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On Oct. 17, proxy advisor firm Institutional Shareholder Services urged shareholders to vote “no” on the pay package, potentially be worth $1 trillion, that Tesla TSLA has proposed for CEO Elon Musk. On Monday, Oct. 20, fellow advisory firm Glass Lewis & Co. followed suit, urging Tesla …

The Amazon Web Services outage disrupted work during the Monday morning rush hour, but it did little to dampen Wall Street’s momentum. The market surged across the board, led by strong gains in Apple and optimism ahead of a heavy earnings week. The S&P 500 was up 1.1% at closing…

For most enterprise companies, AI is either a promise that has yet to deliver or a security risk. The effort of Lithuania’s most famous entrepreneur duo to solve that conundrum has garnered attention — and funding. Just months after Nexos.ai came out of stealth with an $8 million funding round led by Index Ventures, Nord…

Chinese President Xi Jinping 2019 New Economy Forum in BeijingGetty ImagesLast month Chinese leader Xi Jinping gave a speech where he encouraged Chinese enterprises to ‘seize the opportunity’ in using and accelerating the development of blockchain technology. This was a significant event in China’s perspective of the technology and cemented several previous public statements regarding…

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