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By Zheping Huang When Justin Sun met Warren Buffett for dinner in January, he wasn’t seeking advice on stocks. The crypto mogul had spent a record $4.6 million at a charity auction for the opportunity to lecture the world’s most famous investor on the benefits of Bitcoin. It was exactly the sort of behavior that Sun’s known for -- abrasive, ostentatious and, ultimately, impossible to ignore. Like the $200 billion crypto industry itself, he is young and hungry for the respect of traditional financiers like Buffett, who deems Bitcoin basically worthless. Still shy of his 30th birthday, Sun founded one of the largest blockchain platforms, Tron, in 2017 and turned it into a virtual Las Vegas with gambling apps. He’s rubbed shoulders with Apple Inc. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. founders, hired celebrity endorsers like the late Kobe Bryant and drawn accusations of plagiarism, which he has denied, more than once. What he says and does can move crypto prices, and … [Read more...] about Even a dubious Warren Buffett can’t stop this crypto-world casino czar

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Movie releases, album launches, concerts and all major events internationally have either been cancelled or postponed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic that has spread in over 100 countries now. While globally, all major concerts have been postponed and albums released online for now, artistes back home have also postponed or cancelled their shows indefinitely. Singers tell us that "finances and work can come back, but you cannot substitute one’s health for anything else." Harshdeep Kaur: Not safe for people to gather in large numbers The singer, known for songs like 'Dilbaro' and 'Heer' among others, tells us, "I had three shows in March in India that got cancelled. There are two shows lined up in April, for which my team is monitoring the situation. Since all the shows were outside Mumbai, I felt it was not safe for me and my band members to travel when there's high alert because of the coronavirus. I also feel that it isn't safe for people to gather in large numbers. … [Read more...] about #CoronaFear: Singers delay shows, ask fans to stay safe

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg took pains to distance his company from Twitter and its fight with US President Donald Trump on Thursday, as the White House moved to scrap a law protecting social media companies. “We have a different policy I think than Twitter on this,” Zuckerberg told Fox News, Trump’s preferred broadcaster. Both sites take down content that violates their terms of service, but Facebook’s approach, he said, has “distinguished us from some of the other tech companies in terms of being stronger on free expression and giving people a voice”. While Facebook does apply labels to misleading posts, it exempts from review posts by politicians, a decision that some lawmakers and presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden say helps lies to flourish online. Unlike Twitter, Facebook outsources its fact checking to media partners and says it takes no stance itself. … [Read more...] about Mark Zuckerberg distances Facebook from Twitter