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Oct 6, 2018 10 tweets 7 min read
THREAD ⬇ It's the end of an era for the world's most famous fish marketplace as Tokyo’s Tsukiji market is leaving the location it’s occupied for 83 years.

Tictoc takes a look some of its historic moments MORE: The world's oldest and biggest fish market, Tsukiji literally translates as “constructed land.” In 1923 the Great Kanto Earthquake destroyed much of central Tokyo, along with the Nihonbashi fish market. In 1935 the market was relocated to its current site near Ginza
Sep 29, 2018 15 tweets 8 min read
A powerful series of earthquakes triggered a tsunami that swept away homes and halted airport operations in the cities of Palu and Donggala in Indonesia UPDATE: At least 48 dead, hundreds injured in earthquake and tsunami-struck Palu, Indonesia, according to the national disaster agency, reports AFP
Sep 11, 2018 11 tweets 4 min read
This is the secret drug pricing system middlemen use to rake in millions bloom.bg/2CHtdw8 For example, lets say a drugstore buys a hypothetical bottle of pills for $6
Sep 7, 2018 13 tweets 4 min read
These are all of the conflicts and investigations in Trump's troubled administration bloom.bg/2wPYgQl President Trump's family, White House appointees, and associates are entangled in an increasing number of legal and ethical conflicts threatening the administration
Aug 30, 2018 15 tweets 8 min read
EXCLUSIVE: Bloomberg sat down with Trump for an interview. Here's what he had to say bloom.bg/2opfkZP Trump told Bloomberg he would pull out of the World Trade Organization if it doesn't treat the U.S. better bloom.bg/2PmDrng
Aug 7, 2018 13 tweets 8 min read
Manafort’s former right-hand man Rick Gates is once again testifying about how helped his boss conceal millions of dollars and defraud banks that provided loans bloom.bg/2OTJsIO Gates began his testimony Monday with an account of how he spent a decade with Manafort in Ukraine, where he said they were paid by wealthy businessmen there. They wired money into Cyprus accounts, and Gates helped Manafort move it to the U.S., he said bloom.bg/2OTJsIO
Jul 13, 2018 9 tweets 5 min read
Your $1,000 iPhone may be a bargain bloom.bg/2L7ON00 Telephones
Price in 1984: $3,995
Adjusted for inflation: $9,864

Motorola's DynaTAC 8000X was 13 inches long (with antenna), weighed 28 ounces and provided 30 minutes of talk time with each charge when it went on sale. The DynaTAC was a status symbol bloom.bg/2L7ON00
Mar 29, 2018 9 tweets 5 min read
THREAD⬇️ After Britain voted for Brexit, big banks made plans to relocate thousands of their U.K.-based jobs to new hubs inside the EU. We tracked the jobs the banks say they plan to move bloom.bg/2GA7J5j #tictocnews UBS could be moving 1,500 of it’s 5000 UK-based jobs to Frankfurt, Madrid, and likely elsewhere bloom.bg/2GA7J5j