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Kanye West life of Pablo platinum – CWEB.com
Just in . Kanye West‘s “living album” has been streamed over 3 billion times. Kanye West is the epitome of talent, love or hate him he just creates great music and great clothes. Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo is the first album to go platinum from streaming only Kanye West’s last album has just made streaming history. The Life of Pablo, released a little over a year ago, just went Platinum with over 1.5 billion song streams in the U.S. While popular albums frequently go platinum, this is a big deal because Kanye’s album reached this milestone relying on streams alone — no paid downloads.
Tesla Inc stock value GM – CWEB.com
Tesla, with unit sales of 76,230, is trading at a share price of $4.40 per dollar in sales. Ford, unit sales of 6.6 million, trades at $0.32 per dollar in sales, and GM, unit sales of 10 million, trades at $0.33 per dollar in sales. Tesla and Elon Musk have become a cult of personality. Today TSLA passed Ford in market cap at $44B, and is close to GM ($51B)
Elon Musk is keeping us on our toes. Elon Musk made history (again) by completely changing the game of space travel. This accomplishment is such a major step towards affordable commercial space programs and even consumer space programs.
Good job and Congratulations Elon Musk. This is huge!!
Showtime Roger Ailes miniseries – CWEB.com
Today Showtime Networks is going to broadcast into the world of Fox News as sex scandal’s continues to evolve from the cable channel. The Showtime network is looking to order a miniseries titled “Secure And Hold: The Last Days Of Roger Ailes.”
Ralph Lauren Fifth avenue closing – CWEB.com
Ralph Lauren announced LAST YEAR that they would cut 1,000 salespeople. If they can’t make it on 5th Avenue, they are showing they have problems. Ralph Lauren is making a calculated smart move. Lets watch Ralph Lauren for what comes out of this changes or will the company belly up.
Exports of industrial supplies and materials were the highest since December 2015. There was an 8.0 percent jump in exports to the European Union, with goods shipped to Germany surging 8.6 percent. Exports to the United Kingdom soared 17.3 percent and Japan also bought more goods from the United States.
However, exports to China fell 2.7 percent and Mexico saw a 7.1 percent drop in goods shipped from the United States.
Sothebys world record pink diamond – CWEB.com
Today a rare diamond known as the Pink Star has been sold in Hong Kong for more than $71m ( £57m), setting a new world record for any gemstone at auction.
The oval-shaped 59.6 carat stone was bought after just five minutes’ bidding at Sotheby’s, reports said.
It is the largest polished diamond in its class to go under the hammer.
It sold for $83m in Geneva in 2013 but the buyer later defaulted. The record until now was held by the Oppenheimer Blue, which sold for $50m last May.
Bidding for the gem, which was found by De Beers at a mine in Africa in 1999 and cut over a period of two years, began at $56m.
Sotheby’s said the buyer was Hong Kong jewellery retailer Chow Tai Fook Jewellery.
Tony Romo retire – CWEB.com
Tony Romo is reportedly done with the NFL and has plans to take up broadcasting in life after football. Tony Romo‘s back got so bad he gave up golf a few years ago. Probably time to retire from football, too.
Yahoo sold for $4.8 billion to Verizon. Verizon is looking build a huge advertising platform to compete with Google Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG)- and Facebook Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB)-. Yahoo originally launched in 1995 and went public in 1996. AOL was the only behemoth before Yahoo.Microsoft originally offered $44 billion, which Yahoo refused. After many CEO’s at Yahoo, Marisa Mayers took over to resurrect the company. 4.4 billion dollar loss under Marisa.
Yahoo got a massive email hack affecting its credibility and security. Verizon and Yahoo agree to reduce the price of $350 million to cover legal costs of the security breached. Mayers will not awarded her bonus, nor will she receive will not receive a stock award this year . Marisa Mayers will not be a part of the new company that will be named “ Oath”. She is expected to receive tens of millions of dollars in severance, but the exact payout is still to be determined. Tim Armstrong will lead the new company called “Oath”.
What will the new team at “ Oath” be comprised of?
Adam Cahan will likely be let go. He ran some units at Yahoo. CFO Ken Goldman will be departing. CRO Lisa Utzschneider is interested in being CEO, and Enrique Muñoz Torres could still be on board heading up the advertising unit.
Alibaba a Yahoo asset will be renames Altaba.
There are 43 class action lawsuits for the security breach that affected users in the USA and abroad.
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO)is trading at 46.27 as of 12:30 PM Eastern time. Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) is currently at 49.21. Verizon communications is set to launch a Television streaming service on its network. Other networks are looking to secure streaming rights.
By: Leslie Cohen
Managing Editor- CWEB
Leslie Cohen Managing Editor Cweb.com and Creative Director Sales and Content Producer PMJI Group Paris Jewelry-iParis and Organic Greek. Leslie has a track record leading startups from the ground up, making them into profitable brands. Her skills have made products come alive that are being introduced to the market, or improving and expanding a current product line. She has been with the above companies for over ten years and works closely with the founder and CEO in product development. She produces both written and visual content, and manages social media for the companies.
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Saint Petersberg metro suicide bombing – CWEB.com
Breaking in! Bombing ruled a suicide attack.
At least ten dead and 50 injured in explosion at St. Petersburg, Russia train station.
“According to the first preliminary data, around ten people were killed,” a source told Russian news agencies after the Saint Petersburg metro said that an unidentified object had blown up in a train carriage.
Up to 50 people are believed to be injured.
Presence of shrapnel in the explosive devices” shows that the #SaintPetersburgBlast may be a terrorist attack. My condolences to victims & families of the terrible attack in St. Petersburg, Russia. We must continue to denounce violence against the innocent everywhere.
The cost of freedom isn’t free. The vitality of life as we know it is tested daily. What are you going to do to protect freedom.
Daimler Mercedes Bosch self driving car – CWEB.com
Today Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler and supplier Robert Bosch are teaming up to develop self-driving cars in an alliance primarily aimed at accelerating the production of “robo-taxis”. The companies want to get driverless cars on the road by 2020.
