In a down-and-out Canadian town, Bruce Linton dreamed of transforming an abandoned Hershey Co. chocolate plant into the Next Big Thing, a medical marijuana factory. But the pot entrepreneur faced a crisis typical of his edgy industry: Banks shut their doors in his face. It began with Royal Bank of
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Facebook Thiel Zuckerberg Cambridge Palantir Facebook has always had its share of critics, but now the company is enveloped in a scandal that is steamrolling into boycott territory.
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Tuesday morning's hotly anticipated production update from the company confirmed what all the various leaks, management shuffles and Bloomberg's own tracker model pointed to: a miss. A herculean effort got production to 2,020 Model 3s in the last week of March, still short of the (reduced) target of
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According to copies of two employment contracts reviewed by Bloomberg, some Sinclair employees were subject to a liquidated damages clause for leaving before the term of their agreement was up: one that requires they pay as much as 40 percent of their annual compensation to the company.
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Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's president, center, speaks during the Petro cryptocurrency launch event in Caracas on Feb. 20, 2018. Photographer: Wil Riera/Bloomberg. Two weeks after Venezuela's cryptocurrency scheduled sale date, many aspects of the Petro remain a mystery and initial coin offering
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