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Apple

Even before GameStop stock frenzy, Robinhood raised a lot of red flags

Robinhood has long been criticized for allegedly turning investing into a game.  Getty Images Robinhood, the stock trading app at the center of the bizarre GameStop saga, has long been controversial. Even before the run-up of GameStop and other stocks like AMC and BlackBerry elevated the fee-free service to a household name, Robinhood had been […]

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Computering

You could own an antique Apple computer for R22.4-million

An incredibly rare 45-year-old Apple computer could be yours for a cool $1.5-million (R22.4-million). A “working” Apple-1 computer, one of the first computers launched by the  company in 1976 is available for sale on eBay The relic holds a very special place in the hearts of many Apple fans. Legend has it that the computers […]

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Apple

Apple is planning to issue dollar-denominated bonds in six-tranche deal

Apple Inc. AAPL, +0.05% has filed a preliminary prospectus for a six-tranche bond deal, underwritten by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley. The company did not specify deal size, but said it will offer dollar-denominated five-year, seven-year, 10-year, 20-year, 30-year and 40-year bonds. The iPhone maker has regularly tapped credit markets to finance its […]

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Bitcoin

Silver Is the New GameStop as Musk’s #Bitcoin Stalls

Bitcoin (BTC) quickly settled back into the past couple weeks’ range between roughly $30,000 and $36,000, after a short-lived price spike Friday when Elon Musk, the electric-vehicle and private-spaceflight entrepreneur who’s also reportedly the world’s richest person, added “#bitcoinâ€� to his Twitter profile. “The longer we stay at the current level, the stronger the base […]

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How-tos

How to Edit Sent Messages in Telegram

Khamosh Pathak You sometimes say something you wish you could take back. Other times, you make an embarrassingly silly typo. Either way, as long as you’re using Telegram, you can edit any sent message instead of first deleting it! Here’s how it works. Telegram’s message editing feature works much like Slack’s. You can edit a […]

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Apple

EU Moves Forward With Appeal Against Apple’s ‘Contradictory’ Tax Case Victory

The European Union has set out its grounds of appeal against Apple’s victory in its $13 billion euro ($15.8 billion) tax dispute, saying that judges used “contradictory reasoning” when they ruled that Apple’s business in Ireland was not liable for significant payments (via Bloomberg). In a summary of its appeal published earlier today, the EU […]

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Bitcoin

ECB council member: Bitcoin investors may ‘lose all their money’

A European Central Bank governing council member said bitcoin investors should be prepared to lose their entire investment, the latest such warning from a central banker about cryptocurrency volatility. “As the UK authority said a few weeks ago, if people want to invest in bitcoin, they have to be prepared to lose all their money […]

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