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Fintech Focus For October 21, 2020
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 6:37pm | 2181Read More...Quote Of The Day: This is a war to end all wars. - Woodrow Wilson Fintech Movers: The European venture ecosystem is robust and growing with strengths in fintech, health care, deep tech, data and analytics, and commerce and shopping. - Crunchbase TIKR isn’t your typical Bloomberg alternative...
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Today In Blockchain: Cemtrex, Sharing Economy, SPI Energy, And 50 Cent
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 1:03pm | 626Read More...Here's what's happening in the blockchain and cryptocurrency universe Wednesday. Cemtrex: Strategic Partnership Announced Cemtrex Inc (NASDAQ: CETX), a nano-cap technology company that provides solutions to industrial and manufacturing needs, announced a strategic partnership with Lucyd,...
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How 50 Cent's 'Animal Ambition' Helped The Rapper Earn $8 Million Worth Of Bitcoin
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 9:38am | 582Read More...50 Cent ain’t a value buy. The rapper is worth nearly 16 million times that in cryptocurrency alone. Back in 2014, the prescient businessman bet on bitcoin and became the first to accept it as payment for his album. “Animal Ambition” drew about 700 bitcoin in sales, a total beyond...
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Remember The '50 Cent' Options Trader? Well Someone Is Making Even Bigger Bets On Volatility Spikes
Thursday, September 28, 2017 - 1:38pm | 356Read More...A trader or institution has been hoarding call options on the volatility index for quite some time and earned themselves the nickname "50 Cent" as they bought large quantities of options, regardless of the duration or strike price, worth 50 cents a piece. At one point, the total value of call...
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'50 Cent' Trader Returns, Loading Up New Hedge Bets Against A Selloff
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 - 1:58pm | 328Read More...An unnamed trader (or institutional fund) dubbed '50 Cent' has been hoarding call options on the Volatility Index for months. The trader earned the nickname by entering the option market each day and buy call options on the "fear index" regardless of strike price and time duration...
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'50 Cent' Trader Has Been Hoarding VIX Call Options Since December
Saturday, April 1, 2017 - 11:24am | 422Read More...The Volatility Index, also known as the "fear index," tends to do as its nickname suggests and move higher in an environment where investors are less bullish. According to a CNBC report, a trader has been hoarding call options on the Volatility Index since December. These call options...
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Rapper 'The Game' Talks About His Cannabis Venture: 'Setting The Standard For Quality Medicine, Patient Care'
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 3:00pm | 1271Read More...Snoop Dogg isn't the only rapper that's made a foray into the cannabis industry. In fact, it seems to be a spreading trend that has caught on with other big names in hip-hop, including Wiz Khalifa, Cypress Hill's B-Real and Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah. Last year, The Game became the...
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Following Sprint Stake, How Does Jay Z's Tidal Investment Rank Among Hip Hop's Biggest Deals?
Thursday, January 26, 2017 - 9:37am | 415Read More...Hip hop might not be dead yet. Sprint Corp (NYSE: S) recently announced a equity stake in Jay Z's streaming service Tidal, reportedly paying $200 million for a 33 percent stake, valuing the company at $600 million. The acquisition by Sprint sits as one of the biggest hip-hop deals ever. As part of...
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Dr. Dre, Music Icon And Entrepreneur, Hits 15 Million Record Sales
Saturday, August 13, 2016 - 9:18am | 383Read More...This is the millennium of Aftermath; It ain't gonna be nothin' after that; So give me one more platinum plaque. The Billboard 200 chart is a ranking of the week’s most popular albums, as measured by a combination of album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming...
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50 Cent And Dr. Dre Could Be Headed To Court: Here's Why
Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 10:40am | 209Read More...Remember when Robin Thicke and Pharrell were ordered to pay more than $7 million in damages to Marvin Gaye's family after a judge concluded that their hit song "Blurred Lines" was too similar to Gaye's 1977 hit "Got To Give It Up?" According to TMZ, a producer by the name of Brandon Parrott is...
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Flashback: What Was The World Like Last Time Apple Missed?
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 - 5:24pm | 341Read More...The buzz on Wall Street Wednesday was the big drop in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s stock following its Q2 earnings report. The company reported earnings of $1.90 per share on sales of $50.56 billion; estimates called for EPS of $2.00 and sales of $51.97 billion. Apple's guidance was also a...
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A&E Teams With 50 Cent For New Variety Series
Friday, March 18, 2016 - 8:25am | 168Read More...Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson will be coming to TV screens in the not too distant future as the host of a variety series. A&E made the (somewhat surprising) announcement on Thursday that it would air "50 Cent Presents" which will combine sketch comedy, stand up, reality segments, magic and music and...
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Bitcoin Weekly Recap: Threatening Traditional Payments, Entrepreneurs And Regulatory Actions
Friday, June 6, 2014 - 12:08pm | 867Read More...For the week ending June 6, news stories contained surprises like being able to pay for electricity with bitcoin, rapper 50 Cent accepting bitcoin and the IRS relaxing its FBAR requirement for bitcoin holders. Citi Says Bitcoin Is A Threat To Credit Card Margins In a 76-page report, Citi...
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Justin Bieber Endorses Product to End Texting While Driving
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - 2:22pm | 234Read More...Justin Bieber, the 17-year-old pop sensation and actor, is barely old enough to operate a car. Today, Bieber became an advocate for ending texting while driving, a behavior that experts say leads to thousands of accidents among drivers every year. Bieber will endorse a product created by Options...
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From 50 Cent To 401K?
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 12:34pm | 141Read More...Not only is he a rap superstar, he's an investment wizard as well. 50 Cent is promoting a penny stock H & H Imports (HNHI), a company which markets home audio products. 50 Cent has already started to tweet about these products, which is TVG by 50 Cent. The line of Wireless Hybrid products...
