Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline The multimillion-dollar partnership between Nike and NBA star Kyrie Irving is officially over, the sneaker giant confirmed to Forbes, finalizing the breakup a month after the company pulled Irving’s upcoming sneaker after he pushed antisemitic content, and once again proving Irving’s willingness to lose out on millions to…
“I think if you’re a senior leader at Tesla, you’re praying and hoping that either Elon changes focus or gets off this Twitter thing.” Last year, Elon Musk was cracking jokes on Saturday Night Live. Now, he is the butt of them. In the past week, he’s been ridiculed on almost every major late-night show…
“Got that dinero on my mind,” Beyoncé and Jay-Z wrote on the third track of their surprise album Everything is Love, which came out last June. A year later, it’s clear that the couple wasn’t just taking poetic license: With Jay-Z’s newly minted status as a billionaire and Beyoncé’s place on Forbes’ richest self-made women
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin Concept by Fernando Capeto; Illustration by Gracelynn Wan for Forbes The complaint says the Bitcoin Latinum founder lured an investor in with the promise that the producers of Star Trek had already invested $20 million. An investor in a scarcely-known cryptocurrency called Bitcoin Latinum — named for a…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday joined a growing chorus of Republicans criticizing Apple after Twitter owner Elon Musk claimed the tech giant threatened to remove Twitter from its App Store, strengthening the GOP’s ties to Musk and amplifying their shared criticism of major tech companies. Florida…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinJust a couple days before scoring the penalty that earned a tie against the United States at their first World Cup game, Wales’ soccer star Gareth Bale celebrated becoming a minority shareholder for Welsh whisky distillery Penderyn. By investing in the company, he becomes one of 61 shareholders and…
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Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinSundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc.(Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg) © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Even Google isn’t immune to the severe downturn in the tech sector. Although more than 135,000 white-collar professionals in the tech and startup space have been downsized year to date, the giant search engine…
From financial ruin to jail time, here are the big billionaire downfalls that compete with Sam Bankman-Fried’s $17 billion FTX collapse. The world watched in shock last week as the floor fell out from under Sam Bankman-Fried. Over the course of just a few days, the 30-year-old founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinBankman-Fried’s trading firm Alameda Research is at the center of his empire’s collapse. Illustration by Gracelynn Wan for Forbes; photo by Guerin Blask for Forbes By Jeff Kauflin, Emily Mason and Nina Bambysheva A week after the dramatic collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s tangled web of crypto companies, countless unanswered…





