Grace Dean
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The daughter of a sanctioned Russian billionaire says she's the true owner of a $68 million superyacht bought by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Russian mogul Andrey Guryev has denied owning the Alfa Nero, but his daughter has filed an appeal claiming she's its true owner. → Read More
Former HR boss at Twitter says the company failed to pay $500 million in severance pay owed to laid-off staff
The lawsuit says that laid-off Twitter workers were given just "a fraction" of what they were entitled to under the severance plan. → Read More
A lawsuit claims Google has been 'secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans' to train its AI
A lawsuit claims Google took people's data without their knowledge or consent to train its AI products, including chatbot Bard. → Read More
A tech CEO who's rolling out AI across his company says it will give workers 'superpowers' because it's 'crazy powerful'
The CEO of HR-tech company Remote says AI will not replace jobs, but rather help eliminate monotonous tasks for employees. → Read More
Disney CEO Bob Iger slammed Gov. Ron DeSantis' attempt to strip the company of its decades-long special tax status as 'anti-business' and 'anti-Florida'
Disney has been embroiled in a public spat with Gov. Ron DeSantis over a new law that bans teachers from educating children about sexual orientation. → Read More
Some brands are 'slack-filling' to cleverly disguise how much product you actually get
Making packaging bigger than it needs to be isn't necessarily illegal, but it's something consumers should watch out for, along with "shrinkflation." → Read More
Elon Musk is behaving 'like the local drunk,' says a former Twitter executive
Elon Musk recently accused a former Twitter director who has muscular dystrophy of using his disability as an "excuse" to do "no actual work." → Read More
Money really does buy happiness for most people, researchers say
A new study that reanalyzed previous research appears to contradict the theory that happiness eventually plateaus as income rises. → Read More
Elon Musk reportedly tried to sell Twitter's office plants to employees as part of his push for cash
Since taking over Twitter in November, Elon Musk has tried to cut costs and boost the company's income. → Read More
A Twitter engineer says the company is 'like a building where all the pieces are on fire'
Twitter's workforce has shrunk by around three-quarters since Elon Musk took over, and some employees say it is impacting its service. → Read More
Norwegian Cruise Line says wealthy customers are still splashing out on cruise trips despite the sluggish economy
"We simply haven't seen any indication that the consumer is shying away from taking cruise vacations," its CEO Frank del Rio said Tuesday. → Read More
South Carolina state senator proposes a bill that would require new residents to pay $500 to move there
Counties would charge newcomers $250 to register their vehicle in South Carolina and $250 to get a new driver's license under the proposal. → Read More
Beyond Meat sales slumped because people are eating less fake meat, and the company says it gets why
Beyond Meat's Q4 sales were down 20.6%, which CEO Ethan Brown attributed to "persistently high inflation" and trading down by consumers. → Read More
A Google worker says some staff found out which colleagues had been laid off after their emails bounced back
Many laid-off Google workers resorted to messaging their ex-coworkers on LinkedIn or via text to tell them they'd been let go. → Read More
Yelp workers flocked to Texas and Florida from New York and San Francisco after the company went fully remote
The number of Yelp workers living in Florida and Texas grew four-fold between 2019 and 2022, the company said in a report on Tuesday. → Read More
A Jewish congressman says Twitter has become a 'hate-filled playground for Nazis and antisemites'
Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz told CNN "antisemitism is real" and Twitter has "become a hate-filled playground for Nazis and antisemites." → Read More
Laid-off Google workers say the impersonal way the company let them go shows it's 'just as cutthroat corporate as anybody else'
"It feels very much like they are just as cutthroat corporate as anybody else," one laid-off employee said. "The crown has fallen here." → Read More
Zoom's CEO will take a $10,000 salary this year, a 98% pay cut, after laying off 1,300 workers because of 'mistakes' he made growing the company
Eric Yuan is slashing his pay by $490,000. "I want to show accountability not just in words but in my own actions," he told staff. → Read More
A Google engineer says survivors of the mass layoffs cried in meetings the day around 12,000 of their colleagues were culled
Another engineer told Insider the layoffs meant Google was "just another big company" and the things that made it feel special were "gone." → Read More
Sam Bankman-Fried had a 'security incident' when 3 men drove into a metal barricade outside his parents' multimillion Bay Area home, his lawyer said
Filings by Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers detail the "harassment and threats" the former crypto mogul and his parents have faced since FTX's collapse. → Read More