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Super Bowl 2022 Halftime Performers Dominate iTunes Charts After The Game
Tuesday, February 15, 2022 - 2:42pm | 782The Super Bowl 2022 halftime show featured an ensemble of hip-hop artists, including some who had their biggest hits in the 1990s and early 2000s. With fans feeling nostalgic hearing the performers sing their biggest hits, these songs are dominating the charts. What Happened: Super Bowl LVI...
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Fintech Focus For June 21, 2021
Sunday, June 20, 2021 - 11:23pm | 2057Quote To Start The Day: "We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” Source: Warren Buffett One Big Thing In Fintech: Successive hearings before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have focused national attention on...
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Fintech Focus Roundup For June 20, 2021
Sunday, June 20, 2021 - 11:11am | 1350American Express Delivers On Small Business Plans With Kabbage Checking American Express announced it would launch its first small business checking account, Kabbage Checking. The development comes shortly after the firm’s acquisition of Kabbage, an online fintech lender. Through Kabbage...
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When Loyalty Leads To Conversion: An Explainer Featuring Jesse Itzler And 50 Cent
Friday, June 18, 2021 - 3:25pm | 439Loyalty should not be discounted. Why? It leads to conversion. That’s the key takeaway from one recent TikTok video Jesse Itzler posted about on his relationship with rapper, producer and businessman 50 Cent who, many years prior, interned under Itzler. Tell Me More: While balancing a career...
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Fintech Focus For October 21, 2020
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 6:37pm | 2181Quote 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 | 626Here'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 | 58250 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 | 356A 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 | 328An 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 | 422The 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 | 1271Snoop 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 | 415Hip 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 | 383This 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 | 209Remember 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 | 341The 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...