How UAE's growing interest in crypto drew Michael Saylor, Changpeng Zhao and other crypto executives to Abu Dhabi, hoping to secure deals with Emirati investors (Angus Berwick/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/crypto-industry-persian-gulf-states-22a0d3a1?st=ff3Aee&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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How the UAE
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An interview with Marcos Galperin, CEO of MercadoLibre, which has a $105B market cap, on his upcoming resignation, MercadoLibre's rivalry with Amazon, and more (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-12-09/argentina-s-richest-man-marcos-galperin-on-stepping-down-as-mercadolibre-ceo
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An interview with Marcos Galperin, the CEO of MercadoLibre, which has a $105B market cap, on deciding to resign, MercadoLibre
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iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring support agreement to hand control to its secured lender and key supplier, Shenzhen Picea (Bloomberg)
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Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years
iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for bankruptcy and proposed han...
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iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reaches a restructuring agreement to hand over control to its secured lender and main Chinese supplier Shenzhen Picea
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How Skövde, a small Swedish city of 58,000, built a local video game ecosystem via a degree for game developers at University of Skövde and a startup incubator (Ralph Jones/The Guardian)
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‘If we build it, they will come’: Skövde, the tiny town powering up Sweden’s video game boom
It started with a goat. Now – via a degree for developers and an incubator for startups – the tiny city is churning out world-famous video game...
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How Skövde, a small Swedish city of 58,000, churns out world-famous video games via a degree for game developers at University of Skövde and a startup incubator
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Stocks of private companies like OpenAI and SpaceX are being sold via invitation-only markets to the ultrawealthy before their IPOs, creating a two-tier system (Corrie Driebusch/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/private-stock-market-growth-bb71bde1?st=QDBNby&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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A look at the efforts to give retail investors access to private markets, where shares of startups like OpenAI trade, and the opportunities and risks they bring
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Delivery Hero Chair Kristin Skogen Lund backs CEO Niklas Östberg as the group explores asset sales amid shareholder pressure over its falling stock price (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
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Delivery Hero Chair Kristin Skogen Lund backs CEO Niklas Östberg as the company explores selling assets amid shareholder pressure over its falling stock price
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Solve Intelligence, which offers generative AI tools to law firms for IP and patent law work, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)
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Generative AI is coming for IP and patent law, as Solve Intelligence raises its Series B
It looks like a swathe of older legal tech platforms are about to be hit by Generative AI startups. But are VCs using 'king-making' tactics to back...
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Solve Intelligence, which offers generative AI tools to law firms for IP and patent law work, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M
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How media coverage of Trump's AI EO overstated federal authority over states and overlooked how the order's interstate commerce argument could backfire (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
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Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you’d think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend...
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A look at Trump
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A profile of ASML, Europe's most valuable company, as it prepares for a transition to High NA EUV, with high-volume manufacturing expected in 2027 and 2028 (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-12-12/how-asml-plans-to-keep-pace-with-nvidia-s-growth-and-soaring-ai-demand
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A profile of ASML, Europe
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Crypto casinos have become online gambling havens for teens and problem gamblers, propped up by operators who turn social media influencers into recruiters (New York Times)
Inside the Dark and Predatory World of Crypto Casinos
Using exploitative marketing strategies, the illicit gambling websites have profited and lured in a young generation of gamblers.
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Crypto casinos have become online gambling havens for teens and problem gamblers, propped up by operators who turn social media influencers into recruiters
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