Aaron Schlossberg, a New York-based lawyer, became internet famous on Wednesday for the worst of reasons: a racist rant that went viral. Schlossberg was captured on a smartphone video yelling at employees in the restaurant Fresh Kitchen in midtown Manhattan. His complaint was that the workers were speaking Spanish to customers. “And my guess is […]

Sometimes, CNBC’s Jim Cramer gets frustrated with how frequently stock market stories are framed as lose-lose situations for the bulls. From the marketwide panic around the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield crossing 3 percent to worries about rising oil prices to buzz around a strengthening dollar, Cramer argued that a lot of the negative headlines are […]

Miss your mother’s home-made soup? There’s an app where you can “rent a mum” to cook some for you. Need someone to courier a package at 2.30am? Looking for a pet dog for an Instagram project? There are apps for those too. The sharing economy has moved well beyond ride sharing and renting spare rooms. […]

Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch League, the first franchised esports league, kicked off its inaugural season earlier this year. Twelve teams from around the world compete every week in Burbank, California, at an arena that housed the stages for The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Jay Leno. Blizzard is entering a well-established market. Revenue in esports […]

When Jim Freeman, the Alexa VP in charge of messaging products, told Amazon he’s leaving for the German e-commerce company Zalando earlier this year, the higher-ups asked him to stay, according to a person familiar with the matter. Freeman didn’t budge, and in April he ended up joining the Berlin-based company. Freeman, who first joined […]

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Wednesday confirmed it had launched an investigation of a Tesla crash in South Jordan, Utah. “Consistent with NHTSA’s oversight and authority over the safety of all motor vehicles and equipment, the agency has launched its special crash investigations team to gather information on the South Jordan, Utah, crash. […]

Cisco stock fell more than 4 percent in after-market trading on Wednesday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for its fiscal third quarter, which ended on April 28. Earnings: 66 cents per share, excluding certain items, vs. 65 cents per share as expected by analysts, according to Thomson Reuters. Revenue: $12.46 billion, vs. $12.43 billion […]

The Uber cybersecurity executive who was fired for his role in attempting to cover up a massive data breach last year is joining internet security start-up Cloudflare. Joe Sullivan, who also previously worked at Facebook, wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that he’s joining Cloudflare’s security team. A spokesperson said in an email that […]

Artists have to produce a lot more content to keep up in today’s streaming music industry, Grammy Award-winning singer Ashanti told CNBC on Wednesday. “You have to continue to put out new records. It’s way faster pace now. You can’t really wait because there are so many other artists dropping different things, the consumer will […]

It’s been an uncharacteristically busy week for Eric Jackson, a public information officer at the Lee County Mosquito Control District in southwestern Florida. U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Wednesday afternoon named Lee County‘s mosquito control outfit one of only 10 state, local and tribal government entities to be selected for the Federal Aviation Administration’s […]