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The global billionaire rankings have seen a historic shift. Larry Ellison, co-founder of the technology giant Oracle, has for the first time in his life climbed to the very top, becoming the wealthiest person on the planet. This milestone came after Oracle’s stock surged by more than forty percent in a single day. This dramatic rise increased E...
Payment giant PayPal recently found itself at the center of an unexpected storm. At the end of August and the beginning of September, Europe experienced a disruption with massive financial consequences. It wasn’t a hacker attack or cyber sabotage – the cause was a human mistake and a misconfigured internal process. Yet the outcome looked dramati...
Manasi Mishra recently shared her disappointment on TikTok: after completing her computer science degree, she was invited to interview by only one company—the fast food chain Chipotle. Her story is not unique. Twenty-five-year-old Zach Taylor graduated with a degree in computer science from Oregon State University at a time when job offers in...
Tech giant Meta (formerly Facebook) has committed to one of the most aggressive moves in the history of artificial intelligence. It has offered $32 billion for the startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI), founded by Ilya Sutskever, the former chief scientist of OpenAI. SSI is only a year old, but thanks to its founder and its focus on so-called saf...
The American car company Tesla used to be a symbol of technological progress, innovation and stock market success. But since the beginning of this year, the situation is turning around - the market is starting to demand concrete results to justify the former high market value, driven mainly by investor optimism. As a result, the company's shares...
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has released his first asset declaration of his current term in office. The document reveals, among other things, high income from his family's cryptocurrency activities, which amounts to tens of millions of dollars, and other property holdings. For example, according to Reuters, Trump received $...
Not long ago, Groupon was considered a relic of the internet era, but today it's making a surprising comeback. Its shares have significantly exceeded analysts' expectations, mainly thanks to the intervention of Czech investors from the Pale Fire Capital group. They restructured the company and now believe it is ready to start growing instead of ...
Online casinos in the Czech Republic aren’t just a playground for risk-takers — they’re becoming a controlled fintech ecosystem, shaped by precise legislation and driven by digital innovation. Unlike in many countries where gambling legislation lags behind technology, the Czech Republic took a decisive step in 2017 with a law that defines exactl...
In a world where innovation moves faster than the systems meant to protect it, Daniel Ruskin, a former engineer at Coinbase, is stepping forward with a bold vision: to radically transform how we file and manage patents. After four years working at one of the leading cryptocurrency platforms, Ruskin decided to take an unconventional path. He enr...
