Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer reportedly praised her “friend,” former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, at an event on Tuesday and suggested he might not have known about the toxic culture at Uber because the company grew so quickly. “I just don’t think he knew,” Mayer said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “When your company […]
Read moreOver the years, Jim Cramer found that when it comes to investing, some of the best advisors have been none other than his two teenage daughters. “We all know that teenagers are incorrigible. The last thing they want to hear about is stocks. They have bigger fish to fry. To which I say, so what? […]
Read moreInvesting for children can be tricky, but Jim Cramer says that if you do it right, it can leave your loved ones much better off by the time they grow up than if you avoid it altogether. “Parents, grandparents, listen up. You can give all sorts of things to families that had just had babies. […]
Read moreIn 2013, Facebook was collaborating with researchers on a major campaign to encourage its users to get flu shots, but scrapped the plan for unknown reasons in 2014 after months of work had been done, according to a person with direct knowledge. The idea was to pick a public health issue to determine whether targeting […]
Read moreThere used to be a widespread understanding in the stock market that stocks could be here today and gone tomorrow, but Jim Cramer finds that is not the case anymore. “We’ve gone well beyond that,” the “Mad Money” host said. “Those days are long over, and if you recommend a stock for a trade, even […]
Read moreSpaceX wants to expand facilities in Florida to refurbish and store its reusable rocket boosters as it increases the pace of launches, documents filed with authorities show. The privately owned rocket company, operated by entrepreneur Elon Musk, proposes building a 67,222-square-foot (6,245-square meter) hangar just south of its Cape Canaveral launch sites to prepare recovered […]
Read moreShipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, which handles one out of seven containers shipped globally, said a cyberattack had caused outages at its computer systems across the world on Tuesday. The attack came as computer servers across Europe and in India were hit by a major ransomware attack. “We can confirm that Maersk IT systems are down […]
Read moreIt’s a good thing actor Ashton Kutcher found his way into venture capital and tech. Kutcher thinks actors could be “automated” out of work, just like everyone else, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence. “It’s not like this is ‘in the future,'” he told CNBC on Monday. “It’s happening right now. Just look at the […]
Read moreInteresting sports/media/internet news: Starting this summer, one of the country’s biggest cable programmers will let people stream one of the world’s most popular sports — without paying for cable. Instead, NBCUniversal’s NBC Sports unit is going to offer a direct-to-consumer subscription package that will let soccer fans watch live games from the Premier League, the […]
Read moreElon Musk is talking to Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel about the possibility of digging a tunnel from the city’s downtown area to Chicago O’Hare airport, according to the Chicago Tribune. Emanuel has called the discussions “preliminary,” according to the Tribune. The mayor is exploring various options for developing a high speed rail line in Chicago, […]
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