The longest Amazon Prime Day yet will begin on Monday, July 16 and last for 36 hours through July 17. For many shoppers, it’s a day to finally snag that tech product or kitchen device they’ve been eyeing at a discount. But for others, it could lead to over-shopping, overspending and financial regret. Since the […]

Microsoft announced on Thursday a free version of its Teams app, stepping up competition with chat service Slack. Until now, Microsoft only provided Teams to clients that pay for Office 365 and its portfolio of subscription productivity apps. Slack has offered both free and premium options since its public launch in 2014. In promoting a […]

Amazon is talking with a start-up called Xealth and at least two hospital networks about a pilot project that would let doctors recommend bundles of medical products to their patients before they’re sent home, and have those products delivered to patients’ homes upon discharge, according to several people familiar. The idea behind the pilot, which […]

Browsing the web in incognito mode isn’t as private as most people think. Researchers with the University of Chicago and the Leibniz University of Hanover recently published the results of a study that included 450 participants. It found that many participants thought “incognito mode” or “private mode” in a web browser protected their online activity […]

We’re likely entering the end-game scenario for Comcast and Disney’s pursuit of Fox’s assets. However, an obscure U.K. takeover rule called the “chain principle” has altered the bidding dynamic in what’s become a game of three-dimensional chess. The U.K. has different rules around mergers and acquisitions than the U.S. One of these rules is a […]

Netflix just beat out HBO as the most Emmy-nominated network for the first time. It’s the first time HBO lost its hold on the most Emmy nods in 18 years, according to The New York Times. Netflix had a total of 112 nominations to HBO’s 108 nominations. Though largely symbolic, the nominations hint at the […]

Uber riders will soon be able to pay for a trip with the money sitting in their Venmo accounts. The leading ride-hailing company will introduce a “Pay with Venmo” option as part of an ongoing partnership with PayPal, which owns Venmo, PayPal said Thursday. The feature could give Venmo a boost as it fights off […]

At 23, Austin Russell is remarkably young to be a CEO. But he’s starting to find his way as an executive. That’s because the young entrepreneur founded his self-driving car technology company Luminar more than half a decade ago — when he was just 17 and still in high school. Of course, Russell has always […]

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expressed a preference for Disney in its battle against Comcast for Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox in an interview with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin. “I’m a big Bob Iger fan. Of course Disney is one of our huge partners,” he said in Sun Valley, Idaho. “In a way, I am rooting for […]

To meet Model 3 quotas, Tesla factory workers were provided free Red Bull to stay awake and instructed to walk through raw sewage to avoid interrupting production, according to a new Bloomberg Businessweek report. Reports of harsh conditions and intense pressure continue to emerge from the Fremont, California factory, which CNBC previously reported has suffered […]