In this article TSLA Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and chief executive officer of Tesla, waves while arriving to a discussion at the Satellite 2020 Conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday, March 9, 2020. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk implied in a Twitter exchange Sunday afternoon that the electric
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Combined images of AT&T CEO John Stankey (L)and john stankey WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar. Reuters AT&T is in advanced talks to merge WarnerMedia with Discovery in a deal that will strengthen the combined company against rival media giants Netflix and Disney, according to people familiar with the matter. A deal could be announced as soon
In this article FB Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill October 23, 2019 in Washington, DC. Zuckerberg testified about Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra, how his company will handle false and misleading information by political leaders during the 2020 campaign
In this article BA AIR-FR Reliable Robots and Xwing are two Bay Area start-ups working on planes that can fly themselves — no pilot required. Rather than building new aircraft, both companies have retrofitted Cessna Grand Caravans. The planes can fly autonomously while a remote operator monitors the flight, taking control if needed. Both companies
Marqeta Headquarters in Oakland, Calif. Yalonda M. James | San Francisco Chronicle | Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images Marqeta has become one of the hottest businesses in digital commerce, even though few consumers have ever heard of it. Its name is about to become much more familiar. On Friday, the company filed to go public
People wear protective face masks outside Salesforce Tower in New York City. Noam Galai | Getty Images Cloudera exited its downtown San Francisco office early last year with plans to sublease the space and move its employees south to the software company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. But the pandemic left the company with nobody to take
In this article DIS A performer dressed as Mickey Mouse entertains guests during the reopening of the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California, U.S., on Friday, April 30, 2021. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Disney seems to have picked up a bit of Netflix-itis. Just as Netflix added fewer than 4 million global subscribers
In this article DIS A performer dressed as Mickey Mouse entertains guests during the reopening of the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California, U.S., on Friday, April 30, 2021. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Disney is set to report fiscal second-quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday. Here are the key numbers: Earnings per
In this article TSLA Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday on Twitter that Tesla has “suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin,” out of concern over “rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining.” In an SEC filing in February, Tesla revealed that it bought $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin and it may invest in more
A rendering of Amazon’s HQ2 shows a “Forest Plaza” located at the foot of its 350-foot-tall tower, dubbed “The Helix.” NBBJ/Amazon Amazon on Wednesday revealed the latest look at its second headquarters, called HQ2, and announced plans to hire 1,900 new employees near its sprawling northern Virginia campus. In a blog post, the company shared
In this article TSLA A gigafactory of electric carmaker Tesla is seen in Shanghai, China October 18, 2019. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — One gauge of Tesla’s success in China pointed to a sharp drop in sales in April. The U.S.-based electric car company sold 25,845 made-in-China vehicles last month, down 27% from 35,478
People stand in front a banner displaying Palantir Technologies Inc. signage during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, Sept. 30, 2020. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Palantir, a software company that offers analytics tools to the defense industry and large corporations,
Jeff Lawson, CEO, Twilio Scott Mlyn | CNBC The rotation out of tech stocks continues to hammer cloud companies the hardest, as investors sell out of last year’s best performers. While the Dow Jones Industrial Average is trading just below a record, an index of cloud-computing companies slid to its lowest level in six months.
Bitcoin’s biggest rival, ether, blew past $4,000 on Monday to hit a new record high. The cryptocurrency is up more than 400 percent so far this year. While it is easier than ever to buy a fraction of one ether using an app like Coinbase, that is not the only way to get your hands
A logo of Ant Group is pictured at the headquarters of the company, an affiliate of Alibaba, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China October 29, 2020. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba, is becoming one of the first major privately run businesses to work with China’s digital currency trials. MYbank
Banjo Ben Clark Zoe Weaver As an aspiring mandolin player, I’ve spent years looking up YouTube videos to learn various bluegrass licks, frequently landing on lessons from a guy who goes by Banjo Ben. In the early days of the pandemic, as we were all searching for ways to stay productive and sane while stuck