Are tech’s billion-dollar CEOs worth their pay?

Apple paid its chief executive, Tim Cook, $US1.4 billion ($1.8 billion) in total since 2007. Oracle’s chairman, Larry Ellison, racked up stock and cash valued at nearly $US1.9 billion over the same period. And Mark Zuckerberg has pulled in $US5.7 billion from Facebook since the company went public in 2012. […]

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El Salvador volcanoes to power bitcoin mining

More On: bitcoin China arrests 1,100 crypto users on money laundering charges Hacked meat company paid $11 million ransom to cybercriminals This is the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender Bitcoin price falls after US reclaims Colonial Pipeline crypto ransom Bitcoin is red-hot in El Salvador — and […]

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Finance Ministry tightens belt

Tells Ministries to cut ‘controllable’ expenditure by 20% The Finance Ministry has told ministries to slash ‘controllable’ spending by 20% and drop other wasteful expenditure, introducing fresh austerity steps amid concerns with breaching the fiscal deficit target for the year following the second COVID-19 wave. Expenditure related to containment of […]

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