Justice Ruth Ginsburg Joanne Rathe | The Boston Globe | Getty Images More than 1,000 books from late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal library are up for auction — and things are getting expensive. Bidders are spending thousands of dollars on individual items, including dense law-school textbooks marked up with Ginsburg’s own annotations,
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There are “encouraging signs of recovery” in Singapore’s tourism sector, according to the Singapore Tourism Board. Visitor arrivals reached 330,000 and tourism receipts reached an estimated $1.9 billion Singapore dollars ($1.4 billion) in 2021, according to data published today by the nation’s tourism board. These numbers, however, are down from 2020, when Singapore received 2.7
Bangkok revels in its status as a culinary mecca. From wizened street vendors who perform alchemy with sizzling woks to whiz-kid chefs who are shaping the fine dining scene, the city lays claim to one of the world’s most multifaceted food scenes. That’s why eating is a thread that runs through even a short stay
Jeff Bezos once told former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo that a good leader trusts his gut. Now, Costolo says Twitter’s newest CEO should take that same advice to heart. Shortly after Costolo became Twitter’s CEO in 2010, his team sat down to strategize with the Amazon founder and billionaire investor, who took a stake in
In this article AMS-ES HTG-DE EXPE If 2021 was about domestic travel, 2022 may be the year of the “bucket list” trip. This is one of the biggest trends that travel insiders expect this year, despite 2022’s tumultuous start as the omicron Covid-19 variant snarled the industry. ‘New sense of urgency’ to hit the road
Bill Gates is excited about how many new climate tech start-ups have popped up in recent years. He also thinks that plenty of them won’t last. “The number of companies working on these things is very exciting,” Gates said on Wednesday, in a virtual session of the World Economic Forum. “Some of them will fail.
In this article PTON Peloton executives and insiders sold nearly $500 million worth of their stock before its big decline, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company’s stock is down more than 80% from its highs last year, and it hit a 52-week low of $29.11 Tuesday. Yet the company’s CEO
Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday announced Australia will refund visa fees for vaccinated backpackers who arrive within the next three months. The country — whose tight, pandemic border policies locked out its citizens, and more recently, one of tennis’s biggest stars — is encouraging backpackers to visit. And it’s doing so because it wants
For billionaire investor Mark Cuban, there was one defining moment that led him to go all in on cryptocurrency. “I always paid attention to bitcoin, the pricing, the tokens and the [crypto]currencies,” Cuban told Miami Mayor Francis Suarez at The North American Bitcoin Conference on Monday. “But what really got me into it was, about
In this article RBLX WMT NKE RL Customers exit a Ralph Lauren Corp. store in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Christopher Dilts | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ralph Lauren CEO Patrice Louvet said Monday that the fashion brand is chasing opportunities in the metaverse as a way to attract younger shoppers. At the National Retail Federation’s annual
A pedestrian wearing a face mask delivers food to a homeless person sleeping in the entrance of a shop, closed due to coronavirus restrictions, in central London on December 23, 2020. Tolga Akmen | AFP | Getty Images The pandemic has made the rich richer while the income of the rest of the world —
Billionaire Mark Cuban is mostly investing in cryptocurrency nowadays. “The investments I’m making now are not in traditional businesses,” Cuban said on a recent episode of “The Problem With Jon Stewart” podcast. In fact, “80% of the investments that I make that are not on ‘Shark Tank’ are in or around cryptocurrencies.” One type of