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Mobileye Soars After Intel Says It Will Not Sell Majority Stake
Thursday, September 19, 2024 - 5:37pm | 376Mobileye Global Inc. (NASDAQ:MBLY) shares skyrocketed on Thursday after Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC) assured investors it would not drop its majority stake in the Israeli autonomous driving company. Mobileye gained 14.99% to close at $13.35 on Thursday, marking its largest intraday jump since late...
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Drake Bets $300K In Bitcoin On Canada Over Argentina In Copa America: 'This Could Get Messi'
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 2:12pm | 783Canadian rapper Drake is backing his home country with a large bet in the 2024 Copa America tournament. The bet comes with Drake's Team Canada a heavy underdog against Lionel Messi and Argentina. What Happened: No stranger to betting on sports, Drake has placed a $300,000 wager in Bitcoin (CRYPTO:...
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Portnoy Wins Big With Boston Celtics NBA Championship, Rapper Drake Loses $500K And Could Lose $500K More On NHL Bet
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - 10:44am | 909The Boston Celtics won the 2024 NBA Championship, completing a season where they were the favorites in the preseason, during the season and to open the NBA Playoffs. One big name in the sports betting universe won by betting on the Celtics, while a betting rapper lost $500,000 by betting on the...
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Benzinga Names Stake A 'Challenger' Award Recipient At Inaugural Titans Sports Betting Event
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 3:55pm | 231A leading fantasy sports and sports betting company has been honored with the "Challenger" award from Benzinga at the first-ever Titans Sports Betting conference. What's A Challenger?: The Challenger Award is reserved for innovators and upstarts disrupting the industry of sports betting. A jury...
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'Like A Sprained Ankle, Boy, I Ain't Nothin' To Play With': Here's How Patrick Mahomes Helped Drake Win Millions Despite His Injury
Monday, January 30, 2023 - 3:26pm | 744Rapper Drake has become known in the sports betting community as a potential curse with several large wagers placed on teams or athletes he’s a fan of turning into losing bets. A million-dollar bet on the NFL Playoffs over the weekend may have broken the Drake curse and netted him a nice...
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Shiba Inu Community to Get Ownership Stake In Fast-Food Joint Welly
Saturday, April 30, 2022 - 12:30pm | 397According to a recent tweet shared by SHIB-themed fast-food restaurant Welly (located in Naples, Italy), the Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) community will now have a 15% ownership stake in its business. In February, the Shiba Inu team announced that it would partner with Welly. At that time,...
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Musk Reacted To His Own 2017 Tweet About Twitter: 'How Much Is It?'
Saturday, April 16, 2022 - 1:47pm | 394On Saturday, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk responded to a tweet thread from December 2017 in which he expressed his admiration for Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) and asked how much it cost to buy the company. Musk used an upside-down smile emoji to react to that tweet. According to...
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Fintech Spotlight: Australian-Based Stake Focusing On Long-Term Investors
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 - 3:14pm | 803The pandemic spurred growth in nonprofessional investing, drawing in new stock market investors and brokerages. Many of these investors have in common the desire to make money. Duration is a factor that separates them. Those looking for fast riches – who may have also fueled a...
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Drake Bets $1.3M In Bitcoin On Super Bowl LVI
Friday, February 11, 2022 - 10:51am | 431Canadian rapper Drake is betting more than a million dollars worth of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) on the Super Bowl LVI game. What Happened: On Thursday, the rapper shared a post on social media platform Instagram revealing $1.26 million worth of Bitcoin bets on the game on Feb. 13 between the...
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Activist Investor Nelson Peltz's Fund Buys Stake In Unilever: FT
Sunday, January 23, 2022 - 4:10pm | 282Trian Fund Management LP, the activist hedge fund run by Nelson Peltz, has built a stake in Unilever PLC (NYSE: UL), the Financial Times reports, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. The $8.5 billion New York-based hedge fund has taken a position in shares of the British...
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Private Equity Firms Buy A Majority Stake In Medline For More Than $30 Billion
Sunday, June 6, 2021 - 11:59am | 536A consortium of private equity firms bought a majority stake in medical supplier Medline Industries Inc, which according to sources familiar with the matter, is a deal valued at more than $30 billion. What Happened: Private equity firms comprising of Blackstone Group Inc (NYSE:...
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Fintech Focus Roundup For May 23, 2021
Sunday, May 23, 2021 - 7:56am | 1771Fintech Spotlight: Nasdaq And Benzinga Partner, Express Commitment To Providing Actionable Market Intelligence As part of a vision to democratize access to actionable and timely stock market information, Benzinga partnered with Nasdaq Inc. Apart from supporting firms like Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc,...
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Fintech Focus For May 19, 2021
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 - 5:49pm | 2172Quote To Start The Day: “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” Source: Michael Jordan One Big Thing In Fintech: Drivers and homeowners will be able to purchase pay-per-mile auto insurance and homeowners insurance from Metromile and Hippo...
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Global Trading Platform Stake Adds $30M From Tiger Global, DST Global
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 - 4:00pm | 408Stake secured a funding round of $30 million from Tiger Global and partners of DST Global. What Happened: Stake is a commission-free, fractional trading application that allows global access to U.S. markets. The idea behind Stake emerged in 2009 when Stake’s founder, Matt Leibowitz,...
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Village Farms Repays Pure Sunfarms Promissory Note, Increases Stake In Altum
Monday, February 8, 2021 - 10:24am | 259Village Farms International Inc. (NASDAQ: VFF) (TSX: VFF) has settled its obligations concerning the prior acquisition of a stake in the joint venture Pure Sunfarms. The Vancouver-based greenhouse grower confirmed Monday it has repaid the CA$19.9 million ($15.6 million) promissory note,...