Author Walter Isaacson — best known for his biography of late Apple CEO Steve Jobs — said social media platforms should take more responsibility for the extremism and misleading information fostered by their sites. | Continue reading
Find the latest Roblox Corp (RBLX) stock quote, history, news and other vital information to help you with your stock trading and investing. | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- President Joe Biden’s plan to put two progressive antitrust scholars in top positions signals an aggressive approach to combating corporate consolidation and monopoly power, especially that wielded by technology giants such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook In … | Continue reading
Zapier, a well-known no-code automation tool, has purchased Makerpad, a no-code education service and community. TechCrunch has covered Zapier often during its life, including its first, and only fundraising event, a $1.2 million round back in 2012 that tapped Bessemer, DFJ, and … | Continue reading
Google+ is one of the company’s biggest failures and deepest embarrassments to date. | Continue reading
Twitter Inc is testing an "undo send" function that would give users a short time to withdraw a tweet before it is posted, the company confirmed on Friday. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who discovers unannounced social media features by looking at the sites' code, tweeted an … | Continue reading
Twitter is testing an undo send button that lets you instantly take back a sent tweet. | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- China’s Inner Mongolia has banned cryptocurrency mining and declared it will shut all such projects by April, spurring fears the world’s No. 2 economy will take more steps to eradicate the power-hungry practice.The autonomous region, a favorite among the industry b … | Continue reading
Amazon.com Inc. was sued for allegedly discriminating against Black and female workers in hiring employees for its corporate offices. | Continue reading
Enabling new tokens is a step on the path to full smart-contract functionality. | Continue reading
Rocket Lab USA Inc. announced Monday it will be going public through an acquisition by special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Vector Acquisition Corp. , in a deal that values the launch and space systems company at $4.1 billion. Vector Acquisition's stock soared 20.5% in prem … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- U.S. regulators are engaging in the stock market’s version of whack-a-mole -- racing to suspend shares of companies with dubious prospects that have been hyped to the moon on social media.In a Friday statement, the Securities and Exchange Commission said it tempora … | Continue reading
Influencers of all stripes are racing to build up their followings on Clubhouse, spending hours a day on the audio app. Why are people doing this? | Continue reading
Why do people like to use ancient personal organisers and music players? | Continue reading
Coinbase, the biggest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, moved a step closer to listing on the Nasdaq with a filing on Thursday to go public, revealing that it had swung into profit last year as bitcoin surged. Approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a listing w … | Continue reading
Find the latest GameStop Corporation (GME) stock quote, history, news and other vital information to help you with your stock trading and investing. | Continue reading
The Federal AviationAdministration (FAA) said on Tuesday it was ordering immediateinspections of Boeing 777-200 planes with Pratt & WhitneyPW4000 engines before further flights after an engine failed ona United flight on Saturday. Operators must conduct a thermal acoustic image i … | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was involved in another Twitter storm overnight, tweeting that Bitcoin is “almost as BS as fiat money” in spite of Tesla’s recent $1.5 billion investment. | Continue reading
Tesla has cut the base prices of the Model 3 and Model Y as it hopes to keep EV sales high. | Continue reading
'[History] shows you that actually equities are the best asset class for store of value,' says the Investment Strategy Group's head, Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani. | Continue reading
Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk has said Tesla wants to simplify manufacturing and increase output. One way it's doing so is by constructing its cars in the same way toy cars are made. This has allowed Tesla to produce a two-piece rear and front body casting as opposed to … | Continue reading
Cryptocurrency Dogecoin surged more than 60% on Thursday after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted about it, two days after he said he was to take a break from Twitter "for a while". Dogecoin, which is based on a popular internet meme, jumped 67.99% to $0.054496, accordin … | Continue reading
Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) is in the midst of building several factories around the world. Tesla recently reworked its Model S and X lines in Fremont, California to produce updated vehicles, and the company is also building new car production factories in Austin, Texas and Berlin, … | Continue reading
Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) Elon Musk has tweeted a digital magazine cover featuring a dog in apparent support of a digital currency Dogecoin. What Happened: Dogecoin, a digital currency that was launched as a joke, has surpassed all-time high today, growing by 420.29% in a matter o … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- China is taking decisive steps to protect itself from a widening U.S. technology ban, with imports of computer chips and the machines that make them surging last year.Chinese businesses bought almost $32 billion of equipment used to produce computer chips from Japa … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- Mike Frazzini had never made a video game when he helped start Amazon Game Studios. Eight years later, he has released two duds, withdrew both from stores after a torrent of negative reactions and canceled many more. For a company that dominates countless areas of … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- Silver jumped to an almost eight-year high, extending a surge that started with the retail investor frenzy sweeping through markets.Most-active futures rose as much as 13% to $30.35 an ounce on the Comex, the highest since February 2013. That followed a weekend buy … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- The latest nostalgia stock to jump on the Reddit rally is BB Liquidating Inc., the final remnant of bankrupt video-rental company Blockbuster.The penny stock surged as much as 302% Wednesday, adding to Tuesday’s 774% spike, on volume that was 70 times the three-mon … | Continue reading
Gamestop shares are set to rally 70% this morning when trading starts, and AMC shares opened up 300%, extending a run that has perplexed market observers, irked hedge funds, and generally made crypto's recent gains appear soft and weak. Robinhood blew up the trading fee economy, … | Continue reading
A former CIA software engineer charged with leaking government secrets to WikiLeaks says it's cruel and unusual punishment that he's awaiting trial in solitary confinement, housed in a vermin-infested cell of a jail unit where inmates are treated like “caged animals." Joshua Sch … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- Intel Corp.’s incoming Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger pledged to regain the company’s lead in chip manufacturing, countering growing calls from some investors to shed that part of its business.“I am confident that the majority of our 2023 products will be ma … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc.’s first crack at a headset is designed to be a pricey, niche precursor to a more ambitious augmented reality product that will take longer to develop, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The initial device has confronted several development … | Continue reading
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been sued in California over allegations it failed to take action against messaging app Telegram in the aftermath of the Capitol Hill riot even as the platform was used to promote violence.What Happened: The Coalition for a Safer Web, a Washington D … | Continue reading
It’s another big day in the EV (electric vehicle) and AV (autonomous vehicle) space. | Continue reading
Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) and Bitcoin (BTC) are more likely to see their values halved than doubled over the period of next 12 months, according to the majority of respondents in a Deutsche Bank survey published Tuesday.What Happened: Deutsche Bank surveyed 627 market professiona … | Continue reading
The U.S. should examine how it can curtail the use of crypto for illicit financing, the former Fed Chair said. | Continue reading
In this article, we are going to list the 15 largest hosting companies in the world. Click to skip ahead and jump to the 5 largest hosting companies in the world. The vast majority of people never truly consider where a site is, or even what a site is. You turn on a PC, open […] | Continue reading
Parler, a social media website and app popular with the American far right, has partially returned online with the help of a Russian-owned technology company. Parler vanished from the internet when dropped by Amazon Inc's hosting arm and other partners for poor moderation after … | Continue reading
LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / January 11, 2021 / On December 16, 2020, the White House issued Space Policy Directive-6 (SPD-6), which outlines a national strategy for using space nuclear power and propulsion (SNPP) systems in a safe and effective manner. The new policy directive … | Continue reading
Now even New York City is looking into whether it can cancel its contracts with the Trump Organization. | Continue reading
Scott Galloway, professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business and a vocal critic of big tech and its unchecked power, reflected on how the U.S. ended up in this state of chaos in an interview with Yahoo Finance Live on Friday. | Continue reading
Deutsche Bank will not do business in the future with U.S. President Donald Trump or his companies in the wake of his supporters' assault on the U.S. Capitol, the New York Times reported. Deutsche Bank is Trump's biggest lender, with about $340 million in loans outstanding to th … | Continue reading
Tesla shares broke their 11-day winning streak on Monday as the overall markets opened lower, and despite a couple of Wall Street price target increases on the stock. | Continue reading
Shares of Twitter sank more than 7% in early trading on Monday after the social media company permanently banned President Donald Trump from the platform late last week. | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc. short sellers lost billions more on the electric-vehicle maker than any other company in 2020, as bears got severely burned by the stock’s surge to new highs.With shares up over 730%, Tesla bears have seen more than $38 billion in mark-to-market losses t … | Continue reading
GoDaddy promised a $650 holiday bonus, but it was just a phishing test. | Continue reading
MIT's famous Media Lab, the multidisciplinary idea factory that produces many a fascinating invention and influential thinker, has found a new director in its backyard after scouring the globe for candidates. Dava Newman, MIT professor of aeronautics and astronautics and former … | Continue reading
SoftBank Group Corp. (OTC: SFTBY) will be filing for an initial public offering of its first special purpose acquisition company on Monday, Axios reports.What Happened: The Japanese conglomerate is looking to raise between $500 million and $600 million in the IPO, people familiar … | Continue reading