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Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and chief executive officer of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, during an interview on an episode of Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein in New York, US, on Wednesday, Aug 17, 2022. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S.,

In this article TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, the image of Elon Musk is displayed on a computer screen and the logo of twitter on a mobile phone in Ankara, Turkiye on October 06, 2022. Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Twitter appears to have paused

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, on June 5, 2021. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried tweeted Thursday morning that he is “sorry,” admitting that he “f—ed up” and “should have done better.” Bankman-Fried also announced that he is winding down

In this article TWTR TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk, who is also CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla and U.S. defense contractor SpaceX, told employees of the social media business on Thursday that he recently sold shares of Tesla

In this article TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Twitter profile page belonging to Elon Musk is seen on an Apple iPhone mobile phone. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images When Elon Musk said last week that Twitter has experienced a “massive drop in revenue” under his recent tutelage, he blamed the decline

Binance is backing out of its plans to acquire FTX, the company said Wednesday, leaving Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire on the verge of collapse. The reversal comes one day after Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced that the world’s largest cryptocurrency firm had reached a non-binding deal to buy FTX’s non-U.S. businesses for an undisclosed amount, rescuing the

In this article META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Mark Zuckerberg told the world last October that he was rebranding Facebook to Meta as the company pushes toward the metaverse. Facebook | via Reuters Meta is laying off 13% of its staff, or more than 11,000 employees, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter

In this article CRM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Salesforce on Tuesday confirmed that it cut some employees this week after the enterprise software maker saw demand lighten in some countries and industries. Protocol reported earlier on the cuts, saying they could affect up to 2,500 employees. One person familiar with the matter said

Indonesia Stock Exchange Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Indonesian e-commerce company Blibli rose 4.9% in its Indonesian stock market debut Tuesday, in what was the country’s second-largest initial public offering this year.  Shares of PT Global Digital Niaga Tbk, which owns Blibli, climbed as high as 472 rupiah in early trading, up

Billionaire Chris Sacca Courtesy of Collision Conference Venture capitalist Chris Sacca, one of the first investors in Twitter and an early evangelist of the site, says Elon Musk needs people around him who are willing to “speak some truth to power” because the company’s problems are too big for him to solve on his own. In

An attendee passes by the Ukraine stand at the Web Summit 2022 tech conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Patricia De Melo Moreira | Afp | Getty Images LISBON, PORTUGAL — As the war in Ukraine rages on, the country’s technology entrepreneurs are trying to stay positive. “I don’t think there’s something in the world that could

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT After a Covid outbreak at a Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China, some workers chose to go home. Pictured here are the shuttle buses on Oct. 30, 2022. VCG | Getty Images Apple said in a statement on Sunday that it has temporarily reduced iPhone 14

Elon Musk’s Twitter account displayed on a phone screen and Twitter logo displayed on a laptop screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on November 1, 2022. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Twitter began rolling out changes to its platform for some users on Saturday in preparation for the

Aerial view of the seafront Manara district near downtown Beirut. Bilwander | Getty Images When Georgio Abou Gebrael first heard about bitcoin in 2016, it sounded like a scam. But by 2019, as Lebanon plunged into a financial crisis following decades of expensive wars and bad spending decisions, a decentralized and borderless digital currency operating

In this article TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk, Founder and Chief Engineer of SpaceX, speaks during the Satellite 2020 Conference in Washington, DC, United States on March 9, 2020. Yasin Ozturk | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Twitter has suffered a “massive drop in revenue” because of advertisers pausing spending on

Cat Clifford, CNBC climate tech and innovation reporter, at Helion Energy on October 20. Photo taken by Jessie Barton, communications for Helion Energy, with Cat Clifford’s camera. On Thursday, October 20, I took a reporting trip to Everett, Wash., to visit Helion Energy, a fusion startup that has raised raised nearly $600 million from a

Stripe co-founder and CEO, Patrick Collison Manuel Blondeau | Getty Images Online payments giant Stripe is laying off roughly 14% of its staff, CEO Patrick Collison wrote in a memo to staff Thursday. In the memo, Collison said the cuts were necessary amid rising inflation, fears of a looming recession, higher interest rates, energy shocks,

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during the GeekWire Summit in Seattle on Oct. 5, 2021. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is pausing hiring for roles in its corporate workforce, the company announced in a memo to staff Thursday. The company had already

In this article TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk’s photo is seen through a Twitter logo in this illustration taken October 28, 2022. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Twitter employees are expecting a 50% overall reduction in force after Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took the reins of the social network last

In this article TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the automobile awards “Das Goldene Lenkrad” (The golden steering wheel) given by a German newspaper in Berlin, Germany, November 12, 2019. Hannibal Hanschke | Reuters Days after closing his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk faced