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Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTesla TSLA billionaire Elon Musk, after helping the bitcoin price reach never-before-seen highs this year with a $1.5 billion bet on bitcoin, appears to have abandoned the cryptocurrency for ethereum and the meme-based dogecoin. “I pretty much agree with Vitalik,” Musk posted to Twitter this week, replying to a…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Riad Salameh, Governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon, attends the UAE-Lebanon Investment Forum in Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 7, 2019. REUTERS/Satish Kumar/File Photo PARIS (Reuters) – French prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into money laundering allegations against Lebanon’s central bank governor, Agence France-Presse reported on Sunday. Riad Salameh is…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden gestures toward Senator Shelley Capito (R-WV) during an infrastructure meeting with Republican Senators at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 13, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden and Republicans entered the weekend sharply at odds over how to craft an infrastructure…
Tesla CEO Elon has made it official and publicly cancelled plans to produce the Model S Plaid+, a supercharged version of the upcoming Plaid version of the electric vehicle that will be delivered to the first customers this month. Musk’s reason: Plaid is so good that another variant isn’t needed. “Model S goes to Plaid…
Former president Donald Trump on Saturday sharply attacked US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, demanded reparations from China and denounced an investigation into his finances in a speech in North Carolina.Speaking in Greenville, North Carolina, at the state’s Republican Party convention, Mr Trump joined a chorus of Republican…
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Earlier today, TechCrunch’s Kirsten Korosec reported that the autonomous vehicle startup Aurora is close to finalizing a deal to merge with one of three blank-check companies that have been formed to date by renowned entrepreneurs Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus and a third partner in these deals, Michael Thompson, who long managed special situation funds.…
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices…
Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, I wrote about tech taking on Disney. This week, I’m talking about the search for a new crypto messiah. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch site, you can get this in your inbox from the newsletter page, and follow my tweets @lucasmtny. The…





