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An employee arranges a display of Vizio Inc. high-definition televisions at a Best Buy Inc. store in Paramus, New Jersey. Mark Kauziarich | Bloomberg | Getty Images Vizio emerged as a top-selling TV company in the U.S. about 15 years ago by securing deals with big box stores like Costco and Best Buy and selling

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 20: Apple CEO Tim Cook greets customers at the grand reopening of Apple’s flagship Apple Fifth Avenue retail store on September 20, 2019 in New York City. Taylor Hill | WireImage | Getty Images The digital advertising world is scrambling to prepare for a seismic change when Apple updates

Bill Gates Adam Galica | CNBC Bill Gates wants to do his part to try to reduce impact of a warming planet. He just published a book about climate change. It turns out that he’s also been changing parts of his life to cut back on carbon emissions. In Gates’ latest Ask-Me-Anything session on Reddit

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill October 23, 2019 in Washington, DC. Zuckerberg testified about Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra, how his company will handle false and misleading information by political leaders during the 2020 campaign and how it handles

Patrick Mahomes #15 of the Kansas City Chiefs looks to pass over Shaquil Barrett #58 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the second quarter against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV at Raymond James Stadium on February 07, 2021 in Tampa, Florida. Patrick Smith | Getty Images The National Football League has finalized

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Alex Wong | Getty Images Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest person, is urging lawmakers to pass immigration reform and thanked members of Congress for bringing a bill to the floor that would create a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants known as “Dreamers.” In an Instagram post on

Amazon’s redesigned Echo Dots Kids Edition Amanda Ringstad, Amazon The Amazon Alexa voice assistant on your Amazon Echo can whisper. And you can also limit how much it says when you talk to it. I’m finding it useful at home with a baby in the house, when I don’t need Alexa saying “OK” every time

The Baidu Inc. logo is displayed on the company’s headquarters on July 3, 2019 in Beijing, China. Wan Xiaojun | Visual China Group via Getty Images GUANGZHOU, China — Chinese search giant Baidu will raise nearly $3.1 billion in its upcoming Hong Kong secondary listing, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC. Baidu has

Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp sharply criticized Wall Street on Tuesday, saying there’s too much emphasis on near-term gains at the expense of developing healthy, long-lasting companies. Karp made the comments in an interview with CNBC’s Wilfred Frost as part of an event hosted by The Executives’ Club of Chicago. The remarks were later aired

A driver rides hands-free in a Tesla Motors Inc. Model S vehicle equipped with Autopilot hardware and software in New York. Christopher Goodney | Bloomberg | Getty Images The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating a “violent” crash that involved a Tesla sedan and a tractor trailer late last week in Detroit. Investigators

Warner Media CEO Jason Kilar is in the spotlight after AT&T increased its guidance for the growth of its streaming service. The company said on Friday that it expects HBO and HBO Max to grow from 61 million subscribers in late 2020 to between 120 million and 150 million subscribers worldwide by the end of

Xpeng CEO He Xiaopeng stands next to the company’s P7 electric sedan as he addresses media at the 2020 Beijing auto show. Evelyn Cheng | CNBC GUANGZHOU, China — Electric carmaker Xpeng Motors has got a new round of investment from the government of the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. The 500 million yuan ($76.9

Brandi Susewitz founded Clear Office, a website that lists and sells high-end furniture leftover from office buildings. Brandi Susewitz When Oracle announced plans to move its corporate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Texas, it needed to clear out multiple floors of furniture sitting inside its office. Instead of putting it in a landfill, the company

Times Square in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images This time last year, The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green watched as advertisers started to pause every campaign they could.  The ad tech executive said in the early days of the pandemic, digital advertising was at a disadvantage. It was easier for

Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards 2021 is a crucial year for sports betting sites like DraftKings and FanDuel. Nineteen states will decide whether to legalize sports betting this year, either through voter referendum or state legislature statute. If every state votes yes, that would more than double the amount of states that have legalized —

CNBC Apple on Friday said that it is discontinuing the original HomePod smart speaker and will instead focus on the smaller, more affordable and newer HomePod mini. The original HomePod was launched in 2018 but never quite grabbed the mass market the way competing products like the Amazon Echo or Google Home smart speakers did.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Alex Wong | Getty Images Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has declined a request to discuss issues around income inequality before the Senate Budget Committee, the company confirmed to CNBC. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent and chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, had invited Bezos to appear in front of the

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images For the past few weeks, Facebook has been running an ad campaign in defense of personalized advertisements, arguing that targeted ads are key to the success of small businesses. The catalyst for the campaign has been an ongoing battle between the social media company