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An Amazon warehouse worker in Bessemer, Alabama, has died
The worker was hospitalized after they were found in a bathroom at Amazon's Bessemer facility, wher…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Pre-IPO Apple, Facebook, Tesla, Google lead a VC firm's biggest missed investment opportunities - 'Kid, haven't you heard of Friendster? Move on. It's over!'
Bessemer Venture Partners passed on early investment opportunities for what are now some of the big…
Brian Evans
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An Apple store worker seeking to form the company's first union says he was inspired by unionizers at an Amazon warehouse
Derrick Bowles, who's part of the union drive at an Apple store in Atlanta, told CNBC he had a "mas…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Bessemer Trust is officially removed as a conservator for Britney Spears, temporarily leaving Jamie Spears as the sole conservator of her estate
During Wednesday's hearing, a judge granted Bessemer's petition request to resign from overseeing t…
Kim Renfro,Azmi Haroun
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A top venture capital firm predicts these 8 trends will take over cloud computing in 2018
The Silicon Valley venture capital firm meets with over a thousand cloud companies each year and ke…
Becky Peterson
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Judge approves the request of the independent financial firm acting as a conservator of Britney Spears' estate to withdraw from the arrangement, citing the pop star's recent testimony
The request came a day after a judge denied Spears' request to remove her father as a conservator a…
Erin Snodgrass,Debanjali Bose
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Cisco Buys 4-Year-Old Israeli Startup Intucell For Half A Billion Dollars
First Intucell does business with wireless service providers that are part of Cisco’s bread-and-but…
Alyson Shontell
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Biden supports the historic Amazon worker union vote in Alabama, and demands 'no anti-union propaganda'
Biden didn't specifically name Amazon, but reports have suggested Amazon is deploying anti-union ta…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Amazon was just told it can't set up cameras to monitor the union vote ballot boxes in Alabama
The NLRB denied a request from Amazon for advanced security measures for ballot storage in the Bess…
Annabelle Williams
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This VC firm wrote a $125,000 check over breakfast to Twilio - now it owns a $500 million stake in the company
Bessemer joined all subsequent investment rounds for Twilio, investing roughly $70 million in the c…
Eugene Kim
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Amazon union vote is too close to call in Alabama, but pro-union votes lead in New York
Workers at the BHM1 warehouse voted 993 against unionizing, while 875 voted in favor of it, and ove…
Dominick Reuter,Katherine Long
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Here's more proof that companies are going crazy over cloud services
And a lot of these cloud companies are generating massive revenue. In 2008, the total cloud revenue…
Eugene Kim
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Black Lives Matter helped inspire Amazon workers' push to unionize in Alabama, union president says
An estimated 85% of workers at Amazon's Bessemer, Alabama warehouse are Black. The unionization vot…
Annabelle Williams
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Britney Spears' father just lost a key battle to have total control over delegating the singer's investments
The judge "overruled Jamie Spears' objections to an order establishing Bessemer Trust Co. as a coco…
Kim Renfro
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Bernie Sanders is taking on Jeff Bezos again, asking him to testify before the Senate about Amazon's reported attempts to quash a union vote in Alabama
Sen. Bernie Sanders told the Washington Post that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had become a "symbol of the…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Amazon workers in Staten Island will vote on whether to form a union next month
The Staten Island warehouse union election will overlap with an election at another Amazon warehous…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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This legendary Silicon Valley VC firm had a chance to invest in Apple, Google and Facebook early on but never did
But it's also had its fair share of "screw ups" through the years, passing on opportunities to inve…
Eugene Kim
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Amazon workers in Alabama will vote again on forming a union after the US labor board invalidates election results
The NLRB found that Amazon had illegally influenced the original election, held earlier this year, …
Tyler Sonnemaker
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One of PagerDuty's earliest investor shares why he went big on the IT-management company before it reached $1.76 billion
Read more: Investors used to balk at startups for software developers - but after Microsoft bought …
Becky Peterson
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Amazon warehouse employees have hours left to vote on a union that could dramatically change the tech giant and the future of work in America
Experts say the Amazon vote - which ends on Monday - "may be the most important union vote in decad…