CNN | Tom Brady rookie card sells for record $1.32 million

Tom Brady celebrates in the final seconds of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ 31 to 26 win over the Green Bay Packers during the NFC Championship game at Lambeau Field on January 24, 2021.

(CNN) – The most expensive trading card in football history, a Tom Brady rookie card, has sold for $1.32 million.

FitBit CEO and co-founder James Park made the purchase.

“I lived in Boston for 10 years and so am a huge fan of Brady,” Park said in a statement on the Instagram page of PWCC Marketplace, the online auction house which brokered the deal.  –read more—

CNN underscored | These are the Black-owned beauty brands you should try ASAP

(CNN) —  We don’t know about you, but our beauty routine could definitely use a refresh. And while we’re looking to spend our hard-earned money on new products, there are a whole lot of Black-owned beauty brands that have award-winning, top-rated products we’re dying to try (and beauty staples we already use and love).

Ahead, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite Black-owned makeup, hair and skin care brands that dedicate themselves to inclusivity for all skin tones, skin types and hair types.  –read more—

CNN BUSINESS | Ford’s Mustang Mach-E is eating into Tesla’s US sales

New York (CNN Business) – Tesla is starting to lose market share among US buyers of electric vehicles, and Ford’s Mustang Mach-E appears to be the beneficiary.

Analysis by Morgan Stanley shows that Tesla’s share of the US EV market fell to 69% in February, down from 81% a year ago.

Tesla’s US sales are still climbing, according to this analysis, due to the increased appetite among US car buyers for electric vehicles. Morgan Stanley estimates that industrywide US EV sales rose 34% in February, compared to a year earlier, even as sales of traditional internal combustion engine vehicles fell by 5.4%, according to the analysis.  —read more—

CNN travel | World’s first space hotel scheduled to open in 2027

(CNN) — If you’re daydreaming of future travels while stuck at home during the pandemic, why fantasize about the beaches of Bali or the canals of Venice when vacationing in space could be in your future?

Back in 2019, Californian company the Gateway Foundation released plans for a cruise ship-style hotel that could one day float above the Earth’s atmosphere.

Then called the Von Braun Station, this futuristic concept — comprised of 24 modules connected by elevator shafts that make up a rotating wheel orbiting the Earth — was scheduled to be fully operational by 2027.  –read more—

CNN BUSINESS | Watch out, PayPal. Square just launched its own bank

New York (CNN Business) – Square, the financial payments firm run by Jack Dorsey, launched an in-house bank that it says will allow it to “operate more nimbly” in an increasingly crowded fintech market.

The firm announced Monday that the bank has begun operations after completing the charter approval process with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Utah Department of Financial Institutions. It will operate as an independently governed subsidiary of Square Inc (SQ). Dorsey is also the CEO and co-founder of Twitter (TWTR).The Salt Lake City, Utah-based Square Financial Services will provide business loans and deposit products to sellers who use its card reader and other point-of-sale services.  —read more— 

CNN BUSINESS | Wendy’s went all in on breakfast. It’s paying off

New York (CNN Business) – People are eating at home more.  But Wendy’s (WEN) says they’re still showing up for breakfast.

The chain said Wednesday that sales at its US restaurants open at least a year grew 2% in 2020, thanks in large part to breakfast. CEO Todd Penegor said during an analyst call that in the last three months of the year the meal amounted for about 7% of the chain’s sales, and should rise to 10% by the end of 2022.

“We know that we are just scratching the surface of its potential,” he said.  –read more—