UPDATE 1-Alphabet's life science tech unit Verily raises $1 bln from investors
Jan 3- Verily, Alphabet Inc's life sciences division, on Thursday announced a $1 billion investment round led by private equity firm Silver Lake. Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat and Silver...
View ArticleElon Musk: A version of Tesla Roadster will fly thanks to SpaceX technology
Asked if he was joking, the maverick tech entrepreneur replied simply: "I'm not."
View ArticleThis self-made millionaire says not all masculinity is toxic
"When I was younger, I thought masculinity and being a man was being ripped, being buff ... and generally just making a s--- ton of money at work," says entrepreneur Scott Galloway, who sold his...
View ArticleSelf-made millionaire: Here's how to guarantee you'll be 'poor' making $2...
Scott Galloway says being rich is not dependent on how much money you bring in. It has to do with this instead.
View ArticleSome of Alphabet's 'Other Bets' have their own equity structures — just like...
Alphabet's long-term bets are risky and may never pay off. Employees need to put in the kind of hours associated with start-ups and be able to share in the upside.
View ArticleAlphabet is taking on health care with a bunch of ambitious projects
Alphabet has a wide range of health-care research projects, from rehab efforts and medical tests to new devices for people in need.
View ArticleHighly successful millionaires all play brain games—here are 3 science-backed...
Yes, video games count.
View ArticleTwitter paid CEO Jack Dorsey $1.40 in 2018 — a nod to its old 140-character...
Twitter says it paid co-founder Jack Dorsey a salary last year for the first time since he returned to his post as CEO in 2015.
View ArticleUPDATE 1-Billionaire investor Druckenmiller: rising corporate debt to pose...
June 7- Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller told CNBC on Friday that the increasing corporate debt in the United States will be a problem in the event of a recession. He also weighed on the...
View ArticleActivists urge Google to break up before regulators force it to
SAN FRANCISCO, June 19- Shareholder activists want Google parent Alphabet Inc to break itself up before regulators force the world's biggest internet ad seller to split into different pieces. The...
View ArticleActivists urge Google to break up before regulators force it to
Shareholder activists want Google parent Alphabet to break itself up before regulators force the world's biggest internet ad seller to split into different pieces.
View ArticleUPDATE 1-Activists urge Google to break up before regulators force it to
SAN FRANCISCO, June 19- Shareholder activists on Wednesday urged Google parent Alphabet Inc to break itself up before regulators force the world's biggest internet ad seller to split into different...
View ArticleAmerica's richest could afford this investment to help fight climate change,...
Together, 79 billionaires could pay to build an electric system in the U.S. that uses zero fossil fuels, a Michigan Tech professor estimates.
View ArticleUPDATE 3-Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google emails demanded in U.S. House panel...
WASHINGTON, Sept 13- A U.S. House of Representatives panel on Friday demanded internal emails, detailed financial information and other company records from top executives of Amazon.com Inc., Facebook...
View ArticleUPDATE 1-Facebook's Zuckerberg pledges cooperation with U.S. antitrust probe...
WASHINGTON, Sept 20- Congressman David Cicilline, chair of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel, said on Friday that Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg pledged cooperation with...
View ArticleJeff Bezos would pay $9 billion a year in wealth taxes under Bernie Sanders'...
In an effort to outflank the rise of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders announces a wealth tax that would hit multibillionaires like Bezos especially hard.
View ArticleGoogle employees protested the interrogation of two colleagues by the...
Google workers protested outside of an investigation into employee retaliation days prior to the company ending its TGIF tradition, internal memo shows.
View ArticleBorat actor: Facebook, Google, Youtube and Twitter are 'greatest propaganda...
In his speech before the Anti-Defamation League, Sacha Baron Cohen said hate groups are rising all around the world, and Big Tech is part of the problem.
View ArticleGoogle chief Pichai takes helm of parent Alphabet as co-founders step aside
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 3- Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai will replace company co-founder Larry Page as CEO of parent Alphabet Inc, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. "While it has been a...
View ArticleUPDATE 1-Google chief Pichai takes helm of parent Alphabet as co-founders...
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 3- Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai will replace Larry Page as CEO of parent Alphabet Inc, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday, reflecting the increasingly diminished...
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