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Enlarge (credit: S3studio/Getty Images) A woman who for years went by the name “Bitcoin Maven” on localbitcoins.com—a peer-to-peer website for buying and selling anonymous bitcoins in-person—was sentenced Monday to 366 days in federal prison, three years of supervised release, and a $ 20,000 fine. While selling bitcoins is not inherently illegal, doing so in such […]
Getty Images Floyd Mayweather has evolved from the king of the ring to the king of the bling. The retired boxer, who finished his career unbeaten after 50 wins as a professional, has just bought an $ 18 million watch. It is made of a lot of shiny diamonds. Floyd Mayweather was the king […]
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Flickr / Loïc Lagarde A single parking space in Hong Kong that was bought for $ 430,000 less than a year ago was just resold for $ 760,000. A local couple initially bought the spot in the luxury Ultima complex in 2017 and resold it nine months later for nearly double that, setting a new property […]
Enlarge / A mockup of a Nikola truck with the Anheuser-Busch logo. (credit: Anheuser-Busch) On a quarterly financial call Wednesday afternoon, Tesla CEO Elon Musk briefly spoke about a new lawsuit filed by Nikola Motor Company, a Salt Lake City-based hydrogen fuel cell truck startup. Musk said it was a “laughable lawsuit from some company […]
Ryanair Ryanair CEO bought every passenger on a flight from Liverpool to Dublin a drink. He did so after his race horse, Tiger Roll, won the Grand National. Ryanair is well known for its no frills approach to flying and punitive excess charges. Passengers on a Ryanair flight from Liverpool to Dublin on Saturday evening shared some […]
Germany’s national mail service Deutsche Post reportedly sold personal data, including information on voters’ gender, wealth and consumer habits, to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party ahead of the 2017 elections. Both the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) began acquiring information from a Deutsche Post subsidiary in advance of the September 2017 […]
Princess Diana, the former wife of Prince Charles, 68, and mother of Prince William and Prince Harry, was killed in a car accident in Paris with her boyfriend at the time Dodi Al Fayed. The royal and the British-Egyptian millionaire, who was 42-years-old when he died, had been romantically since July 1997. It was revealed […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | sshepard) The Federal Communications Commission today collected a $ 614.3 million fine from Verizon and Straight Path, a company that Verizon just bought. The merger and fine are related. Straight Path held about 1,000 FCC spectrum licenses but failed to use them. Straight Path thus entered a settlement with the […]
