Taboola founder and chief executive Adam Singolda Andreas Rentz | Getty Images Digital ad company Taboola is set to begin trading Wednesday following its merger with ION Acquisition Corp. 1, a special acquisition corporation. ION shareholders voted to approve the business combination in a special meeting Monday. The transaction will generate $526 million upon closing,
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Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards With Windows 11, Microsoft is introducing modern touches to the experience of using a PC. Most noticeably, a new design is meant to help users more quickly get what they’re looking for. The changes go beyond the surface, though. Microsoft is changing the rules of its app store to bring
The exterior of The Spheres are seen at the Amazon.com Inc. headquarters on May 20, 2021 in Seattle, Washington. David Ryder | Getty Images Amazon is turning part of its Seattle headquarters into a public cooling center as the Pacific Northwest grapples with a record-breaking heat wave. The air-conditioned cooling center is set up at
Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg greets members of congress after testifying at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, October 23, 2019. REUTERS/Erin Scott Erin Scott | Reuters A federal court on Monday dismissed the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust complaint against Facebook, dealing a major setback for the agency’s complaint that could have
In this article BTC.CM= Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, speaks during a TV interview in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON – Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been banned from operating in the U.K. by the country’s markets regulator, in the latest sign of a growing crackdown
Google’s “Downtown West” proposal is Google’s fist mix-used campus, comprising of 80 sprawling acres in downtown San Jose. Sitelab Urban Studio Google‘s path to its massive tech campus planning in San Jose began with activists chaining themselves to chairs inside City Hall over the city’s decision to sell public land to the tech giant. It
In this article TSLA TWTR 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 Tech billionaires Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey have agreed to discuss bitcoin with each other at an event in July. In a bizarre Twitter thread,
In this article AAPL Apple CEO Tim Cook arrives for Apples “The Morning Show” global premiere at Lincoln Center- David Geffen Hall on October 28, 2019 in New York. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images The training wheels are about to come off for Apple TV+, the company’s streaming video service. Apple TV+ costs
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, speaks during the WSJDLive Global Technology Conference in Laguna Beach, California, on October 25, 2016 Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon‘s cloud-computing business has acquired Wickr, an encrypted messaging platform used by government agencies and enterprises, the company announced Friday. Terms of the deal weren’t
ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok app is displayed in the App Store on a smartphone in an arranged photograph taken in Arlington, Virginia, on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images A former TikTok recruiter remembers that her hours were supposed to be from 10 am to 7 pm, but more often than not, she
Kevin Breuninger | CNBC Cyber criminals are targeting gamers with “mining malware” as they look to get crypto-rich, according to research published by security firm Avast. The so-called “Crackonosh” malware is being hidden in free versions of games like NBA 2K19, Grand Theft Auto V, Far Cry 5, The Sims 4 and Jurassic World Evolution,
In this article CFLT DOCS Jeff Tangney, CEO, of Doximity at the New York Stock Exchange for their IPO, June 24, 2021. Source: NYSE Every year, tech investment firm Index Ventures sends out a survey to the 400 or so companies in its portfolio to see what technologies are gaining the most traction. About six
Getty Images When a cryptocurency token called titan dropped from more than $60 to several thousandths of a cent in the space of a few hours earlier this month, even traders with the thickest of skins were a bit alarmed. While rapid price appreciation and equally swift sell-offs are increasingly par for the course in
In this article MSFT Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks during the Windows 10 Devices event in New York on Oct. 6, 2015. Microsoft Corp. introduced its first-ever laptop, three Lumia phones and a Surface Pro 4 tablet, the first indication of the company’s revamped hardware strategy three months after saying it
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks via video conference during a hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on “Online Platforms and Market Power”, in the Rayburn House office Building on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., July 29, 2020. Graeme Jennings | Pool via REUTERS Voters favor tech regulation but are
A customer uses a bitcoin automated teller machine (ATM) in a kiosk Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. Angel Garcia | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bitcoin’s brief drop below the symbolic price threshold of $30,000 on Tuesday has reignited talk of a crypto winter. It doesn’t help that other cryptocurrencies like dogecoin, XRP, and