Spotify plans to raise prices: Report

Spotify plans to raise prices: Report

The Spotify logo is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, Dec. 4, 2023. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Spotify shares jumped 6% on Wednesday after a Bloomberg report said the company will increase prices for its premium subscription service in several markets, including the U.S., … Read more

Amazon ditches cashierless checkout system at its grocery stores

Amazon ditches cashierless checkout system at its grocery stores

Shoppers check out the sale items as they wait in line for the new Amazon Fresh store to open on E. Colorado Blvd in Pasadena, CA Thursday, September 15, 2022.  Medianews Group/los Angeles Daily News Via Getty Images | Medianews Group | Getty Images Amazon is removing its cashierless checkout systems at Fresh supermarkets in … Read more

Streaming platforms are shrinking their content libraries

Streaming platforms are shrinking their content libraries

Every day the streaming landscape is looking more and more like the beast it sought to slay — cable. Looming talks of platform bundles come as major streamers push ad-supported plans, limit password sharing and lean into live sports coverage. The goal of exponential subscriber growth, fueled by pandemic lockdowns, has shifted. Wall Street wants … Read more

Amazon’s long journey to get rid of its signature brown boxes

Amazon’s long journey to get rid of its signature brown boxes

Amazon parcels are prepared for delivery at Amazon’s Robotic Fulfillment Centre on December 19, 2023 in Sutton Coldfield, England.  Nathan Stirk | Getty Images News | Getty Images Every year, the U.S. goes through enough cardboard boxes for shipping to pave a one-mile-wide road from New York City to Los Angeles three times, or build … Read more

Fed must cut rates more aggressively due to jobs: Canaccord Tony Dwyer

Fed must cut rates more aggressively due to jobs: Canaccord Tony Dwyer

The Federal Reserve may have new incentives in the second quarter to cut rates deeper this year. Canaccord Genuity’s Tony Dwyer thinks a deteriorating jobs market and easing inflation will ultimately push the Fed to act. “I’m not saying that they have to go back to zero, but they have to be more aggressive,” the … Read more

In AI race with US, China is behind on a key weapon: Its own OpenAI

In AI race with US, China is behind on a key weapon: Its own OpenAI

People learn about Baidu’s artificial intelligence chatbot service Ernie Bot during the 2nd Global Digital Trade Expo at Hangzhou International Expo Center on November 23, 2023 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China.  China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images Nvidia’s rocket-ship ride in the stock market underscores the extent to which chip … Read more

FOMO drives tech heavyweights to invest billions in generative AI

FOMO drives tech heavyweights to invest billions in generative AI

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, right, greets OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during the OpenAI DevDay event in San Francisco on Nov. 6, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Tech giants aren’t doing much acquiring these days, due mostly to an unfavorable regulatory environment. But they’re finding other ways to spend billions of … Read more

Estee Lauder jumps 5% on upgrade — our take on the embattled retailer

Estee Lauder jumps 5% on upgrade — our take on the embattled retailer

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Thursday’s key moments. U.S. stocks were flat on Thursday as the S & P 500 headed towards its strongest first-quarter performance in half a decade. The benchmark gauge advanced roughly 10% over the … Read more

Mumbai overtakes Beijing to become Asia’s billionaire capital for first time

Mumbai overtakes Beijing to become Asia’s billionaire capital for first time

With 92 billionaires, Mumbai ranks third behind New York and London, but ahead of Beijing, and Shanghai. Tuul & Bruno Morandi | The Image Bank | Getty Images Move over, Beijing. Mumbai is now the Asian capital with the most number of billionaires, according to Hurun Research Institute’s global rich list.  This is the first … Read more

Amazon spends $2.7B on startup Anthropic in largest venture investment

Amazon spends .7B on startup Anthropic in largest venture investment

Amazon is making its largest outside investment in its three-decade history as it looks to gain an edge in the artificial intelligence race.  The tech giant said it will spend another $2.75 billion backing Anthropic, a San Francisco-based startup that’s widely viewed as a frontrunner in generative artificial intelligence. Its foundation model and chatbot Claude … Read more