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Up Close With Yahoo x Rebecca Minkoff’s New NFT and AR Experience

Up Close With Yahoo x Rebecca Minkoff’s New NFT and AR Experience

Rebecca Minkoff just became the first major American designer to make her collection available via NFT. In a new tech-forward collaboration with Yahoo Ryot Lab, unveiled Friday, the project offers digital versions of the designer’s fall/holiday looks, along with immersive online and augmented reality experiences. More from WWD The partners took WWD through a tour of the experience, which is debuting alongside New York Fashion Week. Optimized for mobile and also available via desktop, the… Source link

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GameStop shares close in green, recover from 10% dip

GameStop shares close in green, recover from 10% dip

GameStop (GME) shares turned positive Thursday afternoon after dipping as much as 10% post quarterly earnings. The stock closed fractionally higher at $199.18 each.  Shares of the video-game retailer had opened lower on Thursday after the company reported an adjusted loss per share of 76 cents with revenue of $1.18 billion for its 2nd quarter. The stock rallied back just above the flat line by the afternoon to end the session in the green.  On Wednesday management said the company has enough… Source link

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Fed to keep cards close to the chest on taper

Fed to keep cards close to the chest on taper

The Federal Reserve has signaled that it will slow its asset purchases as the U.S. economy continues to recover. But the Fed has not offered any clues as to when it will begin “tapering” its so-called quantitative easing program, which is currently absorbing about $80 billion in U.S Treasuries and about $40 billion in agency mortgage-backed securities each month. The Federal Open Market Committee will meet Tuesday and Wednesday to check in on its monetary policy stance, which has been Source link

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Bitcoin Heads for Its Worst Weekly Close in Over a Month

Bitcoin Heads for Its Worst Weekly Close in Over a Month

Bloomberg Crypto Insiders Posit Bitcoin Price Floor Around $30,000 Level (Bloomberg) — Bitcoin has been grinding lower in a trading range just above $30,000, prompting cryptocurrency insiders to flag the round number as a potential floor for the virtual coin.Crypto prognostication is fraught with risk, not least because Bitcoin’s price has roughly halved from a record high three months ago. Even so, some in the industry are coalescing around $30,000 as a support point, citing clues from… Source link

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Chris Harrison’s ‘Bachelor’ payout battle may open ‘a can of worms’ — or close it

Chris Harrison’s ‘Bachelor’ payout battle may open ‘a can of worms’ — or close it

Chris Harrison is officially exiting “The Bachelor” franchise after nearly 20 years — and is reportedly seeking a golden parachute that may top eight figures.   The longtime host is out after he defended the behavior of contestant Rachael Kirkconnell — which was widely condemned as racially insensitive — in an interview with former Bachelorette star Rachel Lindsay, who became the first Black lead for the franchise in 2017. Rumors circulated that Harrison was on the outs after it was… Source link

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