Vice

A TikToker known as Dre created the Simple Cool Automatic Money (CRYPTO: SCAM) token as a joke and saw it gain a market cap of $70 million within an hour since the launch. What Happened: According to a Wednesday Vice report, Dre himself said that he didn't expect or invite people...

Several verified high profile users on Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR), including such as Elon Musk, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden, sent out tweets promoting a bitcoin scam as a result of an alleged hacking Wednesday, which Twitter claimed was a result of social engineering.  An...

Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) is launching voice tweets that will allow users to post audio clips of up to 140 seconds in length. What Happened On Wednesday, Twitter announced its users will now be able to add voice to bolster their conversations on the microblogging site, in addition to already...

The season finale of Vice’s “Dark Side of the Ring” airs on Tuesday and features the widow of former World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) performer Owen, Hart, who tragically died in a 1999 stunt during a WWE pay-per-view event. Martha Hart blames WWE on Owen’s...

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) fans will get new details for the first time related to the darkest day in the company’s history. The season finale of Vice’s “Dark Side of the Ring” will focus on the death of former WWE performer Owen Hart, who fell nearly 80...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the latest tech company to be criticized for using humans to review audio captured through devices, raising more privacy concerns about in-home tech. Vice reported that contractors working for Microsoft were paid to listen to audio from Xbox users in the...

One of the last times many investors heard the name Dov Charney was early 2016 when the ex-CEO of American Apparel Inc was mounting an offensive to regain control of the company he founded — and was ultimately fired from. Charney was fired from American Apparel for alleged misconduct and...

After several months of poor daily-active-user figures by Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP), Evan Spiegel, Snapchat CEO and co-founder, is determined to drive user-engagement. The DAU decline occurred right after Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)'s Instagram Stories launched, and Spiegel has taken notice. Specifically...

It's always difficult to keep track of what teens consider cool these days, but a recent survey conducted by Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google's market research wing provides some valuable insight. Google's report, titled "It's Lit: A guide to what teens think is cool," ranks...

Media conglomerate Viacom, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB, led by new CEO Robert "Bob" Bakish, is said to be considering buying a stake in millennial digital media start-up Vice, according to a New York Post report “Bakish wants to make his mark on the struggling media giant and is out to show his board...

Shares of Second Sight Medical Products Inc (NASDAQ: EYES) surged higher on Monday after the company's medical technology was featured in a preview in an upcoming Vice documentary. However, shares tumbled on Wednesday after the company received some negative press in the form of a...

Shares of Second Sight Medical Products Inc (NASDAQ: EYES) surged higher by 15 percent on Monday and traded above the $5 per share mark for the first time since early January. Second Sight is a medical device company that develops implantable visual prosthetics to restore some functional vision to...

Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) reported Q1 earnings at 4:15 p.m. EST Tuesday, with EPS coming in ahead of the Street ($1.63 vs. est. $1.45) and sales ahead of estimates as well ($15.24 billion vs. est. $14. 74 billion). The EPS/Revenue results came in much closer to Estimize consensus. Also of note,...

Family Playtime Means Less Vice Time August summer vacations leave little money and opportunity to vice (yup, it’s a verb). Additionally, even more travel means even less vicing. Americans have become more focused on vacations, to the detriment of other forms of consumer spending. In...

The Vice Index has been revised and is now chained to January 2009. The data itself goes back to 1993. Vice spending is where the desire to spend meets the ability to spend. As the heart of consumer spending, vices adhere nicely to more conventional economic benchmarks like retail sales. Retail...