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Microsoft says it “really tried” to take the concerns of U.K. regulators to heart, before launching its fresh bid to take over Activision Blizzard — and it’s now up to the regulators to decide whether that path is clear. “I think we need to let the regulators speak for themselves,” Microsoft’s vice-chairman and president Brad

European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters, in Brussels, Belgium, February 1, 2023 Yves Herman | Reuters When Gerard de Graaf moved from Europe to San Francisco almost a year ago, his job had a very different feel to it. De Graaf, a 30-year veteran of the European Commission, was tasked with resurrecting

Fidji Simo, chief executive officer of Instacart Inc., speaks during an interview in San Francisco, California, on Thursday, March 3, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Instacart, the grocery delivery company that slashed its valuation during last year’s market slide, filed its paperwork to go public on Friday in what’s poised to

Andrew Bialecki, CEO and co-founder of Klaviyo, poses for a portrait in Boston on Sep. 5, 2019. Barry Chin | Boston Globe | Getty Images Data and marketing automation company Klaviyo on Friday became the latest tech company to try to join the public markets. Klaviyo said that it plans to list on the New

In this article AFRM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Affirm Holdings Inc. website home screen on a laptop computer in an arranged photograph taken in Little Falls, New Jersey. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Affirm shares popped as much as 26% in early trading on Friday, a day after the buy now,

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A multi-year investigation into the safety of Tesla’s driver assistance systems by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, is drawing near a close. Reuters’ David Shepardson first reported on the latest developments Thursday, citing NHTSA acting administrator Ann Carlson. CNBC confirmed the report

In this article AMD INTC NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Developers in the world of artificial intelligence can’t get enough of Nvidia’s processors. Demand is so strong that the company said late Wednesday that revenue in the current quarter will jump 170% to roughly $16 billion. Nvidia shares

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Tesla Cybertruck during a tour of the Elkhorn Battery energy storage system in Moss Landing, California, June 6, 2022. Nik Coury | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promoting the company’s long-delayed, sci-fi inspired Cybertruck on social media this week.

South Korean internet giant Naver released its own generative artificial intelligence tool on Thursday, joining other companies in launching large language models to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Naver is dubbed the Google of South Korea, as the operator of the country’s top search engine. The company said its large language model HyperClova X can improve

In this article NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang,speaks at the Supermicro keynote presentation during the Computex conference in Taipei on June 1, 2023. Walid Berrazeg | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Nvidia is set to report fiscal second-quarter earnings on after market close Wednesday. The chipmaker’s stock

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon workers hold signs during a walkout event at the company’s headquarters on May 31, 2023 in Seattle, Washington. David Ryder | Getty Images News | Getty Images As part of Amazon’s aggressive effort to get employees back to the office, the company is going

In this article WMT AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Lake Como in northern Italy’s Lombardy region. Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images John and Roman Cresto made millions of dollars selling themselves as e-commerce “experts” who could teach regular consumers and investors the secret to selling success on Amazon and Walmart, for a

SoftBank plans to list Arm in the U.S. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Arm, the chip designer owned by Japan’s SoftBank, filed for a Nasdaq listing on Monday, positioning itself to go public during a historically slow period for tech IPOs. The company wants to trade under the ticker symbol “ARM.” Arm reported

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ruth Porat, chief financial officer of Alphabet Inc., speaks during a news conference at Michigan Central Station in Detroit, Michigan, on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. Jeff Kowalsky | Bloomberg | Getty Images A string of Google executives have changed their roles in the span of

In this article 9868-HK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A XPeng Inc. G6 electric sport utility vehicle (SUV). Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Xpeng expects cost cuts and its Volkswagen partnership to narrow the firm’s losses, the Chinese EV maker told CNBC in an exclusive interview on Monday. On Friday, the firm

In this article RKLB MRK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In-space manufacturing may sound like science fiction but it’s happening already, albeit on a very small scale. It’s a fledgling market that analysts and several startups are projecting will take off.  “If you look at pharma, semiconductors, beauty and health products and potentially food

In an aerial view, Chevrolet Cruise autonomous vehicles sit parked in a staging area on June 08, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Autonomous vehicle companies Cruise and Waymo have been testing their vehicles throughout San Francisco and residents are not happy with the problems that the cars are bringing to the city.  Justin Sullivan |

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ruth Porat, Alphabet’s chief financial officer, appears on a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022. Hollie Adams | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google said in May that, starting in December, it would begin purging inactive accounts, a

Harun Ozalp | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Users of X, formerly known as Twitter, will no longer be able to block comments from unwanted followers, according to a post by X owner Elon Musk on Friday, eliminating what’s long been viewed as a key safety feature. Blocking will only be available for direct messages,

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple will “comply” with European Union regulation that requires electronic devices to be equipped with USB-C charging, said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing. That will mean Apple’s iPhones, which currently use its proprietary Lightning charging standard, will need to change to