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In this article AAPL Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., smiles while speaking about Apple TV+ during an event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple claimed its TV+ service had less than 20 million subscribers in

A Bitcoin ATM in Hong Kong. S3studio | Getty Images Some crypto holders in China and Hong Kong are scrambling to find a way to safeguard their bitcoin and other tokens after China’s central bank published a new document Friday spelling out tougher measures in its wider crypto crackdown, including souped-up systems to monitor crypto-related

In this article TWTR Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc. and Square Inc., speaks during the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, June 4, 2021. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images Twitter on Thursday announced it will now allow users to tip their favorite creators on

In this article FB Andrew Bosworth AKA Boz, an advertising expert for Facebook, gives a talk at the Online Marketing Rockstars marketing trade show in Hamburg, Germany, 03 March 2017. Photo: Christian Charisius/dpa | usage worldwide (Photo by Christian Charisius/picture alliance via Getty Images) Christian Charisius | picture alliance | Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark

In this article BABA GUANGZHOU, China — Ant Group will share credit data from its consumer lending business with China’s central bank as part of an overhaul of the fintech giant. Huabei is a consumer loan product under Ant Group. Data from that lending product will be fed into the financial credit information database held

Microsoft is announcing a new Surface Laptop Studio, along with the Surface Pro 8, Surface Go 3, a Surface Pro X with wi-fi and the second-generation Surface Duo smartphone. Microsoft Microsoft announced five new Surface products on Wednesday, including a laptop, three tablets and a new folding phone. Microsoft doesn’t make a lot of money

Toast point of sale system Toast Restaurant-technology vendor Toast priced its IPO on Tuesday at $40 a share, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named because the announcement isn’t yet public. The offering was above the expected range and values the company at about $20 billion. Toast had

Photographer: Thorsten Wagner/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is further relaxing its screening policies for marijuana, as it ramps up support for federal legislation to legalize the drug. In a blog post Tuesday, Amazon HR boss Beth Galetti wrote that the company has “reinstated employment eligibility” for former employees and

Jeff Bezos pops champagne after emerging from the New Shepard capsule after his spaceflight on July 20, 2021. Blue Origin All things must die, according to the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, but that could be about to change. A growing number of tech billionaires have decided they want to use their enormous wealth to try

In this article AAPL Apple iOS 15 Apple Apple released iOS 15, its big annual iPhone software update, on Monday. This year’s version has some big changes, including the ability of FaceTime to make calls to Windows and Android users, artificial intelligence that can better identify animals, plants and other items in photos, and a

Investors are betting on Indian start-ups and taking more risks, thanks in part to improvement in India’s infrastructure, according to a venture capitalist. Dealmaking in South Asia’s largest economy rose in the first seven months of 2021 as many foreign investors with deep pockets flushed Indian start-ups with fresh funds. “There is a lot of

The Amazon logo displayed on a smartphone and a PC screen. Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket via Getty Images Search for “toothpaste” on Amazon, and the top of the web page will show you a mix of popular brands like Colgate, Crest and Sensodyne. Try a separate search for “deodorant” and you’ll first see products from

In this article TSLA Electric vehicle maker Tesla is poised to expand its controversial FSD Beta program with a long-awaited download button that would allow customers to get new, unfinished versions of the company’s driver assistance software to test on public roads even though that software hasn’t been debugged yet. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who

In this article T VZ TMUS Rafael Abdrakhmanov | iStock | Getty Images From fake social security calls to scammers impersonating Apple or Amazon, anyone with a cellphone or landline is no stranger to robocalls. For decades, robocall scammers have graced phones and voicemails across the nation. Between June 2020 and 2021 these scams affected

In this article FB A Senate panel plans to bring tech executives back to Capitol Hill following a revealing report from The Wall Street Journal about the impact of Facebook’s Instagram platform on teens’ mental health. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., ranking member of the Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection, announced the hearing in an

In this article TSLA Tesla CEO Elon Musk lauded Chinese automakers Friday, calling them the “most competitive in the world,” during a pre-recorded question-and-answer stream at the World New Energy Vehicle Congress, which is hosted in China’s Hainan province. Musk was highly complementary of the nation that’s imperative to his electric vehicle company, and the

In this article GOOGL Thomas Kurian, CEO of Alphabet’s Google Cloud, speaks at the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco on April 9, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images As a part of a recent reorganization within Google Cloud, CEO Thomas Kurian sidelined multiple tenured company veterans — one way he’s is

Apple CEO Tim Cook attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 08, 2021 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images At Apple’s annual launch event this week, it revealed new iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches, all of which were refinements of previous models. What Apple didn’t release, however, was a

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 Cloud

In this article AAPL Apple CEO Tim Cook Source: Apple Inc. It may have a new number in the name, but Apple’s new iPhone 13 looks more like one of the company’s “S” models than anything else. Apple has released iPhone models on a tick-tock cycle for most of the product’s existence. The “tick” years

Brad Smith, President, Microsoft, on SaaS Monster stage during the opening day of Web Summit 2019 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. Harry Murphy | Sportsfile | Getty Images Microsoft said Tuesday its board approved the appointment of its president, Brad Smith, to the position of vice chair. The move comes months after Satya

In this article AMZN People hold a banner at the Amazon facility as members of a congressional delegation arrive to show their support for workers who will vote on whether to unionize, in Bessemer, Alabama, U.S. March 5, 2021. Dustin Chambers | Reuters Amazon warehouse workers in Alberta, Canada, have filed for a union election,

In this article BABA A Deeproute.ai robotaxi on display. Deeproute.ai GUANGZHOU, China — Alibaba has led investments worth more than $300 million into Chinese autonomous driving start-up DeepRoute.ai. The Shenzhen-based start-up makes the self-driving systems for vehicles that involve hardware and software. DeepRoute.ai runs a fleet of autonomous taxis with some operated by its partners

In this article AAPL Tim Cook Source: Apple Apple is holding its annual iPhone event on Tuesday, the company’s seventh virtual launch in a row due to the ongoing pandemic. The company is expected to introduce new iPhones and updates to its AirPods and Apple Watch, according to analysts. Apple’s hype-filled fall launches are a

In this article BABA The Ant Group Co. headquarters in Hangzhou, China, on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Beijing plans to break up Ant Group’s Alipay and create a separate app for the fintech giant’s loans business, according to a Financial Times report on Monday. Regulators previously ordered Ant

In this article FB Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Chesnot | Getty Images News | Getty Images Facebook this week announced a $100 million commitment to a program that supports small businesses owned by women and minorities by buying up their outstanding invoices. By buying up outstanding invoices, the Facebook Invoice Fast Track program puts money

In this article AAPL Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., center, arrives at U.S. district court in Oakland, California, on Friday, May 21, 2021. Nina Riggio | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple prevailed on nine of 10 counts in its trial against Epic Games on Friday, but federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued

In this article CRM Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 23, 2020. Adam Galica | CNBC Salesforce told thousands of employees in a Slack message on Friday that if they and their families are concerned about the ability to access reproductive care in the

In this article AMZN Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Brandon Smith during the game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Jacksonville Jaguars Matthew Pearce | Icon Sportswire | Getty Images Amazon is in talks to acquire the rights for the National Football League’s “Sunday Ticket” package and is seen as the front-runner by others involved in

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers handed down a decision in a closely-watched trial between Apple and Epic Games on Friday. Rogers issued an injunction that said that Apple will no longer be allowed to prohibit developers from providing links or other communications that direct users away from Apple in-app purchasing, of which it takes 15% to