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Michael Saylor is never selling MicroStrategy’s bitcoin

Michael Saylor is never selling MicroStrategy’s bitcoin

This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: Even by the standards of bitcoin bulls, Michael Saylor stands out. The MicroStrategy executive chairman spends his days posting quasi-mystical bitcoin memes and prophet-like pronouncements (see his pinned post on X). His company now holds 205,000 bitcoins (~$14.5 billion right now) and he’s spearheaded MicroStrategy’s transition from a modest business software company… Source link

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Tech company Yandex is selling Russian operations for $5 billion. It’s a big discount

Tech company Yandex is selling Russian operations for $5 billion. It’s a big discount

The Dutch parent of pioneering Russian tech company Yandex is selling its operations in the country at a steeply discounted price of just over $5 billion to its Russia-based managers and oil company Lukoil By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer February 5, 2024, 8:29 AM ET • 3 min read FRANKFURT, Germany — The Dutch parent of pioneering Russian tech company Yandex is selling its operations in the country at a steeply discounted price of just over $5 billion to its Russia-based managers and oil… Source link

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Parents selling videos of their kids for $50 in Google-backed study

Parents selling videos of their kids for $50 in Google-backed study

A Google sign in front of an office at Google headquarters on Dec. 19, 2023, in Mountain View, Calif. The company poured resources into artificial intelligence research in 2023. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Google is paying to collect video footage of 13- to 17-year-old children and studying their skin tones and eyelid shapes, according to a Thursday report from 404 Media. The outlet cited a “Facial Video Data Collection Project” web page run by Canadian tech corporation Telus… Source link

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Someone’s Selling Google’s Pixel Tablet on Facebook Marketplace

Someone’s Selling Google’s Pixel Tablet on Facebook Marketplace

This is one of the only promotional photos that Google has officially released of the Pixel Tablet.Screenshot: Google Google’s Pixel tablet isn’t supposed to come out until 2023, but we’re already seeing a supposed early unit up for grabs. This leak comes to us from Twitter, though it’s just a collection of screenshots from a Facebook Marketplace post that claims to be selling the announced-but-unreleased Google Pixel Tablet. The listing’s headline doesn’t mince any words:

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Stocks struggle to rebound as selling pressure continues

Stocks struggle to rebound as selling pressure continues

U.S. stocks edged lower in choppy trading Wednesday, extending a downtrend that started the week as investors weigh higher interest rates and the prospect of an economic downturn against optimism around easing COVID protocols in China. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) slumped 0.3%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) fell roughly 50 points, or 0.2%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) sank 0.7%. In commodities markets, oil extended losses to trade near $72 per barrel after a decline of… Source link

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Stocks struggle to rebound as selling pressure continues

Stocks struggle to rebound as selling pressure continues

U.S. stocks edged lower in choppy trading Wednesday, extending a downtrend that started the week as investors weigh higher interest rates and the prospect of an economic downturn against optimism around easing COVID protocols in China. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) slumped 0.3%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) fell roughly 50 points, or 0.2%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) sank 0.7%. In commodities markets, oil extended losses to trade near $72 per barrel after a decline of… Source link

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We are selling ‘more cars than we are able to produce’

We are selling ‘more cars than we are able to produce’

Every December, the well-heeled and art world cognoscenti flock to South Florida for this week’s Art Basel Miami (though many would like to forget about last year’s NFT-driven mania). High-end automakers are on display as well, including Rolls-Royce, Porsche, and Lamborghini. For Lamborghini, it was a chance to show off its latest creation — the absolutely wild Huracán Sterrato, an off-road version of its two-door supercar. Despite concerns over the macro economic environment, the… Source link

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