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With A $250 Million Ask, A Storied Bel-Air Estate Becomes America’s Priciest Home
The roughly 8.5-acre Casa Encantada in Bel-Air has twice set a record as the most expensive private home ever sold in the U.S., first in 1980 and then again in 2000.
Gary Winnick Featured at February Wall Street Conference in Miami Beach, Florida
Winnick built and owned the first privately-operated undersea cable in the world and then went on to build and expand a 130,000-mile IP-based fiber optic global network.
WCO Spectrum Appoints Former FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth as Vice Chairman
From 1997 through 2001, Mr. Furchtgott-Roth served as a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission.
WCO Spectrum Appoints Susan Wegleitner as Chief Financial Officer
Susan Wegleitner is the newly appointed Chief Financial Officer of WCO Spectrum. WCO Spectrum is a portfolio company of Winnick & Company where Ms. Wegleitner will also serve as a Managing Director.
The “Creator Economy” is the Future of the Economy
The economic, social, and professional ecosystem that creators work in includes such digital platforms as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, LinkedIn, Substack, and Patreon.
Putin Knows That Undersea Cables Are the West’s Achilles Heel
Late last month, the undersea cable that supplies internet to the Shetland Islands was cut in two places. Moscow has invested in subsurface naval capabilities that hold the world’s internet infrastructure at risk.
MoMA to Stage Major Ed Ruscha Retrospective
Works by the American artist are among the most iconic pieces in MoMA’s collection, yet he has never been the focus of a solo show there.
Stem Cell Gene Therapy from Cedars-Sinai Team Shows Promise in ALS Safety Trial
Combined stem cell and gene therapy may one day protect diseased motor neurons in the spinal cord of human patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a fatal neurological disorder known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Who Gets to Work in the Digital Economy?
Remote work has become commonplace since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the focus on daily remote work arrangements may miss a larger opportunity that the pandemic has unearthed: the possibility of a substantially increased labor pool for digital economy work.
Gary Winnick Takes Aim at Spectrum Licenses
The time has come for spectrum licenses to sit alongside real estate, bonds and insurance as a distinct class of financial assets.
WCO’s Winnick Takes Huge Swing at T-Mobile: ‘You Should Be Ashamed’
At issue are the terms of T-Mobile’s 2.5GHz spectrum leases with schools, universities and other educational institutions, which the operator has been working to keep out of the public eye.
Top Ten Secrets of New York City’s Museum of Modern Art
This powerhouse art institution was the city’s first museum focused exclusively on modern art. Inside its hallowed halls, it houses masterpieces by some of the greatest artists to ever live, including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent Van Gogh.
In Oklahoma, T-Mobile Suddenly Faces a New 5G Spectrum Landlord
The FCC this week began reviewing the transfer of a 2.5GHz spectrum license to WCO from the Owasso public school district, one of the largest school districts in the state of Oklahoma.
L.A. Zoo Welcomes Baby Giraffe
Masai baby giraffe makes debut at L.A. Zoo. The calf weighs in at 172 pounds and stands at six foot, seven inches, which makes this calf the tallest giraffe calf in the history of the Los Angeles Zoo.
“I’ll Have What She’s Having – The Jewish Deli” Exhibit Opens at the Skirball
The Jewish deli forged an entirely new, quintessentially American cuisine by combining Central and Eastern European dishes with ingredients abundantly available in the United States. The exhibition also traces the larger arc of the Jewish experience in the US during the twentieth century.