Russian President Vladimir Putin. Getty Images The Washington Post obtained Russian comms intercepted by Ukraine and other countries. They include a senior officer appearing to pick the Kyiv apartment he wanted before the invasion started. Russia was so sure of a quick win that it picked Ukrainian accommodation for its personnel, officials said. A top…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Ryan Cohen. Ryan Cohen Ryan Cohen sold his entire Bed Bath & Beyond stake for $189 million, netting a $68 million profit. The activist investor spent $121 million on the stock and bullish call options earlier this year. Cohen’s sale drove the meme stock down as much as 46% in premarket trading on Friday. Ryan…
A Tui Airlines Boeing 737-800 aircraft descended for 57 seconds last year without crew noticing, the AAIB said in a report. Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images A Tui flight continued to descend for 57 seconds, following an aborted landing. The incident occurred last year but the findings of an investigation were released on Thursday. The…
TGIF readers. I’m Phil Rosen, writing to you from Manhattan. For months, friends of mine outside the city have bemoaned sticker shock at gas stations ($5 pump prices make me appreciate the subway a whole lot more). Yet, for all their gas dollars lost to suburban American life, little of that has gone toward the…
Bed Bath & Beyond shares are plummeting after meme-stock specialist Ryan Cohen cashed out his entire stake for $68 million. Nam Y. Huh/AP Photo Bed Bath & Beyond shares plummeted as much as 45% before Friday’s opening bell. Meme-stock specialist Ryan Cohen dumped his whole stake in the retailer in two days this week. Bed…
The dollar booked it’s third straight win this week on hawkish talk by Fed officials. SimpleImages The US dollar index rose to a fresh one-month high on Friday on hawkish remarks by Fed officials. The index traded above 107, its highest since July 18, heading for a gain of 2.1% this week. As the central…
HBO Max may be planning for a big weekend with the Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, kicking off on Sunday, but it is also showing signs of being wound down as its proposed merger with Discovery+ nears. Warner Bros. Discovery is removing 36 titles from the streaming service to trim its content…
I can still remember my first game of PUBG. Well, kind of. I can’t remember how I did out there on the battlefield, which weapons I found or how far I traveled across the map. But I can remember that starter island – where everyone spawns while the game is gathering players. I remember just…
Diablo 4 developer Blizzard has issued a lengthy blog post describing the kinds of things you’ll be able to spend money on in its upcoming dungeon crawler – and things you won’t. It’s the latest round of reassurance from Blizzard on Diablo 4 following the controversial monetisation of its recent free-to-play spin-off Diablo Immortal, in…
Earlier this month, it was reported that Sony had been blocking games from going onto Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service. The type of games this was affecting was never specified, however screenwriter Gary Whitta recently claimed that Sony had paid Cult of the Lamb’s developer, Massive Monster, to stop the indie-hit from appearing on…