Earlier this week, Club 8-bit, one of Ukraine’s largest privately-owned computer museums, was destroyed during the siege of Mariupol. Kotaku spotted news of the event after its owner, Dmitry Cherepanov, took to Facebook to share the fate of Club 8-bit.It has been reported that the Mariupol... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-03-27 15:41:09 UTC ]
The CEO of Storyblocks discusses three considerations for companies that want to compete in this immersive new world—one of which is to spread the wealth. Tech companies are currently stumbling over themselves to see who can make a bigger bet on the metaverse. However, beyond a massive financial... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2022-02-28 05:00:22 UTC ]
NASA announced on Thursday it has awarded $415.6 million US to billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, stalwart contractor Northrop Grumman Corp and venture-backed Nanoracks to develop privately owned and operated commercial space stations. ... Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2021-12-03 12:56:05 UTC ]
Iran's state TV says a cyberattack has disrupted access to the country's privately owned Mahan Air Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2021-11-21 09:33:44 UTC ]
The Vancouver Aquarium has been sold from Ocean Wise Conservation Association to Herschend Enterprises, a privately owned tourism company based in the United States. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2021-04-15 16:49:57 UTC ]
Jury is out on whether video-sharing site could make Microsoft a social media giantAs the clock ticks on Microsoft’s fast-track talks to buy TikTok the jury is out on whether it marks a unique opportunity to become a global social media giant overnight, or a $50bn (£38bn) geopolitically fuelled... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-08-10 14:21:38 UTC ]
One of Nashville’s largest privately owned companies is launching an initiative aimed at bringing more diversity into the tech industry. Asurion has donated $200,000 to create a new data-science scholarship at historically black Fisk University in Nashville, according to a news release. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-06-09 17:16:57 UTC ]
On March 24, President Trump told a Fox News virtual town hall that he’d love to have America “opened up and just raring to go” by Easter. Bill Hemmer, who was hosting, chuckled, and said that would be “a great American resurrection.” Later the same day, during a second appearance on Fox, Trump... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-04-13 12:02:48 UTC ]
On December 19, police in Jowhar, the capital of Hirshabelle state, raided the privately owned City FM broadcaster, briefly detained Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2019-12-23 23:00:13 UTC ]
WHEN I WAS a student in Perm, Russia, my university friend told me that her grandparents were kulaks. The term dates back to the era of collectivization, a harsh agrarian reform that took place in the Soviet Union between the late 1920s and the early ’30s. Hitherto privately owned land and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-12-14 18:00:21 UTC ]
Purchase of British Steel gives privately owned Chinese steelmaker Jingye chance to grow outside home market dominated by giant state-owned mills Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2019-11-13 11:03:39 UTC ]
Judging by the dozens of cannabis pitches I receive weekly, weed—which is increasingly gaining recreational legal status across the U.S., despite the hundreds of thousands of people who continue to be arrested for it every year—is ripe for advertising opportunities. Here’s one standout cannabis... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-10-04 20:07:05 UTC ]
'Rooster Bar' author John Grisham sinks his teeth into a juicy target: privately owned, for-profit law schools Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2017-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) has been pushing the U.S. Coast Guard to buy or lease a polar ice-breaking ship owned by one of his top campaign contributors, although officials repeatedly have said the vessel doesn’t meet the service’s needs. The ship in question, the Aiviq, is a privately owned,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]