Author: Aron Solomon

It was a huge day on Thursday when Britney Spears was freed from an almost 14 year conservatorship. Formally terminated by Judge Brenda J. Penny, the 39 year old Spears is now able to live freely as she clocks in the 5th decade of her life on December 2nd, her 40th birthday. Marc Ang of the The Hollywood Times spoke with Esquire Digital’s Aron Solomon shortly after the ruling to discuss what comes next. Continue reading the article here, or watch the interview below.

By Aron Solomon Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Inside Sources The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals put a hold on the Biden administration’s requirement that all businesses with 100 or more employees must have a vaccine requirement. A group of states led by Texas had challenged this Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s requirement that those workers either get vaccinated by January 4 or have to wear masks and be tested regularly, arguing that it was an illegal overreach of the administration’s power. In more normal times, these kinds of decisions usually apply only to the states within that…

By Staff Writer Yesterday, the Elizabeth Holmes trial pivoted to a mixture of both business and technology, as Daniel Mosley took the stand. Mosley, who represents high dollar investors like the Walton family, founders of Wal-Mart, who put $150 million into Theranos, the DeVos family in for $100 million, and even former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, both an investor and board member for Theranos. testified how Elizabeth Holmes allegedly convinced these high-dollar investors to part with hundreds of millions of dollars. According to the defense, not one of them looked closely at where their money was going. Esquire Digital’s…

By Aron Solomon Editors Note: This article originally appeared in InsideSources.com. For those who have yet to hear about ghost kitchens, sadly, they are not even remotely related to Halloween, though some of them are undoubtedly scary. Call them ghost kitchens, call them virtual kitchens, or call them virtual restaurants – whatever you call them, these recent gastronomic incarnations are here to stay. The term “ghost kitchen” is becoming so popular, it’s on Merriam-Webster’s list of “Words We’re Watching.” They define “ghost kitchen” as, “An establishment that cooks and sells food to be delivered to a residence, but that, unlike a…

By Staff Writer Aron Solomon, chief legal analyst for Esquire Digital, joined TRT World to discuss this week’s Congressional hearings on social media and child safety. According to Solomon: “The big issue that is coming under scrutiny in Congress is that everything these social media companies are doing is to get more eyeballs on their platform. Especially those eyeballs of kids. So when some of these social media companies say that content on our platform is fine for kids 13 and up – what happened today is a Congressperson said, we actually set up an account for a 13-year-old and…

By Staff Writer Was Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes hiding fraudulent technology, or just waiting for things to click into place? That is the question that was raised during Friday’s testimony in the Elizabeth Holmes trial, in which a former Theranos employee, who worked with the company for 5 years, said he was lured by the company’s promise and then encouraged to hide what was really happening with the company. Esquire Digital’s legal analyst, Aron Solomon told Scott Budman of NBC Bay Area,”it seems to me that perhaps this is a startup employee working with the CEO who became disillusioned.” As…

By Staff Writer Aron Solomon, of Esquire Digital, joined the crew at the Humble & Fred podcast to discuss the latest developments in the Britney Spears conservatorship case. Take a listen below!

By Aron Solomon On Sunday, ESPN’s Jeff Passan broke the news that Major League Baseball would require teams to provide housing for Minor League players starting in 2022. While we await formal details of the league’s plan, the threshold question today is why is Major League Baseball, a league that has been so hesitant to spend the money necessary to support their Minor Leaguers, doing so now? While the answer might be that they realized it was finally the right time to do the right thing, a more skeptical and politically savvy analysis is that they realized they finally had…

By Staff Writer Aron Solomon of Esquire Digital spoke with CNBC’s Squawk Box regarding the Elizabeth Holmes’ trial where he discusses how the case has brought “significant” chilling effects for venture capitalists to fund females founders. Watch the full interview below.

By Staff Writer As the Elizabeth Holmes trial continued on Thursday, jurors heard about more text messages from Elizabeth Holmes, along with more testimony about how optimism turned to disappointment and the loss of millions of dollars in investments. Theranos failed – we know that – but when did Elizabeth Homles know about it? The trial of Elizabeth Holmes, is to an extent, the story of how Walgreens was convinced to put the Palo Alto startup’s machines in its stores and test the blood of its customers. According to Aron Solomon of Esquire Digital, “the narrative that’s being created around…