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Luke Charles Stafford is a popular actor for leading mini-drama purveyor ReelShort.The feature-length sagas are divided into short clips that play in TikTok-like succession.The scenarios are otherworldly, but for some, the career opportunities are real.This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with 30-year-old Luke Charles Stafford, based in…
Billionaire Ken Griffin, a key GOP donor, spoke Tuesday at a conference hosted by UBS outside Miami.Griffin, the founder of $65 billion hedge fund Citadel, was critical of the new administration’s tariffs.Elon Musk’s DOGE has his full support, though, and he thanked Musk “from the bottom of my heart.”Ken Griffin…
Ray Dalio said China is terrific at producing cheap goods and its play in the tech wars will be “very inexpensive chips.”US tech stocks tumbled following the release of Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s new lower-cost model.Dalio said the AI war is one that no country can afford to lose.Billionaire investor…
MILAN (Reuters) – Italian billionaire Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone has emerged as a leading player in the reshaping of Italy’s financial sector that is currently under way. BATTLES IN GENERALI AND MEDIOBANCA Caltagirone last year expanded his investments in Italy’s financial sector and is now a key shareholder in bailed-out bank…
By Krystal Hu DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – U.S. businessman Frank McCourt is open to teaming up with other buyers on a bid to take over the U.S. operations of TikTok as long as he can maintain control of the asset, he told Reuters at the Davos event on Thursday. The…
Tech leaders, including an early Facebook investor, launch a $30M campaign for independent social media.Free Our Feeds aims to counter billionaire control with the open-source AT Protocol.The campaign is led by executives from Mozilla, Social Web Foundation, and other tech nonprofits.Days after Meta announced controversial changes to its content moderation…
An analysis of the top 500 billionaires across the globe revealed the most popular names.John and David are the most common billionaire names, while Marks have the most wealth.Wang and Zhang also made a top-ten list that’s otherwise Western male names.There’s a lot to consider if you want to name…
Massad Boulos helped Trump win Arab voters in Michigan. He’s also Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law.News outlets have called him a “billionaire” and repeated Trump’s description of him as a “lawyer.”But he doesn’t appear to have a law license, and his company has a market cap of $865,000.Massad Boulos, who has been…
ZURICH (Reuters) – The wealth held by the world’s billionaires jumped by about 17% over the past year, as significant gains among the super rich in the United States more than offset a decline in China, Swiss bank UBS said on Thursday. The UBS Billionaire Ambitions Report for 2024 said…
Jared Isaacman has been nominated by Donald Trump to head up NASA.Isaacman has flown two historic, all-civilian SpaceX missions, with more planned in the future.Isaacman vowed on X to advance US space exploration and send Americans to the moon and Mars.The man who commanded multiple space missions for Elon Musk…
