I had never before attended a business conference with a 28 percent chance of an orgy.But those were the official orgy odds when I arrived at Manifest, a self-described “gathering of forecasting...
Read moreIn the summer of 2019, Uber, Lyft and other companies that use contract drivers faced a crisis in California. The State Legislature was poised to pass a law that would effectively require...
Read moreGary Wang, a former top executive of the failed FTX cryptocurrency exchange, testified that Sam Bankman-Fried, the company’s founder, was the final decision maker at the firm and directed a closely related...
Read moreIn a space race between two businesses started by Jeff Bezos, it appears that his e-commerce company, Amazon, will beat his rocket company, Blue Origin, to orbit.Two Amazon prototype satellites are sitting...
Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Commission sued Elon Musk on Thursday to force him to testify about his accumulation of shares in Twitter, which the tech billionaire bought last year and has since...
Read moreCady Heron, the protagonist of the 2004 comedy “Mean Girls,” was the new kid in town once again.This time she didn’t wander into an intimidating high school cafeteria full of cliques, but...
Read moreFollow live updates on the Sam Bankman-Fried fraud trial.A year ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was a fixture on magazine covers and in the halls of Congress, a tousle-haired crypto billionaire who hobnobbed with...
Read moreTired of tinny sound, echoes, inaudible dialogue or just bad audio in your home recording efforts? The popularity of social-media video and podcasts has led to a variety of affordable microphones, software...
Read moreFour years ago, Spotify’s business was stagnating. Apple had overtaken it as the top paid music service in the United States, losses were mounting and customer growth was slowing.Daniel Ek, the company’s...
Read moreWhen Facebook was being battered in 2017 for distributing false and misleading news, the social network turned to Campbell Brown, a veteran journalist, to smooth over its relationships with the media.Six years...
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