Economy Mar 14 Class action lawsuit filed against Silicon Valley Bank parent company The lawsuit against SVB Financial Group, CEO Greg Becker and CFO Daniel Beck was filed in the U.S. district court for the Northern district of California. It is looking for unspecified damages to be awarded to some SVB investors.
Science Mar 13 Pfizer buys Seagen for $43 billion, seeks new cancer treatments Pfizer is spending about $43 billion to reach deeper into new cancer treatments that target tumor cells while sparing surrounding healthy tissue.
Nation Mar 07 WeightWatchers to enter prescription drug weight loss business WeightWatchers shares soared Tuesday after the company said it was getting into the prescription drug weight loss business with the acquisition of Sequence.
Nation Mar 01 TikTok sets new default screen time limits for minors TikTok says every account held by a user under the age of 18 will have a default 60-minute daily screen time limit in the coming weeks.
Economy Feb 16 Tesla workers at New York plant fired after labor push, union says Several employees at a Tesla factory in Buffalo, New York have been fired after launching union organizing efforts two days ago, according to Tesla Workers United.
Nation Feb 06 Scandal-plagued National Enquirer tabloid sold In December 2018 the parent company of publications including the National Enquirer, Us Weekly and In Touch admitted to engaging in a journalistically dubious practice known as “catch-and-kill” in order to help Donald Trump become president.
Politics Jan 31 DOJ requests Tesla automated driving documents “To our knowledge no government agency in any ongoing investigation has concluded that any wrongdoing occurred,” Tesla said in the filing Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Nation Jan 12 Few airline delays or cancellations a day after FAA outage grounds planes Delays and cancellations among flights across the United States were minimal on Thursday, a day after a system that offers safety information to pilots failed, grounding some planes for hours.
Nation Jan 11 FAA computer outage brings U.S. flights to a standstill as departing planes grounded Thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled or delayed Wednesday after a government system that offers safety and other information to pilots broke down, stranding some planes on the ground for hours.
Economy Oct 17 Kanye West offers to buy conservative social media platform Parler The rapper formerly known as Kanye West is offering to buy right-wing friendly social network Parler shortly after he was blocked from posting on Twitter and Instagram for antisemitic posts.