Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin Amazon founder Jeff Bezos donated $100 million to the Obama Foundation, the largest individual gift … [+] the organization has ever received. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images, Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is on a giving spree. The second-richest person in the world on Monday committed $100…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Pfizer and BioNTech announced Monday their jointly-developed coronavirus vaccine offered strong long-term protection against Covid-19 in teenagers aged 12 to 15, data the companies said will support planned submissions for full regulatory approval in the U.S. and around the world. Pfizer said its Covid-19 vaccine provides 100% protection…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin Crowds gathered for the Christmas lights switch-on at Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark. David Nikel Copenhagen residents queued around the block to enter Tivoli Gardens for the opening day of its Christmas season, despite a recent surge in Covid-19 cases in Denmark. The traditional downtown amusement park first…
Behold the Winklevii: Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss of Gemini Space Station in March 2021. Michael Prince for Forbes After seven years of funding their Gemini cryptocurrency empire out of pocket, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are in the process of signing the last documents on their first round of capital, a $400 million investment that values…
ILLUSTRATION BY FORBES; PHOTO BY EVAN VUCCI/AP The Trump Media and Technology Group hasn’t done much yet. Investors still seem to think it’s worth about four times as much as everything else Donald Trump owns. Over the course of 75 years, Donald Trump amassed a pile of assets—skyscrapers, hotels, golf courses and so on—worth an…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin Jeff Bezos arrives at the Baby2Baby Gala at the Pacific Design Center on Saturday, November 13, … [+] 2021, in West Hollywood, California. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will donate $96.2 million to organizations helping homeless families, his charitable fund announced Wednesday. The gifts will be made…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline The Biden administration is preparing to invest billions of dollars to expand the country’s Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity in the second half of 2022, according to the New York Times, in a move that comes at a time when the U.S. and other wealthy nations face continued criticism…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline JPMorgan Chase sued Tesla for $162 million Monday, accusing the carmaker of breaching a contract over stock warrants after CEO Elon Musk tweeted about taking the company private in 2018, the latest fallout from the social media post that saw the billionaire charged with securities fraud. Elon Musk…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Hundreds of billions has been wiped from the cryptocurrency market Tuesday amid a market-wide crash that has seen the prices of major cryptocurrencies—including bitcoin, ethereum, cardano and solana—plummet and fall sharply from near record highs this week. Crypto prices fell sharply Tuesday. AFP via Getty Images Key Facts…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Tesla’s billionaire CEO, Elon Musk, who has been offloading billions of dollars worth of Tesla stock since last week, taunted Bernie Sanders on Twitter over the weekend after the U.S. senator repeated his calls for the wealthy to pay more in taxes. Musk, the richest person in the…





