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If You Invested $1,000 When Apple Aired Its Famous 1984 Super Bowl Commercial, Here's How Much You'd Have Today
Friday, February 9, 2024 - 4:07pm | 505Technology giant Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) is the presenting partner of this year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, a role it took over last year. The Cupertino, California-based company replaced PepsiCo, which held the role for over 10 years. Apple has a history with Super Bowls dating back decades...
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Putin's Nightmare: Russians Researching Double Think, Where 'War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery'
Saturday, January 14, 2023 - 11:08am | 670George Orwell’s “1984” topped the bestseller list in Russia in 2022, during a year plagued by President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the National Post. The dystopian novel, published in 1949, is a cautionary tale centered around the idea...
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If You Invested $1,000 When Apple Aired Its 1984 Super Bowl Ad, Here's How Much You'd Have Now
Monday, February 21, 2022 - 9:57am | 514Super Bowl LVI featured commercials that cost advertisers $6.5 million for a 30-second spot. Some of those ads will be remembered for years, while others will be easily forgotten. Here’s a look at one of the most famous commercials of all-time and the potential massive fortune...
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Fintech Focus For June 1, 2021
Monday, May 31, 2021 - 10:32pm | 2138Quote To Start The Day: “Showing is better than telling.” Source: Floyd Mayweather One Big Thing In Fintech: Ray Dalio, a billionaire investor and the founder of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, has said that the digital yuan will be more competitive than the...
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'1984' Isn't Coming True In Real Life, Right?
Saturday, March 11, 2017 - 10:47am | 670The recent Wikileaks dump of classified U.S. Central Intelligence Agency documents has once again raised the debate over how the government should balance national security and Americans’ right to privacy. According to the leaks, the CIA has developed technology that can be used to hack into...
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The Fulfillment Of Orwellian Prophecy Since 1984
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - 9:33am | 998On January 24, 1984, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) debuted its first Macintosh computer. And around the same time in the realm of dystopian fiction, George Orwell’s ThoughtPolice launched technology-heavy surveillance and regulatory missions in “1984.” The timing of Apple’s...
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1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial
Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 10:04am | 135"The triumph of the entrepreneur over the ideologue." The 1984 Apple commercial has its own Wikipedia page. HT: Warren Smith