Gross Domestic Product, 3rd quarter 2019 (third estimate); Corporate Profits, 3rd quarter 2019 (revised estimate) Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.1 percent in the third quarter of 2019, according to the “third” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic […]
Month: December 2019
‘Boomerspeak’ Is Now Available for Your Parodying Pleasure
In 2019, young people learned how to talk like boomers. It showed up in tweets (“why do boomers all have such a strange relationship with capitalization and punctuation”), on Reddit (“On my first ever Facebook post to a friend’s wall, I signed my name like […]
St. Louis-based Summersalt raises $17.3 million for its direct-to-consumer clothing line
The midwest may not be known as the fashion capital of the world (or even the U.S.), but its place in the consumer retail firmament is secure through L Brands and its Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works subsidiaries. Now, venture investors are investing […]
Resorts World Catskills has a new president. How he’s betting big to make it a success
How he's betting big to make it a success ….. Kien Huat already owned about 85% of the casino backed by gambling magnate K.T. Lim, and …
Bitcoin More Likely to Hit $10K in 2020 than Dip to $5K
Bitcoin is still in a consolidating bull market, shows the 2020 prediction of Mike McGlone, senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence. social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
France braces for holiday travel chaos amid pensions strike
Paris (AFP). Cancelled trains, packed roads, frazzled nerves: Travellers scrambled across France on Friday to begin Christmas vacations upended by … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours
Apple stops iOS 13.2.3 code signing following release of iOS 13.3
Following the release of iOS 13.3, Apple on Thursday ceased code signing for the previous version 13.2.3 in a bid to keep customer iPhones and … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
From Apex Legends to Star Wars: Respawn’s redefining year in games
Anyone that has the faintest idea about the world of games won’t have to venture far before discovering that Electronic Arts is not too popular in the games sphere. Amazingly though, one studio acquired by the publisher has been chugging away since 2010 and has […]
Hulu is down
Less than one month after a major Hulu outage, Hulu is down again. We’ve been seeing reports on Twitter of Hulu streaming issues. It appears the issues have been ongoing for the last few hours. At this point, Hulu does not seem to have a […]
The 14 Best Movies of 2019
All told, 2019 was kind of a weird year for movies. Disney, whose world we increasingly live in, made $10 billion at the box office before releasing Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker—thanks to cash cows like Avengers: Endgame (on our list) and a live-action […]