Epic Games is not fooling around. The game publisher just made “Fortnite” the biggest global esport by a significant margin in terms of prize money. On Monday Epic Games announced it will provide $100 million to fund prize pools for “Fortnite” tournaments during the first year of competition. “Grab your gear, drop in and start […]
Read moreI asked Apple‘s Siri assistant to tell me about WWDC, Apple’s developer conference that starts on June 4, and it told me it’s going to get an upgrade. “I don’t want to brag, but I’m getting a lot smarter,” Siri told me. “It must be all that late night studying I’ve been doing…” Here’s a […]
Read moreWho speaks for Alphabet these days? Mark Zuckerberg is the face of Facebook. Jeff Bezos is definitely in charge of Amazon. Tim Cook runs Apple. Satya Nadella speaks for Microsoft. The CEO of Alphabet is Larry Page, who co-founded the company (then called Google) with Sergey Brin in 1998. Page has always been an introvert. […]
Read moreGeneral Motors is a leader in the future autonomous vehicle network space, according to Citigroup, spelling a “raging bull” case for the automaker. Though analyst Itay Michaeli believes the automaker’s shares could nearly double to $70 over the next 12 months, he argued that the stock could soar to $134 over the long term as […]
Read moreWall Street analysts are cheering General Electric’s move to start splitting itself up after poor shareholder returns in the past year. On Monday the industrial conglomerate announced a deal to merge its transportation business with Wabtec in a transaction valued at $11.1 billion. General Electric will receive $2.9 billion in cash at the merger’s close. […]
Read moreO’FALLON, Mo. — In a windowless bunker here, a wall of monitors tracked incoming attacks — 267,322 in the last 24 hours, according to one hovering dial, or about three every second — as a dozen analysts stared at screens filled with snippets of computer code. Pacing around, overseeing the stream of warnings, was a […]
Read moreCarl Icahn revealed the size of his stake in VMware Monday. “I wish I had a bigger position than I have, but it’s a sizable position .. It’s in the hundreds of millions of dollars, but it could be more but the stock just got away from me,” he said on CNBC’s “Halftime Report” Monday. […]
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OVER the past year, there have been myriad stories in the press about airlines mistreating passengers. Last April David Dao, a passenger on a domestic United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville, was violently dragged off the plane to accommodate crew for another flight. This month United hit the headlines again when a Nigerian passenger […]
Read moreTesla‘s Model 3 sedan fell short of a recommendation from Consumer Reports on Monday. The vehicle has many attributes that could make it a competitor to the Audi A4 or the BMW 3 Series, but there are some traits that kept the group from giving the car a full-throated endorsement, Consumer Reports said. “Our testers […]
Read moreBarack and Michelle Obama are headed to Netflix. Netflix announced the Obamas have signed a multi-year agreement to produce films and series for the company. The deal can include scripted and unscripted series, as well as documentaries and features. The content will be produced by Higher Ground Productions. “One of the simple joys of our […]
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