Nobody “Earns” a Billion Dollars. We Need a Wealth Tax. Economist James K. Boyce analyzes new data on US disparities and frames environmental degradation as a class issue. 04/17/2024 - 7:36 am | View Link
Balancing The Cost Of AI In Healthcare: Future Savings Vs. Current Spending Despite the swift advancement of generative AI, traditional predictive AI remains crucial and is expected to be around for a while. 04/17/2024 - 12:14 am | View Link
Netflix Subscriber Growth in Focus as Gains From Password-Sharing Crackdown Seen Easing Netflix's plan to maintain subscriber growth after two quarters of blockbuster increases will be in focus when it reports earnings on Thursday, with some analysts warning that gains from a crackdown ... 04/16/2024 - 11:15 pm | View Link
College Enrollment Declines as Costs Rise: Here’s What Experts Say About the Future of Higher Education During the COVID-19 pandemic, college enrollment rates declined. When schools began to have in-person classes again, the number of high school graduates who applied to college continued to drop. 04/16/2024 - 10:00 am | View Link
Biden takes another stab at forgiving student loan debt. Here’s how to know if you qualify for his latest $7.4 billion package The White House has announced a new $7.4 billion round of student loan cancellations, relieving nearly 277,000 borrowers of their debt. The latest attempt to chip away at the amount owed for education ... 04/12/2024 - 12:00 pm | View Link
Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.
Ibotta, the Denver-based digital marketing and consumer rebate platform, raised $328 million for its investors and $198 million for itself in an initial public offering that outstripped expectations this week.
Underwriters had expected the company could get between $76 to $84 a share, in an offering that was intended to allow earlier investors to exit with a nice return.