Gilead Sciences Inc. reports that its remdesivir virus treatment has been positively correlated with a 62% reduction in death risks compared with the standard of care in an initial analysis....more
7/13/2020
/ Clinical Trials ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Economic Growth ,
Financial Markets ,
Gilead Sciences ,
IEA ,
iPhone ,
Mobile Apps ,
Oil & Gas ,
Personal Protective Equipment ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
S&P ,
Spotify ,
Stock Prices ,
Supply and Demand ,
Surveillance ,
Tesla ,
TikTok ,
Tinder
Tesla sues to reopen its California factory; Elon threatens to move the company out of state. The company asked a federal judge to reopen the factory, arguing that the “local government’s insistence that it remain closed . ....more
5/12/2020
/ Airlines ,
Bitcoin ,
Business Closures ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Dow Jones ,
Elon Musk ,
JPMorgan Chase ,
Nasdaq ,
Oil & Gas ,
Re-Opening Guidelines ,
Stock Prices ,
Tesla
J.Crew filed for bankruptcy protection; the company’s lenders have agreed to “convert $1.65 billion . . . into equity.” Neiman Marcus Group Inc. and J.C. Penney are also on the bankruptcy path, already entering talks with...more
5/4/2020
/ Berkshire Hathaway ,
Blue Bell Creameries ,
Capital Markets ,
Commercial Bankruptcy ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Economic Downturn ,
Elon Musk ,
Embedded Tweets ,
Equal Pay ,
FDA Approval ,
Felonies ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Food Contamination ,
Food Recalls ,
Food Supply ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
J Crew ,
Listeria ,
Market Manipulation ,
Oil & Gas ,
Patent Litigation ,
Soccer ,
Stock Prices ,
Stock Trades ,
Tesla ,
Tyson Foods ,
Warren Buffett ,
Workplace Safety
The U.S. Jobs Report Will Be Ugly: The March jobs report will likely show the worst numbers in the “post-World War II era,” and “it is playing out in a matter of weeks,” not years. One study suggests the U.S. has lost 27.9...more
4/3/2020
/ Antitrust Violations ,
Apple ,
Business Closures ,
Cell Phones ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Data Collection ,
Financial Markets ,
Furloughs ,
Google ,
Layoffs ,
Martin Shkreli ,
Musical Sound Recordings ,
Oil Prices ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
SoftBank ,
Spotify ,
Standing ,
Stock Prices ,
Tesla ,
Tracking Systems ,
Unemployment ,
Videoconference
Malware goes commercial. Last year, Jeff Bezos’ phone was hacked after he received a message on WhatsApp containing a line of malware code. The incident has shed light on the malware, aka spyware, industry. Companies sell...more
1/23/2020
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Automotive Industry ,
Business Valuations ,
Climate Change ,
Crude Oil ,
Data Breach ,
Economic Downturn ,
Elon Musk ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Federal Reserve ,
Financial Markets ,
Foreign Markets ,
Fuel Supply ,
Global Market ,
Hackers ,
Hiring & Firing ,
IBM ,
Interest Rates ,
Jeff Bezos ,
Lost Wages ,
Malware ,
Oil & Gas ,
Oil Prices ,
Physicians ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Reinstatement ,
Retaliation ,
Risk Management ,
Social Media ,
Spyware ,
Tariffs ,
Teaching Hospitals ,
Tesla ,
US Trade Policies ,
Volkswagen ,
WhatsApp ,
Whistleblowers
Facebook wages a war on misinformation. On Monday, Facebook announced it will start removing videos altered by artificial intelligence that are likely to mislead people into thinking that a subject of the video made...more
1/7/2020
/ Air Pollution ,
Amazon Marketplace ,
Arrest Warrants ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Automotive Industry ,
Big Data ,
Blackberry ,
China ,
Corporate Financing ,
Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Deep Fake ,
Environmental Policies ,
Financial Markets ,
Foreign Policy ,
Foreign Relations ,
General Motors ,
Hewlett-Packard ,
IKEA ,
Imports ,
Information Technology ,
Intel ,
Iran ,
Lost Sales ,
Motor Vehicles ,
Nissan ,
Oil & Gas ,
Oil Prices ,
Perjury ,
Popular ,
Public Health ,
Qualcomm ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Retail Sales ,
Risk Management ,
Sales Tax ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Social Media ,
Stock Prices ,
Stream of Commerce ,
Takeovers ,
Tariffs ,
Tesla ,
Trade Negotiations ,
Trade Relations ,
Trade Retaliation ,
Trade Wars ,
Treasury Markets ,
Trucking Industry ,
Trucking Regulations ,
Trump Administration ,
US Trade Policies ,
Video Recordings ,
White Collar Crimes ,
Wrongful Death ,
Xerox