Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mr Zuckerberg apologised for a “breach of trust” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has said he will not appear before MPs investigating fake news, but will send one of his senior executives instead. The tech giant and data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica are at the …
On Saturday afternoon, as hundreds of thousands of people joined the March for Our Lives around the nation, I was on the phone with Michael Corbat, chief executive of Citigroup. Mr. Corbat had taken the remarkable step on Thursday of authorizing a new set of rules to restrict gun sales …
Image copyright GKN Image caption GKN employs about 59,000 people globally, with 6,000 in the UK Business Secretary Greg Clark has written to Melrose demanding “binding” commitments from the turnaround specialist over its £8.1bn bid for GKN. Mr Clark sought “extensive and clear” measures over GKN’s workforce, research and development, …
Akzo Nobel has agreed to sell its specialty chemicals business to U.S. private equity firm Carlyle Group and Singapore’s GIC for 10.1 billion euros ($12.6 billion), including debt. The net proceeds of the deal are expected to amount to 7.5 billion euros, Akzo said, with the bulk going to shareholders. …
Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t afraid to risk a $2 billion investment in Oculus that didn’t pay off What are you afraid of? March 26, 2018 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In 2014, Mark Zuckerberg invested $2 billion in the startup virtual reality (VR) platform, Oculus. Observers, including …
Here’s how to make sense of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. March 26, 2018 1 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You’ve done your homework on retirement and 401(k) plans. You think you know everything you need to know about fees and returns and being …
File photo: Tim Cook, CEO, holds an iPad Pro after his keynote address to Apple’s annual world wide developer conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California, U.S. June 5, 2017. (REUTERS/Stephen Lam) Apple may have started thinking about the iPad 35 years ago, but its Chicago-based event this week is likely …
The stock market was rising sharply early Monday in part because the Stormy Daniels interview on “60 Minutes” did not deliver a “knockout blow” to Donald Trump‘s presidency, according to CNBC’s Jim Cramer. Cramer said speculation that Daniels could show evidence about her alleged affair with Trump knocked a couple …
Written for EO by Peter Kozodoy, partner and chief strategy officer at Gem Advertising and an EO New York member. As an entrepreneur for more than a decade, I’ve learned a thing or two about sales. Namely: Sales isn’t linear, easy, intuitive or even simple. Rather, sales is a nuanced beast …
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took out full-page advertisements in major U.S. and British newspapers to apologize for a “breach of trust” after it was discovered Cambridge Analytica improperly harvested user data. The ads, which were taken out in papers including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall …