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Phony credentials are on the rise and have become a global predicament. It has become a billion-dollar industry consisting of almost 4,000 diploma mills. These are bogus academic institutions that peddle certificates for all levels of degrees all over the world. Recently, thousands of practicing nurses in the U.S. may be working with counterfeit academic […]

Colombian drug lord – Dairo Antonio Usuga David – pleaded guilty Wednesday before a Brooklyn courtroom for running a criminal syndicate in what is seen as victorious justice against a warlord. He is facing a 20-year prison sentence. David’s case is proof that while justice wheels turn slowly, it prevails in the end. Usuga led […]

Ordinarily Extraordinary Bezos, that is what Jeff’s girlfriend Lauren Sanche said about him. In his book entitled Jeff Bezos: The World-Changing Entrepreneur, Chris McNab said that Bezos’s wealth is a “poor metric by which to measure his success.” While Jeff was 2020’s richest man in modern world history, with a net worth of $200 billion, […]

First it was Twitter, and now its Facebook and Instagram welcoming Donald Trump back into their fold but the question will he or will not triumphantly post? So, why are these social media platforms reintroducing the former US President? Is it because he’s returned to the political spotlight? Was there any pressure from Trump’s group? […]

A disused plane is now a luxury villa? Big stretch but true enough thanks to the efforts of Russian entrepreneur Felix Demin who bought the plane in 2021 and placed it at the top of a cliff. The Boeing 737 has now been converted into a two-bedroom villa with a pool and wing-top terrace. It’s […]

Leading companies, including Disney and Starbucks, say enough is enough and urged their workforce to come back to the office, in a call to get rid of remote work. On January 18, Starbucks announced that employees who live within commuting distance of its offices must work from the office for at least three days a […]

It appears fine dining is going out of fashion and is unlikely that this business model is going to succeed again in the near future. During the pandemic restaurants had to re-look their business model and focus more on take out menus and it appears that the hey-day of fine dining is unlikely to return […]

Ivana Trump died in July 2022 leaving behind $34 million in assets and a large portion of the inheritance goes to the children. How the money is being distributed, based on her will is definitely one way of figuring out who stands where in the the Trump family dynamics. Ivana left behind a Manhattan townhouse, […]

A number of employees at Amazon India broke down and cried after being let go. Amazon laid off almost 1,000 people at its India offices and plans to retrenched 17,000 workers worldwide. Photos of employees crying were posted on Grapevine, a community app for Indian professionals. According to Grapevine 75% of the staff had to […]

McDonald’s latest ad campaign doesn’t show anyone actually eating McDonald’s food. Yes, you heard that right. Advertising bigwig Leo Burnett has opted to feature its Golden Arches instead and an eyebrow arch to indicate its time to eat McDonald’s. The ad which is titled “Raise your Arches” has a group of office workers rushing to […]

Goldman Sachs began a round of layoffs on January 11 as the company started a cost-cutting initiative with a third of those investments coming from the banking and global markets division. The biggest retrenchment will be from the investment banking arm with more than 3,000 employees laid off. “We know this is a difficult time […]

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are the stuff of fairy tales for many and in this article, we bring you a timeline of the Ivanka Trump Jared Kushner Toxic relationship and how we believe it became this way. This is the quintessential power couple combining wealth, politics and good looks to boot. Trump and Kushner […]

Billionaire Bernard Arnault who is the CEO of LVMH the world’s largest luxury group recently appointed his 47-year-old daughter as CEO of Christian Dior. Delphine Arnault will head up that division replacing Piero Beccari who has been in charge of Dior since 2018. Beccari will replace Louis Vuitton CEO Michael Burke. Bernard recently overtook Elon […]

Microsoft King Bill Gates is one of the biggest private landowners in the United States. Gates owns 275,000 acres of farmland according to a 2022 Land Report. In a yearly Reddit Ask Me Anything session on Jan 11, Gates was asked why he made all these purchases. “Why are you buying up so much farmland, […]

Trump Organisation’s former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg has been sentenced to five months jail for tax fraud. Weisselberg, 75, will serve his sentence at the infamous Riker Island jail. He pleaded guilty to tax fraud in August stating that between 2005 and 2017 he and other executives received bonuses and perks that saved the […]