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Steve Jobs Didn’t Become a Billionaire Thanks to Apple. He Got Rich From a Company He Bought From George Lucas

On February 3, 1986, Steve Jobs bought Lucasfilm’s computer graphics unit from George Lucas for $10 million and renamed it Pixar, taking roughly a 70% stake. Pixar’s November 29, 1995…

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Blackrock Boss Larry Fink Sounds Recession Alarm Over AI Data Center Shutdowns

Blackrock CEO Larry Fink is sounding the recession alarm over proposals to halt new data center construction, warning that America’s artificial intelligence (AI) investment boom has become too important to…

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Ripple Prime Introduces 24/7 Real-World Asset Perpetual Swaps

Ripple has opened the door for institutional traders to gain around-the-clock exposure to more than 100 traditional financial markets—including stocks, oil, gold, and currencies—through perpetual swaps that keep trading even…

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Scientists Stumbled Back Onto a Forest Experiment Abandoned for 30 Years, and the Results Stunned Them

Researchers who revisited the long-forgotten Silvicultural Systems Project plots at Tanjil Bren in Victoria, Australia, found that heavily thinned mountain ash stands grew trees about 20% larger in diameter than…

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He Bought a Nearly Bankrupt Company From Warren Buffett for $1,000 and Turned It Into a $98 Billion Giant

In 1997, Intercontinental Exchange founder and CEO Jeffrey Sprecher bought the near-bankrupt Continental Power Exchange from Warren Buffett’s utility, MidAmerican Energy, for $1,000 and assumed its debt. ICE was founded…

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Ripple’s Korean Expansion Reaches From Remittances to Government Bonds

Ripple’s Korean partnerships now connect cross-border business payments, bank-managed digital asset wallets, and blockchain-based settlement of government bonds. Its cooperation with Meritz Securities extends that strategy into capital markets, where…

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