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The SEC has announced new rules that will force publicly traded companies to report any cybersecurity incidents within four business days. This will help customers learn of breaches sooner.

The official date for the deal for Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard to close has now come and gone, but the two companies reportedly still want to make this purchase happen.

Virgin Orbit is laying off 85% of its workforce after it was unable to secure funding. This means 675 people will lose their jobs. The redundancies will likely be completed by April 3.

Tesla has confirmed that it has been required by the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over documents regarding its Auotpilot system. The company is under a criminal investigation right now.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is set to receive a 40% pay cut this year according to a filing with the SEC. The decision was made by Apple's Compensation Committee after getting feedback from shareholders.

Binance has backed out of a non-binding deal to provide FTX with liquidity. The decision came after the SEC said it was going to be investigating FTX to see whether it broke any rules.

Jack Dorsey has formally rolled over his 2.4% Twitter stake to Elon Musk's official holding of the company. The stakes are valued over $1 billion as of now which Musk had to otherwise pay out.

After Elon Musk's announcement that he is terminating his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, the latter's attorneys have filed a letter to the billionaire's lawyers, calling the decision "wrongful".

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has fined Nvidia for not telling investors that their rise in revenue in 2018 was due to cryptomining interest rather than its gaming business.

Elon Musk is the subject of a class-action lawsuit that alleges that the executive artificially deflated Twitter's share price, allowing him to buy more shares while cheating others out of a profit.

In an exposé, a former Microsoft employee-turned whistleblower has recounted his experiences of how the company engages in hundred of millions of dollars in bribery in the middle east and Africa.

Three of Bobby Kotick's friends are under investigation by the government for insider trading. The three made a $108 million investment in the company just days before the Microsoft deal was revealed.

The investment company Starboard has purchased a 6.5% stake in GoDaddy which has cost it around $800 million. Starboard typically tries to get seats on boards and boost companies' profitability.

The Wall Street Journal has reported that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an investigation into Activision Blizzard that span many aspects of its business.

Didi Chuxing, the Chinese ride-hailing app, has filed to go public with the U.S. SEC. It's expected that the company will be publicly listed on the NYSE and Nasdaq as soon as July.

In an SEC filing, Tesla has revealed that it purchased $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin. It also said that it's planning to allow customers to buy cars from it using bitcoin payments.

The dating app Bumble has filed with the SEC to become a publicly-traded company. Once all the paperwork is out of the way, the company will be traded under the symbol BMBL on the NASDAQ.

Microsoft has introduced a new metric, "Xbox content and services revenue growth" in earnings reports, which will be replacing gaming revenue and Xbox Live monthly active users going forward.

The third and fourth largest carriers in the United States have extended the deadline for the merger deal between the two to be approved. The companies have until July 29 to convince officials.

Slack has announced that it has filed a confidential IPO filing with the SEC. If it is approved, the firm will begin selling shares to the public. It hopes to be valued in excess of $10 billion.

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After sustaining a series of losses since filing its $3 billion IPO earlier last year, Snap has confirmed that the U.S. Justice Department and SEC are conducting a probe on its 2017 public offering.

In a recent SEC filing, Tesla admitted that it had received a subpoena pertaining to Model 3 production figures despite denying it less than one week ago. It said the DOJ is also investigating.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is suing Elon Musk for fraud, alleging that the Tesla CEO misled investors when he tweeted about taking his company private at $420 a share.

Sonos, the maker of the Playbase speaker for TVs and the Alexa-powered One smart speaker, is expected to start trading publicly as soon as June or July after it secretly filed for an IPO with the SEC.

Apple has been in hot water since its disclosure that it had slowed down older iPhones in an effort to conserve battery life. Lawmakers are involved, and now two other big guns are also weighing in.

Verizon's planned Yahoo acquisition has been delayed for several months, while the SEC has opened an investigation over whether Yahoo failed to promptly disclose details of two massive data breaches.