President Donald Trump speaks on the telephone via speakerphone with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto in the Oval Office of the White House on August 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee/Getty Images The January 6 Committee’s eighth hearing will focus on Trump’s actions on Jan. 6th. White House call logs from January 6, 2021…
Sawyer Hemsley (pictured) co-founded and became the COO of Crumbl Cookies with no business experience. Sawyer Hemsley Crumbl Cookies was founded in 2017 and gained national success through social media. The company alleges that two cookie businesses are profiting off of its ‘successful trade dress’. The legal battle has been dubbed the #UtahCookieWars on social…
Gender parity in education, politics, health, and the workplace is still a long way off, per the World Economic Forum. Its top 10 list of countries, those with the smallest gender equality gaps, saw two new entrants this year. As usual, Scandinavian and Nordic countries led the pack. It’s unlikely that you’ll see complete gender…
The UK administers a 6-in-1 shot to youngsters that is a combined vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B, whooping cough, Hib, and polio. Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images A case of polio has been detected in New York, the state’s health department confirmed on Thursday. It’s the first known instance of the disease in…
REUTERS / Jonathan Ernst Former Coinbase exec Ishai Wahi and two others were charged in the first-ever crypto insider trading scheme. The Justice Department alleged that Wahi tipped off his brother and friend on at least 25 crypto assets before they were listed on Coinbase. The charges follow the first-ever case of NFT insider trading…
Brands are leveraging social media checkout and shopping integrations as tech-savvy consumers engage with social commerce more often. Insider Intelligence’s Social Commerce 2021 report dives into top social commerce trends and strategies. You can purchase this report here. Do you work in the Marketing, Media & Advertising industry? Get business insights on the latest tech…
German vice-chancellor Robert Habeck. Andreas Gora/Getty Images Russia is wielding its energy influence to blackmail Europe, Germany’s economy minister said Thursday, per the Financial Times. The Nord Stream 1 pipeline returned online Thursday, but at 40% capacity, which is about what it was before its maintenance period. “Russia as an energy supplier has become unreliable,”…
We hope you weren’t expecting to play Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora before the next movie arrives. Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment have delayed the Avatar game to 2023 or 2024. The developers pinned the setback on “ongoing constraints” affecting game production across the industry. Ubisoft said it was still “committed” to creating a next-gen game and…
This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we’re discussing NFTs – and the video game industry’s continued interest in trying to sell them to us. The past 24 hours have seen two major NFT announcements from a pair of companies taking radically different stances. On the one hand, there’s Square Enix, which has decided to celebrate…
Following today’s news that Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora game has been delayed and will no longer release along James Cameron’s Avatar sequel this December, the publication has announced a number of other significant changes to its release schedule, with Splinter Cell VR and Ghost Recon Frontline both now officially cancelled alongside two previously unannounced…