Why Adobe Wants Figma and Why Some Investors Are Worried

Sept. 18, 2022 10:00 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Adobe the low-key maker of digital tools to create PDFs and edit photos, pleased investors by reinventing itself as a subscription-software bus...

Magna Token Management Raises $15M in Seed Funding Led by Tiger Global and Tusk Venture Partners

Several investors have contributed to a $15 million seed funding round for Magna as the company helps to automate token issuance. Token management platform Magna has successfully completed a $15.2 mil...

What is Maincard? A Web3 Fantasy Sports Management Platform

Maincard is a blockchain project focused on offering Fantasy Sports enthusiasts a new way to interact with their favorite sports. By bringing cryptocurrencies and NFTs to the table, not only will Main...

Token management platform Magna closes $15 million funding round

Token management platform Magna raised $15.2 million at a $70 million evaluation. The funding round was led by venture capital firms Tiger Global and Tusk Ventures, CoinDesk first reported. Shima Capi...

PayPal’s New CFO Takes Leave of Absence

Text size PayPal is in the midst of a turnaround after the company was forced to retreat from some of its more ambitious growth goals earlier this year. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images PayPal ’s new chie...

Verizon is ‘not going to throw away money’ to woo consumers with cheaper phones, CEO says

In a competitive market for wireless deals, Verizon Communications Inc.’s chief executive says the company is “not going to throw away money” on promotions. The company recently rolled out its deals f...

Ares Management CEO Michael Arougheti breaks down where to find yield in a world of uncertainty

(Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) Inflation, a hawkish Fed, fears of a recession have all made 2022 a tough environment for investing.  A traditional portfolio of stocks an...

I have $950,000 invested with a large financial firm, but they are charging me $1,100 a month in management fees. Is this reasonable?

Is your financial planner charging you too much? Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I am currently a customer with a large bank and have about $950,000 invested in the markets through them. I am being...

PayPal is ‘clearly now at a turning point,’ its CEO says

“It’s an uncertain macroeconomic environment, but I think we finally got the guidance right, and we’re executing against that.” — PayPal CEO Dan Schulman Pandemic darling PayPal Holdings Inc. PYPL, -2...

AT&T CEO says Wall Street critics are wrong about the company’s promotions

““We are actually gaining customers in a lot of different places and a lot of different ways, and there isn’t any single answer to it.  And I know folks want to continue to go back and say, well, it’s...

Western Digital CEO Warns Of Sharp Decline In NAND Memory Business

Text size Western Digital CEO David Goeckeler said the company has seen a sharp erosion in pricing for NAND flash memory based storage over the last month. Dreamstime Western Digital has seen business...

Crypto Assets Conference 2022 (CAC22B) | October 18 to October 19, 2022 | Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Organized by the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center, the seventh Crypto Assets Conference (CAC) will take place from October 18 to October 19, 2022.  The world of digital assets is changing rapidly. C...

Metcalf’s Law Does Not Apply To Supply Chain Management

Man using mobile smart phone with global network connection, Technology, innovative and … [+] communication concept. getty Metcalfe’s law states that the value of a network is proportional...

Shopify Announces Changes in Top Leadership

Text size The company announced a 10% cut to its workforce in July. Dreamstime Shopify announced a new chief financial officer and chief operating officer on Thursday, a little less than two months af...

Digital Asset Management Market Speculated to Generate $9.32B in Revenue by 2028

The digital asset management (DAM) market is expected to generate revenue worth $9.32 billion by 2028 based on soaring demand, according to a report by SkyQuest Technology Consulting. With a market va...

Snap stock extends rally as CEO calls out ‘enormous’ opportunity

Snap Inc.’s stock was powering toward another session of strong gains Thursday in the wake of Chief Executive Evan Spiegel’s presentation at a conference as well as some upbeat analyst commentary abou...

Smith & Wesson’s sales plunge to lowest level in 13 years, stock falls toward 2-year low

Smith & Wesson Brands Inc. reported its lowest quarterly sales total in more than 13 years Thursday, sending shares down more than 10% in after-hours trading. Smith & Wesson SWBI, -1.03% repor...

China Central Bank Releases Digital CNY Smart Contract Prepaid Fund Management Product

According to the China Financial Association, the Digital Currency Research Institute of the People’s Bank of China has launched a digital renminbi smart contract prepaid fund management product...

X-METAVERSE PRO Launches One-Stop DeFi Asset Management Platform

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp The DeFi pace is more promising now than ever, with retail and corporate investors flocking to it. Having hit a new high total value locked (TVL) of ...

Asana Stock Spikes on Forecast Boost and Share Sale to CEO

Text size Chief Executive Dustin Moskovitz purchased $350 million Asana shares in a private placement. (Photo courtesy of Asana) Shares of Asana rose sharply Thursday after the work-management platfor...

Snap CEO Sees Challenges in Executing Turnaround Drive

Sept. 8, 2022 12:14 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Snap Chief Executive Evan Spiegel said he’s bracing for a challenging turnaround period as the company tries to revamp itself and rekindle sales...

Asana stock rallies more than 10% after beat-and-raise quarter

Asana Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Wednesday after the collaboration-software company raised its outlook for the year, following results that topped Wall Street expectations, and disclo...

Elizabeth Holmes wants a new trial, citing regrets from key witness against her

SAN FRANCISCO — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes requested a new trial Tuesday, asserting in a court filing that a key witness for the prosecution now regrets the role he played in her convicti...

Bed Bath & Beyond CFO who leapt to his death from New York skyscraper faced ‘pump and dump’ allegation just days earlier

Gustavo Arnal, the CFO of Bed Bath & Beyond who leapt to his death from a Manhattan skyscraper last week, had faced a “pump and dump” allegation less than two weeks earlier. On Friday Arnal fell t...

Who is the new Starbucks CEO? He has ‘deep’ knowledge of the consumer but lacks restaurant experience.

Investors didn’t appear to be too excited with Starbucks Corp.’s choice for its new chief executive officer, Laxam Narasimhan, but BTIG analyst Peter Saleh said they shouldn’t be surprised that he’s n...

Wells Fargo Fined $22 Million for Alleged Whistleblower Retaliation

Wells Fargo & Co. was fined more than $22 million by the U.S. Labor Department for allegedly firing a senior manager in its commercial banking unit after the employee reported concerns about misco...

New CEO of Starbucks — a ‘world-class leader,’ says Howard Schultz — will do a stint as barista

Starbucks Corp.’s soon-to-be chief executive is a “world-class leader” with deep knowledge of consumer-product companies and will spend time as a barista to get to know the company, the coffee chain’s...

Asset Management Giant BlackRock to Use Kraken Subsidiary For Crypto Product

“The launch of BlackRock’s bitcoin fund is a sign of how far crypto has matured as an asset-class,” CF Benchmark CEO Sui Chung told CoinDesk. “As the provider of the robust high integrity benchmarks t...

ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance Buys Freeport-McMoRan Stock

Text size Ryan Lance, chairman and CEO of ConocoPhillips. Aaron M. Sprecher/Bloomberg Freeport-McMoRan stock has slid this year, and director Ryan Lance has bought a large block of shares of the coppe...

Latest in Crypto Hiring: Crypto Firm Taps TradFi Vets For Asset Management Business

Law firm Brown Rudnick adds four partners for its digital commerce practice Crypto exchange Rain Financial and social media company Snap reveal layoffs Crypto-focused financial services firm EQONEX ap...