Jonah Peretti, Founder and CEO of Buzzfeed, speaks at the Wall Street Journal Digital Conference in Laguna Beach, California, the United States, on October 18, 2017. Lucy Nicholson | Reuters This should be the summer of digital media. Amid a boom in Special Purpose Acquisition (SPAC) firms, companies like Buzzfeed, Vice, Vox, Bustle, and others…

The country’s largest fuel pipeline operator, Colonial Pipeline, fell victim to a cybersecurity attack targeting ransomware on Friday, forcing the company to temporarily suspend all pipeline operations, the company said in a statement on Saturday. The company hired an outside cybersecurity firm to investigate the incident and reached out to law enforcement and other federal…

Amazon uses old school snail mail to make sure the sellers in its market really live where they say they do. After asking third parties in September to publish their company names and addresses, Amazon is now making sure that their addresses are authentic and correct. To that end, the company began shipping postcards to…

A trader works at the Goldman Sachs booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Goldman Sachs has officially ushered in the era of cryptocurrency trading on Wall Street. The bank told its market staff on Thursday that a newly created cryptocurrency desk had successfully traded two types of…

Governor Ron DeSantis speaks out on safety protocols and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic during a panel discussion with theme park leaders on Wednesday, August 26, 2020. Joe Burbank | Orlando Sentinel | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a comprehensive election draft Thursday containing allegations that he will…

Coinbase employees spray champagne during the company’s initial public offering on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 outside the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, United States. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON – Stock market listings make founders, venture capitalists and large institutional investors a fortune. Now retailers are looking to get involved with a…

Film studio | E + | Getty Images No wonder that outdoor spaces are valued more than ever. The coronavirus pandemic sent us all home for a year, and once we cooped up inside, we longed for improved outside areas. The home renovation market boomed last year and is now continuing to flourish. Exterior renovations…

Former US President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 28, 2021 in Orlando, Florida, USA. Joe Skipper | Reuters Facebook’s independent board of directors decided on Wednesday to uphold the company’s January decision to suspend former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts. However, the indefinite time frame for the…

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted Tuesday that interest rates may need to rise to contain burgeoning growth in the US economy, driven in part by trillions of dollars in government stimulus spending. “Interest rates may have to go up a bit to make sure our economy doesn’t overheat,” Yellen said during an economic forum presented…

Stock futures fell Tuesday, with tech stocks leading the decline. The retreat follows a strong start to May as investors on Monday piled into stocks that would benefit the most from an economic reopening. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 140 points. S&P 500 futures fell 0.5%. Futures for the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 were…