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EXCLUSIVE: As part of a six-year effort to highlight the benefits of gigabit networks, the Mozilla Foundation today announced today that it has awarded the final 14 prizes from its $ 1.2 million Gigabit Community Fund. Funded in part by the National Science Foundation, the Gigabit Community Fund launched in 2012 to provide grants to educational […]
Reuters / Albert Gea The former assistant of Goldman Sachs co-president David Solomon stands accused of stealing more than $ 1.2 million of wine from his employer. The stolen wine most notably included seven bottles from the French estate Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, widely considered “among the best, most expensive and rarest wines in the […]
John Moore / Getty Images The US Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against Robert Shapiro, alleging he bilked investors — many of them senior citizens — out of $ 1.2 billion as part of a Ponzi scheme. The SEC says it has frozen all remaining assets as it pursues its case, which includes […]
Ronald Martinez/Getty Images It is midseason in the NFL, and that means it is time for what has become an underappreciated annual tradition in the NFL — the gorgeous photos produced at Dallas Cowboys home games thanks to the perfect lighting. The conditions for the incredible photos are best when the Cowboys play a mid-season, late-afternoon home […]
Uber has announced a partnership with Girls Who Code, the not-for-profit organization that’s setting out to “close the gender gap” in technology. As part of the three-year tie-up, Uber will mete out $ 1.2 million to help Girls Who Code “grow hundreds of after school and immersion programs” across the U.S., according to Komal Mangtani, […]
Derek Jeter and his group of investors have come to an agreement with Jeffrey Loria to buy the Miami Marlins for $ 1.2 billion, according to a report from Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald. Jeter’s group felt they were in a good position to land the deal after a group including former presidential candidate Jeb […]
REUTERS/Brendan McDermid LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. retailer Michael Kors has agreed to buy luxury shoemaker Jimmy Choo for $ 1.2 billion, snapping up a British brand launched in the east end of London and made famous by celebrity fans including Princess Diana. Founded in the 1990s by bespoke shoemaker Jimmy Choo, the brand is known for […]
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The US military’s potentially trillion dollar F-35 program has reliability problems that could hobble fleet readiness and balloon its cost even further, according to a Department of Defense testing office assessment seen by Bloomberg News. The assessment states that the supply chain for spare parts hasn’t kept up with demand, and that the parts have proven less reliable […]
AP Photo/Matt Rourke WASHINGTON (AP) — Last August, a handwritten ledger surfaced in Ukraine with dollar amounts and dates next to the name of Paul Manafort, who was then Donald Trump’s campaign chairman. Ukrainian investigators called it evidence of off-the-books payments from a pro-Russian political party — and part of a larger pattern of corruption […]
