Energy
Venmo revenue grows 20%, with debit card payment volume soaring
Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Venmo, long a centerpiece of PayPal‘s growth story but often criticized for its lack of monetization, is becoming a bigger contributor to the business. PayPal said Tuesday in its first-quarter earnings release that revenue at Venmo increased 20% year-over-year in the first quarter, though the company didn’t provide a dollar […]
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PayPal kicks off fintech earnings as investors fear impact of Trump tariffs on consumer spending
FILE PHOTO: A smartphone with the PayPal logo is placed on a laptop in this illustration taken on July 14, 2021. Dado Ruvic | Reuters PayPal, Block and Affirm are all closely tied to the health of the consumer, which has investors on edge headed into their earnings reports. Markets broadly have been jittery to […]
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From mining giants to Big Oil, major players are jumping on the ‘white hydrogen’ bandwagon
The construction site of a plant for the production of hydrogen in Germany. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images A growing number of sizable companies, from mining giants to energy majors, are embracing the hype for natural hydrogen. It comes as buzz continues to build over the potential for a resource that advocates […]
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America’s aging wind energy is here to stay despite Trump and it needs a lot of ‘repowering’ work
Jeffrey Sanders / 500px | 500px | Getty Images On Inauguration Day, President Donald Trump issued an executive order indefinitely halting permits for new onshore wind energy projects on federal land, as well as new leases for offshore wind farms in U.S. coastal waters. The action not only fulfilled Trump’s “no new windmills” campaign pledge, […]
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A massive explosion at an Iranian port linked to missile fuel shipment kills 5, injures over 700
An Iranian flag flutters in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria, September 9, 2019. Leonhard Foeger | Reuters A massive explosion and fire rocked a port Saturday in southern Iran purportedly linked to a shipment of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant, killing five people and injuring […]
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Amazon and Nvidia say all options are on the table to power AI including fossil fuels
Anton Petrus | Moment | Getty Images OKLAHOMA CITY — Amazon and Nvidia told a room of oil and gas executives this week that all options are on the table to power artificial intelligence including fossil fuels such as natural gas. The tech and energy industries gathered in Oklahoma City at the Hamm Institute for […]
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Trump’s memecoin dinner contest earns insiders $900,000 in two days
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and his allies have raked in nearly $900,000 in trading fees over the past two days from the president’s $TRUMP cryptocurrency token, according to Chainalysis, a blockchain data company. The surge came after a Wednesday announcement in which the top 220 holders of the token were promised dinner with the […]
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SEC Chair Atkins says crypto innovation ‘has been stifled’ as regulators push for change
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins speaks to reporters after giving opening remarks at a roundtable with the SEC’s Crypto Task Force at the Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters on April 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images WASHINGTON — SEC Chair Paul Atkins said on Friday that innovation in the […]
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Trump meme coin insiders have to wait additional 90 days before they can sell
A cartoon image of US President-elect Donald Trump holding a Bitcoin token to mark the cryptocurrency reaching over $100,000 displayed at a Coinhero store in Hong Kong, China, on in Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. Justin Chin | Bloomberg | Getty Images WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will have to wait another […]
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Trump dinner for meme coin buyers prompts senators to demand ethics probe
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images WASHINGTON — Senators Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren are warning that President Donald Trump’s private dinner with holders of his meme coin may constitute “pay to play” corruption, and are calling for an ethics investigation. The Democratic senators, from California and Massachusetts, respectively, sent a letter on Friday […]
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