October 7, 2021 Bitcoin surged 7.11% to $55,162.92 at 20:01 GMT on Wednesday, up $3,661.73 from its previous closing price. The world's largest and most prominent cryptocurrency inched up 98.9% from its January 4 year low of $27,734. more...
October 7, 2021 Jonathan Kanter, the third of three progressives appointed by President Joe Biden to the top U.S. antitrust posts, pledged Wednesday to enforce antitrust law in agriculture, pharmaceutical prices, the labor market and big tech. Kanter more...
October 7, 2021 Twitter has agreed to sell mobile ad company MoPub to AppLovin Corp for $1.05 billion as the microblogging platform aims to focus more on advertising in its own app and website. MoPub, which brought Twitter more...
October 6, 2021 Bitcoin gained 5.01% to $51,711.21 on Tuesday, closing at $2,469.07 above its previous closing price. Similarly, Ether, the coin linked to Ethereum's blockchain network, rose 4.54% to $3,537.56, adding $153.68 to its previous closing price. more...
October 6, 2021 In a recent blog post, Facebook's vice president of engineering, Santosh Janardhan, revealed that the company's engineers issued an order that unintentionally disconnected Facebook's data centers from the rest of the world, causing users to more...
October 6, 2021 Following the recent revelations by whistleblower Frances Haugen, U.S. lawmakers are now calling on regulators to take the necessary action against Facebook. Haugen previously worked as a former product manager on Facebook's civic misinformation team more...
October 6, 2021 Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has publicly responded to claims that the social media giant puts profit before safety and well-being. "We care deeply about issues like safety, wellbeing, and mental health. It's difficult more...
October 6, 2021 Workforce Logiq (WFQ) conducted a study on the volatility of the labor market and showed that the current labor shortage, known as the "Great Resignation," continues to this day. WFQ used its own Employee Predictive more...
October 5, 2021 Former U.S. Army contractor Fredrick Brown has been sentenced to 151 months in prison after admitting his role in a conspiracy that victimized thousands of U.S. service members and veterans and caused millions of dollars more...
October 5, 2021 Two researchers are being honored with the Nobel Prize for their discoveries of how humans perceive their immediate surroundings through the sense of touch. David Julius received half of the prize and Ardem Patapoutian received more...
October 5, 2021 Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back online after an hours-long blackout which disabled the Facebook-owned social media networks for several hours. While Facebook stated via Twitter on Monday evening that its apps would be back more...
October 5, 2021 Three major South Korean battery giants, LG Energy Solution (LGES), SK On, and Samsung SDI Co Ltd, announced that they are currently battling a shortage of research and engineering specialists, and that while there is more...
