November 15, 20240 Comments

FBI Raids Polymarket CEO’s Home As DOJ Probes the Decentralized Betting Platform: Report

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reportedly executed a search warrant on the home of Shayne Coplan, the CEO of decentralized predictions-betting platform Polymarket. Citing a source who requested anonymity, Bloomberg reports that the FBI seized Coplan’s phone and electronics during the raid, which happened just as the US Justice Department (DOJ) investigates Polymarket for allegedly accepting trades from US-based users. Polymarket enables users to place bets on the outcome

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November 15, 20240 Comments

Nvidia to report Q3 earnings Wednesday as AI fever continues to power Wall Street

Nvidia (NVDA) will report its Q3 earnings after the bell next Wednesday, giving Wall Street its best and latest look into the strength of the AI trade. The world’s largest publicly traded company by market cap, Nvidia’s stock price has continued to rocket higher throughout 2024, thanks to the explosive growth in AI across the tech landscape and beyond. Shares of Nvidia were up 189% year to date as of

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November 15, 20240 Comments

X users jump to Bluesky

Getty You may have seen the word “Bluesky” popping up on your social media pages recently and wondered what people are talking about. It is an alternative platform to Elon Musk’s X and in terms of its colour and logo, it looks quite similar. Bluesky is growing rapidly and is currently picking up around one million new sign-ups a day. It had 16.7m users at the time of writing, but

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November 15, 20240 Comments

Mysterious diamond necklace — possibly linked to Marie Antoinette’s demise — sells for $4.8 million

A mysterious diamond-laden necklace with possible links to a scandal that contributed to the downfall of Marie Antoinette, sold for $4.8 million at an auction in Geneva Wednesday. The 18th century jewel containing around 300 carats of diamonds had been estimated to sell at the Sotheby’s Royal and Noble Jewels sale for $1.8-2.8 million. But after energetic bidding, the hammer price ticked in at 3.55 million Swiss francs ($4 million),

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November 15, 20240 Comments

Super Micro faces deadline to keep Nasdaq listing after 85% plunge

Charles Liang, chief executive officer of Super Micro Computer Inc., during the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. The trade show runs through June 7.  Annabelle Chih | Bloomberg | Getty Images Super Micro Computer could be headed down a path to getting kicked off the Nasdaq as soon as Monday. That’s the potential fate for the server company if it fails to file a viable

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