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The richest man in the world seems determined to take on the most powerful. Tesla CEO Elon Musk called President Joe Biden “a damp sock puppet in human form” on Twitter Thursday as Tesla stock plummeted 11%. Musk’s lack of restraint on social media is, as the saying goes, a feature not a bug, having…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin SpaceX’s 50th Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as the moon looks on, March 6, … [+] 2018. getty When is the SpaceX rocket going to crash into the Moon? On February 11, 2015 a Falcon 9 rocket from Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched from Cape Canaveral.…

Steady success over a long period stops becoming a news story. That’s what has happened to Microsoft  (MSFT) – Get Microsoft Corporation Report since Satya Nadella took over as chief executive in early 2014. Before Nadella took the top job from Steve Ballmer, the company careened from disaster to disaster. There was the ahead-of-its-time Windows 8,…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin Elon Musk, founder and chief engineer of SpaceX speaks at the 2020 Satellite Conference and … [+] Exhibition March 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. Getty Images January 2022 has marked a shaky start for Tesla CEO Elon Musk.  The Twitter-obsessed billionaire insulted President Joe Biden on the social…

General Motors CEO Mary Barra speaks during a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House on Jan. 26. Getty Images A few hours before Tesla reported record profit and sales for 2021, President Joe Biden met with the company’s biggest competitors at the White House to applaud their efforts–with Tesla CEO Elon…

Sneaker and athletic apparel maker Nike  (NKE) – Get NIKE, Inc. Class B Report is building its metaverse team and hiring for key roles as the latest buzzword in the tech world stirs up talent wars. Over the last week, Nike has posted five jobs to help the company embed new hires for the metaverse…

For those who expected a spectacular announcement, the disappointment will be immense. Tesla  (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report won’t announce a new car model this year, CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday. “We will not be introducing new vehicle models this year,” Musk said during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call, adding that it “would not…

Is 2022 the year America finally goes all-in on electric vehicles? Analysts at Bank of America certainly seem to think so, as they are predicting a “major year of commercialization” for the market, as reported by Axios. Some 85 new electric vehicle models are set to launch within the next four years, including the Chevrolet…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin Nabiha Saklayen, CEO and co-founder of Cellino Cellino Today, Cellino Biotech, an autonomous cell therapy manufacturing company, announced an $80 million Series A financing round led by Leaps by Bayer along with 8VC, Humboldt Fund, and new investors including Felicis Ventures and Khosla Ventures, that could fix a problem…

Stocks extend declines amid rising geo-political tensions in Europe, the prospect of Fed rate hikes and slowing corporate earnings.Reports say Biden is mulling troop deployment near the Ukraine border while ordering the families of diplomats in Kyiv to leave “due to the continued threat of Russian military action” in the region.S&P 500 slides into correction…