Taxi driver Napoleon Osorio leaves the NGO My First Bitcoin headquarters in San Salvador on September 4, 2024. — AFP SAN SALVADOR: Napoleon Osorio is proud of being the first taxi driver to have accepted payment in Bitcoin in the first country in the world to make the cryptocurrency legal tender: El Salvador. He credits … Read more
Rich Homie Quan, the Atlanta rapper who gained mainstream fame through the trap singles “Type of Way” and “Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh),” has died. He was 33. Quan, whose legal name is Dequantes Devontay Lamar, died at an Atlanta hospital, the Fulton County Medical Examiner confirmed to The Associated Press. The medical examiner was informed … Read more
E-commerce tycoon Colin Huang has become China’s richest man, an index showed Friday, capping an ascent for the former Google employee whose shopping site Temu has sucked in consumers with its low prices and all-powerful algorithms. Huang, the founder of PDD Holdings — which owns Temu and Chinese retail app Pinduoduo — is now worth … Read more