Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola, leaving court in New York City last year after receiving a four-year prison sentence. – Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg News Embattled hydrogen-truck maker Nikola wants to put its convicted founder in the rearview mirror. Trevor Milton has had other plans. Milton, whose over-the-top promotion helped make Nikola’s shares worth billions at one […]
Former President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Dick Pound hit out at the US Anti Doping Agency in a meeting on Friday. (JUSTIN TALLIS) The former president of the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA), Canadian Dick Pound, launched a fierce attack on the United States anti-doping body USADA on Friday, accusing them of “lies […]
Many are concerned about how AI will change wars. Anduril founder Palmer Luckey believes the technology will lead to better decision-making and fewer blunders. Putin wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine when he did if AI had helped him strategize, Luckey told Bloomberg. AI has been compared to the next atomic bomb and sparked fears about the […]
Many are concerned about how AI will change wars. Anduril founder Palmer Luckey believes the technology will lead to better decision-making and fewer blunders. Putin wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine when he did if AI had helped him strategize, Luckey told Bloomberg. AI has been compared to the next atomic bomb and sparked fears about the […]
The future of dating could be filled with digital, artificial intelligence-powered personas setting each other up, according to the founder of a popular dating app. Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, speaking Thursday at the Bloomberg Tech Summit in San Francisco, said that her company is considering how AI can assist and empower women in their […]
Pressure from former Starbucks (SBUX) CEO Howard Schultz is beginning to brew. Schultz, who no longer has a formal role in the company, was quick to weigh in on the coffee giant’s latest miss. In a LinkedIn post on Sunday, the founder and former CEO said he has been asked by “people inside and outside […]
Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden has said she “probably wouldn’t be sat here right now” without the late Kris Hallenga and added that the CoppaFeel! charity founder will continue to save lives. Ms Hallenga died at the age of 38 after living with terminal secondary breast cancer for 15 years. CoppaFeel! was founded in […]
May 6—Brian Barnett, CEO and founder of Solstar Space Co., remembers the time when his company’s Space Communicator flew on a Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin rocket, New Shepard, in April 2018. The payload from Solstar, said Barnett, became the first commercial Wi-Fi inside of a spacecraft, and through the service helped send the first commercial […]
Former Starbucks CEO and founder Howard Schultz says the company’s leaders should spend more time in stores and focus on coffee drinks as they work to turn around flagging sales. In a LinkedIn post published over the weekend, Schultz said many people had reached out to him after Starbucks reported weaker-than-expected quarterly sales and earnings […]
Happy National Astronaut Day 2024! As the inspiring President and CEO of Uniphi Good, music industry fixture Annie Balliro has presided over her successful artist management and marketing firm since 2009 before branching out into Uniphi Space Agency, which has expanded into the nation’s biggest private talent management firm for astronauts. Emboldened with the company’s […]
Pierre Omidyar, Chairman and Founder of eBay.Ramin Talaie/Getty Forbes has determined who the wealthiest resident in every US state is. Despite all the big stars that flock to Hawaii, the elusive founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar takes the state’s crown. Omidyar has given away $1.5 billion of his fortune since 2014. America’s elite have long […]
Rootstock’s new plan to bring programmability to Bitcoin could unfold over the next 12 months. The project could lead to the development of layer-2 networks atop Bitcoin without requiring any major changes to the blockchain’s underlying code. Sergio Demian Lerner, an Argentine developer known for his early work on Satoshi Nakamoto’s bitcoin stash, discussed the […]