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If you’ve been to a live event recently, you may have noticed something called Liquid Death being sold at food and drink stands. For those not in the know, the name may be a little intimidating. But “Liquid Death” is just water in a can. Now the brand, which has been independently owned and operated since its creation in 2017, has raised a new round of investment that values it at $1.4 billion. In a release Monday, Liquid Death said it had hit $263 million in global sales and can be found… Source link

When Stefan Prodanovic began experimenting with graphic design at age 13, jointly creating digital games with a school friend who worked on the coding, he never could have anticipated the hobby would turn into a rather lucrative business into his adulthood. Today, Prodanovic is earning $20,000 a month creating artwork for non-fungible token (NFT) collections. The 25-year-old graphic designer from Bosnia, who has become a top-rated seller on Fiverr — an online marketplace for professional… Source link

In 1998, a computer science PhD student called Larry Page submitted a patent for internet search based on an obscure piece of mathematics. The method, known today as PageRank, allowed the most relevant webpages to be found much more rapidly and accurately than ever before. The patent, initially owned by Stanford, was sold in 2005 for shares that are today worth more than $1bn. Page’s company, Google, has a net worth of well over $1tr. It wasn’t Page, or Google’s cofounder Sergey Brin,… Source link

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Google will “double down” on California by investing more than $1 billion in properties and development projects statewide, including several in the Bay Area, the search giant said Thursday. “A lasting economic recovery will come from local communities, and the people and small businesses that give them life,” said Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google and its owner, tech titan Alphabet. “Google wants to be a part of that recovery.” Mountain… Source link

By almost any metric, the Trump administration has taken extraordinary measures to help the president’s businesses profit during his four years in office. The administration pushed to hold the G7 summit at President Trump’s private club and the President himself visited one of his own properties on approximately one out of every three days he’s been in office. But the striking thing, based on the limited information we have about the inner workings of Trump’s company, is how little… Source link