A Tesla logo on a Model S is photographed inside of a Tesla dealership in New York. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Two men died in a Tesla crash in Spring, Texas on Saturday night, and apparently nobody was behind the wheel, according to local police interviewed by reporter Deven Clarke at NBC affiliate KPRC 2.
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Anthony Casalena, founder and CEO, Squarespace Source: Squarespace Squarespace, which makes software for people to build websites, on Friday filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “SQSP.” The company is eschewing a traditional initial public offering, where it would issue new shares to institutional investors to raise new capital,
Peloton Co-Founder and CEO John Foley speaks during the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 6, 2018 in San Francisco. Kimberly White | Getty Images The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Saturday said consumers should stop using the Tread+ treadmill from exercise equipment maker Peloton if small children or pets are
In this article AMZN Still from “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.” New Line Cinema Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings” television show is shaping up to be a costly endeavor for the tech company. On Friday, New Zealand’s minister for economic development and tourism revealed that the fantasy drama will be one
In this article AMZN People protest in support of the unionizing efforts of the Alabama Amazon workers, in Los Angeles, California, March 22, 2021. Lucy Nicholson | Reuters Amazon last week soundly defeated a union drive at one of its Alabama warehouses, a major win for the e-commerce giant which has long fought unionization attempts
In this article DOGE.CM= A visual representation of dogecoin and other cryptocurrencies. Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images Dogecoin started out as a joke. Now it’s a top-10 digital currency worth $34 billion. The cryptocurrency is based on the “Doge” meme, which rose to popularity in late 2013. The meme portrays a Shiba Inu dog alongside
In this article GOOGL Google Earth Google Google Earth received its first big update since 2017 on Thursday. The highlight is a new Timelapse feature that lets you see how much the earth has changed in the past 37 years, and it’s pretty stunning what you can find. With Google Earth Timelapse you can search
In this article AAPL AMZN Amazon’s second-generation Echo Buds Amazon Amazon on Wednesday announced the second version of its Echo Buds headphones that are smaller and start at $99 while promising some of the features found in Apple‘s $249 AirPods Pro. The earbuds are Amazon’s latest effort to lure people who don’t want Apple and
In this article COIN Fred Wilson David Orrell | CNBC By 2013, venture capitalist Fred Wilson had established himself as a preeminent investor in consumer tech, having made early and highly lucrative bets on Twitter, Zynga, Etsy and Tumblr. In May of that year, he took a slight sideways turn. “We have been thinking about
In this article COIN The Coinbase logo shown on a smartphone. Chris Delmas | AFP via Getty Images LONDON — Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies surged to new heights on Wednesday, with traders awaiting Coinbase’s highly anticipated stock market debut. The world’s most valuable digital coin climbed to an all-time high of $64,841 Wednesday morning, according
In this article COIN Brian Armstrong, co-founder and chief executive officer of Coinbase Inc. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Coinbase is poised to command an astronomical valuation when the digital currency exchange goes public on Wednesday. But ask 10 market experts how the company should be valued and you’ll likely get 10
In this article COIN The Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange application seen on the screen of an iPhone. Getty Images Bitcoin surged to a fresh record high of more than $62,000 on Tuesday, as investors awaited the highly-anticipated stock market debut of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. The price of bitcoin climbed more than 4% in the last 24
In this article GOOGL Thomas Kurian, chief executive officer of cloud services at Google LLC, speaks during the Google Cloud Next ’19 event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. The conference brings together industry experts to discuss the future of cloud computing. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google maintains
Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, appears on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan,. 22nd, 2020. Adam Galica | CNBC Uber on Monday said it posted record gross bookings in the month of March, signaling a pick-up in demand for its ride-hailing business. The tech giant’s mobility unit
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the Future Decoded Tech Summit in Bengaluru, India, on Feb. 25, 2020. Samyukta Lakshmi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft is in advanced talks to acquire speech-recognition company Nuance Communications, a person familiar with the discussions told CNBC on Sunday. A transaction could be signed as early as Sunday
In this article FB Chris Cox Asa Mathat | Re/code Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox got paid approximately $69 million to rejoin the social media company in 2020. Cox rejoined Facebook in June 2020 after a more than one year hiatus away from the company. Cox is a key moral leader at Facebook and