• Apple Is Killing A Billion-Dollar Ad Industry With One Popup https://medium.com/macoclock/apple-is-killing-a-billion-dollar-ad-industry-with-one-popup-2f83d182837f 31 comments 16/7/2020 privacy
• The mind-blowing scale of Trump’s billion-dollar loss, in one tweet. http://www.vox.com/2016/10/3/13147520/trump-tax-loss?utm_campaign=vox.social&utm_medium=social&utm_content=voxdotcom&utm_source=facebook 34 comments 3/10/2016 politics
• The mind-blowing scale of Trump’s billion-dollar loss in one tweet http://www.vox.com/2016/10/3/13147520/trump-tax-loss 86 comments 3/10/2016 politics
• A new study shows that cancer patients who chose alternative remedies alongside conventional treatments were twice as likely to die from the disease. Complementary treatments comprise a multi-billion-dollar industry, one that’s been booming in recent years. https://bigthink.com/stephen-johnson/study-cancer-patients-who-choose-alternative-treatments-twice-as-likely-to-die 6 comments 20/7/2018 science
• The government is raking in billions of dollars from Trump's tariffs. Americans are the ones paying. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-tariffs-revenue-up-sharply-american-costs-increase-2018-11-1027713336 11 comments 10/11/2018 politics
• YouTube to buy Twitch for one billion dollars http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/youtube-to-acquire-videogame-streaming-service-twitch-for-1-billion-sources-1201185204/ 384 comments 18/5/2014 technology
• One Billion Dollars – Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/1billion 8 comments 3/3/2014 web_design
• The NBA faces a billion-dollar crisis over one executive's tweet about Hong Kong. Here's why China is so hard for Western brands to break into. https://www.businessinsider.com/why-china-so-hard-western-companies-marketing-2019-10 5 comments 13/10/2019 worldnews
• Stimulus bill saves Microsoft founder ONE BILLION DOLLARS. http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-stimulus-saves-microsoft-billionaire-hundreds-of-millions-phew-2009-2 4 comments 19/2/2009 reddit.com
• U.S. Mint Stores $1 Billion In Dollar Coins That No One Wants : NPR http://www.npr.org/2011/06/28/137394348/-1-billion-that-nobody-wants?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw 4 comments 28/6/2011 politics
• Since The Beginning of Bush's Wars, Blackwater Has Made $1,059,633,363 - That's ONE BILLION DOLLARS http://governmentdirt.com/since_the_beginning_of_bushs_wars_blackwater_has_made_1_059_633_363_000_thats_one_trillion_dollars 3 comments 27/9/2007 reddit.com
• One Billion Of Your Tax Dollars Funds Anti-Science Religious Education Across The Nation http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/one-billion-of-your-tax-dollars-funds-anti-science-religious-education-across-the-nation/news/2014/03/24/84786 406 comments 26/3/2014 politics
• Twitter co-founder Ev Williams: "Here's the formula if you want to build a billion-dollar internet company. Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time. Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps." http://www.wired.com/business/2013/09/ev-williams-xoxo/all/1 6 comments 30/9/2013 technology
• Get rid of the dollar bill? I don't think so: The Federal Reserve Stores $1 Billion In Dollar Coins That No One Wants http://www.npr.org/2011/06/28/137394348/-1-billion-that-nobody-wants/ 92 comments 1/12/2012 politics
• Johnson & Johnson, one of the world's largest drug manufacturers, has gone on trial in a multi-billion dollar lawsuit in the US. Prosecutors accuse the firm of deceptively marketing painkillers and downplaying addiction risks, fuelling an "opioid epidemic" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48437082 3 comments 27/5/2020 worldnews
• New Zealand to spend almost half a billion dollars to plant one billion trees over the next three years https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/106230258/boost-for-plan-to-plant-one-billion-trees 657 comments 14/8/2018 worldnews
• Lavar Ball admits Lonzo is trying out for shoe deals; Still expects a billion dollars from one of the Big 3 http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/20075065/lavar-ball-says-lonzo-open-other-shoe-deals-price-right 82 comments 16/7/2017 nba
• A World Bank report says that stringent Israeli restrictions on the Palestinian telecommunications sector has caused the latter to lose more than one billion dollars over the past three years. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,l-4786780,00.html 21 comments 4/4/2016 worldnews
• On July 25th, someone placed a ONE BILLION dollar bet that our credit rating would drop. It's time for them to be identified. http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/economic-terrorism-take-two 3 comments 6/8/2011 politics
• Man loses over one billion dollars in fourteen months. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304602/high-rolling-gambler-lost-1billion-just-14-months-goes-takes-casino-high-court-claiming-took-advantage-addiction.html 13 comments 6/4/2013 worldnews
• "The Box" is supposed to be the next multi billion dollar tech IPO. Is it really worth those billions? This one seems to be from Hypeland ! http://amigobulls.com/articles/5-things-you-must-know-about-the-box-ipo 7 comments 25/9/2014 stocks
• Monsanto Awarded One Billion Dollars Due To Patent Infringement For A Product That Was Never On The Market http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120808/05265219961/monsanto-awarded-one-billion-dollars-due-to-patent-infringement-product-that-was-never-market.shtml 16 comments 9/8/2012 politics
• Monsanto Awarded ONE BILLION Dollars Due To Patent Infringement For A Product That Was Never On The Market http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120808/05265219961/monsanto-awarded-one-billion-dollars-due-to-patent-infringement-product-that-was-never-market.shtml 43 comments 8/8/2012 technology
• On January 24 a strange transaction will take place. At least $4.6 billion dollars will change hands between one or more firms and the FCC. http://www.mises.org/story/2815 8 comments 26/12/2007 politics
• 'A billion dollars for every member of Al Qaeda thought to be living in Afghanistan in one year. One allied death for each living Al Qaeda member in the country in just one month. Why are we in Afghanistan?' http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/04/fareed-zakaria-criticizes_n_635170.html 146 comments 5/7/2010 politics
• "Where are the Tea Partiers on this one? Apparently they have no problem with big government handing tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to rich Wall Street bankers. They only get upset when they think that some of their money might be used to provide poor people with health care." http://www.politico.com/arena/perm/dean_baker_ec04d23b-022b-4aed-bca4-c7c9f3830736.html 6 comments 28/2/2010 politics
• 'No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams billionaires for exploiting workers https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/aoc-accuses-billionaires-exploiting-workers-paying-slave-wages-2020-1-1028842799 8367 comments 24/1/2020 politics
• "...Either way the core developers are going to lose control of a 40 billion dollar network, possibly one of the biggest fails in modern technology..." https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6nwvr0/either_way_the_core_developers_are_going_to_lose/ 60 comments 17/7/2017 btc
• Toshiba's record-breaking shares drop wipes $6.5bn of company's value since the company announced that it was facing a one-time loss of several billion dollars over its US nuclear business. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/toshiba-share-drop-market-value-6-billion-japanese-technology-company-decline-a7499961.html 5 comments 29/12/2016 worldnews
• "...If a bank does something illegal and makes 10 billion dollars from it, and the SEC comes in and fines them $500 million for it, they still made $9.5 billion off of bad banking practices. If a kid steals a dozen cookies, taking one of those cookies away is not teaching him a lesson." https://fendingoffstupid.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/occupied-by-wall-street-fixing-perverse-incentives-in-the-financial-sector-2/ 106 comments 30/9/2011 politics
• Richard Shelby Deserves a Thrashing--And He's Getting One ... Shelby attempted one of the most noxious political stunts in modern American history. He essentially admitted the tactic had been a brazen attempt to coerce the White House into sending billions of dollars of earmarked funds to Alabama. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/12/836492/-richard-shelby-deserves-a-thrashingand-hes-getting-one 6 comments 12/2/2010 politics
• The Dodgers have spent over one billion dollars on two players in the 2023 offseason. For reference, this is more than an entire decade (2010-2019) of spending of the: Brewers ($912.5M), Dbacks ($912.5M), Padres ($803.5M), A's ($761.7M), Pirates ($738.2M), Marlins ($722.7M) and Rays ($671.2M). https://www.crainscleveland.com/kevin-kleps-blog/look-mlb-cash-spending-decade-shows-10-figure-gap-between-top-and-bottom-list 286 comments 22/12/2023 baseball
• Is Today Opposite Day? KB Homes CEO gets $6,000,000 bonus for 'Job Performance' after company loses almost ONE BILLION dollars and shares fall more than $12 http://www.arizonahousingbubble.com/2008/not-everyone-loses-in-a-housing-bubble-kb-home-chief-executive-jeffrey-t-mezgers-6000000-bonus-for-job-performance/ 3 comments 29/1/2008 reddit.com
• Abbott Cover-up Uncovered | "Greg Abbott issued formal ruling that helped the Enterprise Fund conceal improper payments of nearly one-quarter billion dollars. http://lonestarproject.net/abbott-cover-uncovered#ixzz3h1jtd 21 comments 24/10/2014 politics
• A Massive U.S. Drug Price-Fixing Probe Has Hit Major Roadblocks Authorities have called it one of the biggest cases of corporate collusion in history, costing patients billions of dollars. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-generic-drug-price-fixing/ 8 comments 30/7/2019 politics
• A Massive U.S. Drug Price-Fixing Probe Has Hit Major Roadblocks Authorities have called it one of the biggest cases of corporate collusion in history, costing patients billions of dollars. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-generic-drug-price-fixing/ 13 comments 30/7/2019 business
• Peter Thiel is one of the richest men on earth. He is worth Billions of dollars. He campaigned for Trump. He gave him money. He helped Trump become President. But just in case things go wrong in America, he bought New Zealand citizenship, a foreign passport, and built a bunker there http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/technology/peter-thiel-new-zealand-citizenship.html?_r=0 7 comments 29/12/2017 politics
• One out of every four dollars employers pay for health care is tied to unhealthy lifestyle choices or conditions like smoking, stress and obesity, despite the fact that most large employers have workplace wellness programs costing company health care plans billions of dollars http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151210140527.htm? 33 comments 11/12/2015 science
• "I wrote an article [for Forbes] critical of SeaWorld (a 2.5 billion dollar company partially owned by the Blackstone Group) and praiseworthy of ‘Blackfish'... After I posted, editors demanded changes that I could not, in good conscience, make. The article got pulled (after 77,000 hits in one day). http://james-mcwilliams.com/?p=4848 3 comments 4/1/2014 politics
• When reports emerged in 2019 that the CEO of Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange had died, it left over a quarter of a billion dollars of customers' funds in limbo. While authorities investigated, one online sleuth decided to dig deeper to find the money. https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/bitcoin-gerald-cotten-quadriga-cx-death 77 comments 2/6/2021 truereddit