Playboy is launching an NFT art gallery and auction hub via Nifty Gateway. Playboy’s chief brand officer Rachel Webber said NFTs present ‘an enormous business opportunity’. Playboy plans to use the partnership to showcase its art archive and to release original works. See more stories on Insider’s business page. Playboy is set to join the…
Trump’s plan to start a new social media network is highly unlikely to succeed, experts have told Insider. The former president is reportedly planning a new platform to recover the audience he lost after being kicked off Twitter. But Trump will struggle, experts believe, with any new platform likely to struggle financially. See more stories…
“StudyTube” has become a popular trend on YouTube, and major advertisers are taking notice. Some study influencers have seen a lift in brand interest since the pandemic took learning online. Popular study influencers are earning thousands of dollars through AdSense and brand partnerships. See more stories on Insider’s business page. In 2019, the YouTuber Elliot…
Apr 10th 2021SAN FRANCISCOFacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppONE OF SILICON VALLEY’S most successful inventions is hype. It usually disappoints. In 2015 live-streaming from smartphones became all the rage. But Meerkat, an app which pioneered it, shut down the following year. On April 1st Periscope, its more successful rival, did too (no joke). Will Clubhouse, a buzzy app that hosts…
Apr 8th 2021FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppFACED WITH recalcitrant sovereign counterparties, foreign investors and companies occasionally take drastic action. A picaresque example of the genre occurred in 2012, when Elliott Management, a buccaneering American hedge fund which held distressed Argentine bonds, seized a handsome tall ship belonging to Argentina’s navy. Elliott’s aggressive tactics ultimately paid off, and others have…
Good morning and welcome to 10 Things in Tech. If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Let’s get started.1. Hackers scraped data from 500 million LinkedIn users and posted it for sale online. In the wake of Facebook’s major data leak, LinkedIn is investigating a leak that affected two-thirds of its users. Here’s…
Former VP Mike Pence added Trump administration officials to his new political advocacy group. Ice Miller LLP added Pence’s nephew John Pence and former Buttigieg campaign staffer George Hornedo. Freshman Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Georgia Democrat, also staffed up his Senate office See more stories on Insider’s business page. A diaspora of Hoosier politicos in…
US Markets Loading… H M S Premium Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidates Amanda Chase, Kirk Cox, Pete Snyder, and Sergio de la Peña. Photos by Steve Helber/ AP Photo; Julia Rendleman for The Washington Post via Getty Images; Steve Helberand/ AP Photo; and De la Pena campaign site This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers.…
US Markets Loading… H M S Insider Intelligence publishes thousands of research reports, charts, and forecasts on the Banking industry. You can learn more about becoming a client here.The following is a preview of one Banking report, the The UK Banking Channel Forecast. You can purchase this report here.The UK banking space is experiencing a…
Manchin suggested he may thwart Democratic attempts to bypass Republicans in Congress more than once. “I simply do not believe budget reconciliation should replace regular order in the Senate,” Manchin wrote in a Post op-ed. It comes as the White House weighs the path ahead for a massive infrastructure plan. See more stories on Insider’s…