(AP) – Juul Labs has reached settlements covering more than 5,000 cases brought by about 10,000 plaintiffs related to its vaping products. Financial terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but Juul said that it has secured an equity investment to fund it. Buffeted by lawsuits, Juul announced hundreds of layoffs last month and bankruptcy […]

CALIFORNIA (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Elon Musk said that Wikipedia has a “left-wing bias” after the website marked the “Twitter files” article for deletion. The leftist editors called the article a “nothing event about another nothing event.” In truth, the article is full of bombshells about how the leftist social media giant suppressed a […]

SAN FRANCISCO (VINnews) — Elon Musk has sacked Twitter’s General Counsel James Baker, due to his role in Twitter supressing the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. Musk made the announcement in a tweet on Tuesday, saying ‘In light of concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited […]

Hertz says it will pay approximately $168 million by the end of the year to settle the majority of the lawsuits brought against the rental car company by some of its customers who were wrongly accused of stealing cars they had rented. In April Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr, who took over the role in February, […]

BEIJING (AP) — Jiang Zemin, who led China out of isolation after the army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989 and supported economic reforms that led to a decade of explosive growth, died Wednesday. He was 96. Jiang, who was president for a decade until 2003 and led the ruling Communist Party for […]

DETROIT (AP) — New electric vehicle models from multiple automakers are starting to chip away at Tesla’s dominance of the U.S. EV market, according to national vehicle registration data. But numbers collected by S&P Global Mobility show that Tesla still controlled about 65% of the growing electric vehicle market during the first nine months of […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Fidelity Charitable is getting into NFTs, the digital images that are registered on the blockchain, despite a torrent of bad news from the adjacent world of cryptocurrencies. The nation’s largest grantmaker is sponsoring a raffle that ends Tuesday, where participants can claim one of the NFTs, which stands for nonfungible token, […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — While other technology companies lay off workers and try to cut other costs amid a post-pandemic comedown, Shutterfly CEO Hilary Schneider is gearing up for a busy holiday season. Orders are pouring in for the digital photo and printing company’s photo books, which capture moments from all the postponed vacations, weddings […]

Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the fallout from the collapse of crypto exchange FTX spreads outward. In a Monday filing for bankruptcy protection in New Jersey, where it is based, BlockFi claimed more than 100,000 creditors, with BlockFi’s liabilities ranging from $1 billion to $10 billion. BlockFi Inc. said […]

Mar-A-Lago (VINnews) — Although his Twitter account has been reinstated by Elon Musk, President Trump may face a big obstacle preventing him from posting tweets. He could potentially lose millions of dollars if he succumbs to temptation and posts to his over 80 million followers. Truth Social, a competitor of Twitter launched by Trump, is […]