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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.?
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Behind the Big Tech antitrust backlash: A turning point for America
There's a dramatic sea-change within the specialized biosphere of antitrust experts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.