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Google’s first week back in the office included marching bands, mayor visits and traffic jams
Employees are welcomed back to work with breakfast in the cafeteria at the Chicago Google offices on April 05, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Google brought employees back into the office after two years of remote work last week, and the occasion was met with everything from marching bands to visits […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: AT&T, Nvidia, Sailpoint Technologies and more
A pedestrian walks in front of an AT&T location in New York. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Monday: AT&T — Shares of AT&T jumped more than 7% after the telecom giant announced that it closed its transaction with Discovery to spin off its WarnerMedia business. The combined […]
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Shopify plans a 10-for-1 stock split, eyes ‘founder share’ to protect CEO’s voting power
The logo of Shopify is seen outside its headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, September 28, 2018. Chris Wattie | Reuters Ecommerce start-up Shopify said Monday it is planning a 10-for-1 stock split, while seeking shareholder approval for a “founder share” for its CEO Tobi Lutke to increase his voting power. Upon shareholders’ approval, Shopify will […]
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Video shows what happens when a driverless car gets pulled over
A recent video posted online shows a driverless Cruise car getting pulled over in San Francisco by police who found the autonomous vehicle didn’t have anyone behind the wheel. In the video posted on April 1, the Cruise car initially pulls over to the side of the road and stops as a cop approached the […]
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Be conservative with FAANG stocks as anticipated Fed rate hikes spurn a market pivot, Jim Cramer says
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday that he expects the market to pivot to a bull market for recession-proof stocks rather than expensive growth names. When the Federal Reserve decides to combat an “inflationary spiral with higher [interest] rates, you’re not supposed to buy expensive growth stocks. The hedge fund playbook says that you should sell […]
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Peter Thiel calls Warren Buffett a ‘sociopathic grandpa from Omaha’ and bitcoin ‘enemy number one’
Peter Thiel VCG/VCG | Getty Images At a bitcoin conference on Thursday, billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel said Warren Buffett tops an “enemies list” of people who are trying to stop the cryptocurrency. “Enemy number one,” Thiel said to a booing Miami crowd, is “the sociopathic grandpa from Omaha.” Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is based in […]
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Box’s buzz has long since passed but the stock is trading near a record while cloud peers suffer
Box CEO Aaron Levie speaking at BoxWorks in 2018 Box In this weekly series, CNBC takes a look at companies that made the inaugural Disruptor 50 list, 10 years later. At age 37, Aaron Levie has been at the same job for almost half his life. He’s the CEO of collaboration software vendor Box, a […]
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A VPN company just became Lithuania’s second tech unicorn
Network cables are plugged in a server room. Michael Bocchieri | Getty Images Cyber firm Nord Security announced Thursday that it has raised $100 million from investors at a $1.6 billion valuation, making it Lithuania’s second tech unicorn. The company is best known for its VPN product, NordVPN, which costs around $140 a year or […]
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Three former DeepMinders are developing A.I. to pick stocks and crypto
ArtBox Images | Getty Images Three former DeepMind employees are trying to train a machine to spot and invest in company stocks and cryptocurrencies before they rise. Martin Schmid, Rudolf Kadlec and Matej Moravcik left Alphabet-owned DeepMind in January to set up EquiLibre Technologies, relocating from Edmonton in Canada to Prague in the Czech Republic […]
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Cramer’s lightning round: I like Google over PubMatic
“Mad Money” host Jim Cramer rings the lightning round bell, which means he’s giving his answers to callers’ stock questions at rapid speed. Source
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