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Bezos v. Musk: The high-stakes legal disputes between the world’s two richest people

The Tesla CEO and Amazon founder are involved in two legal disputes, one over a NASA contract and the other involving a tussle before the Federal Communications Commission.

3 years ago

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Portrait of a 29-year-old billionaire: Can Sam Bankman-Fried make his risky crypto business work?

Sam Bankman-Fried, now 29, is a billionaire 16 times over, according to a recent Forbes estimate. But can he make FTX, his risky crypto business, work?

3 years ago

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Dominion v. MyPillow Guy poses a stark test for America's libel laws

A libel case against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell poses a particularly stark test of how our libel laws play out when the defendant is a conspiracy theorist who seems beyond the reach of rational persuasion.

3 years ago

FOX

FOXA
Dominion Voting official, in hiding, speaks out: 'This never ends for me'

In the most in-depth print interview he has given since going into hiding that month, Eric Coomer describes below what it’s like to be public enemy number one to the conspiracy theorists who falsely blame Trump’s election loss on voting-machine fraud.

3 years ago

FOX

FOXA
The wild ride that made Rudy Giuliani, 'Kraken' lawyer Sidney Powell, and Fox News targets in the mother of all defamation cases

The crusade to overturn the 2020 presidential election results may be the biggest libel case in American history.

4 years ago

FOX

FOXA
Robinhood in a tough position as it faces a wave of lawsuits over GameStop saga

Since the Robinhood mobile trading app temporarily blocked its customers from buying stock in GameStop, AMC, Entertainment, and 11 other companies last Thursday, it has been hit with at least 33 federal lawsuits across the country.

4 years ago

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AMC
Nikola’s Trevor Milton left a trail of bitterness on his way to founding the electric-truck startup

Trevor Milton stepped down as executive chairman of Nikola after a devastating short-seller's report. New interviews show that Milton first started looking into the feasibility of an electric truck while he was running previous ventures supported by investors whom he left high and dry.

4 years ago

TSLA

BUD
Facebook’s Joel Kaplan: The man in the crosshairs

As the 2020 presidential election approaches, Facebook’s critics are understandably agitated. Many are focusing their ire on Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s global public policy chief.

4 years ago

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FB
WeWork v. SoftBank: A $3 billion battle involving two ailing companies that were on top of the world 9 months ago

Who could possibly blame SoftBank for walking away last month from its $3 billion tender offer for WeWork shares? Still, the Chinese conglomerate could face an uphill battle in its fight to get out of the contract.

4 years ago

SFTU.BE

AAPL
Amazon’s lawsuit over a $10 billion Pentagon contract lays out disturbing allegations against Trump

Amazon is challenging the Pentagon’s awarding of the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft, alleging Trump’s animus for Amazon caused Pentagon officials, “consciously or subconsciously,” to award the contract to Microsoft.

4 years ago

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ORCL
Behind the Big Tech antitrust backlash: A turning point for America

There's a dramatic sea-change within the specialized biosphere of antitrust experts.

5 years ago

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GOOGL
Jack Dorsey: The enigmatic CEO who could save — or break — Western democracy

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is an astonishingly gifted, driven, and “super weird and strange” guy, as he has put it, whose actions — and inactions — may determine the fate of the free world.

5 years ago

GOOG

GOOGL
Facebook’s Chris Cox was more than just the world's most powerful chief product officer

The most in-depth profile of Facebook's Chris Cox, a gifted and still very young man, who has played a seminal role in molding a now feared and polemicized behemoth.

5 years ago

FB
Exclusive: Facebook ex-security chief: How ‘hypertargeting’ threatens democracy

This is a profile of Alex Stamos, — former security chief at Yahoo and Facebook who was at ground zero of major cyberattacks and Russian election interference.

6 years ago

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GOOGL
The government’s fight over AT&T-Time Warner deal is not about ‘bigness’

On Thursday, the Justice Department will ask a federal appeals court to unwind at least a portion of AT&T’s blockbuster purchase of Time Warner.

6 years ago

T
Why Microsoft may be relinquishing billions in Android patent royalties

Microsoft is announcing that it has made peace with the free world. Specifically, the world of free and open source software (FOSS).

6 years ago

GOOG

GOOGL
Nation's top pain doctors face scores of opioid lawsuits

Lawsuits allege that four leading pain doctors allowed themselves to be used by opioid manufacturers, as part of a false, industrywide marketing campaign that helped to instigate the public health crisis.

6 years ago
Supreme Court will determine the fate of 'patent death squads'

The fate of a major patent reform law, enacted in 2011 to improve patent quality, will hang in the balance on Monday, when the U.S. Supreme Court hears a constitutional challenge to one of its key provisions.

7 years ago
Packing and cracking: The Supreme Court takes up partisan gerrymandering

On October 3, the second day of the new term, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that likely poses the most momentous question on its docket: Should it, for the first time in history, strike down a state’s electoral map on the grounds of partisan gerrymandering?

7 years ago
Supreme Court case threatens to set back workers’ rights by 80 years

Kicking off its new term with a splash, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a trio of cases Monday that threaten to set back workers’ rights by more than 80 years, labor-side employment lawyers claim.

7 years ago

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Bezos v. Musk: The high-stakes legal disputes between the world’s two richest people

Portrait of a 29-year-old billionaire: Can Sam Bankman-Fried make his risky crypto business work?

Dominion v. MyPillow Guy poses a stark test for America's libel laws

Dominion Voting official, in hiding, speaks out: 'This never ends for me'

The wild ride that made Rudy Giuliani, 'Kraken' lawyer Sidney Powell, and Fox News targets in the mother of all defamation cases

Robinhood in a tough position as it faces a wave of lawsuits over GameStop saga

Nikola’s Trevor Milton left a trail of bitterness on his way to founding the electric-truck startup

Facebook’s Joel Kaplan: The man in the crosshairs

WeWork v. SoftBank: A $3 billion battle involving two ailing companies that were on top of the world 9 months ago

Amazon’s lawsuit over a $10 billion Pentagon contract lays out disturbing allegations against Trump

Behind the Big Tech antitrust backlash: A turning point for America

Jack Dorsey: The enigmatic CEO who could save — or break — Western democracy

Facebook’s Chris Cox was more than just the world's most powerful chief product officer

Exclusive: Facebook ex-security chief: How ‘hypertargeting’ threatens democracy

The government’s fight over AT&T-Time Warner deal is not about ‘bigness’

Why Microsoft may be relinquishing billions in Android patent royalties

Nation's top pain doctors face scores of opioid lawsuits

Supreme Court will determine the fate of 'patent death squads'

Packing and cracking: The Supreme Court takes up partisan gerrymandering

Supreme Court case threatens to set back workers’ rights by 80 years