A major element of China’s continent-spanning Belt and Road Initiative has nothing to do with roads, ports or power plants. Rather, the “Digital Silk Road” aims to construct communications networks across the developing world. Many fear Beijing could use those tools for electronic surveillance. The world’s second-largest economy wants to build cables, mobile structures and […]

Millions of people have sleep apnea, a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts. But most of them go undiagnosed. Those missed diagnoses cost an estimated $150 billion a year in the United States alone from things such as lost productivity and car accidents, according to the American Academy of Sleep […]

CNBC’s Jim Cramer might not be a foreign policy expert, but that didn’t keep him from analyzing how President Donald Trump’s comments to NATO representatives could affect stocks. On Wednesday, the president said at a press conference that Germany was “totally controlled” by Russia, criticizing Germany for doing deals with Russian energy producers. He later […]

Facebook granted a Russian company with ties to the Kremlin a data collection extension, CNN reported Tuesday. The social media company told CNN that the extension allowed Mail.Ru Group to gather friend data from Facebook users past the cut-off date. According to CNN, Facebook said Mail.Ru developed “hundreds of Facebook apps,” only two of which […]

Martin Tripp, the Tesla technician who CEO Elon Musk accused of sabotage, has filed a formal whistleblower complaint about the electric vehicle maker and hired a prominent New York law firm to represent him. In his complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Tripp alleges that Tesla has made several “material omissions and misstatements” to […]

Comcast on Wednesday raised its cash offer for Sky to $34 billion, topping Twenty-First Century Fox‘s latest bid. Comcast said its upped bid has been recommended by the independent committee of Sky. The company also said it has earmarked funds to fulfill the terms of the deal. Earlier Wednesday, Fox raised its offer to about […]

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of Broadcom fell as much as 6 percent in the extended session, after the Wall Street Journal reported the chipmaker was nearing a deal to acquire New York-based software company CA Technologies. The $18 billion deal could help diversify Broadcom, and mark a strategic win […]

Three months after its stock market debut, electronic signature company DocuSign is losing almost half its board of directors, including its founder and chairman. DocuSign said on Wednesday that five of its 12 directors are resigning and that three new people will be joining the board. Tom Gonser, who founded DocuSign in 2003, is leaving, […]

Shares of CA Technologies soared more than 16 percent in extended trading, after the Wall Street Journal reported that Broadcom was close to acquiring the software company for about $18 billion. Shares of Broadcom edged down more than 5 percent, pushing the stock down to about $233.15 per share. Broadcom is down more than 5 […]

Magic Leap, the secretive start up that has raised over $2 billion and built a mixed reality headset that may one day completely change the way we view the world around us, hosted a livestream Wednesday where it demonstrated some of its new technology. In a demo that seemed relatively simple, Magic Leap showed how […]