In this article AAPL Apple iMac M1 2021 Todd Haselton | CNBC Apple just gave the iMac its the first major redesign since 2012, and I’ve been testing one out for a week. It’s insanely thin. Like the 1999 iMac, it ships in a bunch of colors. But most notably, this the first time Apple’s
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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
In this article DISCA T John Stankey, senior executive vice president of AT&T Inc. merger integration planning, arrives to federal court in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, April 30, 2018. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images It didn’t work. It was misguided. It never really made sense to begin with. And we’re not talking
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
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
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 AMZN Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies during a remote video hearing held by subcommittees of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee on “Social Media’s Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation” in Washington, March 25, 2021. U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee | Handout | via Reuters Google
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 GOOGL Thomas Kurian, chief executive officer of cloud services at Google LLC, speaks during the Google Cloud Next ’19 event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. The conference brings together industry experts to discuss the future of cloud computing. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google announced
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
Lina Khan, nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 21, 2021. Saul Loeb | Pool | Reuters The nomination of tech critic Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission will move to a full
In this article 8586.T-JP BAYN-DE Dan Vahdat, CEO and co-founder of Huma. Huma LONDON — The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated a shift toward digital health services, and investors are looking to capitalize on the trend by making big bets in the space. In the U.K., London-headquartered firm Huma announced Wednesday that it’s raised $130 million
In this article PLTR Peter Thiel, co-founder and chairman of Palantir Technologies Inc., pauses during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, Nov. 18, 2019. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Palantir, the maker of software and analytics tools for the defense industry and large corporations, reported 49% revenue growth for its first quarter,
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.