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Patrick Aloisio

Apr 22, 20222 min read

Business

How Does Google Make Money?

Everyone knows Google, but have you ever looked into where all of their money comes from? Let’s take a look...

Patrick Aloisio

Apr 22, 20221 min read

Real Estate

How Do Mortgages Work?

Congrats, you just bought your first house for $100,000. How can you do this without actually having $100,000 in cash? Mortgages!

Teenager Denies $5,000 Offer to Stop Tracking Elon Musk’s Plane

Patrick Aloisio

Jan 30, 20221 min read

Business

Teenager Denies $5,000 Offer to Stop Tracking Elon Musk’s Plane

Elon Musk is being tracked! How would you negotiate with one of the richest people in the world?

Wayve A.I. Raises $200m for Autonomous Food Delivery

Patrick Aloisio

Jan 18, 20221 min read

Business

Wayve A.I. Raises $200m for Autonomous Food Delivery

They raised $200m in Series B funding to expand partnerships with commercial fleets.

Walmart Entering the Metaverse & Crypto world

Patrick Aloisio

Jan 17, 20221 min read

Cryptocurrency

Walmart Entering the Metaverse & Crypto world

Recent trademark filings show the company wants to establish its own NFTs and cryptocurrency.

AmazeVR Plans to Turn AMC Movie Theaters into Virtual Concert Venues

Patrick Aloisio

Jan 13, 20221 min read

Business

AmazeVR Plans to Turn AMC Movie Theaters into Virtual Concert Venues

The effort to bring VR concerts to the real world comes on the back of the Fortnite virtual concert series with Travis Scott & Ariana Grande

NY College Testing a 32-hour Work Week for Staff

Patrick Aloisio

Jan 12, 20221 min read

Business

NY College Testing a 32-hour Work Week for Staff

D'Youville College in Buffalo is shortening the work week to 32 hours, but pay and benefits are staying the same.

John Deere Enabling Self-Farming Farms with Autonomous Tractors

Patrick Aloisio

Jan 10, 20221 min read

Business

John Deere Enabling Self-Farming Farms with Autonomous Tractors

There’s been a decreasing number of farmers, and an increasing population. That is not a combination you want to hear...

Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos, Guilty of Fraud on 4 Accounts

Patrick Aloisio

Jan 5, 20221 min read

Business

Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos, Guilty of Fraud on 4 Accounts

3 counts of wire fraud and 1 count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Retailers Eyeing More Store Openings in 2022 after 'Survival of the Fittest' During the Pandemic

Patrick Aloisio

Jan 2, 20221 min read

Business

Retailers Eyeing More Store Openings in 2022 after 'Survival of the Fittest' During the Pandemic

The weak stores have been purged from the system. Now that the bad has been sweated out, store openings may top store closures.

Coinbase Chief Product Officer: 10 Predictions for Web3 and the Cryptoeconomy for 2022

Patrick Aloisio

Jan 1, 20222 min read

Cryptocurrency

Coinbase Chief Product Officer: 10 Predictions for Web3 and the Cryptoeconomy for 2022

Big list of 10, here's what I agree with and disagree with...

Why AR, not VR, Will be the Heartbeat of the Metaverse

Patrick Aloisio

Dec 29, 20211 min read

Business

Why AR, not VR, Will be the Heartbeat of the Metaverse

Louis Rosenberg - PHD student in 1991 saw the VR technology in its infancy... He said VR is like “Wearing a scuba mask.”

Google Searches for "NFTs" pass "Crypto" for the first time ever

Patrick Aloisio

Dec 23, 20211 min read

Cryptocurrency

Google Searches for "NFTs" pass "Crypto" for the first time ever

NFT Searches are on the rise. But does this mean that more money is also flowing into the NFT space, or just general research interest?

Shopify & Instagram are enabling NFTs on their platforms.

Patrick Aloisio

Dec 17, 20211 min read

Cryptocurrency

Shopify & Instagram are enabling NFTs on their platforms.

Wellllll to be clear, IG is exploring right now, but the parent company doesn't just go all out with the metaverse and then not go into NFTs

US Inflation Rate Surges to 6.8% in November

Patrick Aloisio

Dec 10, 20211 min read

Economy

US Inflation Rate Surges to 6.8% in November

Inflation is getting worse by the month. Well, what can the Fed do? Raising interest rates helps solve the inflation problem, but what else?

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