After a week of bone-chilling temperatures across much of the United States, a massive winter storm pounded the Eastern Seaboard, forcing millions outside to shovel their driveways. Shoveling snow is not only a chore, its’ also dangerous. A national study found that between 1990 and 2006 there were 11,500 snow shoveling-related injuries each year, according […]
Read moreApple on Thursday said it will be releasing more software updates to protect against recently disclosed security vulnerabilities. This marked the first time that the company had made a formal statement about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, which were reported to affect phones, servers andPCs. Apple said that recent updates to its iOS, macOS and […]
Read moreAfter the Dow Jones industrial average hit 25,000 on Thursday, the so-called godfather of technical analysis, Ralph Acampora, told CNBC he thinks the blue-chip index can soar another 3,000 points this year. His near-term target is 25,900, which he thinks will be hit “very easily,” and his secondary target for the year is 28,700. “I […]
Read moreAsian markets looked set to track stateside gains on Friday after the Dow Jones industrial average hit a major milestone. Markets in the region had traded at or around multi-year highs in the prior session, with Japan’s benchmark index hitting a 26-year high and the Hang Seng Index touching a decade-high. Major U.S. indexes climbed […]
Read moreOn a strong day for markets in which the Dow Jones industrial average crossed the 25,000 mark, CNBC’s Jim Cramer wanted to check in on what exactly is driving this “beast market.” “You get a market in beast mode like this one, you’ve got to feed the beast. And you can’t give it the same […]
Read moreApple executive Jimmy Iovine — a longstanding link between Apple and the music industry — could leave his role at Apple Music this year, a Billboard report says. Unnamed sources told Billboard, as well as industry blog Hits Daily Double, that Iovine’s departure might be timed around the vesting of his stake in Apple in […]
Read moreApple set a new record for App Store sales on New Year’s Day, thanks to a 25 percent increase from the same day a year earlier. Consumers spent $300 million on apps on Jan. 1, the most for a single day since the App Store launched in 2008. It marked the end to a booming […]
Read moreFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed his interested in crypto currency and its potential uses in his 2018 mission statement, issued on Thursday. The statement was all about how Zuckerberg is taking on a new personal challenge for 2018: fixing Facebook. (Last year’s challenge was visiting all the states he’d never been to and meet people […]
Read moreFederal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai canceled his scheduled appearance at a major upcoming tech industry trade show after receiving death threats, two agency sources told Recode on Thursday. It’s the second known incident in which Pai’s safety may have been at risk, after a bomb threat abruptly forced the chairman to halt his controversial […]
Read moreHere’s a story that bucks the idea that the tech industry is selfish and myopic: A technology start-up raised more than $20 million this week to help low-income Americans, including the elderly and the homeless, access basic health services. Cityblock Health, which spun out of Alphabet’s urban innovation unit, Sidewalk Labs, will use its funds […]
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