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Stephen Dunn | Getty Images The New England Patriots celebrate late in the game against the Seattle Seahawks during Super Bowl XLIX at University of Phoenix Stadium on February 1, 2015 in Glendale, Arizona. Nothing says victory like a coach getting dunked with Gatorade. A tradition that started in 1987, …
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Draft Kings, casinos gear up for Super Bowl sports betting debut
Pat Greenhouse | Boston Globe | Getty Images From left, the three co-founders of DraftKings, Matt Kalish, Paul Liberman and Jason Robins, pose together in their Boston office on Apr. 24, 2017. DraftKings expects to see a record volume of bets for Sunday’s Super Bowl LIII, now that sports betting …
Read More »Goldman could withhold some 2018 pay for top executives over Malaysia scandal
Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Group Goldman Sachs said it could withhold some pay from top executives as a result of an ongoing criminal probe of a Malaysian investment fund. The Wall Street firm said in a regulatory …
Read More »Here’s how many people Tesla laid off at its California facilities
CNBC.com | Lora Kolodny Tesla’s electric vehicle plant in Fremont, Calif., January 19, 2019. Tesla’s January layoffs impacted at least 1,017 California employees, according to the company’s filings with the state’s Employment Development office that were obtained by CNBC. Bloomberg first reported on the number of California employees effected. Specifically, …
Read More »Snopes quits fact-checking partnership with Facebook
Shu Zhang | Reuters Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg meets Founder and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma (not pictured), at the China Development Forum in Beijing, China, March 19, 2016. Snopes, a fact-checking organization, announced on Friday its decision to end its partnership with Facebook, which has …
Read More »Google has been on a real estate spending spree
Adam Jeffery | CNBC Ruth Porat, CFO of Alphabet, at the New York Economic Club on May 22, 2017. Google has made several large real estate moves meant to provide room for more jobs, now including a 35-foot office tower in Austin, Texas, according to the Austin-American Statesman newspaper. The …
Read More »Foxconn does damage control over Wisconsin factory
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump (L) and Terry Gou, chairman of Apple iPhone manufacturer Foxconn, at a groundbreaking for Foxconn’s new LCD screen facility on June 28, 2018 in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. Foxconn says it’s moving forward with the construction of its Wisconsin facility after …
Read More »Here’s Netflix’s new intro that the company worked on for two years
Sylvain Lefevre | Getty Images Netflix Co-founder, Chairman & CEO Reed Hastings attends Q&A during Transatlantic Forum as part of Series Mania Lille Hauts de France festival on May 3, 2018 in Lille, France. Netflix is getting a new cinematic intro. The company spent two years revamping the short branded …
Read More »2018 smartphone shipments worst year ever
Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A customer views an Apple Inc. iPhone 5s at a Reliance Digital store, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd., in New Delhi, India, on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013. Reliance Communications Ltd. is the first Indian carrier to sell Apples iPhone with a service contract. …
Read More »Amazon falls on fears of regulation in India and increased spending
Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos provides the keynote address at the Air Force Association’s Annual Air, Space & Cyber Conference in Oxen Hill, MD, on September 19, 2018. Amazon fell 4 percent Friday morning after the company announced on a call …
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