Finances
Twitter Said to Consider Selling User Names to Boost Revenue
Twitter has considered selling user names to generate new revenue as its owner, Elon Musk, tries to resuscitate the company’s business, two people with knowledge of the plan said. Twitter employees have held conversations about selling some user names for the service since at least December, the people said. Engineers have discussed running online auctions […]
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Mark Zuckerberg Prepares Meta Employees for a Tougher 2022
SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg has a message for Meta employees: Buckle up for tough times ahead. At an internal meeting on Thursday, Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, said the Silicon Valley company was facing one of the “worst downturns that we’ve seen in recent history,” according to copies of his comments that […]
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She Was Told Surgery Would Cost About $1,300. Then the Bill Came: $229,000.
When Lisa Melody French needed back surgery after a car accident, she went to a hospital near her home outside Denver, which reviewed her insurance information and told her she would be personally responsible for paying about $1,337. But after the surgery, the hospital claimed that it had “misread” her insurance card and that she […]
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The Macklowe Collection Tops $922 Million at Auction
Blue-chip treasures from one of Manhattan’s most acrimonious billionaire divorces on Monday night helped Sotheby’s achieve what it called a record total sale for a private collection of art at auction, $922 million, with fees. Sotheby’s sold its second cache of trophy-name modern and contemporary works owned by the real estate magnate Harry Macklowe and […]
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For Tens of Millions of Americans, the Good Times Are Right Now
“We are very fortunate right now given the situation for many others during the pandemic,” said Mr. McCauley, 36, who works for a data orchestration company. “Somehow we are doing even better financially, and it feels a bit awkward.” Even for those doing well, the economy feels precarious. The University of Michigan’s venerable Index of […]
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Loss of Pandemic Aid Stresses Hospitals That Treat the Uninsured
“It’s horrible,” he said. Dr. Philip Elizondo, his orthopedic colleague, said the hospital had to cancel minor surgeries for health problems that subsequently ballooned. One uninsured woman he treated had torn her meniscus, lost her job and lost her house. Dr. Elizondo said he could have performed a 20-minute surgery if the patient had been […]
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As NFTs Grow in Popularity, Some Collectors Are Striking it Rich
Late on a Friday last spring, Izzy Pollak decided to buy two Bored Ape NFTs — which, as a reminder for the many people thinking, Yeah, but I still don’t know what an NFT is — means he bought unique, digital images (in this case, of apes). As the owner of a Bored Ape, he […]
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The NFT Has Changed Artists. Has it Changed Art?
And then there’s the even more slippery genre known as “relational art,” whose goal is to cast light on human interactions by triggering new ones. Back in 1992, the Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija crafted the classic example: He began to cook and serve curry to museumgoers, not for the sake of gastronomy — he started […]
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It’s Gold, Baby. But Niclas Castello’s Cube Is Nothing New in Art.
The fun thing about conceptual art is that it’s totally easy to create. You can say something about the increasingly virtual way many of us experience the world, and the explosive popularity of NFTs (nonfungible tokens) — or seem to say something profound, anyway — just by staging a Central Park happening around a knee-high […]
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