Sheryl Sandberg leaves Meta as one of the highest-profile and most successful women in tech — and after more than $1.7 billion in stock sales. Sandberg announced Wednesday that she is stepping down fr...
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Eva Mendes Speaks Out About Home Life With Ryan Gosling And Her New Leadership Role With ‘Skura Style’
Eva Mendes, co-owner and brand ambassador for Skura Style Skura Style After stepping back from her Hollywood career a few years ago to focus on raising her two daughters, actress and entrepreneur Eva ...
Binance raises $500 million fund to invest in Web3 startups
Binance is the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, handling $490 billion of spot trading volumes in March 2022. Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Binance, the world’s largest crypto...
Twitter Investors Deal a Big and Humiliating Blow to Musk
Shareholders of Twitter ( (TWTR) – Get Twitter, Inc. Report) voted against re-electing Egon Durban, an ally to Elon Musk, as a director to the board at its annual shareholder meeting on May 25. ...
Digital Advertising Slump The New Signal Of An Upcoming Recession?
Photo by: STRF/STAR MAX/IPx 2020 STRF/STAR MAX/IPx For decades, a decline in local advertising was an early warning sign of an upcoming recession, with local ad sales typically declining as much as a ...
Elon Musk Has Another Reason To Walk Away From Twitter Takeover
Updated at 10:29 am EST Twitter (TWTR) – Get Twitter, Inc. Report shares slumped lower Tuesday, providing Tesla (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report CEO Elon Musk with another potential out fro...
Nokia CEO says 6G will arrive by 2030 and AR glasses will overtake phone
Mehdi Bennis is an associate professor at the University of Oulu in Finland researching 6G. Elizabeth Schulze | CNBC Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark expects 6G mobile networks to be in operation by the end o...
Clearview AI Fined $9.4 Million In U.K. For Illegal Facial Recognition Database
Topline Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI, which is reportedly used by thousands of government and law enforcement agencies around the world, has been fined more than $9.4 million ...
Breast Milk Sharing Occurring Due To Baby Formula Shortage, Here Are The Risks
Breast milk from others who haven’t been properly screened can carry pathogens and substances that … [+] may be dangerous to your infant. (Photo by Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images) Cor...
How Musk’s Twitter takeover plans shook Wall Street and social media
Elon Musk wears many hats as Tesla CEO, SpaceX CEO, and founder of the Boring Company and Neuralink. He’s also a prolific Twitter user. The news that Musk made a $44 billion offer to buy Twitter...
SpaceX paid to settle Elon Musk sexual misconduct claim, report says
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk participates in a postlaunch news conference inside the Press Site auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, following the launch of the agency&#...
Is Twitter Really Worth $46.5 Billion Dollars?
(Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP) (Photo by LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images.) AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk appears to have gotten cold feet about buying Twitter TWTR , and is now serving u...
Musk Mad Tesla Removed from S&P 500 ESG Index
Tesla ( (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report) CEO Elon Musk is extremely unhappy that the EV company was eliminated from the S&P 500 ESG Index on Wednesday, voicing his concerns on Twitter. The ele...
How Data Analytics Is Sponsoring A Slow Divorce Between Social Media Influencers And Luxury Brands
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – AUGUST 26: Charli D’Amelio is seen in Times Square on August 26, 2021 in New … [+] York City. (Photo by Gotham/GC Images) GC Images Before 2005 the word “influen...
Facebook Makes Changes to Respond to Slowing Growth
Facebook (FB) – Get Meta Platforms Inc. Class A Report is preparing for difficult days ahead. The social media giant has just taken steps to reduce its costs in anticipation of the slowdown in...
Judge dismisses Trump lawsuit seeking to lift Twitter ban
A judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by former President Donald Trump seeking to lift his ban from Twitter. But San Francisco federal district court Judge James Donato left the door open for Trump an...
Elon Musk denies claim Trump encouraged him to buy Twitter
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, speaks to media representatives at the Tesla Gigafactory construction site In Grünheide near Berlin, September 3, 2020. Julian Stähle | picture alliance via Getty Images Elon ...
TikTok’s New Platform That Helps Creative Agencies Reach Their Audience
CULVER CITY, CA – OCTOBER 13: General view of the TikTok headquarters on October 13, 2020 in Culver … [+] City, California. (Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images) GC Images On April 19t...
Will Jack Dorsey Roll $1 Billion In Stock Into The New Twitter?
Photo by MARCO BELLO/AFP via Getty Images. AFP via Getty Images It seems ironic that just weeks ago many in the investment community were questioning Elon Musk’s ability to finance a bid for Twitter a...
Binance backing for Elon Musk’s Twitter bid boosts ‘Web3’ vision
Binance is the world’s largest crypto exchange, handling billions of dollars in trading volumes on a daily basis. STR | NurPhoto via Getty Images Bitcoin exchange Binance’s move to partici...
This 35-year-old turned her side hustle into a $141 million company—here’s the business plan she used
In 2014, I walked away from my $35,000-per-year job in insurance sales to grow my e-commerce side hustle with my husband Chris. We had been experimenting with selling clothes and accessories on online...
China Social Media Bilibili Trims Revenue Forecast, Gets A Bump In Users Amid Lockdowns
Rui Chen, the billionaire chairman and chief executive officer of Bilibili, speaks during the … [+] company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq back in 2018. Photographer: Michae...
Facebook’s Transformation Is Being Slowed by A Big Rival
They say looking at the stars is like looking hundreds of millions of years into the past since those celestial bodies are so far away that the light they emanate takes eons to travel to our tiny plan...
Amazon takes $7.6 billion loss on Rivian stake from Q1 stock plunge
R.J. Scaringe, Rivian’s 35-year-old CEO, introduces his company’s R1T all-electric pickup and all-electric R1S SUV at Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, November 27, 2018. M...
Elon Musk will be most indebted CEO in America if Twitter deal closes
The world’s richest person could soon add another title to his name – America’s most leveraged CEO. Two-thirds of Elon Musk‘s financing for the $44 billion deal to take Twitter priva...
Tesla Investors Send a Serious Warning to Elon Musk
Elon Musk is everywhere. The billionaire has almost stolen the bill from all the rest of the business world since the beginning of April. We began to talk about him, and his offer to acquire the soc...
The 2022 Ranking Of Free-Market Think Tanks Measured By Social Media Impact
Covid-19 restrictions have led most organizations to increase their social media presence during the past two years. Think tanks and other organizations that promote a free economy were no exception. ...
What happens when people use TikTok and Instagram to make travel plans
Nearly one in three travelers turn to social media for holiday inspiration, according to a new study. The figures are even higher for younger travelers. Some 60% of Gen Zs and 40% of millennials use s...
Why Is Musk Buying Twitter? I Thought He Was A Technologist Doing Great Things.
Musk appears to want a piece of the infrastructure of the global conversation. That, as they say, is a pretty big ask. BERLIN, GERMANY DECEMBER 01: SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on the ...
Garmin’s New Aviator Watch Partly Addresses a Risk the War in Ukraine Is Highlighting – Microtargeting
Ukrainian servicemen watch a television broadcast near Avdiivka, Donetsk region on August 24, 2015. … [+] AFP PHOTO/ ANATOLII STEPANOV AFP via Getty Images Late last month, electronics firm Garm...
Opinion: Do poison pills work? A finance expert explains the anti-takeover tool that Twitter hopes will keep Elon Musk at bay
Takeovers are usually friendly affairs. Corporate executives engage in top-secret talks, with one company or group of investors making a bid for another business. After some negotiating, the companies...
Facebook Is Broken. Execs Say a Fix Won’t Come Fast.
Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has come under heavy fire from Congress, regulators, and even its own users, but there has been nothing like the crisis it now faces. Its core business is decelera...