Eric Lipton

1 day ago | seattletimes.com | Eric Lipton |David Yaffe-Bellany

A struggling technology company that has ties to China and relies on TikTok made an unusual announcement this week. It had secured funding to buy as much as $300 million of $TRUMP, the so-called meme coin marketed by President Donald Trump. GD Culture Group, a publicly traded firm with a Chinese subsidiary, has only eight employees, its public filings show, and recorded zero revenue last year from an e-commerce business it operates on TikTok, a Chinese-owned video-sharing app.

1 day ago | flipboard.com | David Yaffe-Bellany |Eric Lipton

NowCNN — For months, President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that egg prices are tumbling. It wasn’t true then, but it’s true now. Egg prices fell 12.7% last month, the biggest monthly decline since 1984, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. And they could continue to fall this month, …

2 days ago | businessandamerica.com | Eric Lipton |Dylan Freedman |David Yaffe-Bellany

President Trump and his business partners promoted it as the world’s most “EXCLUSIVE INVITATION” — a dinner with the president of the United States for the cryptocurrency investors who bought the most of his family’s memecoin, called $TRUMP. But as the unusual contest came to a close on Monday, at least 17 of the 220 winning bidders had figured out a way to effectively outsmart the sponsors of the contest.

2 days ago | nytimes.com | Eric Lipton |David Yaffe-Bellany

When the bidding stops Monday, the top buyers of a Trump family crypto coin will win a tour of the White House. Credit... Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times When the bidding stops Monday, the top buyers of a Trump family crypto coin will win a tour of the White House. Credit... Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times The sale of face-to-face access to President Trump using the Trump family's own cryptocurrency has done more than benefit him financially, though it has certainly done that.

6 days ago | afr.com | Eric Lipton |David Yaffe-Bellany |Ben Protess

Eric Lipton, David Yaffe-Bellany and Ben ProtessMay 9, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The pitch from “ZMoney” arrived on the encrypted messaging app Signal just days before Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration.