President Donald Trump indicated he would not construct a Trump Tower in Greenland after he reportedly expressed interested in buying the autonomous Denmark island.

"I promise not to do this to Greenland," Trump tweeted in a caption of an image with a golden Trump Tower.

Read more: Trump wants to buy Greenland. Only one-third of Americans would be willing to offer more than $12 for the island.

The meme circulated on social media after numerous reports suggested he was interested in purchasing the land, which is inhabited by roughly 56,000 people. The land is also home to the US's Thule Air Base, which conducts surveillance of the northern polar region.

The president's son Eric Trump shared the meme of a golden Trump Tower on Monday.

Trump discussed his interest in the purchase, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. Trump described the possibility on Sunday as "strategically ... interesting," but added it was not on his list of priorities.

"It's just something we talking about," Trump told reporters. "Denmark essentially owns it. We're good allies with Denmark. We protected Denmark like we protect large portions of the world, so the concept came up."

"It's not No. 1 on the burner," Trump added.

Danish officials balked at the notion and described the idea as "absurd."

"Greenland is not for sale," Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said, according to Bloomberg. "By the way, Greenland is not Danish. Greenland is Greenlandic."

"It must be an April Fool's Day joke," former Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said in a tweet. "But totally out of [season]!"

There are all kinds of strange ways to light up a cigarette, from blowtorches to magnifying glasses. But few people on Earth have ever used as bizarre or overkill a method as devised by a Cold War physicist: the explosion of a nuclear bomb.

On Sunday, a thread from Reddit's popular "r/TodayILearned" community mentioned the story of how the theoretical physicist Ted Taylor used the blinding flash of an atomic explosion to light a cigarette in 1952.

Records of "atomic cigarette lighter" events aren't exactly robust, but it appears Taylor was the first to come up with the idea. That's according to the author Richard L. Miller, whose 1999 book "Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing" chronicled the event in detail.

Taylor apparently lit his cigarette during Operation Tumbler-Snapper, which was a series of test blasts orchestrated by the US military at the Nevada Test Site. The operation happened in the throes of the Korean War — a conflict in which President Harry S. Truman considered dropping the bomb (again).

Read more: Hundreds of never-before-seen nuclear blast videos show terrifying explosions in the ocean and Nevada desert

Government officials code-named the test explosion or shot in question "George" because it was the seventh in a series (and "G" is the seventh letter of the alphabet). Its purpose wasn't to light up a smoke, of course: Military researchers placed a roughly 3,000-pound nuclear-bomb design, known as the Mark 5, atop a 30o-foot-tall tower to try out a new blast-triggering technology, according to the Nuclear Weapons Archive.

The day before the test shot, Taylor apparently found a spare parabolic (cup-shaped) mirror, according to Miller's book, and set it up in the facility's control building ahead of time. Taylor knew exactly where to place the mirror so that it'd gather light from the test explosion, which would release gobs of thermal energy, and focus it on a particular spot.

Next, Taylor hung a Pall Mall cigarette on a wire so that its tip would float directly in front of the focused light beam. The arrangement wasn't too different in principle from holding out a magnifying glass to concentrate sunlight on a piece of paper and light it on fire.

On June 1, 1952, Taylor and other weapons experts huddled into the bunkerlike control building near Area 3 of the Yucca Flats weapons test basin in Nevada. Then they set off the bomb.

"In a second or so the concentrated, focused light from the weapon ignited the tip of the cigarette. He had made the world's first atomic cigarette lighter," Miller wrote of Taylor's setup.

Taylor's nuclear-age antics likely did not stop with him.

Martin Pfeiffer, an anthropologist who researches humanity's relationship with nuclear weapons (and who frequently forces the release of documents related to the bomb) tweeted that a 1955 Department of Defense film appears to show the concept in action.

About 19 minutes into the half-hour movie, titled "Operation Teapot Military Effects Studies," a narrator describes how parabolic mirrors were used to concentrate the light-based energy from nuclear explosions on samples of ceramics.

In the clip, a person's hand holds the tip of a cigarette in a beam of focused light, causing it to smoke and ignite:

Although this looks like another cigarette being lit by a nuclear weapon, that's unlikely.

There's no blinding flash — a telltale effect of a nuclear explosion — and the length of time the light beam stays on-screen is far too long as well. The person being filmed probably just held out his cigarette for the videographer so as to demonstrate the concept of a parabolic mirror focusing would-be bomb energy.

Still, it's not hard to imagine the story of Taylor's feat spreading among his colleagues over many years and hundreds of above-ground US nuclear test shots. A few others probably tried it themselves.

In any case, Pfeiffer isn't enamored by such stunts.

"Lighting a cigarette with a nuclear weapon ... is at least in part an effort of domestication of nuclear weapons through a performance articulating it to a most quotidian act of cigarette lighting," he tweeted. "It is a form of patting the bomb."

That is to say: The act risks trivializing nuclear weapons, which can and have inflicted mass death and destruction. The 1945 US nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, for example, led to approximately 150,000 casualties, and decades of suffering for many who survived the attacks.

Today, above-ground nuclear testing is mostly banned worldwide, since it can spread radioactive fallout, mess with electronics, be mistaken for an act of war, and more. But US-Russia relations have deteriorated to the point that each nation is racing to develop and test new nuclear armaments.

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, or CTBT, endeavors to ban nuclear explosions "by everyone, everywhere: on the Earth's surface, in the atmosphere, underwater, and underground." Russia has signed and ratified the treaty, but eight other nations have yet to complete both steps and bring it into effect.

The US signed on to the CTBT in 1996, but Congress has yet to ratify the nation's participation in the agreement. There are also nearly 15,000 nuclear weapons in existence today, which means the atomic-cigarette-lighter trick could, almost certainly for worse, be tried again.

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States including North Carolina, Mississippi, Texas and others have met with top Justice Department officials in Washington last month to discuss a multi-state effort to investigate big tech companies for anti-trust violations, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing unnamed sources.

The multi-state effort may be announced as soon as next month, the Journal reports, and would represent the third major government investigation underway into some of the largest American tech companies.

The states involved are run by Attorney's General who are members of both political parties, Democrats and Republicans. Their investigations into companies like Alphabet's Google and Facebook would likely be done in coordination with investigations by the U.S. Justice Department.

Representatives from about a dozen states attended the meetings. Enlisting the help of the states in a bipartisan probe could help GOP officials defend against accusations that federal investigations into tech companies are politically motivated.

Last month, The Department of Justice said it had launched a broad probe into top "online platforms" for search, social media, and e-commerce. It didn't name, names but the wording left no doubt that the subjects included Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple.

The Federal Trade Commission, which recently fined Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations, is carrying out an antitrust probe into Facebook. On Monday, FTC Chairman Joseph Simons, discussed the potential of breaking up Facebook's past acquisitions of companies like Instagram and WhatsApp, according to the Financial Times.

Simons told the FT that reversing those mergers could be more difficult because of Facebook's recent efforts to integrate the backend technology of the various products. But he noted that there might be "additional evidence" that Facebook used the acquisitions to "snuff out" competition.

Beyond investigations into big tech by the Trump Administration, Democratic candidates have also been calling for investigations and other regulation of big tech companies and new technologies. Elizabeth Warren has called for breaking up Amazon, Google, and Facebook. On Monday, Bernie Sanders also called for banning sales of facial recognition technology to law enforcement agencies.

A market-research firm working on behalf of Facebook is offering to pay journalists hundreds of dollars to privately share their thoughts about social media.

The market-research agency Luce Research has been emailing tech reporters and other "thought leaders" on behalf of the Silicon Valley tech giant and asking them to take part in interviews to discuss subjects such as security, content moderation, and "the integrity of information on social media" — and offering them $350 each in return.

Multiple Business Insider employees were contacted via email on Monday, including me, as well as at least one editor at The New York Times. In the email, Luce Research said it was reaching out to "key opinion formers in the US in order to capture the latest thinking on these issues."

Among the key topics the research firm said it was interested in discussing were:

The survey comes as Facebook's reputation has been badly bruised by a series of reports of privacy violations and the spread of misinformation on its platform. The outreach by Facebook shows how the company tries to stay acutely aware of public opinion about itself and some of the core issues affecting its business by engaging with influential figures in society. It also raises questions about the appropriateness of a company offering to pay cash to journalists who regularly report on it or edit news about it.

Several members of Business Insider's editorial team who are regularly involved in the news coverage of Facebook received a solicitation to participate in the survey. The New York Times editor Susan Fowler, who said on Twitter that she also received the email, edits opinion pieces relating to technology for the newspaper.

Luce Research said it would offer $350 in return for a 45 minute interview, "which can be donated to a charity, should you prefer."

In the email, it said: "We are working with the research consultancy firm, Republic, on an important research project for Facebook, exploring attitudes towards social media, the role that social media plays in today's society and the priorities that social media companies should be setting at the current time."

The Facebook spokesperson Bertie Thomson said Facebook didn't select any of the survey participants. "This is a long standing study seeking the point of view of a representative sample of thought leaders. This kind of survey is standard practice, as is payment or offering a charitable contribution for participants' time," she wrote in an emailed statement. "Facebook isn't involved in selecting the participants of this survey, precisely to avoid the kinds of issues you raise."

Other categories of "thought leaders" being surveyed include academics, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and advocacy organizations, she added.

Luce Research did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Here's the full email Business Insider received:

Dear Rob Price,

I am contacting you from Luce Research, a market research agency that specializes in recruiting participants for research projects and opinion former studies worldwide.

We are working with the research consultancy firm, Republic, on an important research project for Facebook, exploring attitudes towards social media, the role that social media plays in today's society and the priorities that social media companies should be setting at the current time. In particular, we are interested in discussing:

As part of this research we are speaking to key opinion formers in the US in order to capture the latest thinking on these issues and, to this end, were very much hoping that you would consider taking part.

Facebook is enthusiastic to hear your thoughts and recommendations on these issues and have asked Republic to conduct this research in order to allow you to be completely open and honest in your feedback. The interview would last around 45 minutes and would be conducted over the telephone by a researcher from Republic or Luce at a time to suit you. As a gesture of thanks for your time and input we are offering $350, which can be donated to a charity, should you prefer.

Please note that the research is being conducted in strict accordance with the Market Research Society's code of conduct and the Data Protection Act, and all responses are therefore anonymous, confidential and non-attributable.

By agreeing to take part in this project and accepting compensation, you confirm that there are no professional or other restrictions on your participation in this research.

This is an exciting piece of research and we would be delighted to hear from you.

If you would like to participate and/or have questions about the research, please reply to this email or to [redacted] at [redacted] or by phone at [redacted].

Best wishes, and thanks in advance,

Todd Luce President, Luce Research

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We got a closer look on Monday at Apple's upcoming show "The Morning Show," and eagle-eyed viewers have noticed something familiar about the show's logo: It's very similar to that of The Boring Co., Tesla CEO Elon Musk's tunneling and construction business.

Both logos feature a similar font, solid colors, and a filled-in letter "O." The Apple logo also stacks and positions its three words — "The Morning Show" — the same way as "The Boring Company."

Read more: Apple just dropped another trailer for its new show with Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carell, and it's much more revealing than the first teaser.

The Verge wrote about the similarities between the two logos on Monday, but the Twitter user Brent, who describes himself on Twitter as a product designer based in New York, noticed the similarity a week ago, when Apple dropped its teaser trailer for the "The Morning Show" on August 12.

The Twitter user Jason Combs, a designer based in Atlanta, also drew the comparison later on August 12.

The Boring Co. declined to comment on the similar logos, and Apple did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

"The Morning Show" will debut exclusively on the Apple TV Plus streaming service this fall. The show is about a morning broadcast-news show set in the #MeToo era. The trailer shows a news anchor (Jennifer Aniston) announcing the departure of her former cohost (Steve Carell) amid "allegations," although it's not immediately clear what those allegations are. In the wake of Carell's character's departure, a newcomer anchor (Reese Witherspoon) is positioned to rise through the ranks.

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As Apple drifts away from its reliance on the iPhone to drive revenue, the smartphone maker's wearables operation looks to be stepping up to the plate. 

The company's wearables business is now the size of a Fortune 200 company on a trailing 12-month basis, according to a new UBS analysis. The segment accounted for more than $5.5 billion of Apple's $53 billion in net sales during the third quarter of 2019, growing 50% from the same period last year. 

Apple has also made significant push into services to diversify its business. Apple Music has continued to gain ground on music-streaming competitor Spotify, while Apple TV Plus — a Netflix-like streaming platform — and Apple Arcade — a subscription-based gaming service — are scheduled to launch in the fall. 

According to UBS, Apple's wearables segment contributed more material growth in the third quarter than its services business for the first time in company history. 

Apple executives touted "phenomenal demand" for AirPods in the third quarter, and UBS's analysts predict the product alone could generate $10 billion in revenue by 2021, close to double the sales the entire wearables segment posted last quarter.

The firm also predicts the Apple Watch will generate $20 billion in sales by 2021, which combined with the predicted $10 billion in AirPod sales, the total is roughly the revenue equivalent of selling 40 million additional iPhones, UBS said. 

UBS has a Buy rating on Apple with a $235 price target. 

Apple is up 33.9% year-to-date. 

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True wireless headphones are becoming increasingly popular, but the best models are often a little pricey. One of the best pairs you can buy is the Bose SoundSport Free earbuds, which typically cost $200, but for a limited time, the headphones are on sale for $179. The $20 discount makes these truly wireless earbuds a great choice.

The SoundSport Free true wireless headphones are built for sports, and as such, the earbuds have wings to help keep them tucked firmly in your ears. That said, the SoundSport Free are perfectly good options for day-to-day use too, so if you're looking for headphones for your commute or to use around the house, then these earbuds should do the job perfectly well.

Perhaps the best thing about the Bose SoundSport Free is their sound. In classic Bose fashion, these earbuds sound great. They offer a good degree of bass, a slightly scooped mid-range, and plenty of clarity and detail in the high-end. Sure, the earbuds probably aren't the best for audiophiles who want hi-fidelity sound, but for everyone else, they're a great option.

The headphones offer five hours of battery life on a single charge, which is pretty impressive for true wireless headphones. Many true wireless headphones come in at as little as three hours, which isn't great, but these Bose earbuds step things up. The SoundSport Free also have an IPX4 water-resistant rating so they won't get ruined by a little rain or sweat.

We don't know how long the deal will run, so if you're interested in a pair of Bose SoundSport Free earbuds, you'll want to act quickly.

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Esports is a burgeoning industry, and only a handful of people can truly call themselves veterans in the world of professional gaming.

Jonathan "Loda" Berg is the CEO of Alliance, a Swedish esports team sponsored by major companies like Twitch, Monster, and Razer. But before he was an executive, Loda was considered one of the world's best "Dota 2" players. In 2013, the same year Alliance was founded, Loda led the team to victory at The International, the annual "Dota 2" championship hosted by Valve Software, the game's developer.

Now six years later, Alliance has new roster of young players to competing for a $33 million prize pool at The International, with Loda as the coach. The tournament's prize pool is more than 10 times larger than it was when Loda won, and it's being hosted in Shanghai, China for the first time this year. The winning team will walk away with $15 million, but Alliance's progress in the tournament so far means it'll leave with at least $501,545 in prize money.

Read more: A $33 million esports tournament is now underway, and the prize pool could keep growing. Here's everything you need to know about 'The International'

Alliance has also added new players to compete in games like "Fortnite," "Super Smash Bros. Melee," "League of Legends," and "Call of Duty." Alliance general manager Kelly "kellymilkies" Ong has more than 10 years of experience in competitive gaming and helps manage logistics, social media, and other day-to-day matters for the rapidly-expanding team.

Business Insider spoke with Loda and Ong about what it takes to build and support an esports team, how professional gamers can transition to new jobs when their careers end, and what it takes to win on the biggest stage in competitive gaming.

Uber Eats is great for getting food from dozens of restaurants delivered right to your location, but there are plenty of reasons to cut ties with the service, too, the main one being that you're spending too much money.

The tricky thing about deleting your Uber Eats account is that you have to delete your primary Uber account as well. You can restore the account within 30 days and not lose your past credits and ride history, but after this 30-day deactivation period, the account is deleted permanently.

You might want to consider just not using Uber Eats anymore, perhaps by deleting the standalone Uber Eats app off your iPhone or Android phone, but keeping the main Uber app.

But if that's not good enough for you, here's how to delete your Uber account, including Uber Eats.

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How to delete your Uber Eats account in the app

1. Open the app and tap the three bars in the top-left, then tap Settings in the menu that pops up.

2. Scroll down and tap Privacy, then tap "Delete Your Account."

Tap the "Delete Your Account" tab. Steven John/Business Insider

3. Enter your password when prompted, then follow the steps to delete your account.

How to delete your Uber Eats account on a computer

1. Navigate to this Uber account deletion page.

2. Enter your email or mobile when prompted, then enter your password.

Sign into your Uber account to delete it. Steven John/Business Insider

3. Follow the prompts to continue with account deletion.

And remember, you have 30 days to undo the deactivation before your account is fully deleted.

To undo deleting your Uber account, just launch the app on your phone and start using it as normal — as soon as you use it again, your account will be reactivated.

"Aquaman" actor Jason Momoa is giving the "Release the Snyder Cut" campaign a big boost.

Momoa posted a video to Instagram on Monday praising "Justice League" director Zack Snyder and revealing that he had seen Snyder's elusive director's cut of the DC Comics team-up movie, which has been the subject of a passionate movement for the studio Warner Bros. to release it.

"Well let's be honest if it wasn't for this man we wouldn't have Aquaman I love u Zachary synder," Momoa wrote in the video's caption. "Mahalo for showing me the synder cut."

Warner Bros. and DC did not respond to a request for comment.

"I wouldn't be here today, in my career, if it wasn't for him, because he made Aquaman," Momoa said in the video, Snyder by his side.

Snyder left "Justice League" late into production after a family tragedy, and "Avengers" director Joss Whedon stepped in for extensive reshoots. Fans of Snyder and his previous DC Extended Universe movies, "Man of Steel" and "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," have advocated in various ways for Snyder's original vision to be released.

After Warner Bros. announced that Ann Sarnoff would be its new CEO, fans quickly pleaded on Twitter for her to take action. "Snyder Cut" enthusiasts are also planning a letter-writing campaign directed at Sarnoff.

Fans bombarded San Diego Comic-Con in July with "Release the Snyder Cut" advertisements. They raised over $26,000 through GoFundMe in order to do so, half of which will go to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. They're planning the same for next month's New York Comic-Con.

"Justice League" was a major misfire, receiving a 40% on Rotten Tomatoes and underperforming at the box office. Warner Bros.' DC Comics movies have rebounded since then, though, with "Aquaman" (which made over $1 billion worldwide) and "Shazam!," which was a critical hit. The next release, "Joker," is projected to be a box-office success, as well.

As we previously reported, WeWork founder Adam Neumann has not only locked up tight control of the company, now known as We, but he has also found myriad ways of extracting millions of dollars from it in stock, cash, loans, and other assets.

One of the most jaw-dropping transactions revealed in the company's S-1 paperwork filed last week is this: His company paid him millions to own its own name.

More specifically, in July, just before sharing its financials to the public as part of its initial-public-offering process, the company reorganized into what it calls an "UP-C" structure, which renamed the company "We."

When that happened, the newly named We paid Neumann's private company, called We Holdings LLC, $5.9 million worth of "partnership interests" to acquire the trademark of "We." The S-1 says the value of this trademark was "determined pursuant to a third-party appraisal."

However, the S-1 doesn't say why the board thought that Neumann's other company owned the trademark in the first place. After all, the name of his private company, We Holdings, was derived from the name of the original company, WeWork. And it's not an unrelated entity.

We Holdings acts as a holding company for the class B shares owned by Neumann and his cofounder, Miguel McKelvey.

Read more: Here's who gets rich if WeWork has a successful IPO

Those class B shares carry 20 votes per share over the main company, We. That's a high number of votes, even by Silicon Valley standards, where "super-voting" shares are typically 10 votes per share.

In Neumann's case, his shares have 20 times the voting power over all others. And it's worth pointing out that Neumann controls all the votes attached to virtually all the class B shares, even if he doesn't actually own the shares themselves, the S-1 says in various footnotes.

He also controls all the votes attached to the 20-votes-per-share class C shares, whether or not he owns those shares directly. They are controlled by another related company in this UP-C structure called "We Company Partnership," which, interestingly, also uses "We" in its name.

So it's not an exaggeration to say that a company controlled by Neumann paid another company controlled by Neumann $5.9 million to use the word "We," which is used by both of them and by others in their family of related companies.

New York University professor Scott Galloway wrote about this $5.9 million transaction in his analysis of the company, which he called "WeWTF." In it, he advised straight out: "Don't buy this stock."

Galloway wrote, "Adam also owned the rights to the 'We' trademark, which the firm decided they must own and paid the founder/CEO $5.9 million for the rights. The rights to a name nearly identical to the name of the firm where he's the founder/CEO and largest shareholder. YOU. CAN'T. MAKE. THIS. S---. UP."

We, the company, declined comment.

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One of the biggest independent game studios in the world, Insomniac Games, is being purchased by Sony. Going forward, all of Insomniac's games will presumably be locked to Sony's PlayStation game consoles.

The studio is most well-known in recent years for the excellent 2018 game "Marvel's Spider-Man," which was exclusive to Sony's PlayStation 4 console. But Insomniac is also responsible for the long-running "Ratchet & Clank" games, as well as the "Resistance" first-person shooter franchise.

The deal price was not disclosed in the acquisition announcement.

The "Ratchet & Clank" series is one of the oldest PlayStation franchises. Insomniac Games

"We have enjoyed a strong collaborative partnership with the studio for many years, and are thrilled to officially welcome them to the Worldwide Studios family, " PlayStation leader Shawn Layden said in the announcement release. "The addition of Insomniac Games to Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios reiterates our commitment to developing world class gaming experiences that can only be found on the PlayStation platform."

It's unclear what will happen to the one Xbox-exclusive game made by Insomniac, "Sunset Overdrive."

Insomniac founder and leader Ted Price took to the company's blog to reassure longtime fans.

"We're excited to put Insomniac in the best position to deliver fresh experiences for our fans for many years to come," Price said. "Our structure and approach will remain intact across both Burbank and Durham, NC studios, and we will continue to cultivate our unique culture."

Insomniac's next project has yet to be announced, but the studio is expected to be working on a sequel to 2018's "Spider-Man."

The former TikTok executive Stefan Heinrich Henriquez will be leading the international expansion of Cameo, the personalized-video-shoutout app.

Cameo, which was valued at $300 million in its latest funding round in July, sells video shoutouts from famous personalities, including Snoop Dogg, NFL running back James White, and Cody Ko, a YouTube influencer with 3 million YouTube subscribers.

An average Cameo is priced around $62, and the talent set their own prices for the messages they sell and keep 75% of the revenue. The app generates an average 10,000 cameos a week, the company said.

Henriquez will lead Cameo's marketing and growth abroad as the chief marketing officer and general manager of international. This is the first major hire the Cameo management team has made since it raised $50 million in series B funding last month (bringing it to a total of $65.2 million in funding).

This role follows Henriquez's previous position as head of global marketing at TikTok, the short-form-video app that has surged in popularity, especially among teens and Generation Z.

Cameo CEO Steven Galanis told Business Insider that Henriquez's international experience at TikTok was what drew Galanis to him.

"Having first launched TikTok in Latin America, when they were still called Musical.ly, and being a huge part of the rebrand from Musical.ly to TikTok, really made him a perfect fit for what we were doing," Galanis said.

Cameo recently launched in-app booking, and since then, users have paid for cameos in 11 different currencies, Galanis said. He also spoke about his goal to bring popular global talent, like Bollywood actors, K-Pop stars, and athletes, to the app.

"We expect the Cameo talent base to look like the world's population," he said. "In scale, we hope that our US business is dwarfed by our global business."

Focusing on global talent rather than adding, let's say, every American comedian, will also help Cameo fend off copycats around the world, he said.

"There needs to be one Cameo and that should be ours," Galanis said.

Robert De Niro's Canal Productions filed a $6 million lawsuit against former employee Chase Robinson on Saturday, accusing her of embezzling money and binge-watching Netflix while on the job.

According to the suit, detailed in a story by Variety on Monday, Robinson started as an assistant for the Oscar-winning actor in 2008 and was later promoted to VP of production and finance at the company. She left the company in April, according to the suit.

The suit alleged that Robinson spent an "astronomical amounts of time" watching Netflix while at work. The complaint alleged that over a four-day period in January she watched 55 episodes of "Friends" and that over a four-day period in March she watched 20 episodes of "Arrested Development" and 10 episodes of "Schitt's Creek."

Read more: "It: Chapter Two" and "Joker" will give Warner Bros. a boost at the box office after a terrible summer

The suit also alleged that she charged the company huge hotel and restaurant bills, including $12,696.65 in unauthorized charges at the swanky New York eatery Paola's Restaurant over a two-year period; $8,923.20 at Dean & DeLuca and Whole Foods; as well as $32,000 for Ubers and taxis.

According to the suit, Robinson allegedly even used millions of De Niro's frequent flyer miles for personal trips.

Following her resignation in April, Robinson allegedly drafted a recommendation letter for herself, which De Niro refused to sign, according to the suit.

Business Insider sent a message to Robinson seeking comment but hasn't gotten a response.