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Israel-Iran Conflict Drives Oil Prices, Meta Monetizes WhatsApp, & Tron’s IPO Grift

25 min • 17 juni 2025

Ed takes a look at how oil prices reacted to the conflict between Israel and Iran, why Meta is bringing ads to WhatsApp, and how crypto platform Tron plans to go public via reverse merger.

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