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Every day, a new verbal attack followed by a counter-attack from the other side. None of the protagonists seems to want to lower the temperature. And things don’t seem to be getting better, on the contrary. The standoff between Elon Musk and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reaching levels of no return. Tesla’s…
Could Apple have a wage war on its hands? The iPhone maker could face some problems as voices swirl over a big bonus to CEO Tim Cook compared to worker wages. TheStreet’s Luc Olinga writes “Apple (AAPL) – Get Apple Inc. Report is used to laurels. Most often we praise its sense of innovation. And when we’re…
Michael (Mike) Novogratz is very active on the Twitter social network. But when we delve into the recent tweets of the former Goldman Sachs banker, we don’t really get the impression that the prices of cryptocurrencies, of which he is an ardent investor and evangelist, have been in pain for several weeks now. On closer…
When the notorious cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com, of which NBA superstar Lebron James has become the face, discovered on Jan. 17 that it had been hacked, the alert did not come from its monitoring tools. The firm, an inside source told TheStreet, was made aware of the intrusion into its system by actor, investor and crypto…
Now that the omicron Covid variant is waning, consumers are going out and spending, as was evident in the 3.8% rise in retail sales reported for January this week. And travel is one area seeing a big gain. “People really want to make sure they travel while they can,” Mark Matthews, marketing manager for Maui…
Walmart (WMT) – Get Walmart Inc. Report has had to play catchup for years as Amazon (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com, Inc. Report has caught and passed the big box retailer as the country’s go-to shopping option. Amazon’s exponential growth in the new millennium has similarities to Walmart’s growth in the 90’s before the internet changed everything. Unlike…
If you’re concerned about inflation, you’re not alone. “High and rising inflation has justly become the key preoccupation of investors,” J.P. Morgan strategists, led by Dubravko Lakos-Bujas, wrote in a commentary. “It is affecting consumer spending, business outlook, politics and, most importantly, the direction of monetary policy. While we expect the cyclical recovery to continue,…
Tech giant Amazon (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com, Inc. Report is hiring for the metaverse without necessarily calling attention to it. Amazon’s gaming engine Lumberyard, which has struggled to make inroads into the gaming developer space, is hiring its first metaverse person. The job titled “Senior Product Manager, Technical (AWS Game Tech)” was posted on LinkedIn four days…
We all look forward to that annual holiday bonus but, when it goes too far beyond what is customary, it can become the cause of both internal and external contention. Take Apple (AAPL) – Get Apple Inc. Report, where a top shareholder advisory group is urging investors to vote against the $99 million pay and…
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