Musk has faced several lawsuits, one for falsely claiming that he was going to take Tesla private, another for denigrating a British diver, and still another over his and his directors’ hefty compensation packages. Tesla Inc. shareholders have been advised to vote against re-electing Elon Musk as Tesla’s chief executive […]
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Alexis McGill Johnson becomes the permanent president and CEO of Planned Parenthood after serving in the role on an interim basis. Here, she addresses a rally against white supremacy last year in Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. Marlena Sloss/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Marlena Sloss/The […]
Dan Cathy, CEO of the Chick-Fil-A fast-food restaurant chain, publicly polished the sneakers of the black rapper Lecrae. The son of the Chick-Fil-A founder said he did it to recognize white people’s “oblivion” to racial injustice. “Most of us white people, we’re out-of-sight, out-of-mind oblivious to it,” Dan Cathy said. […]
Greg Glassman, the founder and CEO of CrossFit, resigned on Tuesday after the left-wing outrage mob came for him. Gym owners, brands, celebrities and athletes began abandoning CrossFit after Glassman reportedly said “I do not mourn George Floyd” during a Zoom call. CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman allegedly made the statement […]
Ripple and CEO Brad Garlinghouse say an ongoing lawsuit fails to show how Garlinghouse committed fraud when allegedly selling millions of dollars’ worth of XRP in 2017. Lawyers representing the San Francisco-based blockchain company said in a court motion Monday that lead plaintiff Bradley Sostack has not demonstrated how a […]
The CEO of CrossFit, Greg Glassman, has resigned from his position after remarks about George Floyd sparked a wave of outrage, with critics insisting he made light of the man’s death on Twitter and in audio from a leaked call. Glassman announced the resignation on Tuesday, acknowledging that a tweet […]
Gym owners, brands, celebrities and athletes are abandoning CrossFit after he reportedly said “I do not mourn George Floyd” during a Zoom call. CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman allegedly made the statement several times during a call with gym owners on Saturday. Glassman had also joked that it’s “FLOYD-19” in a […]
The company hired in Texas and New York to perform contact tracing activities is led by an individual who has reportedly falsified his educational background. This is not the person you want to be telling you that you have to go on a 14 day quarantine because he claims you […]
Athletic brand Reebok and several affiliate gyms have canceled their partnerships with fitness giant CrossFit after its CEO tweeted a mocking response to a statement calling racism a “public health issue.” CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman might have cost his company millions with just 13 characters. After he replied to a […]
The growing trend of kneeling to show solidarity with the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement has apparently been adopted by banker Jamie Dimon, triggering an avalanche of disbelief and mockery on social media. The CEO of JPMorgan Chase was photographed taking a knee in front of a large bank vault on […]
US Firms Shield CEO Pay As Pandemic Hits Workers, Investors By Jessica DiNapoli and Ross Kerber, Reuters. May 31, 2020 US Firms Shield CEO Pay As Pandemic Hits Workers, Investors2020-05-312020-05-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/whpng-e1590953388840.png200px200px Above photo: Christopher Nassetta, the President and CEO of Hilton, participates in a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and tourism industry […]
Telegram messenger founder and CEO Pavel Durov reportedly donated about $90,000 worth of bitcoin (BTC) to help alleviate the financial burden of the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. Egor Zhukov, a student political activist who organized a crowdfunding campaign to help people cope with the pandemic-related crisis, announced Durov donated 10 […]
Roshel Defence Solutions CEO Roman Shimonov talks about his company’s armored vehicles spotted at the NASA historic mission to International Space Station (ISS) and Roshel’s innovative approach to the industry Roshel Defence Solutions is located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and it specializes in design and manufacturing of a wide range […]
Binance is forced to “technically” support last week’s hard fork of the Steem blockchain, according to the crypto exchange’s CEO, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao. In a statement on the company’s official blog Sunday, CZ said that, while the exchange is “very much against zeroing other people’s assets on the blockchain,” to […]
US 22:43 GMT 20.05.2020Get short URL Earlier on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump again referenced a conspiracy theory related to the death of a young intern to Joe Scarborough, which happened some 19 years ago, insisting that the “cold case” against the MSNBC host be reopened. The co-host of the […]
Enthusiasm for libra, the cryptocurrency backed by Facebook, swirled at Consensus: Distributed Tuesday morning, but Michael Shaulov, CEO and co-founder of crypto transaction platform FireBlocks, was happy to damp it down. Host Ran Goldi, CEO of liquidity provider First – which has the motto “We believe in Libra” on its […]
Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao really doesn’t want to tell you where his firm’s headquarters is located. To kick off ConsenSys’ Ethereal Summit on Thursday, Unchained Podcast host Laura Shin held a cozy fireside chat with Zhao who, to mark the occasion, was wearing a personalized football shirt emblazoned with […]
Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) reportedly received a hefty payout from Bakkt’s parent company Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) as she left to take up her political position. According to the New York Times on Wednesday, Loeffler was revealed to have been gifted “stock and other awards worth more than $9 million” when […]
The Libra Association has named HSBC Chief Legal Officer Stuart Levey as its first chief executive. The Facebook-created consortium announced Wednesday that Levey would be joining “later this summer” and will be overseeing its efforts to “combine technology innovation with a robust compliance and regulatory framework.” He has been at […]
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has appointed ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt to lead a panel on post-pandemic “reform” of health and education systems, despite criticism for taking other billionaires with conflicts of interest on board. Schmidt will head a ‘Blue Ribbon Commission’ tasked with “reimagining” New York’s existing systems of […]
Finland is one of the least-hit Nordic nations amid the ongoing pandemic, with 5,412 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 246 deaths; it has already started to lift the restrictions, but pundits predict a grim economic outlook. The coronavirus epidemic and the ensuing stern measures, including massive shutdowns and lockdowns, will have […]