Clean up those startup cornersBharatPe’s Grover and edtech startup Byju’s have been the two most high-profile instances where solo aggressive founders have been engaged ...
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Sam Bankman-Fried's wild rise and abrupt crashAfter a speedy trial in Manhattan federal court, the onetime crypto king, now 31, was convicted on Thursday of seven counts of fraud and co...
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10 Jun, 2023, 04.13 PM IST
Liz Holmes wants you to forget about ElizabethTen years ago, Holmes was the world's youngest self-made female billionaire, worth $4.5 billion (on paper, in Theranos stock), and one of t...
09 May, 2023, 11.31 PM IST
Liz Holmes wants you to forget about ElizabethHolmes has not spoken to the media since 2016, when her legal team advised she go quiet. As the adage goes, if you don't feed the press, we...
07 May, 2023, 11.45 PM IST
End of faking it for startups in Silicon ValleyInvestors are no longer buying startup world’s habit of playing fast and loose with the truth
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The end of faking it in the Silicon ValleyNot only has funding dried up for cash-burning startups over the past year, but now, fraud is also in the air, as investors scrutinise star...
15 Apr, 2023, 11.56 AM IST
Another Theranos trial begins, this time without the fanfareAt the heart of his trial is whether the government can prove that Balwani intended to defraud patients and investors with false claims abo...
23 Mar, 2022, 11.09 AM IST
The cryptocurrency space is tailor made for scams: The scams everyone must know aboutThe cryptocurrency space is tailor made for scams. If anyone believes that this Kerala ICO is an isolated case, is living in delusion. Whet...
18 Jan, 2022, 10.14 AM IST
Theranos verdict: Key moments from the Elizabeth Holmes trialA jury in the US found Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes guilty of defrauding investors in the blood testing startup, convicting her on fou...
04 Jan, 2022, 06.22 PM IST
Goldman Sachs, Ozy Media and a $40 million conference call gone wrongOzy Media accused of impersonating a Google executives, vastly inflating its web and video traffic and raising millions of dollars over a f...
28 Sep, 2021, 10.09 AM IST
Sexism in tech is real and alive. How big a role is it playing in Elizabeth Holmes's trial?In tech, brash male founders are allowed to overpromise and underdeliver.
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Luxury hotels, private jets: Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes’s lavish lifestyle to be part of fraud trialHolmes reigned briefly as the world’s youngest female self-made billionaire before her blood-testing startup once valued at $9 billion unra...
27 May, 2021, 12.12 PM IST
Blood-test startups try to crawl out from the shadow of TheranosTheranos hasn’t deterred Silicon Valley from its growing obsession with health care.
25 Mar, 2019, 09.52 AM IST
Precise blood testing from a fingerprick? Tanay Tandon & Deepika Bodapati thinks it's possibleAthelas has published initial data comparing traditional laboratory results to its technology, which captures high-resolution images of a b...
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Price is no object at Apple's new headquartersCould Apple afford a $5 billion headquarters? Of course. As of early May, the company had more than $250 billion in cash on hand.
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The 30 most successful Stanford alumni of all timeThis year, Stanford topped our lists as the best and most selective college in the US. As such, it attracts an extremely talented and intel...
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