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 The price of bitcoin jumped about 4% Monday afternoon after Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he was having active discussions regarding the sustainability of the digital coin. The coin
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Daniel Craig stars as James Bond in “No Time To Die.” Source: MGM Amazon is nearing a deal to acquire MGM Studios, the co-owner of the “James Bond” franchise and other TV and film series, for between $8.5 billion and $9 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal is expected to be
An automated machine stacks packages at Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com’s huge logistics center in Dongguan, China. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC GUANGZHOU, China — Qin Jiahao has been working at Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com’s logistics operations for around six years. Now a huge amount of his work has become automated. “In the past, almost all the work is manual.
In this article WBA Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes leaves the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building with her defense team in downtown San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images | MediaNews Group | Getty Images Money may buy happiness but in the case of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth
In this article DRH Signage for the AT&T Inc. WarnerMedia HBO Max streaming service is displayed on a smartphone in an arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Thursday, May 28, 2020. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images During its annual upfront presentation to advertisers this week, Fox ran
In this article MTCH BMBL Dating apps are creating badges displaying vaccination status and offering vaccinated Americans free premium benefits. Tinder The largest dating apps in the U.S. are banding together in support of Covid-19 vaccines, in the hopes that it’ll be a hot vax summer. For the uninitiated, hot vax summer plays on the
In this article AAPL SNAP Evan Spiegel, CEO of SNAP Inc. Stephen Desaulniers | CNBC Snap CEO Evan Spiegel on Friday said the social media company is happy to pay Apple’s 30% commission rate on in-app transactions. “We really feel like Snapchat wouldn’t exist without the iPhone and without the amazing platform that Apple has
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., center, arrives at U.S. district court in Oakland, California, on Friday, May 21, 2021. Nina Riggio | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook faced sharp questioning on Friday from Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers about Apple’s App Store business model at the end of his testimony
A picture taken on June 9, 2016 shows Amazon warehouse in Paris, part of the new service ‘Prime Now’. Eric Piermont | AFP | Getty Images Amazon is shutting down its standalone Prime Now platforms and directing users who want fast delivery on groceries and other goods to order them through the Amazon app or
In this article GOOGL California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at the opening of the country’s first federal and state operated community vaccination site during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Los Angeles, California, February 16, 2021. Mike Blake | Reuters California Governor Gavin Newsom pointed to a recent flood of tech IPOs and
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 faces a potential ban on the transfer of Europeans’ data to the United States. That would be a
In this article SQSP The New York Stock Exchange welcomes Squarespace, Inc. (NYSE: SQSP), on May 19, 2021, in celebration of its Direct Listing. NYSE By 2010, Anthony Casalena was seven years into bootstrapping his start-up Squarespace, which he’d grown from a dorm room project at the University of Maryland into a business with $10
In this article BTC.BS=-USS 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 fell sharply on Tuesday continuing a major sell-off that began a week ago. The digital currency fell
In this article AMZN T Liberty Media’s John Malone Michael Kovac | Getty Images Long-time employees of WarnerMedia have been through so many spinoffs and mergers that Monday’s announcement of its impending separation from AT&T and combination with Discovery amounted to gallows humor. “You just have to laugh,” said one veteran employee. Given that context,
A man riding a Lime e-scooter in Berlin, Germany on June 21, 2019. Thomas Trutschel | Photothek via Getty Images LONDON — Starting from June 7, Londoners will officially be allowed to whizz around on an electric kick scooter. City transport regulators said Tuesday that a handful of e-scooter rental firms had been selected to
In this article CMCSA VIAC Shari Redstone, chairwoman of ViacomCBS and president of National Amusements, reacts as she celebrates her company’s merger at the Nasdaq Market site in New York, December 5, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters In the words of the great Tom Lehrer, “Who’s Next?“ Now that AT&T has decided to separate WarnerMedia