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All About Playboy's Cannabis Law Reform Advocacy And Social Equity Grants
Friday, January 8, 2021 - 11:55am | 1379Famed publisher Playboy has been expanding into many other verticals in recent years, incorporating branded products, gaming and hospitality offerings into its portfolio. Most recently, the company entered the CBD market with the launch of a line of products focused on boosting sexual pleasure....
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Fintech Focus For October 2, 2020
Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 7:50pm | 2542Quote Of The Day: I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. - Rosa Parks Fintech Movers: [T]he number of buy-side firms that execute less than 20% of trades algorithmically, declined from 26% in 2017 to just 17% in 2020. Similarly, the number of firms...
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Playboy Reportedly In Talks For SPAC Merger Targeting Erectile Dysfunction Market
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - 5:05pm | 576Playboy Enterprises, which launched in 1963 as a magazine business, is now more of a brand business given the downturn of print magazines. The company could be hitting public markets again via a special purpose acquisition company. What Happened: The New York Post reported Tuesday that Playboy...
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Playboy Launches CBD Line To Boost Sexual Pleasure
Monday, September 14, 2020 - 2:33pm | 291Playboy Enterprises Inc. introduced a new broad-spectrum CBD-based product line. The Los Angeles enterprise, founded by the late Hugh Hefner, opted to expand its existing line of sexual wellness consumer products with an arousal spray, an intimacy gel, and a bath bomb. The product...
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Coronavirus Leads Playboy To End Print Edition After Spring Issue
Wednesday, March 18, 2020 - 10:47pm | 534The coronavirus has driven the bowtie-wearing bunny online. Playboy said Wednesday it will stop publishing its iconic magazine’s print edition due to the disruption caused by the pandemic. Playboy Says 'Innovative' Print Products Will Return Next Year Launched in 1953, the...
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The Impact Of Hugh Hefner On The Publishing World
Thursday, September 28, 2017 - 2:16pm | 559Hugh Hefner was either a cultural revolutionary or a male chauvinist. That’s a matter of debate. But less deniable is the “Playboy” founder’s legacy in the print industry, where he sparked and sustained fresh professional standards ━ beyond his famously lascivious content...
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Playboy Coming To Amazon: Hugh Hefner Docu-Series To Debut In 2017
Thursday, August 11, 2016 - 3:57pm | 278As the online video content battle intensifies, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has decided to place a bet on Playboy’s Hugh Hefner. The company announced it had green-lit the Amazon Original Series "American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story." This 13-episode docu-series will look...
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Richard Branson Shocks Chicago Crowd: Smoke Weed With Your Kids
Friday, July 29, 2016 - 2:29pm | 386Cool cat and billionaire Sir Richard Branson surprised an audience of entrepreneurs in a convention held in Chicago this week when he recommended parents smoke pot with their kids. “If they're going to have a joint, do it with them,” the 66-year-old father of two said on stage...
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Playboy To Pay Record-Setting Sum In Whistleblower Suit
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 3:57pm | 402An historic ruling against the House that Hef Built. A federal jury in Los Angeles says Playboy Enterprises must pay the company's former controller $6 million as part of a wrongful termination lawsuit. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in California, ruled in favor of Catherine Zulfer...
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Honest Mom, I Only Bought the New Playboy to Read the Article on UMKC Economics
Monday, June 4, 2012 - 9:19am | 1388The UMKC economics department is featured in an article in the current Playboy that discusses the failure of theoclassical economics and economists to admit their theoretical and policy errors. The devotion of theoclassical economists to those errors has proven so dogmatic that their disastrous...
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Five Stocks For Father's Day
Friday, June 17, 2011 - 2:31pm | 233Everyone knows that dads get a raw deal when it comes to Father's Day, which is swept under the rug when compared to Mother's Day. Moms love to milk their day, but dads are generally more relaxed about theirs. Well, we want to change that. Here are five stocks that will make the old man grin on his...
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Confirmed: Playboy Coming To iPad
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 3:12pm | 166Ever since Hugh Hefner tweeted that his famed magazine will be coming to the iPad, the Internet has been flooded with questions. Most notably: how can Playboy (NYSE: PLA) pull this off when Steve Jobs is so vehemently against the idea of porn invading his products? This afternoon, Playboy confirmed...
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Forex, Futures And Posing For Playboy
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - 1:04pm | 383Few people would expect the average Wall Street trader to be young, smart, and astonishingly beautiful. But Georgia Anderson is far from average. As the founder of GAFNN.com (the Georgia Anderson Financial News Network), Anderson has created a social network that combines the lighthearted fun of...
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Georgia Anderson: Not Your Typical Entrepreneur
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - 12:58pm | 357Georgia Anderson is not your typical entrepreneur. Born and raised in Italy, Anderson attended law school in her home country before moving to the United States. From there, she found herself working in Futures and Forex, which inspired her to write a beginner's guide on the subject: Technical...