Arianna Huffington

For the third straight year, serial entrepreneur and VeeFriends founder Gary Vaynerchuk (aka Gary Vee) will host an annual conference that combines elements of business, pop culture and Web3. Here's the details on VeeCon 2024 and the first round of speakers announced. VeeCon 2024: After hosting...

Jeff Immelt didn't have to wait long for a job offer after resigning as CEO of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) back in June, Recode reported. The executive is now considered to be the front-runner candidate to take over the vacant position of CEO of Uber. Immelt brings to the table the...

Immediately after completing its acquisition of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) began trimming its expanding media portfolio. The Huffington Post, operated by Verizon subsidiary AOL, laid off 39 employees Tuesday, including the publication’s lone Pulitzer...

A new day, a new senior member of Uber Technologies leaving the company. On Tuesday, the billionaire co-founder of private equity giant TPG Capital and member of Uber's board David Bonderman announced his resignation after cracking a sexist joke -- during a meeting intended to crack down on...

One of the most successful and influential women in media, Arianna Huffington, announced this week she will be stepping down from her position at The Huffington Post. Huffington made the tough decision to leave the media business when she determined that her new project, health and wellness...

Huffington Post co-founder, Arianna Huffington, expressed her intention to leave the company in the next few weeks to focus on a new venture, Thrive Global. Incidentally, she got funding for her new venture only late last week, according to the Wall Street Journal. Huffington Post became a...

Uber, the popular ride sharing platform, announced on Wednesday that Arianna Huffington will join its board of directors. Huffington is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post. Uber's CEO Travis Kalanick stated that he is friends with the media mogul who "believes deeply in our...

Last Tuesday, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)’s creator, Mark Zuckerberg, conducted a Q&A session via his profile. The young billionaire posted a photo of himself in an office, accompanied by an easily recognizable Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) MacBook and iPhone, plus some other tech gadgets....

The wealth of information and opinions spread on Twitter has grown each and every year since its inception in 2006. Benzinga will try to collect some of the notable tweets from the business, media and financial markets as days go by. Some may be newsworthy, some may be humorous - all help...

All over the country, there are initiatives in place that aim to reduce the amount of people who text while driving. Like it or loathe it, this has become a serious problem, resulting in numerous (and sometimes deadly) traffic accidents. While the same cannot be said for flying – perhaps in part...