Africa’s Richest People – And The Tycoon Who Lost Half His Fortune All it took was a new currency in Zimbabwe to wipe out half of Strive Masiyiwa’s net worth. The country’s only billionaire, Masiyiwa built a fortune primarily in telecom. He owns large stakes in two companies that trade on Zimbabwe’s […]
Microsoft Shakes Up The Web Browser With The All-New Edge Microsoft made an announcement that sent shockwaves around the Web. The company was tearing down the Edge browser and rebuilding it from the ground up. Now, there’s an all-new Microsoft Edge browser that you can download on your PC, Mac, […]
FBI Reveals How Brothers Built A $2.8 Million Dark Web Drug Empire With Help From Mom’s Amazon Two brothers have been charged with running a six-year dark Web drug-dealing operation under the name Pill Cosby, laundering $2.8 million in the process, according to a federal indictment. And Forbes has discovered that investigators […]
How Visa Acquired Fintech Startup Plaid For $5.3 Billion Visa announced it will acquire Plaid—a startup that connects payment apps like Venmo and Square Cash to users’ bank accounts to transfer funds—for $5.3 billion. That marks a doubling of Plaid’s value in a year. The eight-year-old San Francisco company last raised funding […]
Mompha Hid N32.9b Transactions From Government For 25 Months – EFCC At the resumed trial of Dubai-based Nigerian man Ismaila Mustapha a.k.a Mompha on Wednesday January 15, it was alleged that he hid N32.9billion transactions from the Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering (SCUML) for 25 months. EFCC accused the […]
China Pledges To Buy $200 Billion Of American Goods Under Phase One Trade Deal With the Phase One trade deal signing scheduled for tomorrow, new details have emerged about China’s pledge to significantly ramp up purchases of U.S. exports including manufactured goods, food, farm products, energy and services, sources told Reuters. The […]
China Discovers Underwater Spy Drones In Its Waters The secretive world of naval underwater surveys rarely breaks the surface. Now recent events are briefly shining a light into the darkness. In the Adriatic a Croatian fishing vessel caught one of the U.S. Navy’s undersea sensor systems last week. That mysterious object has largely […]
Jeff Bezos To Invest $1 Billion In India As Negative Sentiment Grows Towards The E-Commerce Retailer Dressed in a traditional Nehru jacket, Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday from New Delhi that his e-commerce behemoth will invest $1 billion to bring small and medium businesses in […]
Regulate Us, Just Don’t Break Us Up – Mark Zuckerberg Tells U.S. Government Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published his annual personal challenge Thursday — this time training his focus not just on the next 12 months, but on the next 10 years. His goals range from philanthropy to […]
Biden, Buttigieg, Ready To Challenge President Trump On The U.S. Economy At Tuesday night’s primary debate in Iowa, several of the 2020 Democrats stressed that they were ready or even looking forward to going after the incumbent on this front. “With regard to the economy, I can hardly wait to […]
$10,000 Found With Couple Arrested For Selling “Golden Tickets To Heaven” Tito and Amanda Watts were arrested over the weekend for selling “golden tickets to heaven” to hundreds of people. The couple, who sold the tickets on the street for $99.99 per ticket, told buyers the tickets were made from […]
Britain’s Most Expensive Home Could Be Sold For A World Record-Breaking $275 Million Billionaire property magnate Cheung Chung Kiu has snapped up a 45-bedroom home in London’s upscale Knightsbridge neighbourhood, with the sale price rumored to be $275 million. If completed, the purchase would mark the U.K.’s most expensive house […]