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BUSINESS · 20. maggio 2021
An A-Level student who started posting videos of herself lip-syncing to Katy Perry songs out of boredom, has revealed she's scrapping plans to go to university because she now earns up to £10,000 a day as an influencer. Alicia Breuer, 17, who lives in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, explained that she was planning to study a psychology degree, when she began sharing short videos of herself on TikTok last June. The teenager said her followers swiftly grew from 30,000 to 740,000 on the platform...
BUSINESS · 21. aprile 2021
The robots are coming, and they're bringing pizza. This week, Domino's is rolling out a robot car delivery service to select customers in Houston. For those who opt in, their pies will arrive in a fully autonomous vehicle made by Nuro. Here's how it works: Customers in the Woodland Heights neighborhood of Houston can choose robot delivery and receive texts with updates on the car's location and a numerical code that can be used to retrieve the order. Once the car arrives, the customer enters...
BUSINESS · 05. marzo 2021
There are people, like the boy who is the protagonist of the story we are about to tell you, who manage to make a decisive turn in their life, even if they seemed destined for suffering, difficulties and deprivation. Harry Sanders, 22, from Melbourne, Australia, is a guy who knows what it means to have nothing, not even a roof to shelter under. The period of adolescence, for him, was not at all easy. So much so that no one, he first of all, would never have imagined that, thanks to willpower...
BUSINESS · 10. febbraio 2021
He was ashamed to use normal selfie sticks to take pictures, so he created these prosthetics. Selfie sticks have now become a normal object of daily use for those who love to immortalize themselves in every situation and in every moment. However, it cannot be said that they are beautiful objects to look at. There are those who are even ashamed of it, like a young man who calls himself Mansun online. The boy, finding it embarrassing and ridiculous to use selfie sticks, has seen fit to solve the...
BUSINESS · 19. gennaio 2021
Bitcoin, or virtual currency, is a concept that we hear much more about today than in the past. Since 2009, the year in which it was presented, its history has been rather troubled, and its value has experienced ups and downs until it has risen higher and higher starting in 2017. It goes without saying that those who had a bitcoin wallet found a fortune in their hands. The man we are about to tell you about was one of these lucky possessors. Yes, we wrote "was" because, unfortunately for him,...
BUSINESS · 14. gennaio 2021
Stefan Thomas is a computer programmer from San Francisco who a decade ago earned a whopping 7,002 bitcoins as a reward for making a video explaining how cryptocurrency works. At the time it was paid, they were worth $ 2-6 each. He kept them in his “digital wallet” in an IronKey, an encrypted hard drive and never thought about it again. To date, his bitcoins are worth over 220 million euros, but Thomas has forgotten the password that will unlock his fortune. Thomas, of German origin, has...
BUSINESS · 17. dicembre 2020
Bitcoin hit a fresh record high above $23,000 on Thursday, extending a wild rally for the cryptocurrency that has seen it more than triple in value this year. The world’s most-valuable digital currency surged 12% to $23,421, according to crypto market data provider Coin Metrics, taking its year-to-date gains to more than 200%. Bitcoin only just smashed the $20,000 mark on Wednesday. Bitcoin later pared back its gains slightly, trading over 9% higher at about $22,787 by 7:30 a.m. ET. Crypto...
BUSINESS · 03. dicembre 2020
Thanksgiving week isn’t usually a popular time for homebuying, but most economic numbers this year are incomparable, especially in the pandemic-spiked housing market. Mortgage applications to purchase a home jumped 9% last week from the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally and holiday adjusted index. Purchase applications were a stunning 28% higher from a year ago.
BUSINESS · 13. novembre 2020
The stock market crash has left many UK shares offering attractive passive income prospects. Lower share prices and maintained dividend payouts mean that yields across the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 are exceptionally high in some cases. Of course, a weak economic outlook means that ensuring a company’s dividend is affordable may be a worthwhile move prior to purchase. Similarly, assessing its dividend growth prospects could lead to an improving income outlook, as well as capital returns as the...
BUSINESS · 08. novembre 2020
Bitcoin soared past $15,500 this week, hitting its highest level since January 2018, fueled by a cocktail of a weak dollar and acute uncertainty over the US political and economic outlook. The rally coincided with Democratic nominee Joe Biden steadily gaining the lead in critical battleground states in the 2020 presidential election. He is projected to defeat Trump in the 2020 election. Bitcoin has risen 17% in the past week, hitting $15,527 as of 09:00 am ET on Friday. The price has gained...