With by far the largest share of revenues coming from brick and mortar casinos via slots and table games, the U.S. gambling industry unsurprisingly took a pandemic-related hit in 2020. After posting record gross gaming revenue (GGR) in 2019, the total …
As the pandemic forced restaurants to close and diners to stay at home, food delivery services thrived during the Covid-19 crisis. Whether its ordering directly from a restaurant or using one of many available delivery platforms, U.S. consumers have th…
Despite the fact that restaurants reopened in 2021 and millions of Americans returned to dining out, food delivery market leader DoorDash kept its pandemic gains and even managed to build on them. The company that went public amid the Covid-19 crisis i…
Palantir, the Palo Alto-based company with its Alex Karp crazy-hair guy, has lost the majority of its market cap in just one year’s time. If James Altucher wasn’t proof enough, maybe Mr. Karp will finally demonstrate my point irrefutably.
Having successfully adapted to the unique circumstances created by the pandemic, Uber beat revenue expectations in the fourth quarter of 2021, capping a year that saw its core rides business partly rebound while keeping momentum in its thriving food de…
Since taking its first steps teaching computers board game strategies in the 1950s, research on artificial intelligence has come a long way. In the 21st century in particular, machine learning and its promise for real-time improvements of algorithms th…
The airline giant Airbus was gaining impressive altitude in terms of net income up to 2018. That year, the French company posted record earnings of €3.1 billion. In 2019, however, the company finally saw the end of a drawn-out legal process involving F…
Well. How about that, huh? Having finished The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich a couple of weeks ago, I learned a thing or two about deception when it comes to countries in Europe doing their invasion-thang. What’s actually happening over th…
The global chip shortage has been a pressing issue for all of 2021 and will likely continue throughout 2022, as NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told Yahoo Finance in November of last year. Nevertheless, Huang’s company is hitting this worldwide issue in stride…
That’s right, not Rollover Beethoven. I’ve used that too many times through the years. In honor of my 7 months of residency in Warsaw, just ended, I decided to honor the great Polish composer instead, with a slight misspelling in recognition of current…