Bigelow Aerospace announced Tuesday the creation of Bigelow Space Operations (BSO), the next step in the company’s effort to build the world’s first habitable private space station. The new company is required as Bigelow Aerospace is “seguing into becoming a production company” after existing as “a laboratory for 17 years,” […]
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NXP shareholders owe a big ‘thank you’ to Broadcom’s CEO
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan says that buying NXP doesn’t solve Qualcomm’s problems — but he’s currently a hero to NXP shareholders. Broadcom’s months-long unsolicited pursuit of Qualcomm likely compelled the San Diego-based chipmaker to bid higher than it otherwise would have to acquire NXP, according to people familiar with the […]
Watch: President Trump hosts a ceremony for public safety valor awards
[The stream is slated to start at 3:30, ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] President Donald Trump hosted a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday to present medals for the public safety valor awards. Free America Network Articles
Bitcoin’s bouncing back, here are the next big catalysts for the cryptocurrency
Bitcoin is back. The cryptocurrency surged Tuesday, closing in on the $12,000 level. One bitcoin bull says progress on the regulatory front could send it even higher. According to CNBC “Fast Money” trader Brian Kelly, Tuesday’s rally is the result of more crypto-friendly attitudes by government regulators. Not only did […]
Toyota is trying to make electric vehicles less dependent on Chinese minerals
Toyota has made a key electric-vehicle component that uses smaller amounts of certain materials that are either expensive or are found in politically risky countries. The Japanese carmaker has designed a new kind of magnet that cuts its use of rare-earth elements by about half. The new magnet does not […]
Research from Harvard Business School finds that rich self-made millionaires are the happiest
They say that money can’t buy happiness, but that may not be entirely true. Research conducted by Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton and Ph.D. student Grant Donnelly found that self-made millionaires worth over $8 million are happier than less wealthy millionaires, and that millionaires who earned their wealth were […]
Investors might be freaking out about higher interest rates, but Credit Suisse says the stock market is not
Higher interest rates might be scaring stock investors, but they haven’t held back the stock market this year, according to a study by Credit Suisse Securities. “Year-to-date, if you invested only on dates when interest rates went up, your annualized return would be 16 percent,” said Jonathan Golub, chief U.S. […]
Our Whole Foods sales are soaring despite Amazon price cuts: Top health food supplier
Despite Amazon‘s price cuts at Whole Foods, the CEO of a top food supplier told CNBC on Tuesday that his company has seen sales “increase dramatically.” “Ultimately, sales drives a lot of leverage on margins, on delivery and costs,” said Hain Celestial CEO Irwin Simon, who says his company has […]
Airline satisfaction dips as more Americans take to the sky
As a record number of people took to the skies in the U.S. last year, the airline industry found customer satisfaction edged lower. The annual Air Travelers in America Survey by an industry trade group found 81 percent of those questioned were satisfied with their overall travel experience. That is […]
Trump’s war on science threatens ‘moonshots’ to cure cancer and other diseases
In 2016, astrophysicists detected gravitational waves — ripples in the space-time continuum produced by the collision of two massive black holes 1.3 billion years ago in a galaxy 1.8 billion light-years distant from our own. Now another collision of cosmic importance is taking place, on our own Earth, and the […]