in the previous talks: who controls the data. This time around, Ford has said that Google will not have access to customer data, but Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas said Ford is likely to share key vehicle data that’s not… Source link

The Telegraph Reining in the big hitters: Golf’s governing bodies take steps to tackle game’s distance problem Golf’s leading authorities signalled their intention to rescue the future of the sport from the big hitters on Tuesday by unveiling proposals to rein in the likes of Bryson DeChambeau and Rory McIlroy. The game’s two governing bodies, the R&A and the US Golf Association, have paved the way for restrictions on equipment including limits on the length of drivers and the introduction… Source link

SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Google’s digital advertising empire is regaining the momentum it lost during the pandemic’s early stages as its YouTube video service matures into a major marketing magnet and other companies pour more into promotions aimed at cooped-up consumers with money to spend. The comeback highlighted the latest quarterly results released Tuesday by Alphabet Inc., Google’s corporate parent. As usual, Alphabet generated all but a small fraction of its revenue… Source link

Over the past few years, Google owner Alphabet’s stock had lagged compared to the stellar rise of big techs like the other FAANG members and Microsoft. That’s finally starting to change. But investors might be overlooking one major problem: potential regulatory risk. Alphabet is trading near an all-time high, thanks to strong digital advertising and booming demand for its Google Cloud services. The stock has outperformed most of the other big techs during the past six months,… Source link

Ford Motor Co. and Google announced a strategic partnership on Monday that’s meant to more quickly modernize the 117-year-old automaker in unique ways and more aggressively use data to drive revenue and improve customer experience. Ford will start exploring this year the use of technology to provide oversight and quality control of factory robotics as well as additional training of UAW members on the plant floors, while Ford and Lincoln customers will start seeing new driver… Source link

Monday, February 1, 2021 Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe The GameStop saga is somewhere between a low and high risk event The massive surge in GameStop (GME) shares, the role of the r/wallstreetbets community, and everything else connected to the ongoing ordeal has attracted attention from Wall Street to Main Street and everyone in between. Regulators and even celebrities are chiming in. The story is dominating headlines as it… Source link