In this article TWTR Elon Musk, during an event at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. Bloomberg /Getty A new filing reveals that Elon Musk plans to front $33.5 billion in his bid to take over Twitter. Musk is in talks with Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey and
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Matt Mawson | Corbis Documentary | Getty Images Time-critical logistics start-up Airspace, which originally broke into the market handling shipments for emergency situations including organ transplants and life-saving medications, has nearly doubled its funding in a new round of venture capital led by DBL Partners, an impact investing firm that was an early investor in
In this article GOOGL Sen. Ron Wyden, D-OR Sarah Silbiger | Getty Images News | Getty Images A group of 42 Democratic lawmakers urged Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a letter Tuesday to stop collecting and keeping unnecessary or non-aggregated location data that could be used to identify people seeking abortions. The letter comes ahead
In this article PUBM MGNI TTD TWTR GOOGL PINS FB SNAP ROKU Evan Spiegel, co-founder and chief executive officer of Snap Inc., speaks during the virtual Google Pixel Fall Launch event in New York, on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Snap shares plunged 38% on Tuesday, putting the company
In this screengrab, CEO of Snap Inc. Evan Spiegel takes the stage at the virtual Snap Partner Summit 2021 on May 20, 2021 in Los Angeles. Snap Partner Summit 2021 – Snap Inc | Getty Images Snap will miss its own targets for revenue and adjusted earnings in the current quarter, CEO Evan Speigel warned
In this article AVGO VMW DELL Rangarajan Raghuram, CEO, VMware at the NYSE, Dec. 14, 2021. Source: NYSE CNBC’s David Faber reported Monday that Broadcom had been gearing up to announce its acquisition of VMware as soon as Thursday, but the news could come sooner after several reports said the two companies were in talks.
China’s Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN) is planning a major international expansion project in August. Yuichiro Chino | Moment | Getty Images China’s state-backed blockchain company is planning its first major international expansion, its CEO told CNBC, as Beijing continues to make the technology a key priority. Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN) bills itself as a “one-stop
In this article F TSLA GM GOOGL An Apollo Robotaxi runs at Shougang Park as Baidu launches China’s first driverless taxi service in the city on May 2, 2021 in Beijing, China. He Luqi | Qianlong.com | Visual China Group | Getty Images For years, Alphabet‘s Waymo and others leaders have promised autonomous vehicles are
Traders on the NYSE, May 20, 2022. Source: NYSE Tech companies haven’t seen a selloff like since 2001 and the bursting of the dot-com bubble. The Nasdaq declined 3.8% this week, falling for a seventh straight week. It’s the longest losing streak for the tech-heavy index in 21 years. Inflation, rising interest rates, the war
Those seeking evidence of the recent crypto meltdown need not look to Minneapolis — at least for the next few days. This weekend, thousands of NFT-holders are descending upon the Twin Cities for Gary Vaynerchuk’s “VeeCon” — a four-day conference bringing together business leaders, entrepreneurs and Web3 evangelists to discuss digital transformation in everything from
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar speaks during a protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the leak of a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito preparing for a majority of the court to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision later this year, in Washington, D.C., May 3, 2022. Elizabeth Frantz |
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk participates in a postlaunch news conference inside the Press Site auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, following the launch of the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station. NASA/Kim Shiflett SpaceX founder Elon Musk said in a tweet late Thursday that “wild accusations”
An augmented reality feature shows the finished Apple Park at the Apple Park Visitor Center on November 17, 2017 in Cupertino, California. Amy Osborne | AFP | Getty Images Apple’s board of directors previewed its mixed-reality headset last week, according to Bloomberg, suggesting that Apple’s next major new product category could launch soon. For Apple,
In this article TSLA Tesla CEO Elon Musk is trying to buy Twitter and manage multiple companies at the same time. James Glover II | Reuters Billionaire Leo Koguan, who claims to be the third largest individual shareholder of Tesla stock, is calling on the carmaker to announce a $15 billion stock buyback as the
In this article TWTR Trump advisor Steve Bannon (L) watches as President Donald Trump greets Elon Musk, SpaceX and Tesla CEO, before a policy and strategy forum with executives in the State Dining Room of the White House February 3, 2017 in Washington, DC. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images Elon Musk said twice
Facebook IPO A decade ago, Facebook told the public markets that it was pouring money into smartphone apps because mobile usage was key to the company’s growth, even though it did “not currently directly generate any meaningful revenue” at the time. That was in the prospectus for its Nasdaq debut, which took place ten years