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The ability of tech companies to support Trump
Billionaires Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen have said Joe Biden’s “final straw” was his plan to tax capital gains at 25%, affecting only citizens worth over $100 million. Andreessen and Horowitz told The Wall Street Journal that they supported Donald Trump for President as he “believes the best way forward is for us to let…
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It is likely that the NBC executive is the new CEO of Twitter
Twitter’s Executive Chairman Chris Yaccarino is in talks to take over as Twitter’s interim CEO, The Wall Street Journal reported. Yaccarino has been in negotiations with Tesla CEO Elon Musk to replace him since last month, it added. According to Puck, Yaccarino “sees eye to eye with Musk” and is “in talks” for the job.
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The Kremlin got tougher with Washington because of the American journalist’s arrest
The Russian authorities on Thursday detained an American journalist for The Wall Street Journal and accused him of espionage. Alexander Gershkovich pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released from a Moscow prison, Russian state news agency Tass said. Gershkovich has been working with The Wall Street Journal for nearly 20 years and had…
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The plan for covidal in Congress was a similar one after 9/11
The US Department of Energy has said that the COVID-19 outbreak most likely emerged from a laboratory leak in China, The Wall Street Journal reported. The US House Oversight Committee said it’s reviewing classified information provided by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in response to a letter requesting information earlier this month.
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Microsoft responded to the FTC’s lawsuit
Microsoft CEO Brad Smith in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on Monday said an FTC suit to block its deal with Activision would be a “huge mistake”. It would allow the company to innovate new features such as the ability for consumers to play the same game on multiple devices, he added. The…
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The charges against the NewsNation reporter were dismissed
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has demanded answers after a police officer detained and handcuffed one of its reporters outside a Chase bank in US’ Phoenix, Arizona. In a video that has surfaced, journalist Michael Rabouin can be heard saying he volunteered to stop reporting but the officer then handcuffed him and threatened to shove…
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The US lawmakers introduced a ban on Tiktok.
Chinese video-sharing app TikTok’s US chief executive Shou Zi Chew is scheduled to appear before Congress on March 8 to face questions over user safety and security, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. Chew is expected to be called to testify over TikTok’s plans to move data from Virginia and Singapore to a…
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The Trump case is going to be presented to a grand jury.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is planning to open an investigation into a criminal campaign in connection with the Donald Trump Organisation, The Wall Street Journal reported. The probe relates to payments made to porn actress Stormy Daniels by the Trump Organisation in 2016 ahead of the US presidential elections. Daniels claimed she had an…
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‘Sunday Ticket’ will be on the internet beginning next season.
Google-owned YouTube is paying $2 billion per season for the residential streaming rights to NFL Sunday Ticket in a seven-year deal, The Wall Street Journal reported. It will be available either as an add-on for YouTube TV subscribers or as a la carte option on YouTube Primetime Channels, which launched last month. The NFL was…