In this article ETSY A DJ performs at the launch of social shopping app Depop’s 3-month pop-up at Selfridges on August 01, 2019 in London, England. David M. Benett | Getty Images E-commerce firm Etsy announced Wednesday that it is buying the second-hand fashion app Depop for $1.62 billion. Founded in the U.K. in 2011,
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Monitors display Coinbase signage during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Coinbase is finally getting into dogecoin. Starting Tuesday, the crypto exchange is offering its Pro users the option to trade dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that was
In this article 2330-TW Memory chips are seen on a Samsung Electronics memory module in this arranged photograph in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, July 26, 2018. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images The world’s 10 biggest chip manufacturing companies saw their revenues surge to a record high in the first quarter of 2021,
In this article NIO TSLA San Francisco-based Ample has brought electric vehicle battery swapping to the U.S. The company was in stealth mode for seven years before launching recently with five swapping stations in the Bay Area. Uber drivers in the area are Ample’s first customers. The concept isn’t new. A start-up called Better Place
In this photo illustration the HBO Max and Discovery Communications logo seen displayed on a smartphone. Rafael Henrique | LightRocket | Getty Images AT&T‘s decision to merge WarnerMedia with Discovery and Amazon‘s $8.45 billion acquisition of MGM Studios has kicked off another round of media consolidation. The last significant set of mergers brought Discovery and
In this article AMZN Getty Images My son turned one earlier this month. We received a lot of presents from friends and family through Amazon. But we aren’t sure where to send some of the thank you cards. If you buy an item from Amazon and have it shipped somewhere else, it’ll just arrive in
Amazon Fire HD 10 Plus tablet Todd Haselton | CNBC I’ve been testing Amazon’s new Fire HD 10 Plus tablet for the past several days. It started shipping to customers earlier this week and starts at $179.99, a little more than half the price of the entry-level iPad. The Fire HD 10 Plus is Amazon’s
Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi speaks about CarPlay on stage during Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference in San Jose, California on June 05, 2017. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images In the early 2010s, automotive manufacturers and their suppliers were excited about building sophisticated apps for car dashboards that went
In this article TSLA Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the unveiling of the new Tesla Model Y in Hawthorne, California on March 14, 2019. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Tesla started using the cabin cameras in some Model 3 and Model Y vehicles to make sure drivers are paying attention to
Bitcoin mine uncovered during Black Country industrial unit raid that was stealing thousands of pounds worth of electricity from the mains supply. Source: West Midlands Police LONDON — An illegal bitcoin mine has been found by police in the U.K. who were looking for a cannabis farm. The mine — located in an industrial unit
In this article SWI Annette Riedl | Picture Alliance | Getty Images The Russian hackers thought to be behind the catastrophic SolarWinds attack last year have launched another major cyberattack, Microsoft warned Thursday. Microsoft said in a blog post that the hacking group, known as Nobelium, had targeted over 150 organizations worldwide in the last
In this article TSLA Tesla Model 3 Source: Tesla When Tesla decided to exclude radar sensors from its newer Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in the U.S., it had to downgrade functionality in these cars at least temporarily. As a result, Consumer Reports and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) are suspending some
In this article NVDA Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wearing his usual leather jacket. Getty In February, as cryptocurrency prices spiked, Nvidia released new cards specifically for mining crypto. They can’t power a computer monitor, but they can generate valuable ether coins. On Wednesday, the company provided an update on how its cryptocurrency (CMP) cards are
In this article NVDA Jen-Hsun Huang, president and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks during the company’s event at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles on Oct. 21, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia reported first quarter results for its fiscal 2022 on Wednesday, with sales growing 88% compared
In this article GOOGL San Jose city officials on Tuesday night officially approved a plan for Google to build a massive campus in the heart of California’s third-largest city. For its “Downtown West” project, Google will develop 80 acres of land in downtown San Jose, including 7.3 million square feet of office space for 20,000
In this article AMZN Washington, DC Attorney General Karl Racine speaks after a news conference in front of the U.S. Supreme Court September 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced Tuesday he’s suing Amazon on antitrust grounds, claiming the company’s practices have unfairly raised prices for consumers and