Apple car project canceled: Report

Apple car project canceled: Report

Apple CEO Tim Cook waves a checkered flag to the race winner at the Formula One United States Grand Prix Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, on Oct. 23, 2022. Mike Segar | Reuters Apple will wind down its team working on electric cars, called Special Projects Group, according to Bloomberg. The news signals … Read more

Bitcoin firm MicroStrategy pops 27% as crypto stake hits $11 billion

Bitcoin firm MicroStrategy pops 27% as crypto stake hits  billion

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor speaks at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, a crypto-currency conference held at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood on June 04, 2021 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images MicroStrategy‘s HODL strategy is continuing to reward investors. The company said on Monday that it acquired an additional 3,000 bitcoins for a … Read more

Hims & Hers (HIMS) Q4 earnings report

Hims & Hers (HIMS) Q4 earnings report

The New York Stock Exchange with a Hims & Hers Health, Inc banner is pictured as a person runs past in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, January 21, 2021. Carlo Allegri | Reuters Hims & Hers Health, the online provider of treatments for erectile dysfunction and hair loss, had its best … Read more

FTC Chair Lina Khan takes victory lap on blocking Nvidia-Arm merger

FTC Chair Lina Khan takes victory lap on blocking Nvidia-Arm merger

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan speaks during the New York Times annual DealBook Summit in New York City on Nov. 29, 2023. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan cited the surging stock prices of Nvidia and Arm as an example of how blocking mergers can lead to increased … Read more

Fraudster impersonated Mansour family to peddle fake Airbnb equity

Fraudster impersonated Mansour family to peddle fake Airbnb equity

The Airbnb logo is displayed on the Nasdaq digital billboard in Times Square in New York on December 10, 2020. Kena Betancur | AFP | Getty Images When prosecutors announced the plea deal late last week of Shamoon Rafiq, who ran a $10 million scheme that duped investors into buying into pre-IPO tech companies like … Read more

UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare cyberattack outages continue, pharmacies deploy workarounds

UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare cyberattack outages continue, pharmacies deploy workarounds

Change Healthcare’s systems are down for the seventh day after a cyber threat actor gained access to its network last week. Parent company UnitedHealth Group said most U.S. pharmacies have set up electronic workarounds to mitigate the impact. UnitedHealth discovered that a “suspected nation-state-associated” threat actor breached part of Change Healthcare’s information technology network on … Read more

Sony to lay off 900 workers from PlayStation division, or 8% of unit’s global workforce

Sony to lay off 900 workers from PlayStation division, or 8% of unit’s global workforce

Sony aims to sell 18 million PlayStation 5 consoles in its financial year ending in March 2023. Thiago Prudencio | Lightrocket | Getty Images Sony Interactive Entertainment on Tuesday said it will lay off about 900 employees in its PlayStation unit, or 8% of its global workforce, becoming the latest technology company to announce headcount … Read more

Glean is worth $2.2 billion as Citigroup, Databricks, Workday invest

Glean is worth .2 billion as Citigroup, Databricks, Workday invest

Arvind Jain, co-founder and CEO of Glean, makes a selfie with employees of the startup, which is based in Palo Alto, Calif. Glean Artificial intelligence startup Glean attracted tech companies Databricks and Workday into its latest investment round. The Silicon Valley company also reeled in cash from Wall Street. Glean, whose software sifts through corporate … Read more

EToro wants trading app on Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest VR headsets

EToro wants trading app on Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest VR headsets

An Apple Vision Pro mixed reality (XR) headset is seen at Apple store in New York, United States on Feb. 3, 2024. Fatih Aktas | Anadolu | Getty Images Online brokerage firm eToro is exploring ways to bring its retail trading app to augmented and virtual reality headsets from Apple and Meta, the company’s CEO … Read more

Smartphone makers Samsung, Google dream of an AI-driven supercycle   

Smartphone makers Samsung, Google dream of an AI-driven supercycle   

Samsung Electronics’ flagship smartphones Galaxy S24 series are displayed during their unveiling ceremony in Seoul, South Korea, January 15, 2024.  Kim Hong-ji | Reuters BARCELONA – Smartphone makers are talking a big game about artificial intelligence this year.  And they’re so confident about features they’re cramming into their phones that they think it’ll drive a … Read more