SAN FRANCISCO, June 19- Shareholder activists on Wednesday urged Google parent Alphabet Inc to break itself up before regulators force the world's biggest internet ad seller to split into different pieces. Alphabet's top two executives, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, hold 51.3 percent of shareholder votes. The U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade...
Shareholder activists want Google parent Alphabet to break itself up before regulators force the world's biggest internet ad seller to split into different pieces.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 19- Shareholder activists want Google parent Alphabet Inc to break itself up before regulators force the world's biggest internet ad seller to split into different pieces. The proposal has no realistic chance of success as Alphabet's top two executives, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, hold 51.3 percent of shareholder votes.
June 7- Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller told CNBC on Friday that the increasing corporate debt in the United States will be a problem in the event of a recession. He also weighed on the Democratic presidential candidates in the 2020 White House race, stating he does not have a problem with a higher capital gains tax supported by former Vice President...
Twitter says it paid co-founder Jack Dorsey a salary last year for the first time since he returned to his post as CEO in 2015.
Alphabet has a wide range of health-care research projects, from rehab efforts and medical tests to new devices for people in need.
Alphabet's long-term bets are risky and may never pay off. Employees need to put in the kind of hours associated with start-ups and be able to share in the upside.
Scott Galloway says being rich is not dependent on how much money you bring in. It has to do with this instead.
"When I was younger, I thought masculinity and being a man was being ripped, being buff ... and generally just making a s--- ton of money at work," says entrepreneur Scott Galloway, who sold his company L2, Inc. for millions of dollars.
Asked if he was joking, the maverick tech entrepreneur replied simply: "I'm not."
The simple wool shoe started as a Silicon Valley favorite and has spread to Hollywood and beyond.
When Eric Gnock Fah dreamed up the idea for a new business, he headed straight to LinkedIn.
Venture capitalist and early Amazon investor John Doerr is sitting at the intersection of health and technology. He said earlier this week that Amazon and Google have a big role to play in health care.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai will testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Dec. 5 at 10 a.m., according to a release from the committee. Pichai will be asked about potential bias in the platform and transparency around Google's practices.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed the company's early hiring practices and lessons learned.
The Dow had been down as many as 548 points during the Tuesday session before bouncing back.
Correction territory isn't looming just yet – both the Dow and S&P 500 are still about six percent below their most recent all-time highs.
The Nasdaq fell for a third straight week and both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are on pace to post their largest monthly losses since January 2016.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq haven't been able to post back-to-back gains during October. The Dow has not done so since rising on the first three days of the month.
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