• After two profitable quarters in a row, Tesla is once again in financial trouble.
• The company has guided down expectations for Q1, and analysts are worried about margins on the new Model 3.
• Plus, the company has taken on more debt and has a $566 million bill to pay in November...

• Investment management firm Franklin Templeton removed investor John B. Wilson from its board of directors after he was among dozens of people indicted by the FBI on Tuesday in an alleged college admissions bribery scheme.
• Wilson served as the lead independent trustee of 112 portfolios in the fund complex of Franklin Templeton Funds. He was also the designated financial expert of Franklin Funds' audit committee...

• Larry Page, Google's cofounder, threatened to leave the company in 2011, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.
• Together with fellow cofounder Sergey Brin and top executive Eric Schmidt, Page held shares with super-voting powers that gave the threesome control over Google.
• Page was worried he'd lose that control if Brin or Schmidt sold their shares, according to recently unsealed court records viewed by Bloomberg...

• MoviePass' parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics (HMNY), said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday that its previously issued quarterly and year-to-date financial statements were not accurate.
• The company said the errors related primarily to the "overstatement of subscription revenues" in the third quarter of 2018 for MoviePass.
• The result was an underestimated net loss for HMNY of $6.6 million, the company estimated...

• A former Tesla employee has filed a whistleblower tip with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the law firm representing the employee said in a statement on Monday.
• The tip corroborates a prior tip that claimed Tesla did not disclose to shareholders the theft of raw materials and the unauthorized surveillance and hacking of employee devices, Meissner Associates said...

Nvidia has agreed to buy the chipmaker Mellanox Technologies in a $6.9 billion all-cash deal that will help it expand into the market for data-center components.

The deal will pay Mellanox shareholders $125 a share—a 14.3% premium to Friday's closing price...

• Companies with more women in top jobs have better returns and steadier earnings, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Their stocks also trade at higher premiums.
• The report is just the latest linking gender diversity to better run companies and more successful stocks. UBS also recently reached a similar conclusion...

• Tesla made a recording of a conference call with reporters available on its website Wednesday after CEO Elon Musk said the automaker's handling of the call "was a mistake."
• During the February 28 call, Musk changed a prediction about Tesla's profitability in the first quarter of this year.
• Tesla shareholder Galileo Russell tweeted at Musk on Tuesday, saying he was frustrated by Tesla's failure to allow shareholders to listen to the call or read a transcript of it...

• Former Nissan Chairman and Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn paid one of the largest bail fees in the history of Japan — 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) — to escape jail after 108 days on Wednesday.
• Dressed like a Japanese road worker, Ghosn suggested he had been through a "terrible ordeal" but the story isn't over for the former motoring titan as he moves to a court approved home in Tokyo...

• Papa John's and founder John Schnatter have reached a settlement.
• Schnatter will drop his lawsuit agains the pizza chain and resign as an independent director.
• He will help find a replacement.
• Watch Papa John's trade live.

The pizza chain Papa John's and founder John Schnatter have reached an agreement that will remove Schnatter from the company's board of directors...

• Lyft on Friday publicly filed its paperwork for an initial public offering.
• The documents provided the first look at important details about Lyft's business.
• But Lyft didn't offer answers to some of the most important questions that could affect its IPO and future.

The paperwork Lyft filed Friday for its initial public offering gave us important new details about the company.

But it also left unanswered some crucial questions...

• The S-1 paperwork for Lyft's anticipated multi-billion IPO is now open to the public.
• It lists who the major shareholders are.
• These are the people that will cash in big time should the stock sale go well...

• HBO CEO Richard Plepler is out after nearly three decades.
• News of Plepler’s exit comes after it was reported that former NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt has been in talks with WarnerMedia.
• Read Plepler's full memo below.

HBO chairman and CEO Richard Plepler is exiting the company...

• Opposition to pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb's $74 billion acquisition of Celgene is growing.

• The deal is facing pushback from Bristol-Myers' second-largest shareholder, the investment firm Wellington Management, as well as from activist investor Starboard Value.

• If Bristol-Myers shareholders oppose the deal at an April meeting, the pharma giant may owe Celgene $2.2 billion and other fees...

• Tesla CEO Elon Musk violated the terms of his agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency said in a court filing Monday.
• In a tweet last week, Musk said Tesla would produce 500,000 vehicles this year then later corrected himself and said it would only make about 400,000.
• Tesla acknowledged in a letter that Musk's first production tweet wasn't preapproved by the company...

• Warren Buffett, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, released his annual letter to shareholders on Saturday.
• Buffett wrote that he and his vice chairman, Charlie Munger, still hoped to make a large acquisition.
• Buffett said in last year's letter that he wanted to make a big deal, but companies' valuations were too expensive...

Tesla's board is still failing to monitor Elon Musk's tweets. Musk tweeted a false production target for Tesla this week, then took hours to correct himself. Even after he did, he left the misleading tweet online. The incident could get the company and Musk in trouble again with the SEC, which specifically ordered Tesla to oversee his investor communications on Twitter and elsewhere...

• Check out which 25 CEOs on the S&P 500 earn a salary that's higher than expected, given shareholder return.
• The list appears in a report from As You Sow, a nonprofit focused on shareholder advocacy.
• As You Sow also calculated the ratio of CEO pay to median employee pay.
• Ronald F. Clarke, CEO of Fleetcor Technologies Inc., took the top spot: He makes about $53 million a year, which means he's overpaid by 263%.

Most CEOs make a lot of money. No surprise there...

• Zillow shares fell in after-hours trading Thursday after the company said CEO Spencer Rascoff was leaving his post. Rascoff will remain on the board of directors.
• The real-estate database company named its co-founder and executive chairman, Rich Barton, as its new CEO.
• Zillow shares have plunged 31% in one year...

• At a growing number of companies, particularly in the tech sector, CEOs and other insiders have outsized control over their corporate decisions.
• The executives have that control through special shares that give them extra votes. Such arrangements used to be rare, but are becoming much more common.
• Lyft and several other tech companies that are likely to hold their initial public offerings this year will likely debut with such dual-class stock structures...

• One of Barclays' largest investors, US hedge fund Tiger Global, has sold its entire holding in the bank.
• It is a major blow to the lender as it bids to turnaround its performance in its investment banking division.
• Tiger Global had been a major backer of CEO Jes Staley, but the move points to a weaker sentiment in the lender.

One of the largest shareholders in Barclays has cut its stake in the lender during a crucial period for the bank...

• Gene Levoff, who worked as Apple's Senior Director of Corporate Law and Corporate Secretary until September 2018, has been accused of insider trading by the SEC.
• The SEC's lawsuit suit, filed Wednesday morning, says Levoff exploited his positions to unlawfully trade Apple securities ahead of Apple's quarterly earnings announcements.
• Levoff profited and avoided losses of approximately $382,000 through illegal insider trading that took place from 2015-2016, according to the SEC...

• 2018 saw record share buybacks by S&P 500 companies following the GOP's tax cuts with more than $1 trillion in stock bought back.
• Bernie Sanders and former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein have been feuding on Twitter about the value of the strategy ahead of potential Democrat plans to limit buyback options by corporations.
• Other leading figures in US politics have weighed into the debate including Steve Mnuchin and Elizabeth Warren...

• Billionaire David Tepper's Appaloosa LP made a strongly-worded call for change to drugmaker Allergan's board leadership structure on Tuesday.
• Appaloosa wants Allergan's board to separate the role of chairman and CEO, which today are both held by Allergan's Brent Saunders.
• In a Tuesday letter, Appaloosa slammed Allergan's executive decision-making, "the record for which has been fraught with ill-considered initiatives and self-inflicted wounds for several years now."..