Google Parent Sued by Shareholders for Handling of #MeToo Allegations
In the era of the #MeToo movement, high-profile corporate executives getting sacked for bad behavior has become almost commonplace. New developments w...
Apple Shields iPhone Sales Numbers Amid Worrying Tech Trends
Apple sold 212 million iPhones in 2016, 217 million iPhones in 2017, and 218 million iPhones in 2018. Next year, it’ll be anyone’s guess. On an...
Pension Funds Assume Activist Role in Private Equity Investments
For more than a year now, we’ve been talking about a Wall Street phenomenon. Activist and institutional investors, we’ve noted, are increasingly s...
California Requires More Women on Corporate Boards . . . For Now
California Governor Jerry Brown just signed into law a bill that requires all public companies in the state to put women on their corporate boards. It...
The Ten Most Revealing Statements in Facebook’s Disastrous Earnings Call
It survived the Cambridge Analytica mess. It absorbed the rollout of GDPR. It even weathered the announcement that Facebook would hire 20,000 workers ...
Four Questions Raised by Facebook’s Shareholder Meeting
Facebook’s annual meetings are supposed to be boring affairs. With CEO Mark Zuckerberg controlling nearly 60 percent of the vote, there’s no suspe...