PayPal is said to be in talks to buy Pinterest in a $45 billion deal
PayPal has offered to buy Pinterest. The deal is valued at about $45 billion, a deal that would allow PayPal, a digital payments company, to...
Pinterest accused of not paying female ‘co-creator’
Christine Martinez, one of three Pinterest founders, is suing the other two co-founders claiming she was responsible for ideas core to the business. Martinez said...
Schemer or naïf? Elizabeth Holmes going to trial
Jury selection for the trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the blood-testing Silicon Valley startup Theranos, begins Tuesday. She faces 12 counts of fraud...
They still live in the shadow of Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes
A generation of female entrepreneurs — particularly those in life sciences, biotechnology and health care — said they were constantly compared to Elizabeth Holmes, the...
Robinhood fined $70M for outages and misleading customers
The fine is the largest ever imposed by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which is known as FINRA, and is just the latest legal punishment...
No end to investment whiplash in meme stocks, cryptocurrency and more
With the pandemic easing in the U.S. and the country reopening, many market watchers expected risky forms of investments like meme stocks, SPACs and Bitcoin...
Colonial Pipeline investigation upends idea that Bitcoin is untraceable
The revelation that federal officials had recovered most of the Bitcoin ransom paid in the recent Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack exposed a fundamental misconception about...
Coinbase’s public listing is a landmark moment for cryptocurrency, but uncertainty remains
Digital or cryptocurrencies took a big step toward wider acceptance when Coinbase, a startup that allows people to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, went public Wednesday.
Pinterest is said to be in talks to acquire the photo app VSCO
Pinterest has held talks to buy VSCO, a photography app that spawned a teenage social media craze, according to two people with knowledge of the...