US President Joe Biden speaks during International Women’s Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on March 8, 2021. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images Nearly two months into his presidency, it’s finally becoming clear how Joe Biden plans to approach the tech sector. And it’s looking far different
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In this photo illustration, a visual representation of the digital Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin is on display in front of the Bitcoin course’s graph on February 09, 2021 in Paris, France. Chesnot | Getty Images Bitcoin’s value surpassed $1 trillion on Tuesday as the price of the cryptocurrency jumped. The digital coin’s price rose on Tuesday and
The PayPal application can be seen on a mobile phone. Felix Kästle | picture alliance | Getty Images PayPal will acquire cryptocurrency security firm Curv as part of its push into digital tokens, the company announced Monday. The deal is worth less than $200 million, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC. It’s expected
The Covid-19 pandemic led to a boom in online learning that has increased the revenue of education technology company Coursera. Coursera Education tech company Coursera filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, and plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “COUR.” The Mountain View, California-based
Experts agree that lowering our carbon emissions is no longer enough. In a 2018 report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that, if we are to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoid the worst effects of climate change, we need to actually remove between 100 to 1,000 gigatons of carbon dioxide from
Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey gestures while interacting with students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi on November 12, 2018. Prakash Singh | AFP | Getty Images Jack Dorsey appears to be offering to sell the very first tweet as a non-fungible token, or NFT. The Twitter CEO shared a
Marc Benioff, chairman and co-chief executive officer of Salesforce.com Inc., speaks during the opening keynote of the 2019 DreamForce conference in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2019. Salesforce.com Inc.s annual software conference, where it introduces new products and discusses its commitment to social causes, was interrupted for the second year in a row by protests
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 Shares in Tesla were down as much as 8% Friday morning. They’ve since recovered to finish down less than 2% as markets showed a dramatic bounceback late on Friday, but
Timothy Wu, professor of law at Columbia University, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Big Tech critic and antitrust hawk Tim Wu is joining the Biden administration to work on technology and competition policy on the National Economic Council, he announced on Friday. The
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tight End Rob Gronkowski (87) celebrates after scoring a touchdown in the first quarter during Super Bowl LV between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on February 07, 2021, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, FL. Cliff Welch | Icon Sportswire | Getty Images Amazon has its eyes set
A pedestrian walks past a boarded up Walt Disney Co. Disney store in San Francisco, California, on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Like so many other companies, the pandemic has forced Disney to go digital faster than expected. The latest beat in that transformation came Wednesday, with the
Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks during a Bloomberg event on the opening day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is not the type of executive to boast and put down rivals. He’s
Google is clarifying its plans for targeted advertising as it phases out the use of browser cookies, saying in a new blog post Wednesday that it won’t use other ways to “track” users around the internet after it ends support for cookies in Chrome. Last year, the company said it would be ending support for third-party cookies,
The Lyft logo is shown on the screen at the Nasdaq offices in Times Square on March 29, 2019 in New York. Don Emmert | AFP | Getty Images Lyft is seeing a recovery in ridesharing sooner than it had expected. In a filing with the SEC Tuesday, the company said that improving trends will
Instacart is being valued at $39 billion in a new round of funding that will add $265 million to the grocery delivery company’s coffers. It’s the second time Instacart’s valuation has doubled since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Less than five months ago, Instacart raised $200 million in a deal that valued it at
When French telecommunications company Altice acquired U.S. cable companies Cablevision and Suddenlink, Chairman Patrick Drahi made a bold statement: Altice USA would rival Comcast and Charter in size, becoming one of the three dominant U.S. cable operators. Fast forward nearly six years, and Altice USA has about 5 million customer relationships, compared with about 31