Tag: founder

18 SEP

Withings unveils $200 Steel HR Sport smartwatch, its first device since founder reacquired company from Nokia

Withings today completes its tantalizing return from the tech scrapheap with the launch of its first new product as an independent company. The French firm, which was founded by Éric Carreel and Cedric Hutchings in 2008, was bought by Nokia in 2016 for $ 192 million. Nokia later ditched the Withings brand in favor of Nokia […]

14 SEP

#Walkaway founder banned from Facebook for linking to Infowars

Brandon Straka, the former Democrat who founded the #WalkAway campaign was banned from Facebook ahead of a protest in Washington DC. “They’re trying to sabotage the march on Washington,” he told RT. Straka was banned from the social network on Wednesday, for attempting to promote an interview on Infowars.com, the conspiracy-heavy news and opinion site […]

11 SEP

Gawker is set to relaunch under its new owner Bryan Goldberg, the founder of Bustle Digital Group

Bustle Gawker, the general news and media gossip blog that was sued into bankruptcy by Hulk Hogan and Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, is set to relaunch next year.  The rights to the Gawker brand and its archive of blog posts were recently purchased by Bryan Goldberg, founder and CEO of Bustle Digital Group, who […]

11 AUG

The founder of Silk Road is dictating tweets from the prison where he’s serving life — and he’s convinced 55,000 people to sign his petition for clemency

Screenshot Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 after being convicted of running the dark web marketplace Silk Road. His family have set up the twitter account @RealRossU, which relays messages Ulbricht dictates from prison. The account has helped get over 55,000 signatures for a petition asking for clemency for Ulbricht. His […]

07 AUG

Oracle founder Larry Ellison says its ’embarrassing’ for Amazon that it relies so heavily on Oracle’s technology (ORCL, AMZN)

Oracle Oracle founder Larry Ellison said “it’s kind of embarrassing” for Amazon that it uses Oracle’s databases to power its own business — especially considering Amazon offers its own databases that compete with Oracle’s.  Ellison was responding to a report from last week that Amazon intends to get off of Oracle’s products completely by 2020.  […]

13 JUL

Bentley celebrates its founder with the Mulsanne W.O. Edition by Mulliner

Autoblog ist jetzt Teil der Oath-Familie. Nach EU-Datenschutzgesetzen benötigen wir (Oath), unsere Anbieter und Partner Ihre Einwilligung, um auf Ihrem Gerät Cookies zu speichern, um Ihre Such-, Standort- und Browsing-Daten zu verwenden, Ihre Interessen zu verstehen und Anzeigen auf unseren Produkten zu personalisieren und zu messen. Oath stellt Ihnen auch personalisierte Anzeigen auf den Produkten […]

23 JUN

The founder of notorious failed startup Clinkle is reportedly coming back with a blockchain project

Clinkle Lucas Duplan, the founder of infamous failed startup Clinkle, is involved in a blockchain company. According to a new report from Wired, the entrepreneur invested in and is linked to Universal Recognition Token. His old startup, Clinkle, raised tens of millions from investors before totally imploding in what’s now considered a Silicon Valley cautionary […]

16 JUN

Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes and Her Ex-No. 2 Charged With Defrauding Investors

Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh Balwani, the blood-testing company’s former No. 2 executive, alleging that they defrauded investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars and defrauded doctors and patients.

16 JUN

Founder of ‘revolutionary’ blood-testing startup Theranos charged with fraud

Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of the blood-testing health technology company Theranos, and her business partner, have been indicted on charges of wire fraud and of defrauding investors, patients and doctors. Holmes and former Theranos COO Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani were charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire […]