IBM is set to report earnings next week, and one market watcher sees the stock as a value play at current levels. The company is scheduled to announce quarterly results Thursday after the market closes, and Mark Tepper of Strategic Wealth Partners likes the stock, off to a strong start to the year, ahead of […]

Would you get in a self-driving car that has no steering wheel and no pedals? General Motors thinks so, and wants to test its newest autonomous-driving vehicle on public roads and highways starting in 2019. “When you see this image for the first time it’s quite striking,” said Dan Ammann, president of GM. “That’s why […]

Americans are living in a political “bubble” by personalizing their respective media streams, according to former President Barack Obama. People who watch Fox News are “living on a different planet” than individuals who listen to National Public Radio, the 56 year-old told David Letterman in a November interview that was released Friday under the veteran […]

China reprimanded three top tech firms on Friday over poor privacy protections, as tech companies face an increasing backlash from consumers and authorities over excessive data collection practices. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd payment affiliate Ant Financial, search firm Baidu Inc and Beijing Bytedance Technology Co, which oversees popular news feed app Jinri Toutiao, were named […]

Intel on Thursday said that recently-issued patches for flaws in its chips could cause computers using its older Broadwell and Haswell processors to reboot more often than normal and that Intel may need to issue updates to fix the buggy patches. In a statement on Intel’s website, Navin Shenoy, general manager of the company’s data […]

Facebook is making a major change to its product to make sure that people feel like their time on the social network is “well spent,” the company announced Thursday evening. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the platform’s News Feed will start prioritizing “meaningful social interactions” versus “relevant content,” and that he expects the time people […]

South Korea’s justice ministry appeared to have softened its stance after remarks from its chief on Thursday saw billions wiped off the global cryptocurrency market. News agency Yonhap reported the ministry explained that the ban was not a done deal in a text message to reporters on Thursday. “The ministry has been preparing a special […]

Vivo’s recently revealed smartphone hides the fingerprint scanner beneath the screen, re-imagining the handy feature that’s posed a challenge to competitors. The in-display scanner reads the user’s fingerprint to unlock the device, without taking up precious screen space. Apple‘s latest iPhone did away with the fingerprint scanner, replacing it with Face ID that unlocks a […]

Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz fully expects machine learning to take over many clinical functions. For doctors, that means emotional intelligence is going to become increasingly important. “Doctors in the future will come from the same pool as actors,” said Kharraz, in an interview on Thursday at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference in San Francisco. Zocdoc’s […]

The S&P 500 could hit 3,000 in the first half of the year, according to Mike Wilson, chief U.S. equity strategist at Morgan Stanley. But he anticipates lower quality performance in the second half of the year, in part from tax reform timing he described as “horrendous.” “The Senate originally discussed moving this, not doing […]