Hints and tips:
...Thiel’s venture firm, Founders Fund, put in $400mn, its single largest cash investment into any company. General Catalyst eventually decided to invest, too, handing over $30mn in 2019....
...An alternative, Risc-V, has gained a foothold, with Intel announcing its support this month....
...The Balkanised nature of the web, which means people’s data are spread between several “walled gardens” owned by the big tech companies jeopardises both our privacy and impedes the optimal use of the data...
...One example is Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Delta V programme, on which business students work with engineers, designers, scientists and others to build companies....
...Gawker Media's bankruptcy lawyers believe that Peter Thiel shouldn’t, unless he agrees to settle potential legal claims Gawker is pursuing against him....
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...Recently, their targets have included a growing number of Chinese companies....
...Chinese internet company Baidu....
...Investors include Richard Branson and PayPal’s Peter Thiel and Max Levchin. 7....
...Thiel, who trained as a lawyer and worked as an investment banker before making it big among the engineers of Silicon Valley, arrives looking trim and wearing a blue V-neck sweater with no shirt underneath...
...the Analysts, Martoma claimed to have “black edge” —illicit, nonpublic information… The Analysts exchanged a number of emails and instant messages with Cohen about whether Martoma’s advice on Elan and Wyeth...
...Meanwhile here’s the DOJ’s sealed criminal complaint in USA v Martoma....
...The court will decide whether to shield drugmakers from many costly patient lawsuits, agreeing to hear Wyeth v Levine, a case that tests whether companies are protected from liability when federal regulators...
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