Facebook buys Giphy for $400 million, Microsoft Acquires Softmotive, Uber looking to buy Grubhub, Apple buys Next VR for allegedly $100 million

by EmployerOfTheMonth Lots of acquisitions buy big tech this month, what are your thoughts? https://www.axios.com/scoop-facebook-to-buy-giphy-for-400-million-4a75a359-833b-484d-b15b-87e94d3de017.html https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/19/microsoft-acquires-robotic-process-automation-platform-softomotive/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-14/apple-acquires-startup-nextvr-to-gain-virtual-reality-content https://www.reuters.com/article/us-grubhub-m-a-uber/uber-offer-for-grubhub-fans-worries-over-delivery-fees-charged-to-restaurants-idUSKBN22Q1Q4    

Retail has the largest long call option position in history. Citadel is about to take all their money. I can promise you that.

https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1263518901222113285 Why would you not going into a long weekend max long call options with soaring unemployment, leaders of the two biggest countries fighting, pandemic spreading, and no announced earnings revisions. Only thing I can think of more bullish is …

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According to senior administration officials, U.S. will inform Russia on Friday that the United States is pulling out of the Open Skies Treaty

https://russia.liveuamap.com/en/2020/21-may-according-to-senior-administration-officials-us-will The Treaty on Open Skies entered into force on January 1, 2002, and currently has 34 party states. It establishes a program of unarmed aerial surveillance flights over the entire territory of its participants. The treaty is designed to …

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Kevin McCarthy: “If I’m Speaker of the House, I will never: • Talk about a President of the United States as being “morbidly obese” • Rip up the President’s State of the Union speech. • Impeach purely for political gain.”

If I'm Speaker of the House, I will never:• Talk about a President of the United States as being "morbidly obese"• Rip up the President's State of the Union speech.• Impeach purely for political gain. RT if you agree it's …

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Flynn not only made it clear that he wanted to undo the Iran Deal, he also broadcast his determination to find the documents detailing the secret deals between Obama and Iran, and to publicize them

How Russiagate Began With Obama’s Iran Deal Domestic Spying Campaign. Michael Flynn posed a threat to the former president’s legacy and was made to pay for it How was it central to his legacy if it was never actually intended …

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Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt out. Gates also forced us to accept Edge Browser spyware that can’t be removed. This is illegal. Let’s call for prosecution.

by AmuseMeSomeMore Did you read your 1,200 word TOS? “Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good …

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HUGE fire nuclear powerplant in the Netherlands!

  Nuclear powerplant Dodewaard Netherlands is currently on fire (dutch) https://www.hln.be/nieuws/buitenland/grote-brand-op-dak-van-oude-kerncentrale-in-nederland-onder-controle~ae8352c6/?referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.godlikeproductions.com%2Fforum1%2Fmessage4396898%2Fpg1 Nuclear powerplant Dodewaard Netherlands is currently on fire pic.twitter.com/HBuYLLdtQX — EZ Wolf (@EZ_wolf) May 21, 2020 Brand #dodewaard geef hulpdiensten de ruimte. Houd afstand van de brand. Heeft u …

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What I Do When Markets Make No Sense

Rick Rule interviewed by Dunagun Kaiser on Reluctant Preppers Which way from here? How do we separate what we know from what is unknowable? And how can we take prudent actions to both reduce risk and capitalize on high-probability of future gains, despite unprecedented …

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Even CNN Admits Trump will win!

Trolling through news today I came across this CNN story… Trump has a real shot of winning If the 2020 race moved 8 points in Trump’s direction, he’d win. You could even concentrate on just the most recent incumbent elections …

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PANTLOAD OF FAIL (CONT’D)

‘How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?’ The government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. “A negative test result means something different for each test. If …

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