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In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai meets Polish Prime Minister at the Chancellery in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022. Mateusz Wlodarczyk | Nurphoto | Getty Images The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday filed its second antitrust lawsuit against Google in just over two

In this article SPOT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Daniel Ek, CEO of Swedish music streaming service Spotify. Toru Yamanaka | AFP | Getty Images Spotify announced Monday it’s cutting 6% of its global workforce as the music streaming company contends with a gloomy economic environment that has seen consumers and advertisers alike limit

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the company’s Ignite Spotlight event in Seoul on Nov. 15, 2022. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft on Monday announced a new multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. Microsoft declined to provide a specific dollar amount, but

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Anindito Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google employees are scrambling for answers from leadership and from colleagues as the company undergoes a massive layoff. On Friday, Alphabet-owned Google announced it was cutting 12,000 employees, roughly 6% of the full-time workforce. While employees had been bracing for a potential layoff,

In this article TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pedestrians outside Twitter headquarters in San Francisco on Oct. 6, 2022. David Paul | Bloomberg | Getty Images Twitter’s full-time headcount has dwindled to approximately 1,300 active, working employees, including fewer than 550 full-time engineers by title, according to internal records viewed by CNBC. Around

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Alex Spiro, attorney to Elon Musk, center, departs court in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023. Benjamin Fanjoy | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared in a San Francisco federal court on Friday to defend tweets he posted to his

Former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried (C) arrives to enter a plea before US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in the Manhattan federal court, New York, January 3, 2023.  Ed Jones | AFP | Getty Images Federal prosecutors seized nearly $700 million in cash and assets connected to Sam Bankman-Fried, primarily in the form of Robinhood

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google said Friday it will lay off 12,000 people from its workforce, adding to the slew of major U.S. tech companies cutting jobs amid fears of an oncoming recession. Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, said in an email sent to

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon Prime Air drone Source: Amazon In 2013, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos appeared on CBS’ “60 Minutes” to reveal a futuristic plan his company had been secretly pursuing to deliver packages by drone in 30 minutes.  A pre-recorded demo showed an Amazon-branded “octocopter” carrying a

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a panel at the CEO Summit of the Americas hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on June 09, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Google executives are deferring a portion of employees’ year-end bonus

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon Fulfillment center on Cyber Monday in Robbinsville, New Jersey, on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon said Wednesday it plans to shut down its charity donation program, in the latest

In this article MSFT CRM NFLX AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An employee cleans a window at Apple Inc.’s new Canton Road store in the Tsim Sha Tsui district of Hong Kong, China. Xaume Olleros | Bloomberg | Getty Images Many of the biggest technology companies are laying off staff as fears of

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the company’s Ignite Spotlight event in Seoul on Nov. 15, 2022. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft said Wednesday that it’s letting go of 10,000 employees through March 31 as the software maker braces for slower revenue

In this article TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk Twitter page seen on mobile with his poll to step down as head of Twitter Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Twitter is auctioning off espresso machines, kegerators, computers, and even oversized neon displays with the company’s logo as the social messaging

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple’s 2023 MacBook Pro Apple Apple on Tuesday announced new Macs that can be purchased with either M2 Pro or M2 Max chips, the most powerful Apple processors for MacBooks and the Mac mini to date. The company unveiled refreshes to its 14-inch and 16-inch

In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A number of factors are behind bitcoin’s New Year rise, according to analysts, including an increased probability of interest rates being lowered and purchases by large buyers known as “whales.” Filip Radwanski | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Bitcoin has begun 2023 on

After a tumultuous 2022, crypto investors are trying to figure out when the next bitcoin bull run could be. Last week, at a crypto conference in St. Moritz, Switzerland, CNBC spoke to industry insiders who painted a picture of 2023 as year of caution. Bitcoin is expected to trade within a range, be sensitive to

In this article AMZN RIVN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT For the 275,000 Amazon drivers dropping off 10 million packages a day around the world, the job can be a grind. But a lot has changed since drivers in 2021 told CNBC about unrealistic workloads, peeing in bottles, dog bites and error-prone routing software.

In this article FTT.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Representative French Hill, a Republican from Arkansas, left, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 24, 2018. Zach Gibson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Republican lawmakers announced late Thursday the launch of a new subcommittee that will oversee the crypto

The exterior of Crypto.com Arena on January 26, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Rich Fury | Getty Images Crypto.com announced Friday that it’s laying off 20% of its workforce. CEO Kris Marszalek said in a blog post that the crypto exchange grew “ambitiously” but was unable to weather the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire