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Billionaire George Soros Donates $1 Million To Racial Justice Organisation

July 26, 2021
Soros, known to regularly support Democratic congressional candidates and attorney generals, has donated $1 million to racial justice organisation Colour of Change PAC. The organisation, which supports the defunding of the police following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others, has called itself the United States’ largest online racial organisation. The $1 […]
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Steve Jobs’ First Ever Job Application Is Up For Auction As An NFT

July 23, 2021
The page-long application was written by Jobs after he dropped out of Reed College, three years before he co-founded Apple in 1976 alongside Steve Wozniak. The application says he was interested in electronics tech or design engineer positions, although doesn’t list a particular position or the company. Jobs’ listed his skills as computer and calculator […]
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Exxon Mobil Appoints First Woman To Management Committee

July 22, 2021
Mikell’s appointment as CFO and senior vice president follows a shakeup of Exxon’s board by activist investor Engine No.1 due to concerns over the energy giant’s corporate culture and its financial performance. Mikells will be the first woman and outsider to join Exxon Mobil’s management committee.  Mikells is set to join Exxon from September after […]
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Space Tourism Could Become An $800 Billion Market As Bezos Becomes The Second Billionaire To Reach Space

July 21, 2021
On Tuesday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos successfully completed his long-anticipated trip to space on a rocket produced by his own private aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin. The trip lasted around 10 minutes, with Mr Bezos being accompanied by his brother, Wally Funk, and 18-year-old Dutch student, Oliver Daemen, who paid millions to experience the flight alongside […]
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Vlad Tenev Could Be Worth $2.5 Billion After Robinhood IPO

July 20, 2021
Financial services company Robinhood is seeking a market value of up to $35 billion in its approaching initial public offering (IPO). The share price will sit between $38 to $42 per share, with the IPO marking the public coronation of the controversial financial services platform.  According to the SEC filing on Monday, Tenev and co-founder […]
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Bill Gates And George Soros To Join UK Covid Testing Buyout

July 19, 2021
Gates will join the Soros Economic Development Fund in a deal to buy Mologic, the UK-based lateral flow test developer which has created 10-minute Covid tests. It is hoped that the tests will cost as little as $1 to produce. The covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated that lateral flow tests, previously most commonly used for pregnancy […]
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Nik Storonsky Set To Join Billionaire Club As Revolut Becomes The UK’s Most Valuable Fintech

July 16, 2021
Revolut is now the UK’s most valuable fintech firm ever, making co-founder Storonsky, who owns more than 20% of the company, a paper billionaire several times over. His net worth is estimated to sit around the $7 billion mark, up from $1.1 billion not long over a year ago in March 2020. Over the past […]
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Opel Names Renault Exec As Next CEO

July 15, 2021
Hochgeschurtz’s appointment comes at a time when Stellantis, of which Opel is a subsidiary, is entering into the electric vehicle’s market and expanding its commercial activities, including in China. Hochgeschurtz will succeed Michael Lohscheller, who has been at the helm of the Opel since 2017 but has now decided to take on a new challenge […]
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Jeep Reveals Its 2022 Compass SUV

July 14, 2021
Ahead of Jeep’s push into electric vehicles, the car giant is updating one of its smallest SUVs with a redesigned interior and new technologies. New features will include blind-spot monitoring and active emergency braking as standard safety technologies. Additionally, optional 10-inch interior screens will feature, as well as a driver-assist highway system. The new model […]
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Warren Buffett’s Company Abandons $1.3 Billion Pipeline Deal

July 13, 2021
Warren Buffett’s multi-billion dollar company will receive a $1.3 billion refund on the proposed purchase of Questar Pipelines. The deal would also have included a $430 million of Dominion Energy’s debt when the deal was announced last year. Dominion Energy has said it still plans to sell Questar Pipelines and will seek out another suitable buyer […]
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Sir Richard Branson Wins Billionaire Space Race

July 12, 2021
The billionaire Virgin Group founder flew high above New Mexico, US, in the rocket plane that Virgin Galactic has been developing for close to two decades. Richard Branson said the trip was an experience of a lifetime, safely returning to Earth following his flight to the edge of space, which lasted just over an hour. […]
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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Becomes Ninth Member Of $100 Billion Club

July 9, 2021
Steve Ballmer is the ninth person to reach the $100 billion milestone, amongst the likes of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, French businessman Bernard Arnault, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Since the start of 2021, Ballmer has seen his worth increase by $20.1 billion. In 2014, the American businessman purchased the Los Angeles Clippers […]
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