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In this article TSLA AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT AI-powered robots are popping up across Silicon Valley. If some industry experts are right, they could help solve a global labor shortage. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia have plowed billions of dollars into what are known as “humanoid” robots. These machines typically

Bitcoin has also been under selling pressure from the German government as well as collapsed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images For weeks now, Germany’s government has been selling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin — and it’s been a key factor behind the cryptocurrency’s intense selloff. Last

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon on Monday announced a new $79 Echo Spot alarm clock with a revamped design and improved audio quality. The company added a display where users can check the time, weather or see what song is playing. Amazon also put a better speaker in the

In this article GLW Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Corning shares are up more than 12% Monday after the company raised its second-quarter guidance, setting it on track for its best trading day since March 2020. The company, known for developing the Gorilla Glass used for Apple iPhones and other phones, credits the outperformance

Pedestrians near Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Marlena Sloss | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence has been a big boon for San Francisco real estate. But not enough of one to make up for the broader struggle across the market. The vacancy rate for San Francisco office space

Filip Radwanski | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Hackers more than doubled their cryptocurrency spoils in the first half of 2024 compared with a year ago, a report from blockchain research firm TRM Labs showed. The report said $1.38 billion worth of crypto was looted between Jan. 1 and June 24, more than

Kinetic cofounders: CEO Nikhil Naikal, CTO Sander Marques, COO Chris Weber Courtesy: Kinetic Automation While electric vehicle demand is still increasing in the U.S., the sales growth rate for cars that pollute less has cooled down in 2024 due partly to the high cost of insurance and repairs for tech-laden new models. A 2024 study

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon said Thursday it has removed 95% of the plastic air pillows from its packaging in North America and will replace them with paper fillers made from 100% recycled content. It marks Amazon’s largest plastic-packaging reduction effort and will help it remove nearly 15 billion

In this article 9984.T-JP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks during the company’s annual general meeting in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, June 20, 2024. Son sketched out ambitions to help create AI thousands of times smarter than any human, making his most grandiose

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, US, on Monday, June 10, 2024.  David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple said Friday it won’t release three recently announced features,

Elon Musk speaking during the Tesla Annual Shareholder’s meeting in Austin, Texas on June 13th, 2024.  Source: Tesla Inc.  Tesla’s hefty downsizing in 2023 has reduced its global headcount to just over 121,000 people, including temps, internal records suggest, indicating that the automaker has slashed more than 14% of its workforce so far this year.

In this article NVDA AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang makes a speech at an event at COMPUTEX forum in Taipei, Taiwan June 4, 2024.  Ann Wang | Reuters Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google were the four leading global brands at the end of 2023, according to consulting firm Interbrand.

An Amazon Labor Union rally in the Staten Island borough of New York, on Sunday, April 24, 2022. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Members of the Amazon Labor Union, the first group of company workers to organize at a U.S. warehouse, have voted to affiliate with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the

In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A worsening macroeconomic climate and the collapse of industry giants such as FTX and Terra have weighed on bitcoin’s price this year. STR | Nurphoto via Getty Images Bitcoin fell with the broader cryptocurrency market on Tuesday amid concerns about the global economy and lower

In this article MSFT NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends an event at COMPUTEX forum in Taipei, Taiwan June 4, 2024.  Ann Wang | Reuters Nvidia, long known in the niche gaming community for its graphics chips, is now the most valuable public company in the world. Shares of

The TikTok logo is displayed at TikTok offices on March 12, 2024 in Culver City, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that it’s referred its complaint against TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance to the U.S. Department of Justice. The FTC began its investigation following a 2019 settlement with Musical.ly,

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An Amazon warehouse Getty Images California’s labor regulator on Tuesday said it fined Amazon nearly $6 million for violating a state law aimed at curtailing the use of onerous warehouse productivity quotas. The California Labor Commissioner’s Office said it investigated two Amazon facilities in Moreno

In this article GS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Zilch CEO Phil Belamant. Zilch LONDON — British fintech firm Zilch said Wednesday it’s raised $125 million in debt financing from German banking giant Deutsche Bank in a deal that will help the company triple sales in the next couple of years and move closer

The U.K. is the No. 1 country in Europe for tech by many accounts. In 2023, British startups raised $21.3 billion, their third-highest total on record, according to a report from Dealroom and HSBC Innovation Banking. It’s the No. 1 location in Europe for funding — with France coming in second, raising $9.2 billion last

Miragec | Moment | Getty Images A startup that uses technology to stop employees from abusing corporate expenses just raised 8 million euros ($8.6 million) of funding from investors, defying a slump in investment for the financial technology industry. CleverCards, a Dublin-based firm, uses a digital platform linked to configurable expense cards to give companies