Netflix pours more fuel on its ‘fire’ content
Netflix raises another $1.5 in debt as they continue to flood their platform with more original content.
BY Lindsey Quinn ON April 24, 2018
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A way of life: The business of Minecraft, and how Microsoft’s looking to shake things up
Microsoft has paid Minecraft creators $7m since its Minecraft Marketplace release -- enough for some players to quit their day jobs.
BY Wes Schlagenhauf ON April 24, 2018
Offshore crypto: The world’s biggest crypto exchange is moving to Malta
The world’s biggest crypto exchange is moving to a small island in the Mediterranean for their liberal trading policies and may inspire other exchanges to follow suit.
BY Wes Schlagenhauf ON April 24, 2018
Canadian poker giant places a $4.7B bet on the future of gambling in the US
A Supreme Court decision that will likely end up legalizing sports betting across the board in the US has led to a pre-emptive shakeup in the online gambling industry.
BY Conor Grant ON April 24, 2018
Cosmetic surgery social platform raises $40m to help people “work on themselves”
As more and more people go under the knife, the platform wants to bring transparency to a historically hush-hush industry.
BY Lindsey Quinn ON April 23, 2018
Electric scooter startup wants to make it legal to ride scooters on the sidewalk
San Francisco city attorney sent a cease-and-desist order to all three companies, demanding they take stronger measures to keep riders off of the sidewalks -- now Bird's fighting back.
BY Wes Schlagenhauf ON April 23, 2018
Wells Fargo slapped with $1B fine for more customer abuse
The bank is being fined $1B for forcing customers to purchase auto insurance policies they didn’t need, causing some to default on their loans.
BY Wes Schlagenhauf ON April 23, 2018
“Finally, an app that lets rural Indians browse the Amazon — I mean the internet”
To access the 930m Indian consumers who don’t use the internet, Amazon rolled out an Internet app -- using a quieter version of the ‘global connectivity’ approach.
BY Conor Grant ON April 23, 2018
Sears screwed over a small-time wrench inventor — but he fought back
Dan Brown invented an award-winning tool that sold millions of units. Then he got in bed with the wrong hardware store.
BY Zachary Crockett ON April 21, 2018
To avoid ag-tech’s crowded field, investors throw their lucky pennies into the ocean
After the ag-tech boom sprouted big returns, new investors are pumping money into the growing industry of aquaculture-tech.
BY Conor Grant ON April 20, 2018
Alibaba bets $717m on making rural farmers the crown jewel of their e-commerce empire
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba just invested oodles of cash in a network and mom-n’-pop shops to expand their user base beyond cities.
BY Conor Grant ON April 20, 2018
People who smoke can’t quit cigarettes, and it is ironically killing Philip Morris
Philip Morris plunges the most in a decade as they struggle to get their ol' faithfuls to move with them into the e-cigarette future.
BY Wes Schlagenhauf ON April 20, 2018
