private equity
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EV Startup Canoo Might Be Close to Dead
Canoo, an EV startup that some guy named Jason once had very high hopes for, said Tuesday that it is worried for its future. This is sad news because, like Jason, I once was pretty hopeful about Canoo, too, which wanted to make what was more or less the anti-Cybertruck.
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Trump’s New Social Media Site Plans to Raise Money With Shell Company Scheme
Former President Donald Trump, a white supremacist who barely knows how to use a computer, announced late Wednesday that he plans to launch a new social media platform next year called Truth Social, with beta testing opening up to select users in November. And while the site was almost immediately infiltrated by pranksters mere hours…
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Sale Of .Org Registry To Private Equity Vampires Stalled After California AG Warning
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has delayed a decision on whether to allow the sale of the organisation that controls .org registrations to a band of private equity ghouls after the California attorney general’s office issued a warning
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Toys ‘R’ Us Is Open For Business Again, But There’s A Bizarre Catch
Toys “R” Us has re-opened its doors in the U.S., launching the first of two new stores planned for the holiday season after closing 800 of them last year. You might think, great, it’s time to become a Toys “R” Us kid again, but I’d keep thinking like a grownup for a bit longer. Something’s…