Tesla Chief Executive Office Elon Musk speaks at his company’s factory in Fremont, California. Noah Berger | Reuters Tesla plans to host its annual shareholder meeting, followed by a “battery technology day” presentation, on Tuesday, September 22. Elon Musk’s electric car company is likely to disclose specifications for at least one new type of battery
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The download page for ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok app is arranged for a photograph on a smartphone in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Brent Lewin | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump said Saturday he has approved in principle a deal in which Oracle and Walmart will partner with the viral video-sharing
Many people turn to Facebook for news, with almost 70% of adults in the United States using the platform in 2019, according to Pew Research Center. This large userbase means Facebook has a large effect on our society and our democracy. That was made evident in the 2016 presidential election. Since 2017, Facebook has removed over 100
Sequoia Capital Global Managing Partner Doug Leone speaks onstage during Day 2 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 6, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Steve Jennings | Getty Images Even by Sequoia’s standards, this was a crazy week. The 48-year-old venture capital firm, long the envy of its Silicon Valley peers
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for the U.S.-China “phase-one” trade agreement in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. Zach Gibson | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Commerce Department announced Friday morning that it would ban U.S. business transactions with China-owned social apps WeChat and TikTok on Sunday. The announcement
The Infineon logo can be seen on a chip on the board of a microcontroller kit at the Infineon Annual General Meeting in the Congress Center of the Munich Exhibition Center. Infineon is seen as one of Europe’s key technology firms in the semiconductor space. Matthias Balk | picture alliance | Getty Images SINGAPORE —
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces the co-founding of The Climate Pledge at the National Press Club on September 19, 2019, in Washington. Paul Morigi | Getty Images | Amazon Amazon on Thursday announced the first recipients of its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund. The Climate Pledge Fund, launched by Amazon in June, is designed to
Sutter Hill Ventures Managing Director Mike Speiser speaks onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt at Pier 48 on September 9, 2014 in San Francisco, California. Steve Jennings | Getty Images Two months after Facebook’s massive IPO in 2012, venture capitalist Mike Speiser was a few miles away from the social networking company, incubating a software start-up from
Apple Watch Fitness Source: Apple Inc. Apple on Tuesday announced its long-rumored Apple One bundle, a tiered system of subscription packages that give you access to a suite of the company’s digital services like music, video, streaming fitness classes and iCloud storage for one monthly price. It’s a move Apple watchers, investors and geeks have
Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman Snowflake Snowflake, a provider of cloud-based data storage and analysis software, priced its IPO above its increased range in an offering that values the company at $33.3 billion. Snowflake is selling 28 million shares at $120 a piece, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be
Oracle Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer, Larry Ellison Kimberly White | Getty Images Approval of Oracle’s deal to become a “trusted technology provider” for ByteDance’s TikTok will be announced on Tuesday afternoon, CNBC’s Jim Cramer reported. A source familiar with the matter later confirmed to CNBC’s Eamon Javers that a decision could
Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman, far right, addresses the team at an all-hands meeting. Courtesy of Snowflake Data storage software company Snowflake has raised its estimated IPO price by around 30% since last week, according to an updated S-1 filing Monday. Snowflake’s IPO is on track to be one of the most popular debuts in a flurry of
Oracle on Monday confirmed it has struck a deal with ByteDance, the Chinese owner of trendy video-sharing app TikTok, weeks after the Trump administration ordered a TikTok divestiture in the U.S. The deal proposal still needs approval from the U.S. government. “Oracle confirms Secretary Mnuchin’s statement that it is part of the proposal submitted by ByteDance
Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., pauses during a Bloomberg event on the opening day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft said Sunday that the Chinese owner of social video app TikTok had chosen not to sell
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – NOVEMBER 17: Quarterback Lamar Jackson #8 of the Baltimore Ravens reacts after throwing a touchdown pass to tight end Mark Andrews #89 of the Baltimore Ravens (not pictured) against the Houston Texans during the second quarter at M&T Bank Stadium on November 17, 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
The Purple Air air-quality map on Friday Sept. 11, 2020, shows most of the west coast with hazardous levels of pollution from wildfire smoke. Screenshot As record-breaking fires wreak havoc on the Western United States, they’re also releasing massive amounts of smoke and ash into the atmosphere, adding to the region’s health woes. To find