New York Sues over Net Neutrality, and an Early Uber Investor Leaves His Company
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a suit to block the FCC from repealing net neutrality protections. The state's top lawyer says the agency's move is "illegal" and that its system to collect comments on the issue was "corrupted."
Plus Shervin Pishevar, one of Uber's early investors and an executive at Virgin Hyperloop One, stepped down from his venture capital firm amid allegations of sexual harassment. He says he's focused on the legal battle against those launching a "smear campaign" against him.
And is Twitter up for sale? A picture posted by Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein with the social media platform's Jack Dorsey sparked speculation that the two might be working on a deal.
Wall Street is shaky Thursday as investors consider both the upsides and downsides of the latest signals that the U.S. economy remains in much better shape than feared.
Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure “white gold” in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile.
The number of different electronic cigarette devices sold in the U.S. has nearly tripled to over 9,000 since 2020, driven almost entirely by a wave of unauthorized disposable vapes from China, according to tightly controlled sales data obtained by The Associated Press.