By Judith Segaloff People make their way near the NASDAQ MarketSite at Times Square on January 13, 2023, in New York City. Nasdaq and the S&P 500 pared losses on Friday on the back of easing inflation expectations and results from some U.S. banks. LEONARDO MUNOZ/JNS With the plummeting NASDAQ, rising inflation and interest rates,
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By Wayne Duggan In this photo illustration, FuboTV logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen. Its platform, fuboTV, allows customers to access content through streaming devices and on SmartTVs, mobile phones, tablets, and computers. PAVLO GONCHAR/BENZINGA Investors who bought stocks during the COVID-19 market crash in 2020 have generally experienced some big gains in the
By Simona Kitanovska More than half of ambitious young adults plan to ditch their jobs to start their own business – with those in one area of England keenest to become successful entrepreneurs. A survey, of 2,000 people aged between 18-30, found that the city in England’s Yorkshire region is home to the most ambitious
By Jonathan Hobbs The artist ParadoxNeon has debuted his work in the metaverse. He has created a collection titled Synthetic Robots. On the Solana blockchain, the collection will consist of a total of 9,999 NFT (non-funglible token) items. The first 3,666 owners of the non-fungible tokens, which digitally represent any asset, will each receive a
By Michelle D. Madsen What people wear and their sense of style constitute a significant way in which individuals express themselves, says Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, which changed its corporate name to Meta last October. Thus, Meta Platforms, through high-end clothing items for its avatars, will make it possible for users to more
By Billy Houghton VeeFriends is the NFT project of Gary Vaynerchuk, who has seen recent upticks in fame because of his high-octane financial advice. Often called Gary Vee, he has created the VeeFriends Collection to bring to life his ambitions of building a vast community around his specific brand of creative marketing and business advice.
By George A. Willis Two years ago, Dave Christopher knew something had to change. COVID-19 shut down his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, in the spring of 2020. Many businesses in his city didn’t survive, while others barely managed with the help of grants and Paycheck Protection Program loans. But Christopher took a closer look and
By Lem Satterfield Mykal Manswell speaks with maturity beyond his years, especially when addressing mental health concerns among African Americans related to racism and the pandemic. The 25-year-old former college football player referenced racial suffering having affected blacks since the birth of America and beyond during an interview with Zenger. “The African-American community has unfortunately
By Michelle D. Madsen Tripp Inc., a Los Angeles-based digital wellness platform, says it has raised $11.2 million to finance ways to technologically enhance well-being in the metaverse. The Tripp platform enables users to create their own experience of visuals and sounds during meditation sessions. The company provides users with a variety of virtual environments
By Jonathan Hobbs Financial literacy takes education. That’s where The Wall Street Degen Club comes in. The Wall Street Degen Club (WSDC) is a blockchain-based private trading community. (A blockchain is a digital ledger of transactions.) It is also an online university that offers courses about trading and finance. The focus is educating holders in
