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$5 Billion: Facebook’s Price for Your Privacy
July 24, 2019 Great Stuff
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) just smacked Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) in the face. The world’s largest social media company must shell out $5 billion in the biggest penalty the FTC has ever handed down. Why the big penalty? Remember Cambridge Analytica? You knew that wasn’t going away. The FTC is penalizing Facebook for how […] Earnings Food for Thought: McDonald’s, Chipotle and Starbucks
July 22, 2019 Great Stuff
I have a weakness for ramen. Not the cheap Maruchan stuff that we lived on in college, but the “boutique” stuff you find at your local ramen-bowl restaurants. This weakness proved to be my undoing this morning. I had a bowl of some spicy, chicken-fire ramen last night … and I’m still on fire today. […] Netflix Battles the Strangest Things
July 18, 2019 Great Stuff
Did you cancel your Netflix Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) subscription? I didn’t cancel my subscription. So, that makes two of us still here, probably. Unless you’re sharing my account. I have been getting a lot of weird suggested shows to watch recently. Hmmm… The world’s largest online streaming company reported its second-quarter results last night. While […]Don’t Wreck It, Ralph
June 20, 2019 Great Stuff
I’m no Ralph Kramden, but even I can see that the market is ready for launch. Like I said in yesterday’s Great Stuff, anything but complete inaction by the U.S. Federal Reserve was likely to spark a rally — and save Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s job. All Powell had to do was drop the word “patient” from the Fed’s […]Uber Bullying: This Is the Robot Revolution
June 13, 2019 Great Stuff
Some people clearly haven’t seen enough sci-fi movies. You do not bully robots. Period. And yet, that’s exactly what drivers around the world are doing. Road rage is now spilling over onto autonomous vehicles. Eric Meyhofer, head of Uber Technologies Inc.’s (NYSE: UBER) self-driving car unit, lamented the rising epidemic at Wednesday’s Elevate conference in Washington, D.C.: […]