Gail Weinstein is senior counsel, and Brian T. Mangino and Andrew J. Colosimo are partners at, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. This post is based on a Fried Frank memorandum authored by Ms. Weinstein, Mr. Mangino, Mr. Colosimo, Steven Epstei…
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Month: November 2019
Elon Musk bids Twitter farewell — for now
Elon Musk, the entrepreneurial catalyst behind Tesla and SpaceX. (AP Photo: Jae C. Hong) Written by Neil Vigdor Elon Musk, who was once fined $20 million by securities regulators for a single tweet about taking Tesla private, is taking a break from Twitter.…
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You Can Buy Two Ford F-150 Raptors for the Price of a Bollinger B1 or B2
Why are the Bollinger B1 and B2 So Expensive? Speaking with Car and Driver, Robert Bollinger, the companys founder, said that “rather than follow the common business model of borrowing money for years and years in order to cover the high cost of producing el…
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From aging dinosaurs to failed startups, these are 13 of the biggest tech companies that went under in the 2010s
The 2010s were a decade of massive transformation for the tech industry. Advances in technology brought nearly every industry online, and the proliferation of mobile devices and social media fundamentally changed the way consumers and businesses interact. Th…
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From ageing dinosaurs to failed startups, these are 13 of the biggest tech companies that went under in the 2010s
The 2010s saw booming growth across the tech industry, but some companies didn’t survive the decade. Many of the companies that went under in the past decade were ageing dinosaurs that couldn’t adjust to changes brought about by new t…
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