Kazakh-based investment and technology company Freedom Holding has acquired ChessBase, perhaps the most influential company in chess software and professional training tools over the past three decades. The deal was confirmed in a press release on Thursday, with Freedom Holding announcing plans to invest €5 million ($5.9 million) into the Hamburg-based company. The investment will…
Asake’s “Gratitude” debuted at number 146 on the global Spotify chart this week, pulling in 1.494 million first-day streams. That’s nearly 1.5 million plays in a single charting period. For the Nigerian Afrobeats artist, it’s one more step in a global rise. That momentum has been building for years. ChartData, a music tracking account on…
Shahmir Khaliq, head of services at Citi, examines how the shifts in global supply chains from the Iran war are forcing businesses to change how they think about production and input costs. (Source: Bloomberg) Source link
Juicy J performed in Denver this week, continuing his active touring schedule with another high-energy show for Colorado fans. The Memphis rapper took to social media after the performance to thank attendees. In a post on X, he wrote: ‘Thank you Denver’ followed by smoke emojis and the hashtag #trippyniggaz. The post quickly gained traction…
Grants terminations requested by the administration of US President Donald Trump last year disproportionately affected researchers from under-represented groups, a survey suggests.Credit: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty The abrupt termination last year of thousands of research grants by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research, didn’t affect all…
Questions remain over whether the Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather exhibition will indeed still go ahead. It was announced late last year that Tyson and Mayweather were set to take part in an exhibition contest in early 2026, bringing together two of boxing’s biggest names together. Since that initial announcement, a lot of twists and…
“Fidesz rule has to stop, they stole a lot and the country’s dying,” says Eva, who believes 90% of people in the market still back them. “Tisza supporters only see the bad things about Orbán,” Andrea retorts. “If you look around in the city, they renovated six schools, and built new buildings in the hospital.”…
K Wave Media, a Nasdaq-listed media and entertainment company, said it is redirecting up to $485 million in remaining financing capacity from a Bitcoin treasury strategy into an artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout, according to a Monday 6-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The capital will be deployed into data centers, graphics…
Three of President Trump’s most alcohol-inclined confidants walk into a bar… That was the premise behind the cold open of the May 9 episode of “Saturday Night Live,” which found aggro secretary of war Pete Hegseth (as played the season by Colin Jost) causing trouble at a D.C. area dive bar (“Martin’s Tavern”) alongside Justice…
Romance fraudsters scammed Britons out of £102 million ($138 million) last year, according to the latest police figures. That works out to roughly £280,000 ($379,000) a day, the City of London Police said Tuesday. The average victim loses around £9,500 ($12,866) per scam, though individual cases have reached £1 million ($1.35 million). Conman and wannabe…