Digital presence has become absolutely essential for consumer-facing companies, at least according to Lew Cirne, the founder and CEO of cloud-based monitoring service New Relic. “Your digital experience is your brand,” Cirne told CNBC in a Tuesday interview with “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer. “You don’t walk into a bank nearly as often as you […]
Read moreTake-Two Interactive Software gave a stronger-than-expected revenue forecast for the holiday quarter, unlike rivals Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts, on strong demand for its new NBA videogame and the continued success of “Grand Theft Auto.” Shares of Take-Two rose more than 8 percent in extended trading on Tuesday, after the company also raised its full-year […]
Read moreRetailers’ days could be especially bright this holiday season, as online sales are expected to hit $100 billion for the first time ever, Adobe Chairman, President and CEO Shantanu Narayen told CNBC. “We think it’ll be the first $100 billion, online, digital season ever,” Narayen told “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer in a Tuesday interview. […]
Read moreTrade tensions between the world’s two largest economies are hot ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, with the American leader calling the U.S. trade deficit with China “embarrassing” and “horrible” last week. The comments follow trade-related disputes in recent weeks, highlighting friction between the two economic giants as they prepare to go to […]
Read moreCNBC’s Jim Cramer knows that playing offense and defense at the same time isn’t easy, especially for a business. “Yet whenever I speak to a truly competitive company, that’s exactly what they’re doing — playing both offense and defense using the power of digital, using the power of technology. They have no choice; if they […]
Read moreThe biggest enemy of electric cars in America may be the average car buyer. When news of the GOP tax plan broke, there was plenty of talk that the plan to kill the $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles would make the cars an even tougher sell among mainstream consumers. That may be true […]
Read moreFacebook is trying to show that it’s serious about snagging business users, and Dreamforce is the place to do it. On Tuesday, the company talked up its Workplace by Facebook offering at Salesforce’s annual software conference in San Francisco. While Facebook’s core business is ads that target consumers, the company doesn’t want to cede the […]
Read moreSnap CEO Evan Speigel said on Tuesday that Snapchat plans to redesign its application to attract folks who find it too difficult to use. That likely includes older people who find the interface baffling — which might be one reason why Snapchat reported lower-than-expected daily active users (DAUs) of 178 million people in its third-quarter […]
Read moreBroadcom’s $103 billion unsolicited offer to buy Qualcomm on Monday was just the latest in a recent binge of large transactions underway or being contemplated as Wall Street reboots its deal-making engine. Also on Monday, CNBC reported that Walt Disney Co. had talked to 21 Century Fox about acquiring its film studio and television production […]
Read moreMost languages will now have twice as many characters to say what they want on Twitter. The company announced on Tuesday in a blog post that it was rolling out the 280-character limit to all languages where “cramming” characters was an issue. The length is twice as long as Twitter’s current 140-character limit. Twitter first […]
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