A new study suggests they are richer, younger and better educated.13th the price of Litecoin briefly jumped by nearly 30% following a fake press release claiming that Walmart would begin accepting the digital currency for online payments. The hoax, which managed to fool several financial-news outlets, could spur calls for greater oversight of the cryptocurrency industry.Cryptocurrencies were al...

Punks, Apes, Cats, and now Akiras? If you’ve been tracking the latest NFT and crypto news, you’ve probably come across headlines like Visa buys a $150,000 CryptoPunk NFT or 101 Bored Apes sell for over $24 Million in Sotheby's auction. Or you might have noticed starts like Mike Tyson changing his Twitter profile to a Cool Cat, Steph Curry to a Bored Ape, or Steve Harvey to a Solana Monkey Bus...

Beijing's increasingly heavy hand may curtail creative luxury marketing efforts in the year ahead. Key Takeaways:China’s ongoing scrutiny of tech firms has expanded rapidly from a focus on antitrust and data privacy to cover gaming, celebrities, fan culture, and much more — all with implications for international luxury brands.It appears increasingly likely that brands will be hamstrung about...

A must-have shoe closet that keeps your dirty, smelly shoes in the moist months of the year free from any germ build-up and the dreaded smell that is so hard to get rid of.I’m sure, there isn’t a soul on this planet who likes dirty smelly shoes – they are so gross, to say the least. More so in the rainy and moist seasons of the year when after a hard day’s work you don’t feel like taking t...

Fox's Alter Ego is truly shaping up to be a singing competition like you've never seen before.EW can exclusively reveal the first look at the avatars that will be competing on the show, which is being touted as the world's first avatar singing competition show and the next iteration of the musical competition series. In it, 20 aspiring singers from all walks of life will compete, but not as the...

When the Covid-19 pandemic began in the U.S., Heather Hasson and Trina Spear knew they were in a unique position to aid frontline workers. So the co-founders of Figs--a direct-to-consumer maker of healthcare garments and personal protective equipment--moved quickly to donate 30,000 sets of scrubs to hospitals seeing the most cases of Covid-19. The garments went to doctors, nurses, respiratory t...

Digitization has become prevalent among transportation and logistics (T&L) companies, improving all upstream and downstream facets of the industry. This process has created unprecedented efficiencies targeted at expanding revenue streams.That’s the good news. The downside is that digitization has exposed a series of shortcomings among T&L companies that have made them extremely vulnera...

Intuit confirmed persistent rumors that it was in the process of buying Mailchimp, detailing a $12 billion transaction that will bring the well-known email infra company to its corporate remit.Intuit is not a well-known player in the email marketing space. The company is instead best known for its TurboTax software (and associated lobbying of the U.S. government to ensure its rent-seeking can c...

The Chinese housing market has continued a slowdown that it started by the middle of 2019 during the coronavirus crisis. In July 2021, the year-over-year increase in the country’s 70 major housing markets was only 4.6 percent for new residential buildings, down from double digits from January to June 2019.The Chinese government was in fact trying to limit fast growth in the country’s housing...