Boeing shares have been on fire. Even after falling on Friday and the previous session, the stock is the best-performing Dow component this year, up 14 percent year to date and on pace for its fifth straight positive month. Its rise over the last year has soared into triple-digit gains. This meteoric price action is […]
Read moreIf you don’t know how to code, fret not, you can still have a successful career in a tech-powered job. So says the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai. While education and workplace training for an automated future has focused largely on coding, there will be many jobs that depend on softer tech skills, Pichai says […]
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Netflix has been on a tear this year, and traders are expecting a big move when the company reports quarterly earnings Monday after the market close. The options market is implying about a 7.5 percent move in either direction for the streaming giant, which is more than the average 5.5 percent move over the past […]
Read moreNetflix’s growth in international markets and its large investment in content will boost its shares, according to one Wall Street firm. KeyBanc Capital Markets reiterated its overweight rating for Netflix shares, predicting strong subscriber numbers for the company this year. “We see Netflix as the global leader in subscription video in the internet era and […]
Read moreExpect “America First,” a broadside against unfair trade practices, tough talk toward enemies and a fair bit of bragging when U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the World Economic Forum (WEF) next week, according to a range of policy commentators. CNBC spoke to experts from the fields of defense, foreign policy, economics and politics to […]
Read moreWe decided to replace the battery in an iPhone 6 and document exactly how it went. Quick backstory: Apple announced in early January that owners of the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus and iPhone 7 could replace the batteries in their phones for just $29. Apple began replacing the batteries after backlash from […]
Read moreJan Koum, co-founder and CEO of Facebook‘s WhatsApp messaging service, says the idea for the company he co-founded with Brian Acton in 2009 came about so he could stop missing calls on his new smartphone. “It started with me buying an iPhone,” Koum told an audience of several hundred Silicon Valley veterans gathered for an […]
Read moreShares of ADT fell 10 percent in the company’s market debut Friday, giving the home security products maker a valuation of $9.56 billion. ADT’s return to the public market offered 105 million shares at $14 apiece. The company was previously taken taken private in May 2016 but CEO Timothy Whall told CNBC that ADT’s progress […]
Read moreAmazon raising its monthly prime membership rate isn’t a big deal because it’s still cheap, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday. The Prime rate will rise by 18 percent to $12.99 per month from $10.99, according to Amazon’s membership page. The discounted student monthly rate will also increase, but the cost of yearly memberships will stay […]
Read moreIn the latest bitcoin-related fraud, a digital currency trading scheme called CabbageTech has disappeared from the internet allegedly with customers’ funds. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Friday it charged Patrick K. McDonnell and his company CabbageTech with “fraud and misappropriation in connection with purchases and trading of Bitcoin and Litecoin.” Based just outside […]
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