Facebook has turned over all information about ads “likely” purchased by Russian operatives to special counsel Robert Mueller, according to a report. A source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday that the social media giant had sent the former FBI director data including copies of the ads and the identity of the buyers. […]
Read moreDeere is bringing more robots to the farm. The maker of John Deere agricultural equipment said on Wednesday that it’s acquiring robotics start-up Blue River Technology for $305 million. The deal is expected to close in September. Based in Silicon Valley, Blue River makes “see-and-spray” robots that affix to tractors. They use computer vision to […]
Read moreThe White House has set aside for now consideration of terminating the U.S. trade agreement with South Korea, a senior administration official said on Wednesday. President Donald Trump had been discussing with his senior advisers ending the trade deal out of concern that it was tilted against the United States. Source: cnbc china US halts […]
Read moreRob Coppedge is CEO of Echo Health Ventures in Seattle and has been investing and working in health care for 20 years. Let me be clear: I believe strongly in the need for substantive, consumer-centric transformation of the health care system and have been a long-term proponent of the power of entrepreneurs to catalyze and […]
Read moreWhen CNBC’s Jim Cramer first started working at Goldman Sachs in 1984, he used to get calls from his mother, who loved the stock market and would ask him for quotes on her favorite stocks. She chose to invest by buying what she knew and staying on top of it. She liked to shop at […]
Read moreWith popular cryptocurrency bitcoin a few percentage points away from a new high, Yale economics professor Robert Shiller shared his theory on why it resembles a bubble. Shiller, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on bubbles, told CNBC’s “Fast Money” on Wednesday that often bubbles are promulgated by stories, not metrics. […]
Read moreThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is so hip these days that it’s looking for its first entrepreneur-in-residence. The agency today announced that its digital health unit is recruiting fellows to help it with tasks like assessing product quality and developing new ways to collect data. Candidates are expected to spend at least three days […]
Read moreAsh Munshi’s first jobs in the U.S. included selling newspapers and candy in New York City subway stations as a young immigrant. He also cleaned toilets and worked as a security guard. “Whatever it took to put food on the table,” Munshi says. Decades later, after attending Harvard University and building a career in Silicon […]
Read moreThe insurance industry is “well-poised” to deal with the possible impact of Hurricane Irma on Florida, according to an insurance research group. The storm, currently a Category 5, tore through several Caribbean islands on Wednesday and could make Florida landfall this weekend. Concern about the potential devastation caused insurance stocks to plunge on Tuesday. On […]
Read moreFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hosted three DACA immigrants at his Silicon Valley home Wednesday, live-streaming their personal stories and pressing Congress to pass a law that protects them — and 800,000 others — from possible deportation. The discussion, watched by more than 1.1 million people on Zuckerberg’s own Facebook page, comes one day after President […]
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