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Billionaire Breaks Retweet Record by Offering $10K to 100 Users
5.5 Million Retweets and Counting Twitter‘s previous 3.55 million retweet record has now been beaten by 43-year old Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. At the time of writing this article, his Tweet has 5,528,055 retweets and 1,393,282 likes. ZOZOTOWN新春セールが史上最速で取扱高100億円を先ほど突破！！日頃の感謝を込め、僕個人から100名様に100万円【総額1億円のお年玉】を現金でプレゼントします。応募方法は、僕をフォローいただいた上、このツイートをRTするだけ。受付は1/7まで。当選者には僕から直接DMします！ #月に行くならお年玉 pic.twitter.com/cKQfPPbOI3 — 前澤友作 (@yousuck2020) January 5, 2019 The previous record-holder is…
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Winklevoss Twins Reach Billionaire Status via Bitcoin
The Winklevoss twins are now officially Bitcoin billionaires. The two are mostly known for their legal run-in with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who the twins claim stole his idea. This topic was the subject of the the 2010 movie The Social Network by David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin. The brothers…
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Kickstarter CEO: ‘We’re here to help people take over the mainstream’
Kickstarter CEO, Yancey Strickler has said that his hopes for Kickstarter are that it will allow the talented but unrecognised be able to make an impact and one day perhaps even take over the mainstream of industries. Yancey Strickler has been speaking following the events of the Kickstarter Funded film “Kung…
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Apple Files $1B Lawsuit Against iPhone Partner Qualcomm
Apple has filed a $1 Billion lawsuit against Qualcomm, the company who makes iPhone’s baseband processor, claiming that they were pressured to exclusively use Qualcomm’s modem technology exclusively for a five year period ending in 2016. This lawsuit is directly related to the US Federal Trade Commision’s anti-trust filing against…
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GTA V Stunts Get Better and Better
GTA V, already 2 years old and still making history. Rockstar have sold almost 52 Million copies of the game across all platforms, worth around $2 Billion. It has some great features and some seriously amazing gameplay. To show what level of detail the developers have thought into, the fancy cars…
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AOL Being Bought for $4.4 Billion by Verizon
Verizon is moving into the content and media business with its planned purchase of AOL. If regulators approve the $4.4 billion USD deal, Verizon will join the likes of Comcast which is not only a telecommunications giant but also a major media conglomerate. The acquisition would involve the entirety of…
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New eSports Betting Site Unikrn Launches
Over the last few years, we have seen the rise of esports with it taking shape of what should become a massive industry. Now the veil has been lifted on Unikrn, a platform to facilitate spectator betting on esports around the world. There are now many ways to bet online…
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More than 70% of Facebook’s Revenue Is Mobile
Facebook has shown us a thing or two about itself in its first three years as a public company. It knows how to make serious amounts of money, is increasingly mobile and keeps attracting users even though it seems as if every person on the planet who has access to…
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Apple Building ‘Global Command Center’ at Former Sapphire Plant
Apple has a lot of cash and now it seems that they’re looking to spend some of it. The company announced yesterday that they would be building a $2 Billion ‘Global Command Center’ at the site of the former GT Advanced sapphire plant – the place that went bankrupt when…
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Dyson Makes £1 Billion Investment in Future Tech
Dyson, the company best known for producing hi-tech vacuum cleaners, fans, heaters and hand driers, has announced that it is investing £1 Billion in “future technology”. This comes alongside an earlier £250 million investment in a new R&D expansion of their current headquarters in Wiltshire. That particular project is scheduled to bring…
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Gangnam Style Passes Two Billion Views On YouTube
Love it or hate it, Psy’s Gangnam Style has undoubtedly been the biggest hit single around the world since its début on YouTube back in 2012. Since then it has taken the world by storm and even though the are many people who can’t stand hearing the track over and…
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Snapchat Owners Turns Down A $3B Offer From Facebook
Since its release just over two years ago, Snapchat has been going from strength to strength and more recently the simple photo messaging app which was developed by a group of university students at Stanford has seen upwards of 350 million images passing through its servers each day to well…
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Seagate Ship Over Two Billion Hard Drives
Way back in 1980, storage manufacturer Seagate (formerly Shugart Technology) released their first hard drive, the ST-506 which packed a whopping 5MB of storage in its 5.25inch frame. The drive proved to be a huge success and seen a 10MB version was released. The success of these drives was to be shown as…
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