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The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs will consider the nominations of Marcia Fudge to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as Cecilia Rouse to chair the Council of Economic Advisers.

Robinhood blocks new purchases of GameStop stock  MarketWatch Tilray CEO, whose stock spiked 1,400% in a 2018 short squeeze, issues a warning to GameStop, AMC bosses  CNBC GameStop Stock Soars as Reddit Investors Take On Wall St.  The New York Times GameStop May

Indian startup Shopalyst has officially launched a new platform that it calls the Discovery Commerce Cloud, which it says can help retailers take full advantage of digital advertising. Co-founder and CEO Girish Ramachandra told me that Shopalyst was created to

The venture potential of a startup that caters to individual students — instead of a slow-moving, small-pocketed institution — has a bullish aura that attracts investors. Add in a pandemic that forced many to embrace remote learning overnight, and it

There is a trust gap between Big Tech, the government and the population. Lawmakers in the U.S. and Europe are considering ways to rein in social media platforms where disinformation thrives. And ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, people have

Buy now, pay later services — which let consumers finance the purchase of goods online by paying back the total in installments over time — have been growing in ubiquity this past year. Today, Scalapay, one of the companies that’s

Update: Robinhood has made public note of the changes, stating that “in light of recent volatility” it is “restricting transactions for certain securities to position closing only, including $AMC, $BB, $BBBY, $EXPR, $GME, $KOSS, $NAKD and $NOK.” The company added

Since its debut on TBS in 2016, the dark comedy series Search Party has thrived on the fringes of the comedy world, airing to middling ratings but drawing raves from critics and superfans who have obsessed over protagonist Dory Sief’s

Last night, Qualtrics priced its IPO at $30 per share, selling 50.4 million shares in the process. Notably, the company’s IPO price was harder to chase down than usual, with a formal press release in scarce supply. SEC filings indicate

Not just a U.S. phenomenon — the Reddit investing frenzy has spread overseas  CNBC GameStop Stock Soars as Reddit Investors Take On Wall St.  The New York Times Tilray CEO, whose stock spiked 1,400% in a 2018 short squeeze, issues a warning