Lawmakers have urged Alphabet’s Google to reconsider its ties with Chinese technology giant Huawei because it “could pose a serious risk to U.S. national security” and American consumers. In a letter to the search giant’s CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday, both Republican and Democrat lawmakers said they were concerned about Google’s “strategic partnership” with Huawei. […]

Health-tech start-up GoodRx is in talks to be acquired for at least $1.5 billion, but could fetch as high as $3 billion, according several people familiar. Health distribution giant McKesson was among the companies taking a look, one person said, but will probably not be the buyer. The identity of the other potential buyers could […]

As technology changes, so too do the skills necessary to break into the workforce. “It’s an ever-changing landscape,” said LinkedIn‘s senior vice president of product, Ryan Rolansky, at the CNBC Talent@Work conference on Wednesday. “What we saw as the four fastest-growing skills this year are probably not the same as what we saw last year,” […]

Dr. Atul Gawande writes and speaks about health care — a lot. But he hasn’t actually spent nearly as much time changing it. Despite that, the surgeon and Harvard professor soon will lead the most anticipated health-care company, a joint venture between three corporate titans: J.P. Morgan, Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway. Those firms tapped Gawande […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Shower caddy? Check. Twin sheets? Check. Echo Dot … check? Starting this fall, some students at Northeastern University in Boston will be given the option of getting an Echo Dot smart speaker linked to their university accounts. They’ll be able to ask Amazon‘s Alexa what time their classes are, how much money’s […]

The Disney–Comcast bidding war for Twenty-First Century Fox’s movie and television assets will continue until the bid is around $40 to $45 a share, media expert Porter Bibb told CNBC. And Disney will end up the winner, said Bibb, managing partner at Mediatech Capital Partners. “Disney is the future,” Bibb said on “Power Lunch” Wednesday. […]

Tesla’s lawsuit against former employee Martin Tripp alleges that he hacked computer systems to steal intellectual property, not to harm drivers of the company’s cars. But the idea that a malicious insider could successfully tamper with software used in the vehicles’ battery testing process is more fodder for worst-case scenarios raised by lawmakers over self-driving […]

Former Citrix CEO Mark Templeton has a new job. He’s taking over as chief of DigitalOcean, a trendy start-up that prioritizes developers and teams as it offers cloud infrastructure for hosting applications. DigitalOcean offers low-cost competition to big cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft and Google for the basic tasks that were the original appeal of […]

Apple will partner with Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit media organization behind “Sesame Street,” to create children’s programming for the tech giant’s new streaming service. “Sesame Street” is not part of the agreement, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. The new content will include live-action, animated and puppet series. This is Apple’s […]

In June 2017 Uber’s board of directors unanimously approved a set of recommendations presented by former U.S. Attorney Eric Holder to dramatically revamp the ridesharing giant’s troubled management and culture. Last February the company was hit with widespread allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination; a lawsuit by Google’s Waymo self-driving car program accusing Uber of […]