The Big Tech Masters of the Universe have come together to urge the SEC to require public companies to regularly disclose climate-related issues to shareholders. The letter was signed by Google’s parent company Alphabet, Amazon, Autodesk, eBay, Facebook, Intel, and Salesforce.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated on Sunday that the company will resume accepting Bitcoin as payment for its electric cars once it confirms that there is a “reasonable” level of clean energy used by miners.
The SEC has reportedly told Tesla that the company violated a court-ordered policy to oversee tweets by CEO Elon Musk. According to a court decision, Musk’s tweets about Tesla were supposed to be approved by a company lawyer, which Musk critics labeled his “Twitter Sitter.”
Elon Musk has given himself a new title at his electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla — Technoking. A company filing with the SEC announces Musk’s new title, as well as CFO Zach Kirkhorn being appointed “Master of Coin.”
Stock trading app Robinhood has chosen Nasdaq as the exchange for its IPO this year, despite being embroiled in controversy over its treatment of its customers during the Gamestop trading frenzy and previous problems including trading outages.
President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission indicated Tuesday that he would likely support new rules to force corporations to disclose their political spending activities, disclosure workforce diversity, and tighten disclosures around climate change, policies that would make businesses more susceptible to political pressure from the left.
A recent report from the New York Times states that the stock trading platform Robinhood is facing almost 50 lawsuits directly related to the recent GameStop trading frenzy.
Her enormous speaking fees from Citadel raise questions about conflicts of interest.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who has long billed herself as an enemy of Wall Street, is urging the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to review the recent surge in stock for video game retail company GameStop that was spurred by an online Reddit community.
The SEC has charged popular stock trading app Robinhood with deceiving customers about how the company makes money and failing to deliver the best execution of trades.
Vanderbilt University interim head coach Todd Fitch has thrown in the towel and canceled the coming game against Georgia.
Despite Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller’s stirring halftime speech and 30-yard kick Saturday, several of her fellow football players may opt out of their game against Georgia this weekend.
Sarah Fuller is now in the running for the Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award, according to reports.
With rumors of a publicity stunt by Vanderbilt University starring soccer player-turned-football kicker Sarah Fuller still swirling, the SEC named Fuller Special Teams Player of the Week.
Nov. 10 (UPI) — The Southeastern Conference on Tuesday postponed this weekend’s Alabama-LSU and Tennessee-Texas A&M games because of multiple COVID-19 cases within the Tigers and Aggies football programs.
Thursday on ESPN’s “First Take,” co-host Max Kellerman downplayed the intellectual capabilities of SEC college football fans while discussing the potential political implications of a canceled season.
At least half of college football seems determined to play this fall. However, the best team on this year’s college gridiron might only hoist a participation trophy at the end of the year.
The commissioners of college football’s Power 5 conferences held a meeting on Sunday to determine whether there would in fact be, a 2020 college football season.
The NCAA on Friday expanded its policy banning states with prominent Confederate symbols from hosting its championship events, one day after the Southeastern Conference made a similar declaration aimed at the Mississippi state flag.
The chief of America’s premier college football conference just sent a stern message to the State of Mississippi: Get the confederate flag out of your state flag, or risk not hosting another SEC Championship game again.
The University of Florida has decided to put an end to its “Gator Bait” chant, due to what the school claims is the “historic racist imagery associated with the phrase.”
At least five members of the University of Alabama football team have tested positive for the coronavirus as training resumes.
Whistleblowers at Facebook have filed a complaint with the SEC alleging that the company was aware of illegal activity on its platform, yet failed to notify the proper authorities, according to a report in the Washington Post.
For those anxiously anticipating the beginning of college football, you got good news today. The Southeastern Conference approved voluntary on-campus workouts for student-athletes beginning on June 8th.
The ACC, Big 10, Big 12, SEC, and Pac-12, all canceled their conference tournaments on Thursday.
A former Tesla employee has filed a formal whistleblower complaint with the SEC alleging that Tesla failed to disclose that authorities had discovered an alleged drug trafficking scheme involving an employee at the firm’s “Gigafactory” plant in Nevada. Among the other claims in the complaint, the whistleblower also describes the theft of more than $37 million worth of copper from Elon Musk’s Nevada facility.
ESPN and the SEC Network took swift action after analyst Barry Booker after he made an off-the-cuff remark about watching “scantily clad girls” on the NCAA gymnastics mats.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly asked Tesla CEO Elon Musk how he should fix the social media platform, Musk reportedly told Dorsey that “bots and troll armies” were the issue to focus on.
Warren wants a federal probe into whether President Trump provided advance notice of the strike to people who then traded stocks.
It’s no secret that the SEC Conference has dominated pretty much everyone in college football — with the exception of Clemson — in recent years.
In a financial form released Thursday, Internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare admitted that they faced “significant adverse feedback” from users and potential customers over their banning of anonymous online forum 8Chan and the white nationalist Daily Stormer.
Microsoft has paid out $25 million to settle a U.S. government investigation into alleged bribery by former employees in Hungary.
Disgraced former CEO Elizabeth Holmes will stand trial for her role in the now infamous collapse of her startup Theranos, which falsely claimed that it had revolutionized medical blood testing. She faces up to 20 years in prison for fraud, with her trial occurring next year.
An SEC commissioner recently criticized the deal that the agency reached with Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn was charged in Germany this week for his alleged role in the massive diesel-rigging scandal that was first reported on in 2015.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently shared a video of a Tesla owner blatantly disregarding the company’s safety instructions and sitting in the passenger seat of a Tesla vehicle on autopilot mode.
Elon Musk’s Tesla saw a sharp drop in its share price Thursday as the company announced first-quarter car deliveries that fell well below expectations.
The SEC has reportedly stated that Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s contempt of court defense “borders on ridiculous.”
The SEC has reportedly charged Volkswagen and the company’s former CEO with defrauding their investors.
According to a recent report from the New York Times, tech giant Facebook is under criminal investigation for a number of data deals with other major tech firms. The New York Times recently reported that federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation
