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Brian Roberts, chief executive officer of Comcast, arrives for the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 9, 2019 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Comcast reported its second-quarter earnings before the bell on Thursday, beating analyst estimates on the top and bottom lines. It’s the first earnings report since Comcast’s

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on July 07, 2020 shows (L-R) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Paris on May 23, 2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai Berlin on January 22, 2019, Apple CEO Tim Cook on October 28, 2019 in New York and Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos in Las Vegas, Nevada on June

The CEOs from four of the largest tech companies are testifying in front of the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust Wednesday. It’s the first time all four executives, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai, have testified together. It’s Bezos’ first time ever testifying before Congress.  Below you can

Tencent logo seen displayed on a smartphone. Omar Marques | SOPA Images.| LightRocket | Getty Images Tencent’s market capitalization has surpassed Facebook’s following a huge rally in the Chinese firm’s shares this year. The total value of publicly traded shares of the Chinese gaming and social media giant stood at 5.15 trillion Hong Kong dollars

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on October 02, 2019. Elif Ozturk | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will finally come face to face with lawmakers looking to question his company’s growing influence at Wednesday’s antitrust hearing.  The hearing before the House Antitrust Subcommittee, which will be held over videoconference because of the coronavirus

Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook Source: Reuters; Apple When the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google’s parent company Alphabet testify before Congress on Wednesday, it won’t be exactly what the House Antitrust Subcommittee members envisioned when their probe launched last June.  For one thing, it will be held over video conferencing software due to pandemic-related precautions,

The new Alexa app on iPhone. Amazon Amazon on Monday said it’s starting to roll out a totally redesigned Alexa app for Apple‘s iPhone, tablets and phones running Google’s Android platform, and its own Fire tablets. While Alexa is most commonly associated with Amazon’s own living room devices, like the Echo and Fire TV, the

A pedestrian walks past Intel Corp. signage at the entrance to the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Intel said Monday that Venkata “Murthy” Renduchintala, the chipmaker’s chief engineering officer and group president of its technology, systems architecture and client group, will resign on August 3.  The announcement

A view of the Google sign displaying pride colors at their office building in Chelsea with the pride flag on June 21, 2020 in New York City. Alexi Rosenfeld | Getty Images Google said on Monday it will extend its coronavirus work from home order to through June 2021. “To give employees the ability to plan

Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith SAP said Sunday that it would sell some shares of its Qualtrics survey-software unit on a U.S. public market. The announcement comes less than two years after SAP announced a plan to buy Qualtrics for $8 billion, days before Qualtrics was set to go public as an independent company. The move

Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand poses for a portrait on February 14, 2018. AAron Ontiveroz | Denver Post | Getty Images There’s a pandemic. There’s a recession. A few technology companies are trying to make sure their employees don’t burn out in the midst of it all by telling them to work less. For decades,

During Tesla’s 2019 Autonomy Day, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company is expected to have one million vehicles on the road by the end of 2020 that could function as robotaxis. Though the semi-autonomous Autopilot and Full Self-Driving, or FSD, features are loved by some, others say Musk’s driverless dream is far from becoming

A man holding a phone walks past a sign of Chinese company ByteDance’s app TikTok, known locally as Douyin, at the International Artificial Products Expo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China October 18, 2019. Reuters Sensing blood in the water, venture capitalist firms want to buy the majority of TikTok from Chinese parent company ByteDance. That

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty Images The major Congressional hearing on competition in the U.S. tech sector has been delayed two days to Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee confirmed on Saturday. The

Lisa Su, president and CEO of AMD, during an interview with Mad Money, broadcasting from CNBC’s San Francisco bureau on November 21, 2019. Jacob Jimenez | CNBC Chipmaker AMD rose over 15% on Friday, bucking a mostly down day for tech stocks. Its primary rival, Intel, fell over 15%. The large stock moves come a

Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., gestures as he speaks during a Bloomberg event on the opening day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tech investors are getting a dose of reality after a historic run. The Nasdaq,

Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers the keynote address during the 2020 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California. Brooks Kraft/Apple Inc/Handout via Reuters Intel on Thursday said in its earnings report that it’s delaying its new 7-nanometer processors by approximately six months because internal testing has revealed the yield  —

Vietnamese tourists pose for photographs on a boat touring Ha Long Bay, after the Vietnamese government eased the lockdown following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, on May 31, 2020 in Ha Long, Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam. Linh Pham | Getty Images CNBC is looking at how places around the world have tackled Covid-19. By talking

Intel shares fell as much as 9% in extended trading on Thursday after the company reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings and said next-generation chips would come out later than it had expected.  Here’s how the company did: Earnings: $1.23 per share, adjusted, vs. $1.11 per share as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. Revenue: $19.73 billion,

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is seated prior to testifying before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on foreign influence operations on social media platforms on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 5, 2018. Joshua Roberts | Reuters Twitter reported second-quarter earnings Thursday that missed analyst expectations on revenue and beat on active users. The report comes one

Tesla will build its newest Gigafactory near Austin, Texas, Chief Executive Elon Musk announced during the company’s earnings call on Wednesday. The area takes up about 2,000 acres and will be roughly 15 minutes from downtown Austin, Musk said. He said the factory will be an “ecological paradise” and that it will be open to

Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers the keynote address during the 2019 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at the San Jose Convention Center on June 03, 2019 in San Jose, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images On Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook will join chief executives from Amazon, Facebook and Google in a hearing before the House Judiciary

Evan Spiegel, co-founder and chief executive officer of Snap Inc., stands on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the company’s initial public offering on Thursday, March 2, 2017. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Snap‘s stock price initially plunged more than 11% after hours then moderated to a smaller decline as

Twitter announced on Tuesday it has begun taking sweeping actions to limit the reach of QAnon content and banned many of the conspiracy theory’s followers due to ongoing problems with harassment and the dissemination of misinformation. Twitter will stop recommending accounts and content related to QAnon, including in email and follow recommendations and will take

CNBC is looking at how places around the world have tackled Covid-19. By talking to a wide range of experts, as well as everyday citizens, we’re taking stock of what’s gone well — and what hasn’t. Germany has confirmed more than 200,000 cases of Covid-19 and more than 9,000 deaths in a population of more

Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba, announced plans for its long-awaited dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong on Monday.    The company is known for running Alipay, one of China’s most popular mobile payment systems. But Ant Group has been expanding its reach into everything from wealth management to micro-loans. And beyond that, it

SVP and Director at IBM Research Arvind Krishna speaks on stage during the 2016 Wired Business Conference in New York on June 16, 2016. Brian Ach | Getty Images IBM shares rose as much as 6% in extended trading on Monday after the company reported second-quarter earnings that were better than analysts had expected. Here’s

TikTok’s London office is based out of a WeWork building in Holborn called Aviation House. WeWork TikTok is still considering putting its global headquarters in London and has not halted talks on the matter due to rising tensions between the U.K. and China, a source familiar with the matter told CNBC.  London is TikTok’s main

Covid-19 has taken over our lives, but it hasn’t been around for very long. Scientists have been studying it in real-time as the world collectively goes through a traumatic, world-changing event. It’s killed more than half a million people—and we don’t even know exactly where it came from. Which, on the face of it, isn’t

Reysie Beekmann, a NexRep agent, with her son Reysie Beekmann When Gary Britton took over Teladoc’s call center operation six years ago, he shunned the outsourcing model and hired exclusively in-house so support reps could be part of the company culture. His strategy worked until surging demand early this year from the coronavirus forced Britton to

iPhone SE Todd Haselton | CNBC If your iPhone feels like it runs a bit slower than it used to, or if you notice that the battery life doesn’t seem to be as good as when you bought it, it may be time to replace it. That’s because the batteries in the gadgets we use

Medical workers from New York wearing personal protective equipments test for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at temporary testing site for COVID-19 in Higher Dimensions Church on July 17, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Go Nakamura | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.S. reported 71,558 new Covid-19 cases Saturday, making it the second day in a row

The founders of GitLab, Dmitriy Zaporozhets and Sid Sijbrandij GitLab Many companies have had a rough time adjusting as all their employees moved to working remotely. That’s not the case for GitLab, one of the world’s top enterprise software start-ups. It has no offices. It’s been remote since its start in 2014. So when the

Amazon workers at Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse strike in demand that the facility be shut down and cleaned after one staffer tested positive for the coronavirus on March 30, 2020 in New York. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images An Amazon warehouse employee in Minnesota has accused the company of retaliating against her and

Swedish Red Cross volunteers deliver goods to elderly residents in Nacka, near Stockholm on April 29, 2020, to protect them from exposure to the new coronavirus. Jonathan Nackstrand | AFP | Getty Images CNBC is looking at how places around the world have tackled Covid-19. By talking to a wide range of experts, as well

Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos (L) and then-Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger in 2015 in Los Angeles. Charley Gallay | Getty Images for LACMA There used to be a debate about Netflix: Is it a technology or media company? That debate has fizzled in recent years and clearly ended on Thursday, with Netflix’s

Jack Dorsey, co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc., listens during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wednesday’s Twitter hack wasn’t just unprecedented, it was a shocking revelation that the company is ill-equipped to handle the security of a

Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images Netflix reported its second quarter 2020 earnings after the bell on Thursday, the first full quarter to reflect the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The company announced that Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos will become co-CEO alongside current CEO Reed Hastings. He will

Peter Thiel Noah Berger | Bloomberg | Getty Images Britain’s National Health Service has awarded Palantir a £1 million ($1.3 million) contract extension for its work on a “Covid-19 data store” that’s designed to help health officials understand how the coronavirus is spreading across the U.K. and help them allocate resources appropriately. Palantir’s initial contract,

Over a dozen high-profile Twitter accounts, including Apple, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, and former president Barack Obama, were apparently hacked on Wednesday and posted tweets telling followers to send bitcoin to a specific address. Tesla CEO Elon Musk was first high-profile account to be hacked, posting a

Taiwanese President, Tsai Ing-Wen addresses soldiers in the military base during her visit. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen visited Tainan’s Guantian army base, where she emphasized that preventive measures be observed in curbing the coronavirus spread. Lin Yen Ting | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images CNBC is looking at how places around the world

The Apple Inc. logo is displayed at the company’s store in the Omotesando district of Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, June 3, 2020. Bloomberg Apple won a court case Wednesday against the European Commission over a dispute concerning 13 billion euros ($15 billion) in Irish taxes. In a highly-anticipated landmark decision, the EU’s general court decided that the European

Travis County in Texas has voted to give Tesla tax breaks worth a minimum of $14.7 million to build a new car plant, and eventually employ thousands, near the Austin airport.  The site where Tesla has proposed to build its next “Gigafactory,” is known as the Austin Green development. Tesla still has to purchase the

Amazon is rolling out smart shopping carts at its Los Angeles-area grocery store in 2020. Amazon Amazon is launching shopping carts that track items as shoppers add them, then automatically charges them when they remove the grocery bags, allowing them to skip the checkout line. The Dash Carts will roll out at Amazon’s new Los Angeles-area

A logo of 5G is seen at a Huawei authorised experience store on May 29, 2020 in Beijing, China. Qin Luyao | VCG | Getty Images Huawei reported a sharp slowdown in growth for the first half of 2020 as the company continued to see the impact of U.S. sanctions and the global coronavirus pandemic. 

SoundCommerce employees, with CEO Eric Best on far left SoundCommerce On a Saturday in April, several executives from SoundCommerce rented a U-Haul, drove it to their office in Seattle and loaded up the truck with stand-up desks, 48-inch monitors and various other gadgets and personal belongings. For two days, they traversed town, dropping the items

A TikTok logo seen displayed on a smartphone with Chinese flag on the background. Omar Marques | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images White House trade advisor Peter Navarro dubbed TikTok’s new CEO Kevin Mayer, an “American puppet” for working at the Chinese-owned social media app, in an interview with Fox Business on Sunday. Navarro

A group of medical providers gathering at the Gallup Indian Medical Center Source: Nate Teismann Dr. Jeanne Noble has worked all over the world as an emergency medicine physician. So when the hospital where she works, UC San Francisco, asked if anyone was willing to fly out to the Navajo Nation and help with an