OAKLAND, Calif. — When Sandy Carter left her job as a vice president of Amazon’s cloud computing unit this month, she announced in a LinkedIn post that she was joining […]
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Back to news homeElizabeth Holmes Trial Nears Finish as Closing Arguments End
On Thursday, Jeff Schenk, an assistant U.S. attorney and one of the lead prosecutors, summarized the government’s case simply: When Theranos was almost out of money, Ms. Holmes could have […]
Prosecutors Push Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos to Take Responsibility
SAN JOSE, Calif. — For four days, Elizabeth Holmes took the stand to blame others for the alleged fraud at her blood testing start-up, Theranos. On the fifth day, prosecutors […]
Jack Dorsey’s Twitter Departure Hints at Big Tech’s Restlessness
“I don’t think there’s anything more important in my lifetime to work on, and I don’t think there’s anything more enabling for people around the world,” he told the audience […]
Elizabeth Holmes Begins Her Defense in Fraud Trial
SAN JOSE, Calif. — For the past 11 weeks, prosecutors revealed emails from desperate investors. They held up falsified documents side by side with the originals. They called dozens of […]
Elizabeth Holmes Trial Exposes Investors’ Lack of Due Diligence
SAN JOSE, Calif. — In 2014, Dan Mosley, a lawyer and power broker among wealthy families, asked the entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes for audited financial statements of Theranos, her blood testing […]
Nuclear Fusion Edges Toward the Mainstream
ABINGDON, England — Harnessing fusion energy into something commercially viable — and maybe, ultimately, a clean source of power that replaces fossil fuels for centuries to come — has long […]
En Francia, los futuros agricultores son expertos en tecnología y quieren los fines de semana libres
“Cuando no estás en este sector es muy fácil decir: ‘Voy a volverlo sexi con la tecnología’”, dijo Amandine Muret Béguin, de 33 años, directora de la Unión de Jóvenes […]
The Future Farmers of France Are Tech Savvy, and Want Weekends Off
YVELINES, France — On a century-old farm that’s now a start-up campus in this verdant region west of Paris, computer coders are learning to program crop-harvesting robots. Young urbanites planning […]
Ozy Media and the Limits of ‘Fake it till you Make it’
I don’t know this company in particular, but this happens very often. I can imagine a business plan that said, “In the short term, we will pay people to do […]