In this article CZR DKNG Lawrence Guy #93 of the New England Patriots sacks Jimmy Garoppolo #10 of the San Francisco 49ers during the first quarter of the NFL game at Gillette Stadium on October 25, 2020 in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Matt Stone | MediaNews Group | Getty Images The National Football League is officially open
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In this article GOOGL Google Earth Google Google Earth received its first big update since 2017 on Thursday. The highlight is a new Timelapse feature that lets you see how much the earth has changed in the past 37 years, and it’s pretty stunning what you can find. With Google Earth Timelapse you can search
In this article COIN Fred Wilson David Orrell | CNBC By 2013, venture capitalist Fred Wilson had established himself as a preeminent investor in consumer tech, having made early and highly lucrative bets on Twitter, Zynga, Etsy and Tumblr. In May of that year, he took a slight sideways turn. “We have been thinking about
In this article AAPL AMZN Amazon’s second-generation Echo Buds Amazon Amazon on Wednesday announced the second version of its Echo Buds headphones that are smaller and start at $99 while promising some of the features found in Apple‘s $249 AirPods Pro. The earbuds are Amazon’s latest effort to lure people who don’t want Apple and
In this article COIN Chesnot | Getty Images Coinbase is set to go public through a blockbuster direct listing Wednesday, and investors are hailing it as a “watershed” moment for the cryptocurrency industry. The digital currency exchange could be valued at as much as $100 billion, making it more valuable than major trading venue operators
In this article COIN Brian Armstrong, co-founder and chief executive officer of Coinbase Inc. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Coinbase is poised to command an astronomical valuation when the digital currency exchange goes public on Wednesday. But ask 10 market experts how the company should be valued and you’ll likely get 10
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 maintains
Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images Governments around the world may start to clamp down on the use of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the CEO of a top crypto exchange has warned. A number of officials — from U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde — have sounded the alarm about
In this article 9988-HK The signage is seen at Alibaba Group headquarters during the company’s 11.11 Singles’ Day global shopping festival in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, November 11, 2020. Aly Song | Reuters GUANGZHOU, China — Alibaba shares in Hong Kong jumped more than 5% on Monday after the company was fined 18.23 billion yuan
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the Future Decoded Tech Summit in Bengaluru, India, on Feb. 25, 2020. Samyukta Lakshmi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft is in advanced talks to acquire speech-recognition company Nuance Communications, a person familiar with the discussions told CNBC on Sunday. A transaction could be signed as early as Sunday
In this article TSLA Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere — in phones, laptops, tablets, cameras and increasingly cars. Demand for lithium-ion batteries has risen sharply in the past five years and is expected to grow from a $44.2 billion market in 2020 to a $94.4 billion market by 2025, mostly due to the boom in electric
Exterior of Alibaba Group Beijing Headquarters on November 10, 2019 in Beijing, China. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images Chinese regulators hit Alibaba with a 18.23 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) fine in its anti-monopoly investigation of the tech giant. In a Saturday statement, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation accused Alibaba of abusing
In this article FB Chris Cox Asa Mathat | Re/code Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox got paid approximately $69 million to rejoin the social media company in 2020. Cox rejoined Facebook in June 2020 after a more than one year hiatus away from the company. Cox is a key moral leader at Facebook and
An Amazon-sponsored billboard urging employees to return their unionization ballots is seen on March 28, 2021 in Bessemer, Alabama. Elijah Nouvelage | Getty Images The National Labor Relations Board on Friday will resume counting ballots at 9:30 a.m. ET in the historic union election at one of Amazon’s Alabama warehouses. With roughly half of the
An RWDSU union rep holds a sign outside the Amazon fulfillment warehouse at the center of a unionization drive on March 29, 2021 in Bessemer, Alabama. Elijah Nouvelage | Getty Images Counting began on Thursday in the unionization vote for workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, culminating months of a hard fought effort to
In this article PLTR PYPL Technicians make repairs to bitcoin mining machines at a mining facility operated by Bitmain in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images China could end up exceeding its emissions reduction targets as a result of carbon-intensive bitcoin mining, according to a