Peter Thiel Adam Jeffery | CNBC Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, has said he feels like he’s underinvested in bitcoin as the world’s most popular cryptocurrency climbed to an all time high of just over $66,000 per coin. Speaking at an evening event in Miami on Wednesday, just hours after bitcoin hit
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In this article TSLA Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk unveils a new all-wheel-drive version of the Model S car in Hawthorne, California October 9, 2014. Lucy Nicholson | Reuters Tesla reported third-quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday, and it’s a beat on both the top and bottom lines. Here are the results. Earnings per share
In this article BABA Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group, attends opening ceremony of the 3rd All-China Young Entrepreneurs Summit on September 25, 2020 in Fuzhou, Fujian Province of China. Lyu Ming | China News Service via Getty Images GUANGZHOU, China — Alibaba’s Hong Kong shares rallied as much as 9% on Wednesday following reports
Scene from “Squid Game” by Netflix Source: Netflix It may seem like every American you know has watched “Squid Game,” but the show’s popularity has not yet created a surge of new Netflix subscribers in the U.S. 142 million Netflix subscribers have seen at least two minutes of the wildly popular South Korean drama, Netflix
In this article AAPL Apple MacBook Pro Source: Apple Before Monday, the last major redesign for Apple‘s larger MacBook Pros came in 2016, with several features that looked to the future. The 2016 MacBook Pros sported universal USB-C connectors that could power displays and peripherals, a “butterfly” keyboard that allowed the devices to become even
In this article 9984.T-JP Jaidev Janardana, CEO of peer-to-peer lender Zopa. Zopa LONDON — British online lending start-up Zopa has raised $300 million in a funding round led by SoftBank, adding to the soaring investment flowing into Europe’s booming financial technology sector. The company is now valued at $1 billion following the fresh cash injection,
People celebrate the Gitlab IPO at the Nasdaq, October 14, 2021. Source: Nasdaq On Oct. 9, 2017, GitLab announced a $20 million funding round led by Alphabet’s GV, formerly known as Google Ventures. The news hit just as larger rival GitHub was about to start its annual developer conference. It was just one instance of
The Klarna logo displayed on a smartphone. Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images LONDON — Swedish fintech firm Klarna on Monday said it is introducing a number of changes to its product in the U.K., as regulators in the country prepare to tighten regulation on the fast-growing “buy now, pay later”
In this article FB In this photo illustration, the Facebook logo is seen on a smartphone screen with the EU flag in the background. Chukrut Budrul | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images LONDON — Facebook plans to create 10,000 jobs in the European Union over the next five years in a push to
2020 MacBook Air with M1 chip Todd Haselton | CNBC Apple is holding a launch event on Monday to announce new products, like a redesigned MacBook Pro. Apple has a chance to drive continued momentum to its Macs ahead of the holiday shopping season, especially since it’s expected to announce more computers that run on
Sarah Ostrowski was convinced to finally get vaccinated after reading numerous stories on Reddit’s r/HermanCainAward of unvaccinated people dying from Covid-19. Courtesy of Sarah Ostrowski For most of the pandemic, Sarah Ostrowski went to her full-time gas station job in Indiana, accepting the risk of being unvaccinated. Many times a day she interacted with customers
Elizabeth Holmes (L), founder and former CEO of Theranos, leaves the courthouse with her husband Billy Evans after the first day of her fraud trial in San Jose on Sept. 8, 2021. Nick Otto | AFP | Getty Images ]SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Daniel Edlin, a former Theranos project manager who was friends with Elizabeth
Dell Technologies Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Michael Dell has published a new book, “Play Nice But Win.” The autobiography examines Dell’s tactics to go private in 2013. He doesn’t mince words about his feelings for octogenarian activist investor Carl Icahn, who battled him for control of his company, calling him “a circus clown” that
In this article BTC.CM= Bitcoin on display. Chesnot | Getty Images Bitcoin climbed Friday to hit a five-month high, and was inches away from hitting $60,000. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency surged as high as $59,920, notching its highest level since May. 10. But it struggled to break above the $60,000 mark. Bitcoin was last trading
Recent data from LinkedIn shows the skills that are most in-demand as the labor market attempts to slowly regain its footing after the steep decline caused by Covid-19. Aytac Unal | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Microsoft announced Thursday it will shut down its local version of LinkedIn in China. LinkedIn was the last major
A customer uses a SumUp payment card reader in Lisbon, Portugal, on Sept. 13, 2019. Angel Garcia | Bloomberg via Getty Images LONDON — SumUp, a U.K.-based payment processor, has acquired marketing start-up Fivestars in a bid to expand its reach across the U.S. and take on giants like PayPal and Square. The company said