Billionaire star of ABC’s “Shark Tank” and tech entrepreneur Mark Cuban says the Dallas Mavericks, the NBA team which he owns, will soon accept bitcoin. A Twitter user asked Cuban Monday when it would be possible to buy basketball tickets with the cryptocurrency. “Next season,” the tech entrepreneur replied. Mark, when will I be able […]
Read moreInvestors should heed Bank of America‘s warning on bitcoin and other virtual currencies, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday. During a post-earnings call Wednesday morning, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan responded to a question about cryptocurrencies after the company banned financial advisors from buying bitcoin-related investments for their clients. “We have limited our relationships,” Moynihan […]
Read moreFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants Congress to resolve DACA recipients’ status and is asking his followers to help pressure lawmakers to make decisions soon. Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page Tuesday that there are 800,000 dreamers who are in limbo while their legal status is being negotiated. Though he said he was “optimistic” there will […]
Read moreFacebook, Google and Twitter told Congress Wednesday that they’ve gone beyond screening and removing extremist content and are creating more anti-terror propaganda to pre-empt violent messages at the source. Representatives from the three companies told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation that they are, among other things, targeting people likely to be swayed […]
Read more[The stream is slated to start at 10:30 p.m., ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Representatives from Google, Facebook and Twitter testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation about what they are doing to keep extremist content off their platforms. The companies […]
Read moreNetflix shares will thrive as the streaming giant builds on its original content and its international expansion, according to one Wall Street firm. GBH Insights reiterated its “highly attractive” rating for Netflix shares, predicting better than expected subscriber additions during its fourth quarter, which it is scheduled to report on Monday. Daniel Ives, GBH Insights’ […]
Read moreInvestors looking at bitcoin’s drop of nearly 50 percent from last month’s all-time high above $19,000 should not enter the market for the first time with get-rich-quick aspirations, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur with big-name backers warned on Wednesday. “If people are going to day trade cryptocurrencies, and they don’t know what they are going, they’re going […]
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Things move fast in the world of modern medicine, but if expert predictions about what to expect in 2018 prove true, they might move at a quicker speed than anyone anticipated. It could also see technology companies start to become as important a player in the health-care world as pharmaceutical companies. Breakthroughs in everything from […]
Read moreA group of 21 U.S. state attorneys general filed suit to challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to do away with net neutrality on Tuesday while Democrats said they needed just one more vote in the Senate to repeal the FCC ruling. The state attorneys, including those of California, New York, and Virginia as well […]
Read moreGoogle‘s growing cloud business is trying to bring artificial intelligence to the masses, not just to the experts. The company introduced a new tool on Wednesday designed to simplify the process of deploying AI in business applications. It’s called Cloud AutoML and is already being used by companies including Disney and Urban Outfitters to make […]
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