Server chip Yitian 710, developed by Alibaba’s in-house semiconductor unit T-Head, on display during the Apsara Conference 2021 on Oct. 19, 2021 in Hangzhou, China. Xu Kangping | Visual China Group | Getty Images Global semiconductor sales topped half a trillion dollars for the first time, as companies ramped up production to meet demand amid
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Warren Buffett Gerald Miller | CNBC Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway purchased about $1 billion worth of shares in Activision Blizzard in the fourth quarter, according to a regulatory filing, jumping in before Microsoft agreed to buy the video-game publisher for $68.7 billion. Berkshire owns 14.66 million shares valued at $975 million as of the end
A CryptoPunk NFT on display at Sotheby’s on June 4, 2021 in New York City. Cindy Ord | Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s tax watchdog has seized three non-fungible tokens, in what is thought to be the first seizure of NFTs by a U.K. law enforcement agency. Officials at Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs say
A chip made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC Semiconductor stocks got whacked on Friday as investors digested hotter-than-expected inflation and increased tensions between Ukraine and Russia. Chipmakers had been boosted by increased demand during the pandemic and have generally reported strong earnings and outlooks in the past month. But investors are looking for less-risky
In this article PTON John Foley, co-founder and chief executive officer of Peloton Interactive Inc., stands for a photograph during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in front of the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Roughly two months after Peloton’s IPO, founder
Brent Whitehead and Matt Lohstroh at the Texas A&M versus Alabama football game. Matt Lohstroh HOUSTON — When Brent Whitehead and Matt Lohstroh were sophomores at Texas A&M University, they decided to get into the business of mining bitcoin on the oil fields of East Texas. The year was 2019, and at the time, the
Chuck Robbins, CEO, Cisco Systems, speaking at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2020. Splunk shares rose as much as 14% in extended trading on Friday after the Wall Street Journal reported that Cisco made an offer to buy the data analytics software company for over $20 billion. At the peak of its
In this article AMZN Photographer: Thorsten Wagner/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A former Amazon employee was sentenced Friday to federal prison for his involvement in an international bribery scheme. Rohit Kadimisetty, who worked as a seller support employee out of Amazon’s Hyderabad, India, office until 2015, was ordered to spend
Affirm Holdings Inc. website home screen on a laptop computer in an arranged photograph taken in Little Falls, New Jersey. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Affirm stock dropped as much as 26% on Thursday after the company reported second-quarter results ahead of schedule. Here’s how the company did versus Refinitiv consensus expectations for
In this article TSLA A worker wearing a face covering exits a Tesla Inc. vehicle at the company’s assembly plant in Fremont, California, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images A California civil rights agency sued Tesla this week, alleging racist harassment
Marc Benioff of the United States, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, delivers a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 22, 2020. Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty Images Salesforce told employees at a sales kickoff on Wednesday that the company plans to release an NFT Cloud, according to people with
In this article NFLX DIS In this photo illustration the Disney+ logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images The Streaming Wars are heating up — at least between Disney and Netflix. Disney added 11.8 million Disney+ subscribers globally in the fiscal first quarter, topping the average analyst estimate
In this article FB Facebook Chief Executive Officer and founder, Mark Zuckerberg, leaving the Merrion Hotel in Dublin after meeting with Irish politicians to discuss regulation of social media, transparrency in political advertising and the safety of young people and vulnerable adults. On Tuesday, April 2, 2019, in Dublin, Ireland. Artur Widak | NurPhoto |
Apple CEO Tim Cook (R) greets customers as he attends the grand opening event of the new Apple store at The Grove on November 19, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Peloton might be for sale. (Or, maybe not quite yet, if you think the new CEO will have enough time
In this article NVDA AAPL AMZN Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia’s bid to buy Arm from SoftBank has finally ended in failure. The semiconductor giants issued a joint statement Tuesday saying the deal has been scrapped due to “significant regulatory challenges.” But was
In this article FB Peter Thiel, American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Billionaire tech investor and PayPal Co-founder Peter Thiel will step down from board of Facebook owner Meta, the company announced Monday. Thiel, an early Facebook investor, will not stand for re-election to the board at the company’s