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TikTok CEO set to face a grilling in House hearing

Shou Zi Chew, chief executive officer of TikTok Inc., speaks during the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore, on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. Bryan van der Beek | Bloomberg | Getty Images TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will face a tough crowd on Thursday when he testifies before the House …

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Ethereum co-founder says ether not a security, compares it to oil

Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and CEO of blockchain firm ConsenSys. Riccardo Savi | Getty Images for Concordia Summit The co-founder of Ethereum, Joseph Lubin, hit out at regulators likening the ether cryptocurrency to a security, saying it was more akin to a commodity like oil. In an interview with …

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Why some Silicon Valley CEOs don’t blame SVB for its crash

When Silicon Valley Bank crashed earlier this month, a lot of people — investors, analysts, everyday observers — quickly pointed fingers at the bank’s risky and costly strategy. But some CEOs affected by the collapse don’t blame SVB’s bad bet, which centered around a sale of $21 billion worth of …

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Pulitzer-prize author has a theory on why poverty persists in the U.S.

Over the last 50 years, Americans have eradicated smallpox, reduced infant mortality rates and deaths from heart disease by around 70%, added a decade to the average American’s life and invented the internet. When it comes to the national poverty rate, however, we’ve made almost no progress. In 1970, a …

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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: COIN, AMC, CHWY, FRC

Monitors display Coinbase signage during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Coinbase — Shares of the cryptocurrency trading app dropped more than …

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Yellen’s comments rattled the market, not the Fed rate hike

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said that the Federal Reserve’s quarter-percent rate hike was not the reason the market tumbled on Wednesday, rather, it was the “tone-deaf” words of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Cramer said the market “would’ve been fine” if it hadn’t been for Yellen saying that the government was not …

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Ford’s EV business lost $2 billion in 2022, offset by fleet and legacy

The badge of a Ford Motor Co. E-Transit electric vehicle during a presentation in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, July 28, 2021. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ford Motor said Thursday its electric vehicle business lost $2.1 billion last year on an operating basis, a loss that was …

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Ukraine waits for its moment with China’s Xi but will Kyiv be heard?

Ukrainian servicemen head toward Bakhmut in a BMP infantry fighting vehicle, in eastern Ukraine on March 22, 2023. Aris Messinis | AFP | Getty Images Ukraine was uncharacteristically tight-lipped about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s high-profile visit to Moscow this week, watching on as Russia rolled out the red carpet for …

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US bank regulators criticized in the European Union after SVB collapse

Chair of the ECB Supervisory Board Andrea Enria and Chairperson of the European Banking Authority (EBA) Jose Manuel Campa in the European Parliament on March 21, 2023. Thierry Monasse | Getty Images News | Getty Images U.S. regulators made mistakes in failing to prevent the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank …

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Relativity’s 3D-printed Terran 1 rocket launches, fails to reach orbit

The company’s Terran 1 rocket lifts off from LC-16 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Relativity Space Relativity Space, a 3D-printing specialist, launched the inaugural flight of its Terran 1 rocket late on Wednesday night, which successfully met some mission objectives before failing to reach orbit. Terran 1 lifted off from LC-16, …

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