Microsoft brings Copilot to small businesses, launches Copilot Pro

Microsoft brings Copilot to small businesses, launches Copilot Pro

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the CES conference in Las Vegas on Jan. 9, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft said on Tuesday that small businesses can now subscribe to its Copilot virtual assistant in the company’s productivity apps. And consumers who pay for the Microsoft 365 software can sign … Read more

Good chance U.S. passes stablecoin laws this year, Circle CEO says

Good chance U.S. passes stablecoin laws this year, Circle CEO says

A picture taken in London shows gold-plated souvenir cryptocurrency tether, bitcoin and ethereum coins arranged beside a screen displaying a trading chart, May 8, 2022. Justin Tallis | Afp | Getty Images The CEO of Circle, the company behind popular stablecoin USD Coin, sees a strong chance that laws for stablecoin issuers like itself will … Read more

Overheard on connecting trains from Zurich to Davos Platz

Overheard on connecting trains from Zurich to Davos Platz

Zurich’s main train station MacKenzie Sigalos DAVOS, Switzerland — It took 18 hours, a Lyft, two planes, three cross-country train rides, and a drive in a Volvo sports utility vehicle to get from midtown Manhattan to an apartment on Scalettastrasse, a snow-lined street in the heart of Davos. The small Swiss Alpine town is again … Read more

Microsoft tops Apple as world’s most valuable public company

Microsoft tops Apple as world’s most valuable public company

Apple CEO Tim Cook, left, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Reuters Microsoft ended Friday’s U.S. trading session as the most valuable publicly traded company, surpassing Apple after briefly topping the iPhone maker during intraday trading Thursday. Shares of Microsoft climbed more than 3% for the week, bringing the company’s market cap to $2.89 trillion, while … Read more

Space company Momentus MNTS running out of money

Space company Momentus MNTS running out of money

An artist’s rendering of a Momentus Vigoride transfer vehicle deploying a satellite in orbit. Momentus Space company Momentus warned shareholders in a securities filing on Friday that the company is running out of money and does not have a financial lifeline. Momentus, once valued at more than $1 billion before going public via a special … Read more

Crypto bulls see bitcoin flying to $100,000 with ETF approval

Crypto bulls see bitcoin flying to 0,000 with ETF approval

Cryptocurrency bulls say bitcoin could surge to more than $100,000 this year after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission made a pivotal step to approve the first-ever U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund. Several crypto investors CNBC spoke with said they see the world’s top cryptocurrency rising in 2024, as the effects of approval of a … Read more

Taiwan’s strength in semiconductors could be its ‘Achilles heel,’ economist says

Taiwan’s strength in semiconductors could be its ‘Achilles heel,’ economist says

Taiwan should plan to diversify its economy away from semiconductors, given the risk that China might develop the capacity to make its own chips, Paul Cavey, an economist at East Asia Econ, told CNBC. “Politicians really should be discussing more on … diversifying the economy away in terms of trying to encourage more industries to … Read more

China’s Rokid rival to Apple’s Vision Pro raises $70 million

China’s Rokid rival to Apple’s Vision Pro raises  million

This picture taken on September 22, 2023 shows a Rokid employee demonstrating an augmented reality helmet at the company’s office at the 2022 Asian Games host city Hangzhou, in China’s eastern Zhejiang province. From autonomous bug zappers to android pianists and driverless ice cream trucks, machines rule the world, at least at China’s Asian Games. … Read more

Apple longtime directors Al Gore and James Bell retiring from board

Apple longtime directors Al Gore and James Bell retiring from board

Former Vice President Al Gore speaks during the Agriculture Innovation Mission (AIM) for Climate Summit at the JW Marriott on May 08, 2023 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Former Vice President Al Gore is leaving the Apple board in February after more than 20 years, the company said Thursday. Gore, along with … Read more

Discord cuts 17% of workforce, latest tech company to downsize in 2024

Discord cuts 17% of workforce, latest tech company to downsize in 2024

The Discord app is seen on an iPhone in this photo illustration in Warsaw, Poland, on April 3, 2021. Jaap Arriens | NurPhoto | Getty Images Discord will lay off 17% of the company’s workforce, which equates to 170 employees, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday. The company, which provides a popular messaging service used by gamers, … Read more