MANY marijuana growers in northern California, America’s biggest source of the stuff, had expected this autumn’s harvest to be the largest ever. After all, recreational marijuana becomes legal in the state in January. Instead, wildfires in October—spreading so fast they killed 43 people—burned up half the marijuana growing in the area’s tri-county “Emerald Triangle” alone. […]
Read moreThis post originally appeared on Om Malik’s blog and is republished here by permission. Right there on the corner of Brannan and Fourth Streets, there is a billboard advertising some marijuana brand, saying, “Hello marijuana, goodbye stress.” It got me thinking about stress and what is that is making people stressed out? Also, what does […]
Read moreSome of the largest technology companies — including Apple — could take a hit if a provision added to the Senate’s tax plan at the last minute is not removed. The Senate included in its tax bill a corporate alternative minimum tax, which aims to make companies pay a minimum rate if the breaks they […]
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Suddenly, housing stocks have gone from hot to not. The iShares U.S. Home Construction exchange-traded fund, the ITB, has fallen more than 1 percent in the last week after advancing more than 50 percent year to date. The ETF is still the best-performing U.S. industry group ETF this year, according to an analysis from Bespoke […]
Read moreDaniel Gross grew up in Jerusalem, Israel, and was accepted to the “Harvard” of Silicon Valley, the start-up incubator Y Combinator, when he was 18 in 2010. As part of the program, he had three months to get a company ready to pitch to high-profile investors during a demo day. For a number of reasons, […]
Read moreBitcoin climbed above $13,000 Wednesday afternoon after topping $12,000 Tuesday night. The digital currency began the year below $1,000 and its gains have accelerated as investor interest grows. Chicago-based Cboe Global Markets is planning to launch bitcoin futures on Sunday, while the world’s largest futures exchange, CME, is set to launch its futures product the […]
Read moreApple has one glaring gap as it faces increasing competition from Google and Amazon: an e-commerce platform. Here’s why: on my drive home from work the other day, in the rain, my car alerted me that I was out of windshield washer fluid. Instead of forgetting and waiting for some free weekend in the distance […]
Read moreHQ, the popular live trivia app from some of the same guys who created Vine, is looking for venture capital money at a lofty valuation. The app, which streams live trivia games for real cash prizes twice per day, just launched in October but has already generated an impressive audience. More than 300,000 people played […]
Read moreAmazon’s plan for the pharmaceutical space is one of the biggest questions in health care. But the tech giant’s inexperience in the space may be revealing itself, according to analysts at RBC. Tuesday, RBC Capital Markets analysts suggested that the cancellation of pharmaceutical wholesaler license applications in Maine may imply that Amazon doesn’t plan to […]
Read morePirated video streams of televised National Football League games are widespread on Facebook and on Google‘s YouTube service, CNBC has found. Using technology from these internet giants, thousands of football fans were able to watch long segments of many contests free of charge during the league’s Week 13 schedule of games last Thursday and Sunday. […]
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