For all the hype in the digital currency world about so-called initial coin offerings, U.S. investors often can’t officially participate. The reason, several analysts told CNBC, is companies’ fear of being held accountable by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in case buyers lose money in what can be a frenetic rush for something with […]
Read moreGoogle’s digital glasses, rejected by consumers three years ago as an elite, privacy-invading toy, have picked up a lunchpail and gone to work. The research arm that produced Google Glass, known as X and led by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has focused on a corporate version targeted at workers ranging from doctors to warehouse managers. […]
Read moreTrouble may be brewing for Amazon’s cloud computing business. Deutsche Bank told investors the market may get surprised by weaker than expected Amazon Web Services (AWS) growth in the second quarter. Analysts are almost universally bullish on Amazon with 86 percent of Wall Street firms rating the internet company at buy or overweight, according to […]
Read moreThe Bank of England’s governor has unveiled a new 10-pound note featuring Jane Austen at one of England’s grandest cathedrals, 200 years to the day since one of Britain’s most-loved novelists was laid to rest there. Speaking at Winchester Cathedral in southern England on Tuesday, Mark Carney said banknotes “serve as repositories of the country’s […]
Read moreIf you can manage it, don’t buy a new iPhone right now. Apple is almost certainly going to unveil new iPhones in September, just a couple of months from now, that will offer big upgrades to the current iPhones on the market. The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, Apple’s top smartphones, are likely to […]
Read moreWhile many investors are optimistic over AMD’s new products, Barclays is pouring cold water on the company’s new server offering saying the chip-maker will make little headway against Intel’s superior processor. The bank’s semiconductor analyst Blayne Curtis lowered his rating on the company’s shares to underweight from equal weight and reaffirmed his $9 price target […]
Read moreThe results of Netflix‘s latest quarter show why it’s a behemoth stock, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. “You know you don’t to get to be FANG for nothing,” he said on “Squawk on the Street.” Cramer spoke a day after the stock of the video-on-demand service surged in after-hours trading following its second-quarter earnings release […]
Read moreAs IBM gets set to report second quarter earnings after the bell today, investors may be losing patience. Analysts expect Big Blue to report its 21st straight quarter of declining revenue growth as its big investments in new technologies — like cloud computing and artificial intelligence — continue to be outweighed by its slowing legacy […]
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Bitcoin soars as miners finally move to solve the digital currency’s scaling problem
Bitcoin miners are signalling their intent to support a new upgrade for the bitcoin blockchain that may solve the digital currency’s long-running scaling issue. Several of the largest bitcoin miners (who create new bitcoins and support the blockchain), including AntPool, BitClub, Bixin, BTC.com and BitFury, have started showing their support for bitcoin improvement proposal (BIP) […]
Read moreIt seems that Amazon’s new meal kits are already on sale — at least, in select locations. An Amazon Prime customer told GeekWire that he had seen the company’s meal kits appear in his search results about two weeks ago and has already purchased and tested the kits. The Seattle-based Prime member said that the […]
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