Business
Elon Musk runs 3 companies – and his executive juggling act is the perfect example of how the modern CEO job is broken
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
CEOs have turned into chief hypocrisy officers: running multiple businesses, sitting on boards, and juggling side hustles while demanding total and complete attention from their employees. Rachel Mendelson/Insider
What does Elon Musk do all day?
That may seem like a simple question: He works. Musk is the CEO of three companies: SpaceX, Tesla, and, of course, Twitter. He also...
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
FILE - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., strikes the gavel after announcing the passage of article II of impeachment against President Donald Trump, Dec. 18, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — There are two searing scenes of Nancy Pelosi confronting the violent extremism that spilled into the open late in...
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
A TV screen shows a file image of North Korean missile in a military parade during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. South Korea says the missile North Korea launched Friday morning is likely an intercontinental ballistic missile. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired...
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Former England captain Nasser Hussain has ripped into India captain Rohit Sharma and their head coach Rahul Dravid for the Asian side’s failure to win the recently concluded T20 World Cup in Australia. After surviving a couple of scares during the group stage, India eventually progressed to the semifinals of the tournament.
However, they were no match to...
Business
A top investor is now taking aim at Alphabet, saying it has too many employees, pays them too much, and it’s burning money on bad bets.
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaking during a Google event in California in 2016. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Major Alphabet investor TCI sent a letter to Alphabet's CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday.
The letter urged the company to cut costs in part by reducing headcount and lowering compensation.
It also called for losses to be "reduced dramatically" in Waymo,...
Business
Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy excoriates Indian education system, calls IITs ‘victims of the tyranny of coaching classes’
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has come down heavily on the state of scientific research as it exists today in India. He said that even though two Indian companies produced the Covid vaccines during the pandemic, India still lags behind in technology and research. He also added that the Covid vaccines are based on technology or research from...
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at court during the SolarCity trial in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Musk was cool but combative as he testified in a Delaware courtroom that Tesla's more than $2 billion acquisition of SolarCity in 2016 wasn't a bailout of the struggling solar provider.
Twitter Inc. owner...
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Global population will reach 8 billion Tuesday in historic milestone for humanity, UN projects
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Residents cross an intersection at a shopping district on October 30, 2022 in Hong Kong, China. - Anthony Kwan, Getty Images
It's not a small world after all.
The global population projects to reach 8 billion people Tuesday, the United Nations says, in a historic milestone for humanity as the organization gives a look into what the future could look...
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Potential control of the Senate could be slipping away from Republicans, as results from the 2022 election continue to roll in. What about the House?
The assumption has long been that the chamber would go red. But this election has certainly tested plenty of assumptions.
Democrats have been projected as the winners in 188 House districts, while 208 have...
Business
Elon Musk floats bankruptcy as a possibility, demands ‘hardcore’ culture in first meeting with Twitter employees
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Elon Musk brought up bankruptcy as a possibility in a meeting with Twitter staff, people present said.
The billionaire had just warned in an early morning email the "economic picture ahead is dire."
Elon Musk said in his first meeting with Twitter staff since buying the company that "bankruptcy isn't out of the question," sources who attended...