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☆ Hive Social's 24-year old founder said it was 'unsurprising' that Elon Musk acknowledged the existence of her small but growing social media app vying to lure Twitter users
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Hive is the latest social media app to climb to the top of the App Store as Twitter users look for alternatives. Hive's 24-year-old founder told Insider she wasn't surprised Musk acknowledged the app, given its surge in popularity. Mastodon and Tumblr have seen a recent explosion of growth, but Hive Social is the latest buzzy social media app to climb the ranks of Apple's App Store, and even Elon Musk took notice. In a conversation with Insider, Hive Social's 24-year-old founder, Raluca Pop, said it was "unsurprising" that Musk noticed the platform. "There's not really the toxicity on there," Pop said of Hive Social.

☆ Hive Social has grown to 2 million users and shot to the top of the App Store since people started fleeing Twitter. It's run by a 24-year-old founder and 2 other employees.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some users searching for alternatives to Twitter have flocked to Hive Social. Elon Musk's frenzied management style and outlook on content moderation have some Twitter users hunting for alternatives to the social media giant. It's currently the top social app on Apple's App Store, surpassing even TikTok. She is a self-taught coder and had run the social media app with only one other employee until Friday, when a third developer joined the team. On Thursday, many new Hive Social users reported on Twitter that they were having trouble setting up their accounts.

☆ Analysis: Mexican companies could resort to more spinoffs to enhance market value
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Valentine Hilaire | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Mexican telecommunications giant America Movil (AMXL.MX) kicked off the trend late last year when its shareholders approved the spinoff of its cell tower business. Some analysts said both Alfa and Televisa may consider further spinoffs as they look to boost their depressed valuations. Other companies, like Coke bottler and retailer Femsa (FEMSAUBD.MX), whose shares are down 3.3% year-to-date, after gaining 6% in 2021, may follow suit. Alfa lost 2.69% the day after its shareholders approved the Axtel spinoff, while Televisa's shares advanced 0.86% the day after it revealed plans for a similar move. Televisa, meanwhile, could follow its sports spinoff with either its editorial or magazine businesses, two analysts said.

As I drive through a gate high above Los Angeles’s Nichols Canyon, a tall man with unmistakably bushy eyebrows waves me into a precarious parking spot and says, “That’s $20. Leave the keys in the car.” My valet is Will Ferrell, clad in basketball shorts, slides and a T-shirt bearing the crest of the Los Angeles Football Club, of which he is a minority owner. Ferrell waves to his wife, Viveca Paulin-Ferrell, an art auctioneer and board member at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as she sits idling in a blue Tesla , waiting to pull out. “It’s gonna be a tennis court,” Ferrell explains. “I don’t play, but you need one if you want to sip a gin and tonic.”

Leave the keys in the car.” My valet is Will Ferrell, clad in basketball shorts, slides and a T-shirt bearing the crest of the Los Angeles Football Club, of which he is a minority owner. On this October morning, Ferrell is playing a parking attendant for reasons beyond comic value: Although his three sons are already at school (one in college), his home is a hive of domestic activity. Ferrell waves to his wife, Viveca Paulin-Ferrell, an art auctioneer and board member at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as she sits idling in a blue Tesla , waiting to pull out. “It’s gonna be a tennis court,” Ferrell explains. “I don’t play, but you need one if you want to sip a gin and tonic.”

Hive Social is a mobile-only social media app that's become a popular Twitter alternative. Like Twitter, Hive Social lets you post messages, videos, polls, and more to a chronological feed of followers. Hive Social is a mobile-only platform that's trying to recreate Twitter without any of the algorithms. The biggest difference between the two is that Hive Social claims to have no algorithms deciding which posts you see. Hive Social; William Antonelli/InsiderYou've now got free reign to use Hive Social however you like.

☆ The only thing Elon Musk understands about Twitter is how to kill it
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Biologists, anthropologists, and information theorists do think that social networks, like Musk's bird app, show at least some signs of being flocks. "Elon's tweet is basically espousing the invisible hand of social behavior," Bak-Coleman says. In this construction, a social network might have become a collective superintelligence, had capitalists left it to its — our? Under Musk, Twitter has entered the dance-off phase. I'll be sad if the Twitter superintelligence starts singing a Kubrickian cover of "Daisy" and implodes into a pile of melting isolinear chips.

☆ Crypto crash and gold sell-off show there’s no place for investors to hide
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Paul R. La Monica | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Bitcoin prices are currently hovering around $16,500, down from a level of $20,000 just a week ago. Gold, like bitcoin, then surged in the latter part of 2020 as a sort of safe haven trade. Why buy gold or digital assets when the greenback is proving to be the king of currencies? Bitcoin prices have been notoriously volatile over the past few years, but they have still done better than many major stock market indexes. One venture capitalist who focuses on bitcoin and crypto assets agreed that FTX’s problems won’t derail the entire digital assets universe.

Elon Musk seems determined to remake Twitter in his own image — with some help from the men in his trusted inner circle. They are joined in Musk’s orbit by Alex Spiro, a trial attorney with a roster of celebrity clients who reportedly led the first round of Twitter layoffs. Bloomberg reported Wednesday night that Twitter is preparing to eliminate about 3,700 jobs, or roughly half its workforce. Musk's personnel decisions suggest a possible road map for the future of Twitter, one in which policies and internal rules are drawn at least in part from the views of Musk’s consiglieres. Sacks, Calacanis, Spiro and Birchall did not immediately respond to questions about the company’s future and the nature of their roles there.

☆ Massachusetts woman accused of assaulting officers with swarm of angry bees
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Brendan O'Brien | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Rorie Sussan Woods, 55, unleashes a swarm of bees on deputies serving eviction papers in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, U.S., October 12, 2022. Hampden County Sheriff’s Office/Handout via REUTERSOct 20 (Reuters) - A Massachusetts woman stands accused of using a swarm of bees as a dangerous weapon, according to a county sheriff, after she allegedly unleashed a hive of angry insects on deputies trying to serve an eviction notice last week. "A sheriff’s deputy tried to stop her, but as the agitated bees started getting out and circling the area, he pulled back," the office said. She then smashed the lid of one hive and flipped it off the flatbed, agitating the bees, the sheriff said on Wednesday. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Brendan O'Brien in Chicago; Editing by Bill BerkrotOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

CNN —In Nelson Mandela Bay, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, thousands of hectares of land could one day become the world’s largest green ammonia plant. But by using renewable energy, “green” ammonia can be manufactured, slashing the carbon footprint of agricultural production and opening up the compound to further uses. ‘A completely green process’The process to make green ammonia is quite simple, Loubser says, requiring just water, air and energy. But green ammonia could also be burned in existing coal-fired power plants to quickly reduce their CO2 emissions, the study notes, or in plants customized to run entirely on ammonia. And many of the systems that will make use of green ammonia – including ship engines – are still under development, which is why production levels are low at the moment.

☆ Queen Elizabeth's life features in a new comic book
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Alicia Powell | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The cover of a comic book biography by TidalWave Comics celebrating the life of Britain's Queen Elizabeth is seen in this undated handout image. TidalWave Productions/Handout via REUTERSNEW YORK, Oct 12 (Reuters) - The life of Queen Elizabeth, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, is celebrated in a new comic book by TidalWave Comics, covering her public and private life, big events, family scandals, and crises. Among the 2,000 congregation at Westminster Abbey, where monarchs have been married, buried and crowned over the last 1,000 years, were some 500 presidents, prime ministers, foreign royal family members and dignitaries. The book, released on Wednesday, is available digitally and in hard and soft covers. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Alicia Powell; Editing by Richard ChangOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

There were two main elements to the blowup in so-called Liability Driven Investment (LDI) strategies for British pension funds over the end of the third quarter. And yet it's private credit - ranging from direct corporate lending vehicles to leveraged loans - where arguably least is known. The rising rate environment alone has made some wonder how resilient private credit strategies given they don't have to mark to market regularly. To cope with illiquidity, the survey showed investors increasingly pairing private credit allocations with cash or more liquid core fixed income instruments. The boom in private credit assets has been spectacular - but booms don't last forever and shocks like the ones we've seen in recent weeks are at least a shot across the bow.

☆ Dispensaries selling illegal magic mushrooms in Vancouver could lead to the legalization of the substance, like they did with cannabis, shop keeper says
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-05 | by ( Gabrielle Bienasz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

He's trying to push Vancouver to manage or legalize it, as cannabis sellers did in 2015. Larsen told the Vancouver Sun that Canada would not have legalized cannabis without store owners like himself, who sold cannabis before it was legal. Now, he's betting that selling the substance will push the government to go ahead and make it legal. Canada legalized cannabis in October 2018, but the illegal or semi-illegal market in Vancouver persisted, especially because of licensing issues. As of November, there were multiple stores openly selling mushrooms in the city, in one case as a way of making up lost pandemic revenue, according to the Daily Hive Vancouver.

☆ Spelling Bee Tips and Tricks
▼ + stars: | 2021-12-09 | by ( Deb Amlen | Jackie Frere | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Finding the pangram first is like opening a present that has lots of little packages inside,” said Susan Rakov of Santa Barbara, Calif., because there may be words inside it that will also be counted. Sometimes you may spot smaller words that don’t include the center letter but might be part of an accepted compound. “When you get stuck, leave and come back later with fresh eyes,” said Sharon Kittredje of San Francisco. One of the best parts of Spelling Bee is that you can put it down and come back to it later in the day when you have time. Just let the letters dance in front of your eyes, without trying too hard to order them — gives your subconscious brain a chance.”

☆ Jeff Bezos, cel mai bogat om din lume, a donat primele 791 000 000 de dolari pentru luptă împotriva schimbărilor climaterice
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-17 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

Jeff Bezos, cel mai bogat om din lume, a donat primele 791 000 000 de dolari pentru luptă împotriva schimbărilor climatericeFondatorul Amazon, Jeff Bezos, a anunțat anterior că intenționează să doneze suma de 10 miliarde de dolari în lupta împotriva schimbărilor climaterice. La începutul anului Bezos a înființat un fond de salvare a Pământului și vrea să atragă și alți bogați ai lumii de partea sa. Despre primele aproape 800 000 000 de dolari donate Bezos a anunțat într-o postare pe pagina sa de Instagram. Astăzi, îmi face plăcere să anunț primii beneficiari ai Fondului Pământ Bezos – 16 organizații care lucrează la soluții inovatoare, ambițioase și cu mișcare de ace. Aceste 791 de milioane de dolari în donații sunt doar începutul angajamentului meu de 10 miliarde de dolari pentru a finanța oameni de știință, activiști, ONG-uri și altele.

Persons: Jeff Bezos, Jeff Organizations: Bezos, Energy Foundation, Natural Resources, Rocky Mountain Institute, Salk, World Resources Institute, World Wildlife Fund Locations: Eden

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