Which company’s stock value shot up by more than $10 billion because of amateur investors?
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Thanks to a Reddit battle between short-sellers and other traders, GameStop shares became a “Memestock” and the stuff of legend for a few weeks in January.
Which company saw 1,400 workers go on strike for 11 weeks in 2021?
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The striking Kellogg’s employees and the company agreed to a new deal, which includes cost-of-living increases and a guarantee of no plant closures.
Which social media company got its first new CEO since it was founded?
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Jack Dorsey was replaced by Twitter’s Chief technology officer Parag Agrawal, who has been with the company for 10 years.
Record numbers of Americans voluntarily left their jobs in 2021, a phenomenon that economists gave what label?
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The great resignation came in response to wage stagnation, a rising cost of living and stresses that came with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Which tech stock made the biggest percentage gain in 2021, lifting its total market cap near the $2 trillion mark?
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Alphabet, better known as Google, saw its share price rise by more than 65 percent in 2021. It ended the year trading at $2,897.04 per share.
Facebook changed the name of its parent company to what short word?
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After 17 years, Facebook’s parent company was rebranded as Meta in order to closer tie the social media giant with the virtual “metaverse.”
Which American spaceflight company sent a person into space on his own rocket for the first time in history?
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A supersonic space plane developed by Richard Branson’s company, Virgin Galactic, sent him and five other crew members into space — beating Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk to the punch.
2021’s top-performing IPO was Digital World Acquisition Corp., a “blank check” enterprise that made news for entering into a merger deal with whose media company?
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The company was set up to enable Trump Media & Technology Group to do business on the stock exchange. Its stock price ended the year up 41 percent since its September IPO.
Which airline company completed the first-ever commercial passenger flight using 100 percent renewable fuel?
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United Airlines’ CEO, who was aboard the flight, described it as “a significant milestone for efforts to decarbonize our industry.”
Which Silicon Valley CEO was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year”?
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Musk’s net worth briefly crossed $300 billion in 2021, but he told Time that Russian President Vladimir Putin was probably wealthier: “I can’t invade countries and stuff.”
