While some may suggest that El Reg should have let things take their course, there's a great deal to be said for not allowing the billion -
dollar companies in question to completely control the narrative around a major issue like this.
Not exact matches
But its focus on institutional holdings
in unicorn
companies is particularly well - timed, as numerous
questions have arisen
in recent months over whether such
companies can continue to support their extraordinary valuations, some of which have stretched into the billions of
dollars.
Tesla's record net loss
in the first quarter and fast - burn through millions of
dollars is raising
questions about the
company's ability to pay all its bills.
The recent decline is due
in part to concerns over cord - cutting and increasing competition for ad
dollars, as well as
questions over the health of executive chairman Sumner Redstone, who owns 80 % of the
company's shares.
Here's Gov. David Paterson
in Lake Placid earlier today, fielding
questions on today's Post story on the multimillion -
dollar no - bid contract awarded to GHI, the health - care provider whose parent
company, Emblem Health, employs his wife, First Lady Michelle Paige Paterson.
This story called into
question the wisdom of using state
dollars to assist a
company in such a financial condition.
Putting aside any
questions about how useful this information is right now and how it is marketed, do you think
companies should be able to offer a service where consumers send
in a spit or blood sample and a few hundred
dollars and get their genome sequenced
in return?
And relentless
questions have dogged the eastern North Carolina charter operator Baker Mitchell, who runs four charter schools and has reportedly profited
in the tens of millions
in taxpayer
dollars through his for - profit
companies that lease the land to the schools and run their operations.
My
question to you is, do you support
companies and individuals profiting from public education
dollars that is essentially taking money away from students to pay salaries for CEOs
in return for investors?
So let me ask you this
question:
In any other type of situation, would you enter into negotiations with a multi-billion
dollar company without hiring someone to represent you?
Mr. Zuckerberg's comments come days after the crisis prompted calls for him to testify before legislators
in the U.S. and Europe, carved tens of billions of
dollars off Facebook's value and raised new
questions about the leadership of one of the world's most powerful technology
companies.
As Tether's market cap has ballooned
in recent months to nearly $ 2.3 billion,
questions have been raised about whether USDT is fully - backed by US
dollars stored
in company - owned bank accounts — as Tether claims.
The
companies in question are crypto exchange Bitfinex and Tether, a startup whose tokens provide a convenient substitute for the U.S.
dollar.
«The most important thing a job seeker should do to get a job is answer the following
question honestly, objectively, and
in terms of
dollars and cents: «Knowing what you know about our
company, why should we hire you?»
An article
in the Wall Street Journal titled Outplacement Firms Struggle to Do Job, raised the
questions, why are outplacement providers still providing standardized services that workers say offer little value, and why are
companies still paying thousands of
dollars per employee for broiler plate services?