Theo Francis
theofrancis@mastodon.online
<p>Wall Street Journal reporter — I cover big companies, executive pay, corporate governance & some accounting, retirement & corporate tax issues. (If in doubt, get in touch. I can find the right person if it isn't me.) I use a range of data, including securities filings and other publicly available documents, to write about complex financial, business, economic, legal and regulatory issues. Tools (for now): Python, Datasette, Klaxon, Hammerspoon.</p>
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Post #1766153
I&#39;ve researched and written about closely held companies — it isn&#39;t easy. This is some remarkable and remarkably detailed reporting by my colleagues at The Wall Street Journal: ‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company / $500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/spy-sheikh-secret-stake-trump-crypto-tahnoon-ea4d97e8?st=k8LSD7&amp;reflink=article_copyUR...
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Post #1766152
This article is worth revisiting now and again: &quot;mass layoffs are a failure of leadership&quot; — discuss. https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/how-one-company-navigated-a-boom-and-bust-with-no-mass-layoffs-92ea9be4?st=XNwbAJ&amp;reflink=article_copyURL_share
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Post #1766151
Why do online services hate their existing customers? Go to any of them, and they have giant text and graphics inviting you to sign up and subscribe. You have to really look to find the tiny link that says, &quot;Already a customer? Sign in here.&quot; What&#39;s so hard about two big buttons!?? &quot;Sign up&quot; and &quot;Sign in&quot;
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Post #1766150
Spring, spring
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Post #1766149
Major world event. U.S. politics. Non-sequitur.
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Post #1766148
UC designers: When I tap or click a search button, I really expect to be able to type into a search field immediately. I don&#39;t expect a new grid of brightly colored things to tap or click on, with an idle search field somewhere among them that I have to tap/click on to use. Does anyone really want that?
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Post #1766147
@jimfl @gvwilson As in &quot;Lady of&quot;
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Post #1766146
Anyone in logistics or residential delivery: Tracking info for a major US delivery service said a package was put on a truck early Saturday morning and was out for delivery. Web &amp; app still say it&#39;s on the same truck (same driver name!), still out for delivery, still being delivered Saturday (April 25), no failed attempts, never checked back into a depot. Clearly the info is wrong. Do these companies genuinely not have automated systems in place to notice when a delivery goes aw...
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Post #156968
My coworkers at The Wall Street Journal have analyzed video of Alex Pretti's killing. The link should be a gift link — let me know if it doesn't work that way. > Bystander footage appears to tell a different story. A frame-by-frame review by The Wall Street Journal shows a federal officer pulling a handgun away from Pretti. Less than a second later, an agent fires several rounds. https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-contradict-u-s-account-of-minneapolis-shooting-by-federal-agents-fbe...