Enlarge / Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos Inc., arrives at federal court in San Jose, California, on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg) At this point in her criminal trial, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ best chance for acquittal is for the jury to believe that she was a puppet being controlled by her […]
Enlarge / President Joe Biden speaks about the authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11 on November 03, 2021, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Drew Angerer ) A federal judge yesterday blocked a Biden administration COVID-19 vaccine mandate with regard to health care workers, granting a request for preliminary injunction filed […]
Enlarge / The shareholder revolt comes in the shadow of recent cases and the revelation that co-founder Bill Gates had a relationship with a company employee. (credit: Jeff Pachoud | Getty Images) Microsoft’s shareholders have backed a protest vote calling on the company to reveal more about its handling of sexual harassment claims, in the […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | The Tonight Show) Three former Google software engineers who sued the company yesterday claim they were fired for following Google’s famous “Don’t be evil” mantra. “Google terminated each plaintiffs’ employment with it for adhering to the directive ‘Don’t be evil’ and calling out activity by Google that […]
Enlarge / An Amazon warehouse in Germany on April 2, 2020. (credit: Patrick Pleul | picture alliance | Getty Images ) A regional official at the National Labor Relations Board has called for a new union election at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, fulfillment center following recommendations issued in August by a hearing officer. The Retail, Wholesale, […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Anadolu Agency ) The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today ordered Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy, saying the merger “would reduce competition between social media platforms and that the deal has already removed Giphy as a potential challenger in the display advertising market. ” Facebook bought Giphy in […]
Enlarge / Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos Inc., arrives at federal court in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, November 23, 2021. In a day of intense and emotional testimony, Theranos founder Elizabeth Sherlock holmes told the court of the sexual, physical, and emotional abuse she said she suffered in the hands of company president and […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Alicia Llop) The CEOs of 13 large European telecom companies today called on tech giants—presumably including Netflix and other big US companies—to pay for a portion of the Internet service providers’ network upgrade costs. In a ” joint CEO statement , ” the European telcos described their proposal as a […]
Enlarge / Twitter cofounder and CEO Jack port Dorsey at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), on November 12, 2018, in New Delhi, India. (credit: Amal KS | Hindustan Times | Getty Images ) Plug Dorsey announced today that he’s stepping down as CEO of Twitter, the social network he helped found in 2006. The […]
Enlarge (credit: Jacqui Brown / Flickr ) In England, only 37 percent of adults aged 16 or over travel actively (walk, cycle, scoot, or wheel to get from place to place) at least twice a month. We need to find exciting ways to encourage more people to travel actively for the sake of population and […]