U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy again criticized the role of social media in spreading COVID-19 misinformation Sunday, a day after Facebook Inc. quietly released a delayed report on its top-performing links. “The speed, scale and sophistication with which [misinformation] is spreading and impacting our health is really unprecedented,” Murthy said Sunday morning during an interview
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Twitch may just be Amazon’s best-kept secret. Acquired in a 2014 bidding war with Google for $1 billion in cash, the gaming platform, and the social network continues to break its own high scores. Four years after that acquisition and just seven after its initial launch, Twitch boasts a valuation of about US$3.79 billion. Twitch viewers live-streamed
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In today’s episode, we have a very special guest and that is billionaire Jeremy Grantham, the co-founder and long-term investment strategist at GMO, one of the world’s most well-respected asset management firms. Jeremy is an investing legend and studied market historian, who successfully identified and sidestepped the major corrections such as the Japanese market in
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Value investors are at a loss to explain the performance of Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) stock. Holding BABA stock in the hopes that the shares can return to their 52-week high may prove to be unprofitable. Source: BigTunaOnline / Shutterstock.com That’s because China’s government is introducing stricter regulations in many sectors. So despite paying a $2.75 billion
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What is the college degree that you should have gotten? Maybe it’s the one you did get. But sometimes when people are getting out of college—and they and their friends start hitting the job market—they realize that the opportunities open to grads with their particular major are not necessarily in the career fields they’d like
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Social commerce platform operator Poshmark (NASDAQ:POSH) is a popular destination for shoppers to buy and sell second-hand products, or even hold virtual shopping parties. It’s an interesting business model, and while some folks don’t have POSH stock on their radar, perhaps they ought to. Source: NYC Russ / Shutterstock.com After all, as reported earlier this year
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Whenever retailers talk about “meeting customers where they are”, it’s time to worry. Too often that means closing lots of stores and doubling down on digital, which is precisely the wrong thing to do.  Retailers are in the business of making more money than they spend. With e-commerce, they don’t. With e-commerce and brick-and-mortar, they can. While
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In this article HOOD Newly public stock trading app Robinhood is not looking to do a secondary offering to take advantage of its retail investor-driven share price rise, according to the company’s chief financial officer. “It doesn’t resonate with me to call Robinhood a meme stock,” Robinhood CFO Jason Warnick told CNBC’s Kate Rooney on “Squawk
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Although I’m a car enthusiast, I’m not in love with Nio (NYSE:NIO) stock. In fact, I’ve repeatedly suggested that investors avoid it in the past. Source: xiaorui / Shutterstock.com In 2020 I wrote the article “Nio Stock Has Skyrocketed in 2020, But High Risks Remain” using the Nasdaq Dozen method to analyze the company, I focused
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Rising sea levels, summer heatwaves, widespread droughts, storms, wildfires, and disastrous floods. These are all dramatic effects of human-induced climate change. Some investors may overlook the environmental impacts of their portfolios, but for those on top of the world’s environmental changes, green technology and renewable energy may provide profitable investment opportunities. Climate investments fall within
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