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  • Slack’s Troubles Mount: SEC Launches Investigation

    Slack’s Troubles Mount: SEC Launches Investigation

    Slack has not had a good week. On the heels of a CNBC report that Microsoft Teams is maintaining its lead over the messaging service, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is reporting that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has opened an investigation into Slack, among others.

    According to the WSJ, “the SEC is probing IPOs over the past several years of other so-called unicorns, companies known for achieving high valuations while private.”

    The SEC’s staff evidently sent letters to Citadel Securities LLC to inquire about “how it opened Slack’s stock for trading on June 20 in the workplace-messaging app’s so-called direct listing.”

    As the WSJ points out, there is no indication what type of wrongdoing the SEC is looking for, or who may be the specific target of the investigation. Nonetheless, an SEC investigation is the last thing any company wants.

  • Kim Jong-Un Stars in ‘Glorious Leader!’ Video Game

    Independent video game developer Moneyhorse has announced a title for PC and mobile called Glorious Leader!, which stars North Korea’s Great Successor Kim Jong-un as the main playable character.

    Players can guide the rotund despot through seven levels in the old-school shoot-’em-up, in scenarios that describe Kim Jong-un life-facts generated by the propaganda machine of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

    These faithfully reproduced side-scrolling facts include the time when the Dear Leader thwarted the United States when it attacked his homeland with an aircraft carrier and the Statue of Liberty.

    Other playable trials (the game recalls Konami’s classic Contra series) include the the time when Kim Jong-un was involved in the epic unicorn battle of North Hamgyong, where the puppet dictator vanquished 10,000 invading imperialists and destroyed 200 drones. Here the plump leader rides his faithful flaming unicorn:

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    Here is a shot of the aforementioned Statue of Liberty invasion scenario:

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    Here is the Glorious Leader! teaser trailer, which features NBA Hall of Famer and Kim Jong-un BFF Dennis Rodman:

    Rodman, seen below singing happy birthday to Jong-un during a bizarre basketball exhibition in North Korea in January, reportedly entered alcohol rehab soon after returning to the U.S.

    Kim Jong-un has held the titles of the First Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, First Chairman of the National Defense Commission of North Korea, the Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army and presidium member of the Politburo of the Workers’ Party of Korea. He was officially declared the Supreme Leader following the state funeral for his father Kim Jong-il on December 28, 2011.

    Here the people of North Korea cry hysterically over the passing of Kim Jong-il:

    Moneyhorse hasn’t set a release date, and the CEO of that company commented that his team has tried to “carefully walk the line of satire without being an apologist for the (North Korean) regime.”

    Images via YouTube