Last week, onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt, regulator Jina Choi, who heads the SEC’s wide-reaching San Francisco unit, declined to confirm or deny that the SEC is investigating Tesla CEO Elon Musk for possible fraud. Said Choi, “I can’t tell you about any particular investigation in our office. And I can’t confirm or deny the existence […]
View More A Tesla investor says he was recently questioned by US regulators about that infamous ‘funding secured’ tweetCategory: Drama
Former Uber exec alleges ex-PR chief ‘destroyed his reputation’
A nasty legal battle is set to play out between two former Uber executives. Eric Alexander, the ride-hailing company’s former president of business in Asia-Pacific, has filed suit against former Uber PR chief Rachel Whetstone . Alexander blames Whetstone for his firing from Uber in June 2017, claiming her “grossly misleading statements” both internally at Uber and […]
View More Former Uber exec alleges ex-PR chief ‘destroyed his reputation’High-lights from Elon Musk’s interview with Joe Rogan
Elon Musk made an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast hosted by the eponymous comedian, where the pair smoked a blunt and pondered the flat-Earth movement, the future of AI, “inventing shit” and several other of the eccentric billionaire’s favorite topics. The now-viral interview, which was live-streamed to thousands of viewers, was immediately […]
View More High-lights from Elon Musk’s interview with Joe RoganHuawei caught cheating performance test for new phones
UL, the company behind the tablet and phone performance benchmark app 3DMark, has delisted new Huawei phones from its “Best Smartphone” leaderboard after AnandTech discovered the phone maker was boosting its performance to ace the app’s test. The phones delisted were the P20, P20 Pro, Nova 3 and the Honor Play. “After testing the devices in […]
View More Huawei caught cheating performance test for new phonesTesla lost nearly $8 billion in shareholder value this week and its board should be ashamed
Over the last five days, Tesla shareholders watched the value of their stock decline by roughly 16 percent and saw nearly $8 billion in value erased, as the company’s celebrity chief executive, Elon Musk, had what amounts to a very public breakdown. However, Musk is not the only person responsible for the collapse of Tesla’s […]
View More Tesla lost nearly $8 billion in shareholder value this week and its board should be ashamedTesla shares tumble in early trading after another Elon Musk-powered PR blunder
Elon Musk, the embattled chief executive of electric automaker and sustainable energy company Tesla, tried to “set the record straight” about his recent behavior in an hour-long exclusive interview with The New York Times. Instead, it only served to further underscore how out-of-touch the billionaire chief executive seems from the ongoing operations at his company. […]
View More Tesla shares tumble in early trading after another Elon Musk-powered PR blunderTwitter puts Infowars’ Alex Jones in the ‘read-only’ sin bin for 7 days
Twitter has finally taken action against Infowars creator Alex Jones, but it isn’t what you might think. While Apple, Facebook, Google/YouTube, Spotify and many others have removed Jones and his conspiracy-peddling organization Infowars from their platforms, Twitter has remained unmoved with its claim that Jones hasn’t violated rules on its platform. That was helped in […]
View More Twitter puts Infowars’ Alex Jones in the ‘read-only’ sin bin for 7 daysThe SEC wants Tesla to explain Elon’s 420 tweet
Elon Musk, billionaire founder of Tesla, startled the Twittersphere yesterday by announcing he wanted to take the company private at the price of $420 per share. While some speculated the tweet was a joke or a marijuana reference, others took to the market. The tweet sent the stock soaring up 11 percent, causing a halt in […]
View More The SEC wants Tesla to explain Elon’s 420 tweetHere are the platforms that have banned Infowars so far
Over the past two-and-a-half weeks, tech platforms have taken a (if sometimes meek) stance against the far-right and conspiracy theorist content of Alex Jones by removing, banning or penalizing Jones and his podcast Infowars for breaking their community and hate speech policies. These removals signify an important moment in the history of the internet’s tug-of-war with […]
View More Here are the platforms that have banned Infowars so farThe perfect time to watch HBO’s ‘Succession’ is right now
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The season finale of HBO’s new corporate drama Succession airs Sunday night, and really, it’s best you devote some time to catching up. But don’t watch Succession because it’s a great drama — binge it because it’s, at least in part, a deranged dark comedy.
Succession is a Serious Drama about a billionaire family whose members are all vying for control of its aging patriarch’s media empire, Waystar Royco. It’s got all the things that make for a good HBO ensemble drama: fancy outfits, traumatic pasts, complex antiheroes, multi-stranded narratives.
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View More The perfect time to watch HBO’s ‘Succession’ is right nowSpotify becomes the latest tech platform to reject Alex Jones
Yesterday, Spotify became the third tech platform in just over a week to take a stance on Alex Jones’s controversial far-right and conspiracy theorist content. The streaming service removed several Infowars podcast episodes due to their violation of the policy against hate content that Spotify released in May. This action follows strikes given against Jones by both […]
View More Spotify becomes the latest tech platform to reject Alex JonesA CEO known publicly for the power of smiling was just ousted for intimidating employees
Ron Gutman, the cofounder and CEO of HealthTap, a venture-backed medical advice startup, was reportedly elbowed out today by his board of directors. The reason, the board said in a letter to employees, was that it had finally heard too many complaints about Gutman’s behavior inside the company. Recode published the news of his termination […]
View More A CEO known publicly for the power of smiling was just ousted for intimidating employees