A Facebook page designed to let users check on the safety of friends and family during a crisis also showed graphic videos of the Las Vegas massacre, showing the challenge the company faces in keeping unwanted content off its site while also protecting users’ freedom of speech. Some of the videos — posted by individual […]
Read moreDid Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock use a smartphone, and if so, will investigators ever unlock its secrets? As law enforcement officials work to understand what motivated the gunman to kill at least 58 people in Las Vegas, Paddock’s technology habits have come into focus. The suspect apparently acted alone. Because he was found dead […]
Read moreHold on “FANG” stocks: Bank of American Merrill Lynch just added two more names to the popular simple portfolio after finding multiple stocks that share their tremendous growth potential. You can now call it “FAAANG.” Strategist Savita Subramanian added Broadcom, with its ticker ‘AVGO,’ and Adobe (ADBE) to the popular Wall Street acronym after screening […]
Read moreThe image above purportedly portrays Google’s new Pixel 2 XL smartphone. Google is expected to introduce it alongside the Google Pixel 2 during an event on Wednesday in California. The Pixel 2 XL, as its name suggests, is the larger of the two models and, according to some reports, is built by LG. Given the […]
Read moreSatya Nadella is the third CEO of Microsoft. He’s also a husband and a father of special-needs kids. He’s an immigrant. And he’s pretty close to doing something that, until he took the job just over three and a half years ago, most people in tech – heck, most people at Microsoft – thought was […]
Read moreSoftware billionaire Tom Siebel shared his views on why it’s so important for technology and business to integrate in an exclusive interview with CNBC PRO’s Mike Santoli. “Let’s look at the facts: In the last 50 years, if we look at the Fortune 500 50 years ago, 90 percent of those companies are gone. If […]
Read moreBillionaire technology CEO Tom Siebel foresees even more ethical problems—including widespread job losses—if companies continue to evolve with big data. CNBC’s Mike Santoli spoke with Siebel in an exclusive interview for CNBC PRO on the sidelines of the Delivering Alpha conference in New York in September. Santoli asked the big data CEO about his outlook […]
Read moreFederal Reserve officials have been bemoaning the state of low inflation. One central bank official believes it’s actually the Fed’s own fault. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari contends in an analysis posted Monday that the Fed has driven down inflation expectations by tightening policy sooner than it should. Central bank officials have indicated a desire […]
Read moreAmazon is expected to generate roughly $4.3 billion in sales this year from its growing army of private label products, according to SunTrust Robinson Humphrey’s Youssef Squali. That’s in part boosted by the Whole Foods acquisition, which Squali estimated to add roughly $700 million in sales with its own list of private label products, including […]
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JUST before dawn on October 2nd, passengers booked to fly on Monarch Airlines began to receive texts informing them that their flights had been cancelled. This was the first news that Britain’s fifth-biggest airline had ceased trading and is now in administration. It is the country’s biggest airline ever to collapse. Monarch had been in […]
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