Motley Fool Money - Earnings-palooza: Welcome to Club Trillion!

Amazon’s huge 4th-quarter gets the company back above the trillion-dollar market cap. Apple and Microsoft continue their hot streaks, while Facebook sells off due to margin concerns. Jason Moser, Andy Cross, and Ron Gross analyze the latest earnings results from Tesla, Visa, Colgate-Palmolive, McCormick, Starbucks, McDonald’s, and PayPal. Plus, we discuss IBM’s new CEO, Atari’s new line of hotels, and why the guys have Mastercard, Walker & Dunlop, and Pinterest are on their radar.

 

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - The Founders of Synthetix and Chainlink on DeFi, Derivatives and 25 New Decentralized Price Feeds

On this special interview episode, @nlw talks with Sergey Nazarov and Kain Warwick, the founders of Chainlink and Synthetix respectively about: 


  • The evolution and goals of Synthetix, a novel type of derivatives exchange where users can interact with any asset with a price feed. 
  • The challenge Synthetix faced around spinning up their own oracles around price feeds
  • The history of their collaboration and how Synthetix came to work with Chainlink
  • Chainlink approach to building decentralized oracles for data such as price feeds
  • Chainlink’s announcement yesterday about the new published price reference data for 25 oracle networks
  • The state of the idea of decentralization, and how what was previously a concept is becoming operationalized
  • One thing that gives them pause or scares them about DeFi and crypto and one thing that makes them excited for the future 



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The Best One Yet - “Juul’s Darth Vader moment” — Amazon surges 10%. The Bouqs raises $30M for wedding flowers. Altria devalues Juul e-cigarettes (again).

Juul was supposed to save the world from smoking, but it made a critical decision that its new owner, Altria, is now paying for. The Bouqs direct-to-consumer flower startup raised $30M because it wants to get invited to your wedding (but seriously). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What Next | Daily News and Analysis - WN TBD: Why Is the U.S. Scared of Huawei?

Recently a special delegation of senior Trump administration officials arrived in the U.K. Their mission? To convince prime minister Boris Johnson to bar Huawei from their new 5G network.


Why is the U.S. so keen to influence Britain’s decision on 5G? And now that the U.K is officially withdrawing from the European Union, how will they manage competing pressures from the U.S. and China?


Guest: Dan Sabbagh, defense and security editor at the Guardian. 

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What A Day - News Kids On The Medicaid Block Grant

The Trump administration unveiled a new Medicaid plan, which gives states the opportunity to convert part of the public insurance system into block grants. This so called “Healthy Adult Opportunity” could end up reducing health care benefits.


Unless the 51 GOP senators get swapped for other, better senators, today is the day that the impeachment will either draw to a close, or get pretty close to it. It was kinda fun while it lasted. We discuss some of the lowlights from the past few days of the trial. 


And in headlines: life expectancy goes up, Virginia gun laws, Trump’s dead bird and explosion legacy. Plus, Hysteria’s Erin Ryan fills in for Akilah!

Short Wave - The Surprising Origin Of Some Timely Advice: Wash Your Hands

Today we know that one of the easiest and most effective things you can do to protect yourself from the cold, flu, and other respiratory illnesses (including those like the novel coronavirus) is to wash your hands. But there was a time when that wasn't so obvious. Dana Tulodziecki, a professor at Purdue University, tells the story of Ignaz Semmelweis, the scientist who's credited with discovering the importance of handwashing. We'll hear how he figured it out and why there's more to the story. Follow host Maddie Sofia on Twitter @maddie_sofia. Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.

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