Capital One CEO and Chairman, Richard Fairbank. Marvin Joseph| The Washington Post | Getty Images Capital One’s recently announced $35.3 billion acquisition of Discover Financial isn’t just about getting bigger — gaining “scale” in Wall Street-speak — it’s a bid to protect itself against a rising tide of fintech and regulatory threats. It’s a chess … Read more
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Capital One Financial is set to acquire Discover Financial Services, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The deal could be announced Tuesday, the outlet said, citing sources. The merger of the two companies, who are among the largest credit card issuers in the U.S., would … Read more
Paul Giamatti and girlfriend Clara Wong are ready to show their love to the world and they just made another red carpet appearance during awards season! The couple walked the carpet at the National Board of Review’s 2024 Awards Gala on Thursday (January 11) at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. Paul won the … Read more
Astronomers have found a world less than 900 light-years away in space being whipped and battered by enormous cyclones. The findings, which relied on previous Hubble Space Telescope observations, show brutal storms are repeatedly created and destroyed in the vast temperature swings between the side of the exoplanet that faces its host star and the … Read more
Social media users have discovered an odd comparison between Gypsy Rose Blanchard-Anderson‘s mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, and her husband, Ryan Anderson. Gypsy Rose married her husband, Ryan, in a prison wedding last June. The now 32-year-old was behind bars for her involvement in the murder of her mother, Dee Dee, after she said she … Read more
‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry left his fans devastated with his tragic death on October 28 Jennifer Aniston shocked to discover Matthew Perry was ‘tormented’ before his death Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer were “shocked” to discover that Matthew Perry was “tormented” before his death. Few days after the Murder … Read more
In the profoundly remote Argentina desert, at over 12,000 feet high, and in a place where no roads go, scientists found an exotic world new to science. Among white salt plains atop the Puna de Atacama plateau, there’s a system of greenish lagoons harboring vast bacterial communities, called stromatolites, that create layered mounds as they … Read more
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Google is experimenting with the inclusion of a Discover Feed on its desktop homepage that shows recommended content alongside the company’s traditional search box. A screenshot from MSPowerUser, which spotted the change, shows a feed that includes news headlines, a weather forecast, sports scores, and stock information for a trio of companies. The search giant … Read more
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Over 180,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are packed into U.N. shelters as Israeli warplanes pound the tiny territory of 2.3 million people after their Hamas militant rulers launched an unprecedented weekend attack on Israel. Among them is 27-year-old Sabreen al-Attar. She sprang into action when she heard rocket after … Read more
According to a new “holy grail” scientific discovery, the blazing-hot ball of metal at the center of the Earth’s core is actually more active than one might think. In fact, it might be host to a centra-planet molecular dinner party. Using machine learning and a supercomputer, physicists at the University of Texas at Austin and … Read more