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Now that Donald Trump has issued tariffs on products from China, Canada, and Mexico, Canada responded with tariffs of its own, and China’s Ministry of Commerce said in a statement (via Google Translate) that it “will file a lawsuit with the WTO for the wrong practices of the United States and will take corresponding countermeasures to firmly safeguard its own rights and interests.

For the past couple of years, Walgreens has been locked in a legal battle with CoolerX, a startup founded by the pharmacy chain’s former CEO, according to a report from Bloomberg. CoolerX replaced glass refrigerator doors with digital screens inside hundreds of Walgreens stores, but frequent glitches reportedly led Walgreens to attempt to exit its 10-year contract.

Incredible kicker from FT Alphaville, on top of some truly bizarre memes from Deutsche Bank. We love our blogging brethren.

Trump Media is launching Truth.Fi as part of its “financial services and financial technology strategy,” but there still aren’t many details about what it will actually do. The company also plans to invest $250 million into customized exchange-traded funds, along with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

According to Bloomberg and user reports, T-Mobile’s list of eligible devices for beta testing Starlink direct-to-cell connections now includes iPhones. While only a few Samsung Galaxy devices were supported at first, now iPhone owners with the most recent update can reportedly connect, as well as some people with Android 15 devices.

As of April 1st, Hideaki Nishino will become the president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, the company behind the PlayStation brand. This comes nearly a year after he and Herman Hulst were appointed co-CEOs of the PlayStation business, splitting responsibilities for leading the platform business and games following the retirement of Jim Ryan.

As Chinese AI startup DeepSeek draws attention for open-source AI models that it says are cheaper than the competition while providing similar or better performance, AI chip king Nvidia’s stock price dropped today.

New executive order just dropped from the crypto-owned administration. A fun little committee will decide if we should have a strategic crypto reserve. Also, the government should make it easier for crypto companies to get bank accounts — because that ended so well last time.

The game “engaged approximately 1.5 million players during the quarter, down nearly 50% from the company’s expectations,” EA says in a pre-announcement of its preliminary Q3 earnings results. That’s a shame, because the game is pretty good.

The Washington Post, fresh off of losing 250,000 subscribers after its presidential non-endorsement, has a new internal slogan: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”

The legendary short-selling firm, which took down EV company Nikola’s founder and launched several other investigations, will wind down. Its founder, Nate Anderson, plans to invest in index funds. “I’ve spent most of the last eight years either in a fight or preparing for the next one,” he told the WSJ. Now he wants to do something else.

The ultra cheap retailer giving Amazon a run for its money is piloting an ads system for merchants, The Information reports. Similar to Amazon’s system, sellers can pay for increased visibility in search results as well as display ads on Temu’s site.

The covid pandemic saga of Razer’s RGB-lit Zephyr face mask is probably ending now that checks and PayPal payments are giving money back to the 6,764 buyers.

You wanna go down a rabbit hole? The corporate structure alone is bizarre:

Kwon has been extradited to this US to face fraud charges. The charges contain a description of the overlapping network of allegedly fraudulent entities Kwon juggled before Terra / Luna came crashing to Earth.

Starting today, Spotify is paying creators in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada based on how much engagement their videos receive from paid subscribers, similar to platforms like YouTube.