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Comeback candidates: These S&P 500 stocks are Wall Street’s favorite bets for the second half of 2022
The S & P 500 is wrapping up its worst first half in generations, but Wall Street believes some stocks could still post a comeback in the latter part of 2022. Stocks have had a volatile start to the year, as a combination of rising inflation and a hawkish Federal Reserve spurred investors to drop […]
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Sony looks beyond the PlayStation 5 with its own brand of PC gaming gear
Sony’s new PC gear will help it expand its reach in gaming beyond PlayStation. Sony Sony is launching its own range of gaming-focused computer monitors and headsets, hoping to tap into the lucrative high-end PC gaming market as it looks beyond its main PlayStation console brand. Called Inzone, Sony’s PC gaming lineup features two monitors. […]
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AWS CEO says the move to cloud computing is only just getting started
Cloud computing is in its beginning stages and will only continue to grow, Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday. “It’s possible that AWS could become the largest business at Amazon. Now, Amazon has other large and great businesses, and so it could take a while for us to get […]
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From milligrams to gigatons: Start-up that sucks carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is building a big new plant in Iceland
Christoph Gebald (left) and Jan Wurzbacher, co-founders of Climeworks. Photo courtesy Climeworks Carbon dioxide removal start-up Climeworks announced on Tuesday it is building a second commercial sized plant in Iceland. When fully operational in 18 to 24 months time, the plant will capture and store 36,000 metric tons per year of carbon dioxide. That’s a […]
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Snoop Dogg on the current crypto winter and future of NFTs: ‘Every great industry has a downfall’
Perhaps the most prominent celebrity figure in the Web3 zeitgeist is Snoop Dogg, but for Snoop being an early adopter is nothing new. In 2014, the rap icon was part of a $50 million investment into Reddit, which valued the company at around $500 million at the time. Today, the platform is worth $15 billion, […]
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Cathie Wood: NFTs, DeFi, digital wallets will become important, huge opportunities
Cathie Wood, chief executive officer and chief investment officer, Ark Invest, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference on May 2, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood said Tuesday that digital property rights related to non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized finance (DeFi) that […]
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Hackers can bring ships and planes to a grinding halt. And it could become much more common
Container cargo ships sit off shore from the Long Beach/Los Angeles port complex in Long Beach, CA, on Wednesday, October 6, 2021. Jeff Gritchen | MediaNews Group | Getty Images Armed with little more than a computer, hackers are increasingly setting their sights on some of the biggest things that humans can build. Vast container […]
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Recruiters say the tech job market is still red-hot, despite isolated layoffs and cautious words from execs
A ‘We’re Hiring!’ sign is displayed at a Starbucks Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty Images Last week, senior product manager for Coinbase David Hong wrote on LinkedIn that he was up at 4am to prepare for a meeting when his company MacBook abruptly shut down. He later found out he was part […]
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Tech leaders react to Roe v. Wade reversal
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and departing Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg were among noteworthy tech executives speaking out publicly on Friday’s Supreme Court ruling which overturned Roe v. Wade. The ruling ends constitutional right to abortion in the U.S., which has stood since 1973. Apple CEO Tim Cook, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon […]
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Roe v Wade’s demise forces companies to grapple with health care plans, employee privacy and more
Pro-choice activists are seen outside of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on June 15, 2022. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images The challenges posed by the end of Roe v. Wade are only just beginning for corporate America. By overturning the abortion precedent Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court set off a series […]
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