If you’re shopping for a gift for a college student over the holidays, consider gifting a gadget over a pair of fresh bed sheets. As CNBC’s in-house gadget reviewer, I have a few ideas that I think college students will really love, from streaming TV sticks to smart speakers and portable gaming systems. And if […]
Read moreMark Zuckerberg is the ultimate success story. He’s built one of the most powerful technology platforms in the world and at 33 years old, he is worth more than $70 billion, according to Forbes. Tuesday, speaking from New York at the Facebook Social Good Forum, the billionaire revealed one of his favorite sayings — and […]
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It’s been a wild ride for bitcoin traders. From Wednesday’s high of $11,363.99, bitcoin has fallen to a low of $9,021.85, a 20.6 percent drop. The crypotocurrency is in a period of extreme volatility after a strong showing over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, when it set multiple all-time records. Bitcoin last traded at $9,206.13, down […]
Read moreFinance ministers from Latvia, Luxembourg, Portugal and Slovakia bid on Thursday to replace Jeroen Dijsselbloem as the powerful head of euro zone finance ministers, the Eurogroup, ahead of a vote next week among the 19 countries sharing the euro. The president of the Eurogroup chairs monthly meetings of finance ministers and heads the euro zone […]
Read moreT. Rowe Price, Temasek and Campbell’s Soup are among the investors in a new round for Farmer’s Business Network, agriculture’s answer to Alibaba. Founded by CEO Amol Deshpande, a former venture investor with Kleiner Perkins, FBN started as a kind of professional social network for farmers. It told CNBC it raised $110 million in this […]
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WHILE the world of geopolitics looks as risky as ever, the markets seem to go on their sweet way, recording new highs for equity indices. In large part, of course, this is down to signs of an improving global economy and sense that politics doesn’t really matter, despite the tweets of President Trump (defending Vladimir […]
Read moreGoogle‘s YouTube is launching a new product called Reels that mirrors the “stories” format made popular by Snapchat and mimicked by Facebook and Instagram. YouTube made the announcement as part of an expansion of its Community tools for popular video creators. A select group of YouTube content creators will be now be able to put […]
Read moreThe FDA has approved an EKG monitor as an accessory for the Apple Watch — the first certified medical device for the increasingly popular wearable, medical tech company AliveCor announced Thursday. AliveCor’s KardiaBand allows Watch wearers to check their heart activity with an embedded sensor, flagging abnormal heart rhythms that could indicate a serious health […]
Read moreAlphabet is is thinking about bringing Nest Labs — maker of the Nest smart thermostat and other home products — back under its Google hardware umbrella, The Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday. Nest is currently owned by Alphabet but is operated under Alphabet’s “Other Bets” product category instead of directly under Google. The company […]
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Oil prices rose ahead of a critical meeting of two dozen oil producers on Thursday, reversing a three-day slide as uncertainty over an extension to the group’s deal to limit production weighed on the market. OPEC and other oil exporters led by Russia have kept 1.8 million barrels a day off the market since January, […]
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