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- Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington. A federal judge on Friday, Jan. 13 2023 rejected Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s bid to move or delay a trial over a misleading tweet about a potential buyout of the electric automaker, setting the stage for the mercurial billionaire to be thrust into a legal drama amid the turmoil of his Twitter takeover. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Elon Musk's next drama: a trial over his tweets about Tesla
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP Technology Writer
Fri,01/13/23-7:43PM , 640 Reads
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — While still grappling with the fallout from a company he did take private, beleaguered billionaire Elon Musk is now facing a trial over a company he didn't.
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- Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, right, the former lover and business partner of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, walks into federal court in San Jose, Calif., on June 24, 2022. Balwani learns Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, whether he will be punished as severely as Holmes for peddling the company's bogus blood-testing technology that duped investors and endangered patients. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke, File)
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Holmes' former partner gets nearly 13 years in Theranos case
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP Technology Writer
Tue,12/06/22-10:40AM , 377 Reads
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was sentenced Wednesday to nearly 13 years in prison for his role in the company’s blood-testing hoax — a sentence slightly longer than that given to the CEO, who was his lover and accomplice in one of Silicon Valley’s biggest scandals.
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- A Netflix DVD envelope is shown on Nov. 17, 2022 in San Francisco. Subscribers to Netflix’s DVD-by-mail service still look forward to opening up their mailbox and finding one of the discs delivered in the familiar red-and-white envelopes. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)
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Netflix nights still come wrapped in red-and-white envelopes
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP Technology Writer
Fri,11/25/22-9:12AM , 368 Reads
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Netflix's trailblazing DVD-by-mail rental service has been relegated as a relic in the age of video streaming, but there is still a steady — albeit shrinking — audience of diehards like Amanda Konkle who are happily paying to receive those discs in the iconic red-and-white envelopes.
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- Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, center, walks into federal court with her partner Billy Evans, right, and her parents in San Jose, Calif., Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. A federal judge will decide whether Holmes should serve a lengthy prison sentence for duping investors and endangering patients while peddling a bogus blood-testing technology. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)
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Elizabeth Holmes gets more than 11 years for Theranos scam
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP Technology Writer
Fri,11/18/22-1:36AM , 944 Reads
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced Friday to more than 11 years in prison for duping investors in the failed startup that promised to revolutionize blood testing but instead made her a symbol of Silicon Valley ambition that veered into deceit.
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