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9 Simple Tricks Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, And Other Innovators Used To Come Up With Big Ideas
In "The Idea Hunter: How To Find The Best Ideas And Make Them Happen," management scholars Andy Boy…
Drake Baer
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DRUCKENMILLER: Google Has The 'Greatest Business Model' In America And Larry Page Is 'This Generation's Thomas Edison'
Back in September, Druckenmiller told Bloomberg TV's Stephanie Ruhle that he was "lost" in this mar…
Julia La Roche
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DRUCKENMILLER: Google Has The 'Greatest Business Model' In America And Larry Page Is 'This Generation's Thomas Edison'
Back in September, Druckenmiller told Bloomberg TV's Stephanie Ruhle that he was "lost" in this mar…
Julia La Roche
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Fire damaged Nikola Tesla's last remaining laboratory that crowdfounders raised over $1 million to save
On November 21, a fire did serious damage to Nikola Tesla's laboratory at Wardenclyffe. A nonprofit…
Jenny McGrath
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A rare manuscript about eclipses just sold for $255,000 at auction. Its author was the man who discovered the most famous comet.
Edmond Halley didn't just write about comets. His manuscripts on lunar and solar eclipses sold at a…
Jenny McGrath
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How BYD founder Wang Chuanfu went from orphan to billionaire EV empire builder, beating out Elon Musk's Tesla
Wang Chuanfu's BYD just beat out Elon Musk's Tesla as the world's biggest electric car maker. Here'…
Polly Thompson
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A book about electricity was returned to a Massachusetts library 119 years after it was first checked out
The book was returned in "extremely good condition," the library director said, adding that it "pro…
Katie Balevic
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Warren Buffett's one-time heir apparent who resigned in disgrace amid accusations of insider trading has pleaded for a judge to be lenient in sentencing Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes
In his letter, former Berkshire Hathaway exec David Sokol questioned the jury's conviction of Eliza…
Sarah Jackson
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A $15,000 penile enlargement implant fractured inside a patient and left pieces floating under his skin
The pandemic saw an uptick in men seeking male augmentation devices, likely due to an increase in p…
Erin Snodgrass
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Norway's princess Martha Louise relinquishes royal duties for alternative medicine business
In a statement on Tuesday, the Royal House of Norway said: "The Princess is relinquishing the ro…
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Marian Croak, who has 200 patents to her name including the technology behind Zoom, became one of the first Black women to be inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame
Croak's innovations in internet tech have enabled remote work, text donations in the aftermath of H…
Yoonji Han
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has sold about $600 million of Chinese EV maker BYD's stock in under 2 months
Buffett's company has trimmed its stake in the automaker by 8% since mid-July, making a roughly 35-…
Theron Mohamed
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A New Jersey restaurant was hit with negative reviews after threatening to fire workers if they didn't get enough 5-star Google reviews
A director at Tio Taco and Tequila Bar said that it wasn't company policy and that the employee who…
Grace Dean
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway sells shares in Chinese EV maker BYD for the first time in 14 years - and rakes in a 3,400% profit
Buffett's company disposed of 1.3 million shares of the Chinese electric-vehicle maker for $47 mill…
Theron Mohamed
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Geologist Marie Tharp mapped the ocean floor and helped solve one of science's biggest controversies
In the 1950s, geologist Marie Tharp turned depth measurements into detailed maps of the ocean floor…
Jenny McGrath
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has cashed in about $230 million of BYD stock. Charlie Munger and Li Lu's sales foreshadowed the move.
Buffett's company has sold nearly 3% of its BYD stake for a roughly 36-fold profit in recent weeks,…
Theron Mohamed
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Ark Invest owns a private stake in Twitter via its venture fund as Cathie Wood talks up its 'Super App' potential
"Elon Musk is our renaissance man, or our Thomas Edison perhaps," Cathie Wood told Bloomberg on Wed…
Matthew Fox
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Elon Musk laughed at BYD in 2011. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has made nearly 40 times its money on the Chinese EV stock.
Musk dismissed BYD as a Tesla rival, but Berkshire's $232 million bet on the automaker in 2008 has …
Theron Mohamed
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Kim Potter's attorney says the former Minnesota police officer will testify at her manslaughter trial
Former Brooklyn Center cop Kim Potter was charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter after …
Kenneth Niemeyer
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The Russian ruble is now worth less than 1 cent as Russia bombs Ukrainian cities and sanctions pile up
The ruble continued its free-fall Wednesday after Russia escalated its bombing of Ukrainian cities …