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The 'PayPal Mafia' built a $1.5 billion fintech pioneer. The company they left behind is struggling

Fortune coined the term "PayPal Mafia" in 2007. Two decades later, the mafia is thriving, but PayPal isn't.

Fortune

Bitcoin Could 10x From Here, Says PayPal's Ex-Boss—And This Pricing Model Agrees

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) remains in accumulation territory, according to both market models and institutional voices, as former PayPal president David Marcus said the cryptocurrency is "still severely undervalued" and could eventually match gold's $1.3 million equivalent value per coin.

Benzinga

I Watched Star Trek III: The Search For Spock For The First Time. Why I Think It Suffers Big Time From Trying To Be Like A Star Wars Movie

Did Star Trek try to riff on Star Wars before we even knew?

Cinemablend

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Bitcoin nears all-time high as US Senate set to debate landmark crypto bill

Price surge appears linked to renewed fears of inflation in US

The Independent UK

Fox News declares the ‘real losers’ in the MAGA civil war over visas — the Democrats

“The only real losers in the wake of this kerfuffle are the Democrats and liberal talking heads who hoped that they were watching MAGA tear itself apart,” a Fox News columnist argued this week.

The Independent UK

Silicon Valley giant David Marcus has big plans for Bitcoin—but does he have enough time?

Marcus's vision of Bitcoin as a large and neutral intermediary at the center of global money transfers is an intriguing one.

Fortune

How the 2024 election broke Silicon Valley

Bolstered by hubris and net worth, tech billionaires have delivered a running commentary on this year's presidential campaign cycle that's hard to tune out.

Fortune

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‘McCarthyite backlash’: response to criticism of Israel alarms rights groups

Civil rights groups say critics of the Israeli assault on Gaza have lost jobs and students who support Palestine have been blacklisted

The Guardian - US

Katherine Maher replaces former Web Summit CEO following ‘war crimes’ post

Katherine Maher’s appointment comes after Paddy Cosgrave resigned as CEO over his comments on the Israel-Hamas war.

Al Jazeera

'Strange New Worlds' season 2's musical episode may be the best 'Star Trek' show ever made

Being a fan of "Strange New Worlds" at the moment feels a little like being at the end of long piece of emotional elastic

Space

3 Ways Star Trek's Musical Episode Changes Canon, According to Its Creators

For 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,' doing a musical episode was a huge undertaking. Here's how "Subspace Rhapsody" was made.

Inverse

San Francisco's Got Problems. There's No Need To Exaggerate Them for Political Reasons.

If you don't like San Francisco, that's fine, but don't tell tall tales about it.

Reason

Lightspark launches tool to fix Bitcoin's Lightning Network in key test for Facebook vet David Marcus

The Lightning network has come up short in turning Bitcoin into an everyday payment tool. The well-funded startup Lightspark says it has solved that.

Fortune

The Crypto Winter will last through 2023 and maybe 2024, predicts PayPal and Meta alum David Marcus

“We won’t exit this 'crypto winter’ in 2023, and probably not in 2024 either,” Marcus wrote in a year-end blog post.

Fortune

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PayPal issues £2,200 fine warning causing users to delete accounts

PayPal has since done a U-turn following the backlash

Nottingham Post

PayPal users rush to delete accounts due to fears over £2,200 fines

Google searches for 'delete PayPal' skyrocketed following the firm's announcement that users could be fined for spreading misinformation

Manchester Evening News

PayPal users scramble to delete accounts after £2200 fine warning

“A private company now gets to decide to take your money if you say something they disagree with. Insanity."

Daily Mirror

Google searches for ‘delete PayPal’ explodes after £2,200 fine warning to users

PayPal's policy announcement, which said users can be fined $2,500 for spreading misinformation, has now been retracted - and previous co-founder Elon Musk was among those criticising

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Wales Online

'Delete Paypal' searches rise by 1,400 per cent after policy announcement

Co-founder Elon Musk was among those criticising the online payments giant

Salon

Christianity in the dumps, GOP to blame

It's not lack of school prayer causing people to abandon faith, it's that Christianity has become a toxic religion

Inverse

Fox News Star Trek “woke” takedown misses one huge detail from Trek history

A recent op-ed accused new Star Trek shows of partisanship. But there are several historical facts left out of this analysis. Here's what those are. and why 'Strange New Worlds' is actually less political than previous Treks.

Benzinga

Former Facebook Crypto Chief Launches Bitcoin Payments Company

David Marcus, the former head of Meta Platforms Inc-owned (NASDAQ: FB) Facebook's crypto project Diem, has launched a Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) payments startup.

Financial Times

Facebook Libra: the inside story of how the company’s cryptocurrency dream died

It had the blue-chip partners, the tech and the right players. None of which could save it

People

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