The Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates had an affair around 2010, The Wall Street Journal reports, and knowledge of the relationship was used by Jeffrey Epstein in a seemingly threatening email to Gates in 2017. Epstein sent the email after multiple failed attempts to get Gates to ...Read More

Meta has been fined a record 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) by European privacy regulators over the transfer of EU user data to the U.S. The decision links back to a case brought by Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems who argued that the framework for ...Read More

  James Gorman said Friday he plans to resign as Morgan Stanley’s CEO within the year, setting off a succession race atop one of Wall Street’s dominant firms. The bank’s board has narrowed its CEO search to three “very strong” internal candidates, Gorman told shareholders at ...Read More

Twitter is accusing Microsoft of using the social media company’s data in ways that were unauthorized and never disclosed. Alex Spiro, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and attorney for Twitter owner Elon Musk, sent a letter to Microsoft on Thursday laying out the claims, ...Read More

Tesla CEO Elon Musk lost an appeal to unwind parts of a consent decree that he and the automaker struck with the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle civil securities fraud charges in 2018. The ruling, issued Monday by a federal appeals court, affirms a prior decision ...Read More

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed bills banning a centralized federal digital currency and government surveillance of finances in Fort Myers Friday. The governor was joined at the Southwest Florida Public Service Academy by Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson and Fort Myers Technical College College President Kathleen ...Read More

Amid the ongoing banking crisis in the United States, financial regulators continue scrutinizing major traditional finance companies like HSBC and Scotiabank. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged HSBC’s securities arm, HSBC Securities (HSI), and Scotiabank’s investment subsidiary, Scotia Capital, with penalties over recordkeeping ...Read More