Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): News
06 Mar 2023
ZoomZoom fired its president Greg Tomb before completing a year
Popular video conferencing platform Zoom fired about 15% of its workforce a month ago. The company has now axed its president Greg Tomb.
03 Mar 2023
CryptocurrencyWhat is Silvergate fallout that is pulling down crypto market
The crypto world has been slowly moving toward normalcy after a disastrous 2022. However, the period of calm could be short-lived.
02 Mar 2023
CryptocurrencyHow Indian-origin techie Nishad Singh got involved in FTX storm
The FTX story, as much a cautionary tale as it is, is also about dreams, friendship, and betrayal. Nishad Singh, the former director of engineering at FTX, has pleaded guilty to six fraud charges.
04 Feb 2023
Nirmala SitharamanRegulators monitoring Adani-Hindenburg crisis, FPO pullout hardly impacted economy: Sitharaman
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that market regulators are independently monitoring the crisis around Adani Group, which is facing allegations of stock manipulation and accounting fraud.
07 Oct 2021
FacebookWhistleblower alleges RSS promotes fear, anti-Muslim narratives on Facebook
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has kicked up a storm in the US with her leaks highlighting how Facebook's internal decisions are detrimental to individual well-being and society at large.
16 Mar 2021
Elon MuskElon Musk officially crowns himself Technoking through Tesla's regulatory filing
Elon Musk's love for bizarre names and antagonizing investors continues with its latest regulatory filing. Tesla has given its CEO Musk the peculiar title Technoking through its new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
18 Aug 2020
CanonCarnival, world's largest cruise line operator, falls victim to cyberattack
As the world struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic, hackers are using the opportunity to attack unsuspecting organizations and their customers.
06 Jul 2020
Boring CompanyNow, Elon Musk is selling Tesla-branded 'short shorts'
After selling fancy electric cars, setting up an underground rapid movement system, and renting rocket and space capsule to NASA for manned missions, the maverick Elon Musk is onto selling something absurd - 'short shorts'.
02 Nov 2019
TwitterGoing offline: Elon Musk says he's disconnecting from Twitter
As far as his social media activities are concerned, Elon Musk seems perplexed, at best.
13 Oct 2019
Pakistan NewsHas Pakistan curbed terror financing? FATF to decide soon
Pakistan, already having a bad reputation for encouraging terrorism in its land, is facing a testing time.
07 Oct 2019
IndiaFATF notes Pakistan's actions against terrorism haven't been enough
The global-watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) gave Pakistan months to act strongly against terrorism, but the country failed to do so.
25 Jan 2019
Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI)Chanda Kochhar case: Whistleblower says it's just "tip of iceberg"
On Thursday, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) charged former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar with criminal conspiracy, but the whistleblower has said this is just the tip of the iceberg.
08 Nov 2018
Elon MuskTesla replaces Elon Musk, appoints Robyn Denholm as chairman
Tesla has appointed 55-year-old Robyn Denholm to chair the board of the company after founder Elon Musk was ousted from the post a month back.
30 Sep 2018
Elon MuskElon Musk to resign as Tesla Chairman, will remain CEO
Elon Musk has reached a settlement with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over fraud charges, as a result of which he will step down from the Chairman post of Tesla. Musk will continue to remain the CEO of the electric car making company.
28 Sep 2018
Elon MuskElon Musk sued for fraud, might be ousted from Tesla
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been sued for fraud by US federal regulators, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), over his Tesla privatization tweet.
25 Aug 2018
Tesla Model 3Tesla to remain public, Elon Musk announces
After about two weeks of commotion over Musk's claim of taking Tesla private, the South African-born entrepreneur, on Friday night, announced that Tesla isn't going private after all.
18 Aug 2018
Elon MuskFollowing Musk's interview, Tesla shares plummet again
There has been a lot of speculation about Tesla's future of late, and on Friday, the company's stocks took a pounding after a lengthy Elon Musk interview raised further questions about the company's future.
10 Jun 2018
Venugopal DhootChanda Kochhar probe extends to US, SEC now investigating case
The probe against ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochhar and her family's allegedly illegal business dealings with the Videocon group is going international.
25 Mar 2018
New JerseyIndian-origin ponzi schemer charged in US with $250,000 fraud
An Indian-origin man in the US has been charged with stealing more than $250,000 in a Ponzi scheme in which his friends and coworkers invested.
15 Mar 2018
United States of AmericaTheranos founder, her Indian-American boyfriend charged with $700m fraud
US Federal regulators charged the blood-testing company Theranos, its Founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, and her Indian-American boyfriend-turned-Theranos President Ramesh Sunny Balwani with $700m fraud.