Videogames ‘Fortnite,’ ‘Minecraft’ Catapult Smiley Salamander to Global Fame Scott Marlette Mar 13, 2022 Pollution and other man-made ills weigh heavily on Mexico’s axolotl, a rare salamander popular among Aztecs back in the day.Its population in the wild has…
SEC’s GameStop Report Questions ‘Game-Like’ Trading Apps Scott Marlette Oct 19, 2021 WASHINGTON—A trading frenzy in shares of GameStop Corp. GME 1.49% earlier this year should lead…
Wall Street Is Looking to Reddit for Investment Advice Scott Marlette Aug 31, 2021 Wall Street professionals tell everyday investors what stocks to buy. But now they have to follow some of these amateurs for signs of where the…
How Pop Its, the TikTok Sensation, Became the Toy of the Pandemic Scott Marlette Aug 20, 2021 On a recent Saturday, 11-year-old Madison O’Keefe went on a hunt. According to a TikTok video, The Learning Express and The Teaching Room, a toy…
GameStop’s Power Player: How Outsider Ryan Cohen Wrested Control Scott Marlette Aug 12, 2021 It took just a few months for a 36-year-old entrepreneur to take over America’s most talked-about company—and make $1 billion for himself in the…
Robinhood Expects IPO to Value Trading App at About $33 Billion Scott Marlette Jul 19, 2021 Trading app Robinhood Markets Inc. expects its coming initial public offering to give it a market value of about $33 billion, lower…
GameStop Remakes C-Suite, Board in Turnaround Push Scott Marlette Jun 10, 2021 The company named two Amazon.com Inc. veterans as its chief executive and chief financial officer, and shareholders voted Ryan…