Blackmagic Design’s Grant Petty turned the chip on his shoulder about Hollywood’s tech elite into one of the most innovative manufacturers of inexpensive filmmaking equipment. Thanks to the pandemic, a contempt for outsourcing and an army of YouTubers, his business is booming. All of 2020 and half of 2021, I was working until 2 a.m.…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin TOPSHOT – CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk speaks at the Tesla Giga Texas manufacturing “Cyber Rodeo” … [+] grand opening party on April 7, 2022 in Austin, Texas. – Tesla welcomed throngs of electric car lovers to Texas on April 7 for a huge party inaugurating a…
The Miami Bull, an 11-foot, 3,000-pound statue, outside the Miami Beach Convention Center during the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg Furio Tedeschi cares not a whit about the criticism heaped on his robo-crypto bull statue, which was unveiled in Miami on Wednesday during a large…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinElectric vehicle sales have been exploding, particularly in Europe. But most of the attention has been on passenger cars. Commercial vehicles also contribute to the greenhouse gas and city air quality issues the world is facing. Anglo-Swedish startup Volta Trucks reckons it has the answer in the shape of…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Major oil and gas companies, which scrambled to abandon operations in Russia following the invasion of Ukraine in late February, are now warning that doing so will result in billions of dollars of losses. Several companies have warned that upcoming earnings results could take a hit. Spencer Platt/Getty…
From Bedding to Betting: Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale hedges big furniture promotions at his Texas stores with multimillion-dollar sports wagers. “It’s a lot sexier than liability insurance,” he says. Gallery Furniture For some sports gamblers, betting on the Super Bowl coin toss is about as good as the odds can get. But for Jim McIngvale,…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Tesla CEO Elon Musk has acquired a 9.2% stake in Twitter, the social media giant disclosed in an SEC filing on Monday, a move that comes weeks after the billionaire accused Twitter of failing to adhere to free speech principles. Elon Musk has acquired a 9.2% stake in…
Chickens, many of them destined for the spit, have vastly outnumbered humans in Nebraska’s Butler County since Costco spent half a billion dollars on poultry production in the state a few years ago. Now that a highly contagious virus called avian flu has infected flocks in the area, neighboring farmers are realizing they may have…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline In her first Tesla sales since January, famed stock picker Cathie Wood, the CEO of investment firm Ark Invest, has offloaded a massive stake in the electric vehicle maker helmed by Elon Musk over the past week, dumping more than $200 million in shares to instead splurge on…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin The wreckage of an Su-34 in Ukraine. Photo via Oryx blog The Sukhoi Su-34 was supposed to change the Russian air force. The twin-engine, twin-seat, supersonic fighter-bomber—a highly-evolved variant of the Su-27 air-superiority fighter—promised to usher in a new era of high-tech, precision bombing. Instead, the Su-34s have…





