Month: February 2020
UAE overtakes South Korea to rank first in mobile broadband speed test in January
The UAE has overtaken South Korea for the first time to rank first in the global mobile broadband speed test in January, according to Ookla’s Global Speed Test Index. The Emirate overtook Qatar and was behind South Korea in December. In the UAE, the average download speed was 87.01Mbps compared…
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New MacBook Pro 13-inch spotted with 10th-generation Ice Lake
It looks like Apple has plans to give the MacBook Pro 13-inch a considerable power boost in 2020. And, it’s about darn time, especially since 8th-generation Intel Core processors are aging at this point, especially on a premium laptop. A 3DMark Time Spy benchmark, recently leaked by @_rogame on Twitter,…
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Millennial Women Made LuLaRoe Billions. Then They Paid The Price.
In a photo she posted on Instagram of her 2017 cruise to the Caribbean, Katie Willis smiles at the camera, her hair perfectly braided and her teeth blindingly white. She and her husband sport matching straw fedoras and clutch drinks, while standing in front of a crystal-blue ocean, a massive…
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Donald Trump ads will take over YouTube for Election Day
YouTube’s homepage will feature ads in support of Donald Trump’s reelection campaign on election day 2020, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Trump’s reelection campaign bought out YouTube’s masthead ad space for “early November” including election day, November 3, according to Bloomberg. By purchasing this highly trafficked ad space, the Trump campaign…
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Twitter suspends 70 pro-Michael Bloomberg accounts for ‘platform manipulation’
Twitter announced Friday that it would suspend 70 accounts that posted content in support of Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign, first reported by the Los Angeles Times. “We have taken enforcement action on a group of accounts for violating our rules against platform manipulation and spam,” a Twitter spokesperson told The…
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Startups Weekly: What the E-Trade deal says about Robinhood
[Editor’s note: Want to get this weekly review of news that startups can use by email? Just subscribe here.] How well do Robinhood’s financials stack up against incumbent online brokerages? While we wait for the seven-year-old company’s long-planned IPO, Alex Wilhelm examined Morgan Stanley’s big $13 billion purchase of E-Trade for…
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