In this article DTG-DE TSLA According to Volvo Trucks, fuel cells for the vehicles will be provided by cellcentric, a joint venture with Daimler Truck that was established in March 2021. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Volvo Trucks said Monday that it had begun to test vehicles that use “fuel cells powered by
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In this article ETH.CM= Ether is the second-largest cryptocurrency in the world by market value. Jaap Arriens | NurPhoto via Getty Images Another controversial cryptocurrency is causing havoc in the digital asset market — and this time, it’s not a stablecoin. Staked ether, or stETH, is a token that’s supposed to be worth the same
An employee arranges Apple iPhones as customer shop at the Apple Store on 5th Avenue shortly after new products went on sale in Manhattan, in New York City, March 18, 2022. Mike Segar | Reuters Employees at an Apple store in Towson, Maryland voted Saturday to join a union, a significant achievement for organized labor
Signage is displayed on the exterior of a Capital One Financial Corp. cafe branch in Walnut Creek, California, U.S., on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Bloomberg | Getty Images A former Amazon Web Services employee was convicted of hacking into Capital One and stealing the data of more than 100 million people nearly three years ago in
Francesco Carta Fotografo | Moment | Getty Images Carnage in the crypto market won’t let up, as token prices plummet, companies lay off employees in waves, and some of the most popular names in the industry go belly up. The chaos has spooked investors, erasing more than $2 trillion in value in a matter of
In this article WMT SHLDQ Over the past year, large-scale robberies have swept through stores like Louis Vuitton in San Francisco’s Union Square and a nearby Nordstrom, which was robbed by 80 people. Law enforcement and retailers have warned the public that this isn’t traditional shoplifting. Rather, what they’re seeing is theft organized by criminal
In this article TSLA TWTR Elon Musk pauses and looks down as he speaks during a press conference at SpaceX’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on February 10, 2022. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images In what’s been a particularly eventful year for Elon Musk, this was a decidedly rough
In this article 9618-HK China’s annual 618 shopping festival sees domestic e-commerce giants including JD.com rack up billions of dollars of sales across their platforms. The 2022 edition comes against a backdrop of slowing economic growth in China and sluggish consumer spending. VCG | Getty Images EMBARGO to lift at 6am Singapore on Friday, June
In this article META Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, October 23, 2019. Erin Scott | Reuters TikTok is fully aware that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is retooling the Facebook and Instagram apps to be more like its own popular short video service. But TikTok
In this article WWE Vince McMahon attends a press conference at MetLife Stadium on February 16, 2012 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Michael N. Todaro | Getty Images World Wrestling Entertainment‘s board is investigating a $3 million hush-money settlement that CEO Vince McMahon paid a woman over an alleged affair, The Wall Street Journal reported
Bill Gates Gerard Miller | CNBC Bill Gates is not a fan of cryptocurrencies or non-fungible tokens. Speaking at a TechCrunch talk on climate change Tuesday, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder described the phenomenon as something that’s “100% based on greater fool theory,” referring to the idea that overvalued assets will go up in price when
In this article MSTR Michael Saylor, chairman and chief executive officer of MicroStrategy, first got into bitcoin in 2020, when he decided to start adding the cryptocurrency to MicroStrategy’s balance sheet as part of an unorthodox treasury management strategy. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images Having once lost $6 billion at the height
In this article COIN Coinbase Founder and CEO Brian Armstrong attends Consensus 2019 at the Hilton Midtown on May 15, 2019 in New York City. Steven Ferdman | Getty Images Coinbase is laying off almost a fifth of its workforce amid a collapse in its stock and crypto prices. The cryptocurrency exchange will cut 18%
In this article BTC.CM= Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies fell sharply as investors dump risk assets. A crypto lending company called Celsius pausing withdrawals for its customers, sparking fears of contagion into the broader market. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Bitcoin tumbled below $25,000 late on Sunday, hitting its lowest level since December 2020, as
In this article BTC.CB= COIN The logo for Coinbase Global Inc, the biggest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, is displayed on the Nasdaq MarketSite jumbotron and others at Times Square in New York, U.S., April 14, 2021. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Coinbase shares are down more than 20% in pre-market trading Monday. Coinbase makes a commission when
Jidu, Baidu’s electric car venture alongside Geely, revealed its first concept car on June 8, 2022. Baidu BEIJING — As Chinese companies race for a slice of the world’s largest car market, they’re betting heavily on assisted driving technology. China sold nearly 21.5 million passenger cars last year. That’s roughly the equivalent of sales in