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You get two big screen inside the Surface Duo. Todd Haselton | CNBC Microsoft and Samsung are betting that future phones look different than they do now. Samsung’s betting on foldable screens inside phones that can open up to work like a tablet. Microsoft’s testing the waters with the Surface Duo, which looks like a

Alexander Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies Inc. Getty Images As Palantir gears up for its stock market debut, the company has a long way to go to convince potential shareholders that it’s worth the $20 billion price tag that investors gave it almost five years ago. Palantir held a virtual event for investors on Wednesday.

Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings told CNBC the streaming giant has not in recent years tried to gain access to the Chinese market, focusing instead on growth opportunities presented elsewhere around the globe.  “We got turned down by the Chinese government several years ago. And we have not been spending any time on China in the

Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox speaking at the 2105 CGI Annual Meeting in New York. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Ursula Burns, who was CEO of Xerox from 2009 to 2016 and the first Black woman to run a Fortune 500 company, says corporations have to “change the criteria” for directors to create more diverse board rooms.

Microsoft teased a smaller, cheaper version of its next-gen Xbox Series X console Tuesday. The new device, called the Xbox Series S, will be Microsoft’s “smallest Xbox ever,” the company said. Microsoft Microsoft confirmed Tuesday that it is set to launch a smaller, cheaper version of its upcoming next-generation console. The company is currently gearing

Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook Source: Reuters; Apple Italy’s competition authority announced Monday it’s looking into cloud storage services run by Apple, Dropbox and Google after hearing several complaints about allegedly unfair commercial practices. The Competition and Market Authority said it has launched six total investigations into Google Drive, Apple’s iCloud and DropBox.  The agency is

Integrated circuits on a circuit board. The semiconductor industry has been in focus during the U.S.-China trade war. filonmar | E+ | Getty Images China has lashed out at the U.S. government over potential export restrictions on SMIC, the country’s biggest chipmaker. The U.S. Department of Defense said Saturday that it was considering adding SMIC

(Credit: Getty | PeopleImages) If your eyes feel tired, it could be that they’re strained from staring at bright glowing screens all day long. We’re all indoors, spending more time than ever staring at computer screens, phones and tablets while we work from home. There are some settings built into the iPhone, Android, macOS and

Paolo Gentiloni, European commissioner for the economy, speaking at Forum The European House – Ambrosetti in September, 2020. Michael Green | CNBC Big Tech has to pay a “fair amount” of taxes in Europe, especially as they are the “real winners” of the coronavirus crisis, a top European official told CNBC Saturday. His comments come

SpaceX founder Elon Musk looks on at a post-launch news conference after the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifted off on an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 2, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters Shares of Tesla dropped more

President Donald Trump speaks with Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, and Jeff Bezos, Chief Executive Officer of Amazon during an American Technology Council roundtable in the State Dinning Room at the White House in Washington on June 19, 2017. Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty Images The Pentagon said Friday it

The United States’ richest Big Tech executives lost a collective $25 billion to their net worth after Thursday’s market sell-off, according to data compiled by CNBC’s Robert Frank. The S&P 500 tech sector closed down 5.8% Thursday, dragging markets in the red. The dramatic drops shaved several billions off the net worth of some of

Dr. Farzad Mostashari presenting on syndromic surveillance. Farzad Mostashari When researchers at Carnegie Mellon University had the idea to put together a survey asking the general public about their coronavirus symptoms, they knew they needed to collect millions of data points to learn anything meaningful. So they asked Facebook, which has a public team that

Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers the keynote address during the 2020 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California. Brooks Kraft/Apple Inc/Handout via Reuters Apple announced on Thursday that a planned change to the iPhone operating system that could impact how Facebook and other mobile advertisers track users will be delayed until

Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing examining the company’s plan to launch a digital currency on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 23, 2019. Erin Scott | Reuters Facebook announced Thursday that it would ban new political ads from running in the week before the presidential election

Biofourmis is part of a small but growing group of venture-backed start-ups looking to augment traditional medicines with digital technology, including wearables and software. The hope for these kinds of digital-drug combinations is to add personalization to medicine to help ensure the right patient gets access to the right drug at the right time. Not all