Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is really psyched about the electric pickup truck he’s got on the drawing board — and he’s also cool with the Space… Read More
Tesla shares jumped more than 10 percent in after-hours trading today after the controversial electric-car company posted a surprisingly positive quarterly report, including a profit rather than a loss. Adjusted… Read More
Tesla’s share price jumped today as dramatically as it fell on Friday, thanks largely to this weekend’s settlement of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s complaints against the company and its… Read More
Elon Musk has agreed to step down as Tesla’s chairman for three years but will remain CEO of the electric car maker, under the terms of documents filed today to… Read More
Tesla’s billionaire CEO and chairman, Elon Musk, is calling the Securities and Exchange Commission’s fraud claims against him “unjustified” after reportedly passing up a settlement deal that would have temporarily… Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Tesla’s billionaire CEO and chairman, Elon Musk, with securities fraud over a series of controversial tweets focusing on the electric-car company’s future financial… Read More
Tesla shares fell by as much as 6.5 percent today after Bloomberg News reported that the electric-car company was the subject of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department, focusing… Read More
Tesla share prices took a hit amounting to as much as 10 percent today, after billionaire CEO Elon Musk took a hit off what looked like as a marijuana stogie… Read More
After Tesla CEO Elon Musk got emotional during a market-moving interview this month, Amy Nelson, CEO and founder of The Riveter, says she can understand the kind of stress he’s under.… Read More
After more than two weeks of discussions, Tesla CEO Elon Musk says feedback from shareholders and experts has convinced him that “the better path is for Tesla to remain public”… Read More
On the heels of Elon Musk’s angst-filled, market-moving interview with The New York Times, YouTube techie Marques Brownlee offered up lighter, brighter fare from a one-on-one chat with the Tesla… Read More
When Tesla CEO Elon Musk chokes up, Tesla’s stock price gets depressed as well. The link between public perceptions of the tech billionaire’s mental state and the financial state of… Read More
The smartphone of the moment is Samsung’s new high-end Note 9, the super-powered competitor to phones like Apple’s iPhone X. On this episode of Geared Up, we give a full… Read More
Today’s featured stories Inside the stolen passenger plane: ‘I played video games before, so I know what I’m doing, a little bit’ Elon Musk names Saudis as principal funders for… Read More
When Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he had “funding secured” for a plan to take the company private, he was referring to the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund — whose executives… Read More
Tesla’s stock shot up sharply today after the company’s billionaire CEO, Elon Musk, tweeted that he was considering taking Tesla private at a price of $420 a share. “Funding secured,”… Read More
Tesla reported a larger loss per share than expected in the second quarter, but there was more revenue and less of a cash burn than expected — all of which resulted… Read More
Today’s featured stories Microsoft unveils free version of Teams productivity tool, upping the ante against rival Slack ‘Not like Amazon Go’: Nike debuts high-tech store that removes friction but keeps… Read More
Just days after promising he’d make Tesla profitable within months, CEO Elon Musk announced today that 9 percent of the company’s workforce is being laid off as part of the… Read More
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Tesla shareholders at today’s annual meeting swatted down challenges to billionaire CEO Elon Musk, who laid out an admittedly optimistic plan for the crucial months ahead. “This is going to… Read More
It’s the Friday before a three-day weekend, and your head is probably already in the clouds, so here’s something to put it in space. If you’ve been wondering what happened… Read More
The Geared Up Giveaway is back! We’re giving Geared Up subscribers the chance to win an Oculus Go headset. See the bottom of this post for details on how to… Read More
Elon Musk’s Tesla electric-car and power company has been getting some bad press lately, and today the tech billionaire pushed back with a tweetstorm criticizing “the holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big… Read More
Tesla’s share price took a weird turn today after the company reported its first-quarter financial results and billionaire CEO Elon Musk dissed analysts’ concerns about the Tesla Model 3 mass-market… Read More
Between Model S recalls and Model 3 production snags, Tesla has been having a hard time lately — but not as hard as CEO Elon Musk made them out to be… Read More
Facebook suffered another blow today: Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, had those two companies’ official pages removed from the embattled social network. Musk’s action came after… Read More
At least one tech giant is keeping customers happy. Amazon maintained the top spot for the third consecutive year in the Harris Poll Reputation Quotient, released on Tuesday. The annual… Read More
SpaceX is building its first Mars transport vehicle, also known as the BFR, and “making good progress” toward short-hop test flights on Earth by the middle of next year, CEO… Read More
“Eat Your Own Dog Food” is an aphorism referring to the Microsoft tradition of using its own software products, but it applies equally well to the first production cargo trip of… Read More