Who owns 4chan?
4chan's relationship with a Japanese toymaker has remained remarkably murky. Enlarge (credit: Jacqui VanLiew | Getty Images) Over the past 19 years, the imageboard 4chan has been tied to Gamergate, the inception of QAnon, the.....»»
Facebook asks judge to toss antitrust suits, claiming no consumer harm
Facebook's arguments boil down to "no we didn't, and you have no standing." Enlarge / Just two of the many apps Facebook owns and operates. (credit: Tom Weller | DeFodi Images | Getty Images) Facebook is asking a federal judge to dismiss landm.....»»
MicroStrategy Buys Another 205 Bitcoins, Now Owns 91,064 Bitcoins
Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy disclosed on Friday that it just spent $10 million in cash to buy 205 bitcoins. From a report: The enterprise software and bitcoin holder said it paid an average price of $48,888 for each bitcoin, including fe.....»»
Albertsons taps Tortoise for remote-controlled grocery delivery robots
Albertsons Companies, the grocery giant that owns Safeway and Jewel-Osco, has launched a pilot program that will test grocery delivery using remote-controlled delivery robots developed by Silicon Valley startup Tortoise. The pilot will start at two S.....»»
Epic Games buys Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout developer Mediatonic
Epic Games announced it has acquired Tonic Games, the parent company that owns Fall Guys developer Mediatonic......»»
How a plant regulates its growth
Plants grow towards the light. This phenomenon, which already fascinated Charles Darwin, has been observed by everyone who owns houseplants. Thus, the plant ensures that it can make the best use of light to photosynthesize and synthesize sugars. Simi.....»»
Five takeaways from Coinbase’s S-1
This morning I want to dig more deeply into Coinbase's user numbers, its asset mix, its growing subscription incomes, its competitive landscape and who owns what in the company. The Coinbase S-1 is out! And hot damn, did the company have a.....»»
AIADA names Ky. auto dealer Steve Gates as 2021 chairman
Gates, 69, is a third-generation dealer who owns Gates Auto Family, which operates dealerships in Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana. He succeeds Jason Courter, who is CEO of Honda Auto Center of Bellevue and Honda of Kirkland in Washington......»»
Bumble: Female-founded dating app tops $13bn in market debut
The listing of Bumble, which also owns Badoo, makes a billionaire of 31-year-old founder Whitney Wolfe Herd......»»
Elon Musk"s SpaceX now owns about a third of all active satellites in the sky
SpaceX created a swarm of about thousand satellites that is circulating about 340 miles overhead, and building the constellation has put SpaceX in a "deep chasm" of expenses, according to CEO Elon Musk. The constellation has also raised concerns abou.....»»
CELLULARONE Wins Rural Projects for State of New Mexico
CELLULARONE Wins Rural Projects for State of New Mexico SHOW LOW, Ariz., Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Smith Bagley, Inc. (SBI), the Northern Arizona company that owns Cellular One and Sunstate Technology Group, is proud to announce that it has.....»»
Nerdy, a tutoring marketplace startup, is going public via SPAC
A gig economy-powered consumer edtech platform is heading to the New York Stock Exchange. Edtech startup Nerdy, which owns the popular tutoring business Varsity Tutors, is seeking to become a public company through a special purpose acquisition vehic.....»»
Trump releases gambler, car dealer Billy Walters
Walters, 74, served four out of five years of his federal prison sentence for an elaborate insider-trading scheme. It's unclear whether Walters still owns car dealerships......»»
EVgo to go public via SPAC in bid to power EV charging expansion
EVgo, the wholly owned subsidiary of LS Power that owns and operates public fast chargers for electric vehicles, has reached a deal to become a publicly traded company through a merger with special-purpose acquisition company Climate Change Crisis Re.....»»
Popular Podcasts App Pocket Casts Is Up For Sale: Where Did It Go Wrong?
James Cridland, editor of podcast newsletter PodNews: Podcast app Pocket Casts is looking for a buyer. NPR, which owns 34.6% of the company, reports their share of the company's loss was $812,000: which could put the company's net loss at more than $.....»»
Google now owns Fitbit, vows not to use tracker health data for ad targeting
After months of discussions between Google, Fitbit, and the EC, a deal has finally been struck, and Google officially owns Fitbit. This news was announced separately today by both Fitbit itself and its new search giant overlord. Fitbit's post largely.....»»
Byju’s is reportedly buying Indian brick-and-mortar institute Aakash for $1 billion
We may finally have an answer to why Byju’s, the world’s most valuable edtech startup, raised hundreds of millions of dollars last year. Bloomberg reports that the Bangalore-based startup has agreed to buy Aakash Educational Services, which owns.....»»
Group Nine Media forms a SPAC to fund acquisitions
Group Nine Media — which owns Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo, Seeker and PopSugar — is the latest company to form a SPAC, according to a filing with the SEC. These blank-check corporations, as they’re also known, have become a popular way to.....»»
MindGeek: The secretive owner of Pornhub and RedTube
Porn is everywhere, but the company that owns the most popular sites is out of sight. Enlarge (credit: Financial Times, Dreamstime) Mario Salieri was shooting a pornographic movie in a lavish Prague villa two decades ago when he first caught.....»»