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The TripAdvisor homepage Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images TripAdvisor is planning to cut 200 jobs, or 5% of its total workforce, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CNBC on Thursday. Most of the cuts are said to be in the company’s experiences division. Experiences, which includes a range of activities from

23andMe Co-Founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017 at Pier 48 on September 19, 2017 in San Francisco, California. Steve Jennings Home DNA-testing company 23andMe is laying off about 100 people, or 14% of its staff, on Thursday, in the wake of declining sales. The layoffs primarily cover the operations

A fitness class at Crunch gym in New York. Stephanie Dhue | CNBC Apple on Thursday announced its new “Apple Watch Connected” gym initiative, a new series of partnerships with fitness facilities that makes it easier for people who own Apple Watches to track workouts, buy stuff and earn rewards for working out. It’s Apple’s

Chad Richison, CEO, Paycom Scott Mlyn | CNBC Paycom, a provider of cloud-based payroll software, was added to the S&P 500 on Wednesday after the company’s stock price more than doubled over the past year, lifting its market value to almost $18 billion. The shares rose more than 5% in extended trading following the announcement.

Analysts say Amazon is poised to disrupt the $934.8 billion dollar global pharmaceutical industry. PillPack Amazon has filed to trademark “Amazon Pharmacy” in Canada, the U.K. and Australia, signaling a potential move into selling prescription drugs outside of the U.S. According to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office website, Amazon filed for the patent on Jan.

Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., listens during an Economic Club of Washington discussion in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images An outside investigation ordered by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos concluded that a WhatsApp account connected to Mohammed bin Salman, the crown

Cruise Origin driverless shuttle Cruise Cruise, a majority-owned subsidiary of General Motors, debuted its first vehicle specifically designed to operate without a driver on board at an event in San Francisco Tuesday night. The driverless, electric shuttle, which GM is calling Origin, does not feature manual controls such as pedals or a steering wheel. “It

David Einhorn speaking at the SOHN conference in New York, May 6, 2019. Heidi Gutman | CNBC Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn, the successful short-seller whose returns have suffered as of late because of the bull market run, told clients in a letter on Tuesday that the hedge fund has added to its short position on

An employee waits for an elevator at a Facebook office. Toby Melville | Reuters Facebook is set to hire another 1,000 people in the U.K by the end of 2020. The social media giant’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, will announce the new jobs in London on Tuesday, which will bring its total headcount in

A Tesla Model 3 car is on display during the Auto China 2018 at China International Exhibition Center on April 25, 2018 in Beijing, China. VCG/VCG | Getty Images Tesla blasted customer complaints that its cars may suddenly accelerate on their own Monday, calling the reports “completely false.” The 127 complaints about Tesla vehicles suddenly

A Boeing 747-8 Lufthansa airplane takes off from the Airport Tegel in Berlin. Britta Pedersen | AFP | Getty Images Lufthansa is partnering with Google’s cloud unit in an effort to minimize the impact of flight delays and other irregularities on its passengers. The German airline group will use Google Cloud’s infrastructure to bring its

mixmagic | iStock | Getty Images The European Union’s overhaul of data privacy regulation is estimated to have generated 114 million euros ($126 million) in fines since it was introduced almost two years ago. Since its implementation in May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) led to over 160,000 data breach notifications across Europe,

Fabrice Lerouge | Getty Images A new form of sextortion scam bilks unsuspecting victims out of money after telling them they’ve been recorded privately on home security cameras. It’s an alarming new version of the old scam where criminals try to convince you they have illicit recordings or information about you, which they’ll release unless

Toward the end of NBCUniversal’s two-hour long presentation of its Peacock streaming video service Thursday, the media and entertainment company dropped a revealing piece of information that rival companies haven’t made available. Comcast’s NBCUniversal estimates its streaming service will generate average revenue per user (ARPU) per month of $6 to $7. This is an aggregate

The term “hacker” generally brings to mind a lonesome, hooded figure, operating in the dark, stealing our money or personal information. But the past decade has given us reason to rethink this stereotype. A new type of hacker is on the rise. Called “ethical hackers” or “white hat hackers”, these men and women use their

People shop at the newly opened Amazon Go Store on May 07, 2019 in New York City. The cashier-less store, the first of this type of store, called Amazon Go, accepts cash and is the 12th such store in the United States located at Brookfield Place in downtown New York. Spencer Platt | Getty Images

On September 7th Apple will release the highly anticipated iPhone 7. Design changes to the new model are suggested to affect the 3,5mm headphone jack, to be replaced with the proprietary Lightning jack. NurPhoto The European Union (EU) is revamping plans that could force smartphone makers, such as Apple, to share the same charging method.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos attends a commemoration ceremony held in front of Saudi consulate on the first anniversary of his murder, in Istanbul, Turkey on October 02, 2019. Elif Ozturk | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Popular phone accessory maker PopSockets accused Amazon of “strong-arming” it and failing to remove fake products. David Barnett, CEO

Apple AirPods Pro Apple There’s a really easy way to find your lost AirPods. Maybe you’re just searching around for the last place your left your AirPods case and want to make sure they’re nearby. But there’s even a way to find individual AirPod buds in case you accidentally drop one of them under the

Microsoft‘s stock price has more than quadrupled since Satya Nadella took over as CEO six years ago, thanks to the company’s rapid growth in cloud computing. But Nadella credits his predecessor, the louder and more outspoken Steve Ballmer, for making the decision to take on Amazon Web Services in cloud infrastructure, where Microsoft is now

Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Android, Chrome and Apps for Google Inc., speaks during the Google I/O Annual Developers Conference in San Francisco, California. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Even as regulators bear down on the top technology companies and some lawmakers seek to break them up, Big Tech is bigger

Mobile dealers and members of Ahmedabad Mobile Dealer’s Association hold placards as they protest against online shopping platform Amazon outside their closed mobile shops in Ahmedabad on January 15, 2020. Sam Panthaky | AFP | Getty Images Amazon hasn’t done India any big favors by investing $1 billion in the country, its trade minister said

A Tesla logo is pictured during the Brussels Motor Show on January 9, 2020 in Brussels . (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP) (Photo by KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images) KENZO TRIBOUILLARD | Getty Images Tesla’s overall vehicle registrations nearly halved in the U.S. state of California during the fourth quarter, according to a Dominion

Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Android, Chrome and Apps for Google Inc., speaks during the Google I/O Annual Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, June 25, 2014. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google’s announcement on Tuesday that it would end support for third-party cookies pummeledCriteo’s stock and weighed

London’s iconic financial district Canary Wharf. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg via Getty Images Investment in the U.K.’s technology sector grew at a faster pace than in the U.S. and China last year, according to new research released Wednesday. Venture capital funding for British start-ups grew 44% to a record $13.2 billion in 2019, a report

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) Drew Angerer | Getty Images A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Tuesday that would pump more than $1 billion into developing Western 5G equipment alternatives to China’s Huawei. Reasoning that Huawei has been “heavily subsidized by the Chinese government,” the Utilizing Strategic Allied (USA) Telecommunications Act would help Western firms

Apple disputed Attorney General William Barr’s assessment that it has failed to provide law enforcement with “substantive assistance” in unlocking the password-protected iPhones used by the shooting suspect at a Navy base in Pensacola, Florida, last month, but still refused his main request to provide a backdoor. “We reject the characterization that Apple has not

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, pictured on September 13, 2018. Bloomberg | Getty Images Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been criticized over the company’s $690,000 donation to bushfire relief efforts in Australia. In an Instagram post on Sunday, Bezos pledged 1 million Australian dollars ($690,000) on behalf of the tech giant. “Our

Plaid co-founders William Hockey and Zach Perret Source: Plaid Payments giant Visa is buying Silicon Valley start-up Plaid for $5.3 billion, the companies announced Monday. Plaid’s API software, often referred to as the “plumbing” behind fintech companies, lets start-ups connect to users’ bank accounts. It’s well-known among financial technology developers, but the average person interacting

Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk takes off his coat onstage during a delivery event for Tesla China-made Model 3 cars in Shanghai, China January 7, 2020. Aly Song | Reuters Tesla stock continued to rally on Monday, rising 5% and passing $500 per share for the first time. That puts Tesla at a fresh all-time

Mechanical keyboards on display at the Bay Area Keyboard Meetup in San Jose on November 9, 2019. Jordan Novet | CNBC Typing shouldn’t hurt. It should feel good. And it should be fun. I realized that in 2016 and started wondering what might be better than the standard-issue Apple keyboard I was using with my

DJ Koh, president and CEO of Samsung Electronics, shakes hands with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, at a launch event for the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 smartphone in New York on August 7, 2019. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Samsung Electronics and Microsoft are bringing back the walkie-talkie. On Sunday, Samsung introduced the Galaxy XCover

Package theft is at an all-time high, with 1.7 million packages stolen or lost every day in the U.S., according to researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As Amazon drives more shopping online, Prime members say they receive on average 51 packages a year, and one in three Americans report having at least one package stolen,

Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces Apple Card during a launch event at Apple headquarters on Monday, March 25, 2019, in Cupertino, California. Noah Berger | AFP | Getty Images The Apple Card was designed to be loaded into a user’s iPhone, with spending history living inside the Wallet app and transaction data arranged in a

A worker handles a package at the Amazon fulfillment center in Baltimore, Maryland, April 30, 2019. Clodagh Kilcoyne | Reuters For the second time in a week, Amazon has acknowledged that its employees improperly accessed customer data. The company notified customers Friday that it fired several employees after they shared customer email addresses and phone

Neil Peart Neil Peart, the prodigiously talented drummer and eclectic primary lyricist for the Canadian rock band Rush, died on Tuesday in Santa Monica, California, according to a family spokesman. He was 67. The cause of death was brain cancer, which he had been battling quietly for three years, according to spokesman, Elliot Mintz. Peart

Apple CEO Tim Cook pose next to an image of the new iPhone 11. Kena Betancur | AFP | Getty Images Apple said on Friday that it will provide free replacements for some iPhone cases with built-in batteries because of charging problems.  Customers can replace malfunctioning iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR Smart Battery

A growing number of brands are deciding they no longer need Amazon. Earlier this week, Ikea became the latest brand to cut ties with Amazon when it decided not to continue a pilot program that began in 2018. The Swedish retailer joined the likes of Nike, Birkenstock and PopSockets, all of which decided selling directly

Three of China’s biggest technology companies — Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent — have had mixed fortunes in 2019. The trio, known by the acronym BAT, like the FAANG stocks in the U.S., have faced a barrage of domestic issues against a backdrop of the U.S.-China trade war, which has morphed into a tech war. Each

A man stands next to a 5G sign at the Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit in Kunming, China, May 23, 2019. Stringer | Reuters You’re going to hear a lot more about 5G this year as new phones and other gadgets that support the new wireless network begin to launch. 5G is really confusing because

Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. Yasin Ozturk | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Facebook will let people see fewer political ads, the social media giant said Thursday, responding to popular

Tesla Model 3 Silas Stein | picture alliance | Getty Images The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday it was launching an investigation into the Dec. 29 crash of a Tesla Model 3 that left a passenger dead after the vehicle collided with a parked fire truck in Indiana. The crash

Meg Whitman, CEO of Quibi speaks in Laguna Beach, California, October 22, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg revealed the final details of their streaming service Quibi Wednesday. The service will launch on April 6 for $4.99 per month with ads or $7.99 per month for an ad-free version. Whitman, Quibi’s

Samsung logo at store in Shanghai. A South Korean multinational conglomerate. Alex Tai | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Smartphone giant Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday its operating profit for the three months that ended in December likely fell about 34% from a year ago. Operating profit for the fourth quarter is expected

A monorail train displaying Google signage moves past a billboard advertising Apple iPhone security during the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images At last year’s CES tech trade show in Las Vegas, Apple attracted a lot of attention because of

Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke during a ceremony at the company’s new Gigafactory in Shanghai on Tuesday and had a chance to show off some of his dance moves. Musk talked about several initiatives and achievements. The first Tesla Model 3 cars were delivered out of the Shanghai factory to the public, for example, and

NEON artificial humans. NEON Samsung’s STAR Labs research group announced a new “artificial human” called Neon early Tuesday morning at CES 2020. Neon isn’t a robot or a voice assistant like Siri or Alexa. Instead, it’s a simulated human assistant that appears on a screen and learns about people to help it give seemingly intelligent

Steve Mollenkopf, chief executive officer of Qualcomm Inc., holds the new Snapdragon 835 chip during a keynote at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Qualcomm silicon is the processor at the heart of millions of smartphones, but soon, you might buy a car