Twitter is experimenting with doubling the length of a tweet from 140 characters to 280 characters. The company wrote in a blog post on Tuesday it was rolling out 280-character limit tweets to “a small group” of users who tweet in languages that may have had issues with trying to fit everything they want to […]
Read moreMicron Technology is slated to report earnings after the market close Tuesday. Here’s what Wall Street expects: EPS: $1.83, according to Thomson Reuters Revenue: $5.96 billion, according to Thomson Reuters Shares of Micron have rocketed nearly 60 percent so far this year, outperforming the 23 percent gain in the broader S&P 500 Information Technology sector. […]
Read more2017 has been a year full of drama between pre-IPO tech companies and their backers, with Uber’s many lawsuits and boardroom drama as the wildest example. But it’s still a great time to invest in late-stage tech, says one of Silicon Valley’s most influential enterprise tech investors, IVP General Partner Steve Harrick. Although it doesn’t […]
Read moreYou often hear about the top-notch employee perks at Facebook: Its headquarters in Menlo Park offers free meals, dry cleaning and even a barber shop. What you don’t often hear about are the contract workers, from bicycle mechanics to cafeteria workers, who keep everything running. Full-time employees “have free laundry, haircuts, free food at any […]
Read moreInvestors who followed Social Capital’s Chamath Palihapitiya into the early stages of two investments he advocated would have made an awful lot of money. Palihapitiya was early in both Facebook, the ubiquitous social network, and bitcoin, the disruptive crypotcurrency that has sharply divided investors who continue to argue over its legitimacy. Even with the major […]
Read moreFamed radio-star Mike Francesa loves trading stocks on top of keeping up with the latest sports news. CNBC’s Scott Wapner asked Francesa which stocks he is buying now. “I’m a big tech guy, so I’m a big Nvidia guy, I’m a big Amazon guy always,” Francesa said on CNBC’s “Halftime Report” Tuesday. “I tell you […]
Read moreThe unprecedented trio of major hurricanes that slammed the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico could wipe out job growth for September and October, and some economists are expecting actual declines. “We’re creating an average 175,000 jobs a month … The problem is it looks like the hurricane disruption will overwhelm those job gains in September […]
Read moreNaya Health hit the headlines this week as a poster child for the lack of venture funding for women’s health products. But reports in Bloomberg and New Yorker didn’t make a clear case for why the company should be attractive to venture capitalists, who look for billion-dollar opportunities. At $1,000, the pump a lot more […]
Read moreUber is announcing a few notable changes today, starting with a new feature that allows drivers to offer an additional layer of feedback to unruly riders. Working off the assumption that no one likes IRL confrontation, drivers can now choose from a preselected list of reasons to explain why they rated a passenger as less […]
Read moreLive photos, which record a short clip of action when you snap a picture, are typically on but can be toggled by pressing the circular button on the side of your camera screen. Once it’s on, try to take a picture of a moving object, like your child jumping into the swimming pool. This will […]
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