A disruptor and visionary, Elon Musk’s actions and personality embody the spirit of Silicon Valley’s once-vaunted mentality of disruptive techno-Darwinism. While much of the tech industry has become quite content to embrace the certainty offered by the establishment once they made their billions, Musk – now the world’s richest man …
Read More »Poland wants to confiscate Russian-owned property
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has proposed the confiscation of Russian-owned properties, as part of broad sanctions in response to Moscow’s attack on Ukraine. “We want to raise the issue of how Poland could freeze and confiscate Russian assets in our country,” Morawiecki told Sunday’s Wprost magazine. “On the one …
Read More »‘Big Tobacco’s playbook’: Senator rips Facebook-owned Instagram for harming children, hiding products’ toxicity
“Facebook has taken Big Tobacco’s playbook,” Blumenthal said at a Senate hearing on Thursday regarding the mental health impact of Facebook and Instagram. “It has hidden its own research on addiction and the toxic effects of its products. It has attempted to deceive the public and us in Congress about …
Read More »US government auctions off only copy of Wu-Tang Clan album once owned by notorious ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli
‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ was sold to an anonymous buyer for an undisclosed sum, the Brooklyn US Attorney’s Office announced in a press release on Tuesday. While the sale price was undisclosed, it was enough to satisfy the remaining balance on a forfeiture judgment of approximately $7.4 million, …
Read More »Amazon-owned Twitch removes anti-union ads pushed by parent company after media and users complain
“Twitch does not allow political advertising, and these ads should never have been allowed to run on our service,” the company said in a statement on Wednesday, thanking the “community” for bringing them to attention. One of the ads, shared on Twitter by journalist and activist Rod “Slasher” Breslau, showed …
Read More »Biden transition team’s head of state-owned media sees ‘DESIGN FLAW’ in First Amendment, advocates law against ‘hate speech’
Stengel, a former MSNBC contributor, is transition team leader for the US agency for Global Media, which includes broadcasters Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. He’s likely to head the agency if Biden becomes president in January. Ironically, that means Washington’s foreign …
Read More »SAIC-owned British MG opens the main show with Paris
MG – British car brand now owned by Chinese SAIC Motor, opened last week its flagship store (showroom) in Paris, expanding on one of the key European markets despite the pandemic coronavirus. The four-storey store in the heart of Paris near the elite of the French Galeries Lafayette (Galeries Lafayette). …
Read More »SBU came to search for a TV channel owned by Kolomoisky because of wiretaps
The security service of Ukraine (SBU) conducted searches in the building owned by the billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky television channel “1+1”, UNIAN reports with reference to head of the Department of journalistic investigations “1+1 Media” Maxim Shilenko. According to the Agency, in the office, where a search of the journalists working …
Read More »Why state-owned enterprises of Belarus can not become successful
State-owned enterprises is difficult to become successful because they are guided by people who consider themselves officials think the officials are so afraid of the initiative and can only do what they are told. Came across an article in the state newspaper, where the Director of the state enterprise asks …
Read More »The Ministry of Finance will regularly report on the state-owned banks
The Ministry of Finance will regularly report the key performance indicators of banks. The Ministry of Finance will regularly report on the state of banks in the fourth quarter of 2018. “Given the fact that state-owned banks and banks with state shares are more than 50% of the market, their …
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