Of Paul Iddon The 2022 NATO Summit in Madrid concluded on Thursday 30 June. Statements by US President Joe Biden and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on the final day of this session could provide some early insight into what the Greek and Turkish air forces could look like at the end of this decade. […]
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Netflix lays off 300 more employees after losing hundreds of thousands of subscribers earlier this year
Netflix laid off 300 more employees in a second round of cuts on Thursday and confirmed plans to offer a cheaper pay-per-view subscription service amid financial woes as the streaming giant lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers in the first quarter of this year. A Netflix spokesman told Forbes that the company had laid off […]
The youngest self-made billionaire in the world is a 25-year-old who dropped out of college
By Cole Horton Alexander Wang grew up in the shadow of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA, the top secret place where the United States developed its first atomic bomb during World War II. His parents were physicists working on armaments programs for the army. He does the same now: Wang’s San Francisco-based […]
” Dive ” $ 124. billion for the fortunes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos this year
When Tesla CEO Elon Musk surpassed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to become the world’s richest man for the first time last September, Musk told Forbes that he would “send a giant ‘2’ statue to Bezos, along with a silver medal “. Almost eight months later, neither man is in the mood for jokes. The fall […]
Oleg Tinkov: Most Russian tycoons on Forbes list do not support war
Russian millionaire Oleg Tinkov, who has condemned Russia’s war against Ukraine, in a lengthy interview with journalist Yuri Dud (described by Russian authorities as a “foreign agent”), says that after the Russian invasion of Ukraine , he personally contacted 12 of the 20 Russian businessmen included in the Forbes list and how “they are all […]
In 7 years a ‘dangerous asteroid’ will approach Earth – Will NASA ‘visit’ it?
Of Jamie Carter In about seven years from today – on April 13, 2029 – the “Potentially Dangerous Asteroid” (PHA) named Apophis will pass through the orbit of our geosynchronous satellites. It will pass about 37,000 kilometers away from the Earth’s surface. Apophis is huge. It was discovered in 2005 and is estimated to be […]
Turkey: How it exports Bayraktar to Ukraine ‘without commitments’
Of Paul Iddon Turkey has been reiterating in recent months that sales of the Bayraktar TB2 are made by a private company, Baykar, and therefore Ankara does not sell weapons. On April 8, a high-ranking Turkish official announced, according to Reuters, that Russia had protested to Turkey over the sale of Bayraktar to Ukraine. The […]
USA: The FDA approved the first breath test to detect coronavirus
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency license for the “Covid-19 breathalyzer” from InspectIR Systems, the first approved device capable of detecting coronavirus infections in patients’ breath, according to Forbes. The device correctly recognized 91.2% of the positive samples in a study of 2,409 people and also performed well in a […]
The top investors with the ‘touch of Midas’ for 2022
Concerns about inflation rallies, supply chain disruptions and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have tightened valuations of technology companies and put several public subscribers on hold. However, recent record-breaking valuations by the industry’s top investors seem to be pushing the Venture Capitalists on Forbes’ 21st annual Midas List. The “Midas List”, compiled in collaboration with […]
Leadership lessons by Madeleine Albright
By Edward Segal Madeleine Albright, the first female US Secretary of State to die on March 23 at the age of 84, was a world-class leader who left many lessons for the business world. Help others find their way Retired U.S. Navy Captain Barbara Bell is a professor of leadership at Vanderbilt University and the […]