Any shake-ups in the Trump White House won’t fundamentally change the story in stocks, money manager and popular blogger Josh Brown told CNBC on Friday. U.S. stocks turned higher Friday after a report by The New York Times said that President Donald Trump has removed his chief strategist, Steve Bannon. Axios first reported that Bannon […]
Read moreFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an online post that he will take two months paternity leave later this year. Zuckerberg’s wife, Priscilla Chan, is expecting the couple’s second child between now and year’s end. “Studies show that when working parents take time to be with their newborns, it’s good for the entire family,” Zuckerberg […]
Read moreForced by the NCAA to choose between playing college football or his YouTube channel, kicker Donald De La Haye made the tough decision to pursue his online video career. “Honestly, the best advise anyone gave me was make the choice with your heart, and decide based on what you wanted to do,” De La Haye […]
Read moreThe tech industry will continue to feel more pressure to assert its values and address the size and scope of its influence, after a week of events that pitted CEOs against the president, one technology investor told CNBC on Friday. “Business leaders are being asked to step forward and try and set policy for our […]
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Goldman Sachs says stocks most-owned by the smart money are crushing the market this year, leading to the strongest start for hedge funds since 2009. The bank’s hedge fund VIP list consists of the 50 stocks that “appear most often among the top 10 holdings of fundamentally-driven hedge fund portfolios” for the June quarter. The […]
Read moreA feel-good video producer and distributor will begin trading its shares on the Nasdaq global market Friday after raising $30 million in a crowdsourced initial public offering. With actor Ashton Kutcher on board as an executive producer and collaborator, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment will list under the ticker symbol “CSSE.” The company sold […]
Read moreGoogle said on Friday that it will introduce the next version of Android alongside the solar eclipse on Monday, August 21. Google already talked a lot about what’s coming in this version, which has been known as “Android O” until now as it has progressed through beta testing. One of the biggest changes that has […]
Read moreFired Google software engineer, James Damore, says being conservative and working at the tech behemoth is “like being gay in the 1950s.” Damore, the author of the controversial anti-diversity memo, made the comparison in conversation with Business Insider. He says he was fired for “wrong-think” and that anyone who has conservative viewpoints at Google “are […]
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In pictures: Deadly terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils, Spain
Deadly terrorist attacks over two days in Barcelona and Cambrils, Spain, have left 14 dead and more than 130 wounded. In Barcelona, police on Friday were searching for the terrorist who escaped a day earlier after driving a van through the popular Las Ramblas pedestrian strip. Seventy-five miles to the southwest, police shot and killed […]
Read moreThe second-quarter results are in, and Wall Street loves what it’s seeing. After an impressive double-digit gain in the first quarter, the S&P 500’s earnings per share increased another 10.8 percent through July after companies reported their numbers. That marks the first time the index has posted two quarters in a row of double-digit gains […]
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