Facebook and Twitter algorithms incentivize 'people to get enraged': Isaacson

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Roblox now a public company via direct listing. Market cap is $37B

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Biden Flashes Warning to Big Tech as Antitrust Team Takes Shape

(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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Zapier Acquires Makerpad

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Why Google's social network was a spectacular failure

Google+ is one of the company’s biggest failures and deepest embarrassments to date. | Continue reading


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

2021: We wanted flying cars, we got Twitter “undo” button (for paying users)

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Twitter is testing an undo send button that lets you instantly take back a sent tweet. | Continue reading


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

China Region Declares War on Crypto Mining

(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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Amazon worker sues company, claiming race and gender bias in corporate hires

Amazon.com Inc. was sued for allegedly discriminating against Black and female workers in hiring employees for its corporate offices. | Continue reading


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Cardano Becomes a Multi-Asset Blockchain with Today’s Hard Fork

Enabling new tokens is a step on the path to full smart-contract functionality. | Continue reading


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Rocket Lab to go public in merger with SPAC VACQ, valuing company at $4.1B

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

SEC Suspends Trading in 15 Stocks That Got Hyped on Social Media

(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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Why are people spending hours on Clubhouse? It's not (usually) the money

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Vintage technology: 'It sounds so much cleaner'

Why do people like to use ancient personal organisers and music players? | Continue reading


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Coinbase listing filing shows surge in revenue amid Bitcoin boom

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

GME stock halted trading after +103% daily

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

FAA orders immediate inspections of some Boeing 777 engines after United failure

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Tesla CEO Elon Musk takes major u-turn on Bitcoin

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Tesla cuts price of Model 3 and Model Y

Tesla has cut the base prices of the Model 3 and Model Y as it hopes to keep EV sales high. | Continue reading


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Goldman: Stay overweight U.S. equities, Bitcoin not an investable asset class

'[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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Tesla Shares Video of Largest Die-Casting Machine

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Elon Musk, back on Twitter, turns his attention to Dogecoin

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Elon Musk Shares Video Showing Gigafactory Berlin Progress

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Elon Musk Tweets in Support of Dogecoin After Price Grows 420% in a Day

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

China Stockpiles Chips, Chip-Making Machines to Resist U.S.

(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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Amazon Can Make Just About Anything–Except a Good Video Game

(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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Silver Prices Surge to Eight-Year High

(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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Bankrupt Blockbuster Joins Reddit-Inspired Retail Rally

(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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Gamestop, memestocks, and the revenge of the retail trader

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Ex-CIA engineer and Vault 7 leaker tells judge he's incarcerated like an animal

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Intel’s New CEO Commits to Manufacturing

(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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Apple’s First Headset to Be Niche Precursor to Eventual AR Glasses

(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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Apple Sued over Not Taking Down Telegram After Capitol Hill Riot

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

GM’s Cruise, Rivian secure big funding as EV bets rise

It’s another big day in the EV (electric vehicle) and AV (autonomous vehicle) space.  | Continue reading


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Tesla, Bitcoin More Likely to Halve Than Double Value in 2021: DB Survey

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Biden's Treasury Secretary: Cryptocurrencies a “Concern” in Terrorist Financing

The U.S. should examine how it can curtail the use of crypto for illicit financing, the former Fed Chair said. | Continue reading


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Biggest Hosting Companies in the World

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

New Policy Sets in Motion Nuclear Space Travel and Colonization

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

At least 7 notable companies are planning to cut ties with Trump's businesses

Now even New York City is looking into whether it can cancel its contracts with the Trump Organization. | Continue reading


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Capitol Hill siege 'may be the beginning of the end of Big Tech': Scott Galloway

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Trump dropped by biggest lender Deutsche Bank for future business – NYT

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

'The market is paying Tesla to take capital': Credit Suisse analyst

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Twitter shares tumble more than 10% after site permanently bans Trump

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

Tesla Short Sellers Lost $38B in 2020 as Stock Surged

(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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

GoDaddy phishing 'test' teased employees with a fake holiday bonus

GoDaddy promised a $650 holiday bonus, but it was just a phishing test. | Continue reading


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago

SoftBank to File for First SPAC IPO Today, Seeking to Raise Up to $600M

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


@finance.yahoo.com | 3 years ago