Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Failed Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced Friday to 11.25 years in prison after being convicted earlier this year of defrauding investors in her famed blood testing company that took Silicon Valley by storm before it was revealed its technology could not perform the tests it said it…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTom Brady, Gisele Bundchen named as defendants in civil suit regarding FTX marketing Getty Images The FTX crisis got even more complicated on Wednesday with two new lawsuits hitting U.S. courts. One of them unites Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen as defendants with FTX founder Samuel-Bankman Fried, funnyman Larry…
CEO of Tesla, SpaceX & Twitter No. 1 Rank on 2022 Forbes 400 List $222 B Net Worth as of Nov. 1, 2022 AGE: 51 | SOURCE OF WEALTH: TESLA, SPACEX | SELF-MADE SCORE: 8/10 | RESIDENCE: AUSTIN, TEXAS | CITIZENSHIP: UNITED STATES | MARITAL STATUS: SINGLE | CHILDREN: 10 | EDUCATION: BACHELOR OF ARTS/SCIENCE,…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Jeff Bezos said he plans to donate most of his billions to philanthropic causes during his lifetime, the first time the Amazon founder has committed to doing so after years of criticism for philanthropic commitments paling in comparison to many other of the world’s wealthiest people. Jeff Bezos…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Billionaire Elon Musk on Monday said his recent takeover of Twitter—along with his existing responsibilities as the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX—has caused his workload to increase by “quite a lot”, following a tumultuous two weeks at the social media platform including mass layoffs. Tesla CEO Elon Musk…
An exclusive Forbes investigation unmasks the pair of slick promoters who appear to have made millions pumping and dumping EthereumMax and other now virtually worthless crypto tokens. In June 2021, at the height of the cryptocurrency craze, Kim Kardashian posted an Instagram story promoting Ethereum Max, a brand-new token. The reality TV star wasn’t giving…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinAmazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos presents the company’s first smartphone, the Fire Phone, on … [+] June 18, 2014 in Seattle, Washington. Getty Images Last week, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos transferred $174 million worth of Amazon shares to nonprofits, his largest donation via Amazon stock this year. According…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinElon Musk Getty Images The Tesla chief’s new Twitter toy is proving to be even more distracting than investors feared. In late September 2021, as Tesla shares soared, Elon Musk overtook Jeff Bezos to become the richest person in the world–and the third (after Bezos and Bernard Arnault of…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Though the labor market’s overall resilience continues to puzzle experts, the plight of rising interest rates, which are spurring a historic plunge in home sales, could soon lead to a rash of harsher job cuts across the housing sector—which, alongside the technology industry, has already seen firms lay…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Shares of Facebook parent Meta overtook the dubious honor as the biggest loser on the S&P 500 this week as the Silicon Valley giant bleeds money to fund its CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision and underscores big tech’s 2022 downfall. It’s been a rough year for Zuckerberg and…





