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Huawei's fate in the US will be decided in the coming weeks
A March 6 hearing is set in Vancouver for Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of China tech giant Huawei, who was arrested there in December on fraud charges. The U.S. is seeking Meng's extradition, and Canada will weigh whether the charges against her merit fulfilling the request. ...
Apple's deal with the VA is a big step toward giving patients control over their own health info
Apple's work with the VA is a big deal, and not just for veterans. Health industry experts say that the barriers are now coming down, which have prevented patients, doctors and start-up app developers from accessing health information. ...
Plunge in crypto sets stage for Facebook and other tech giants to hire blockchain experts
Cryptocurrency and blockchain start-ups are winding down as the market mania fades, making their highly skilled engineers free agents.Facebook recently hired a group from the blockchain start-up Chainspace, ...
Is Facebook really that bad? A conversation with Roger McNamee and Antonio Garcia Martinez
Facebook is worth almost a half trillion dollars. It has more than 2 billion users who log in at least once a month. It has a famous CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, ...
Markets shouldn't overreact if there's no US-China trade deal
The U.S. has needlessly wasted two years on totally unproductive trade negotiations with China.A good trade agreement with Europe, Mexico, Canada and Japan would be much more important, as those economies are America's key markets and they make up nearly two-thirds of U.S. exports. ...
Tesla's electric vehicle dominance is about to have 'serious competition,' Morgan Stanley says
Morgan Stanley expects Rivian will be 'the next serious competition from a 'clean sheet' start-up.' Analyst Adam Jonas estimates that currently Tesla makes about 80 percent of the electric vehicles in the U.S.Rivian, a Detroit-area start-up, ...
Tesla's largest institutional investor just cut its stake in half
T. Rowe Price owned 8.98 million Tesla shares by the end of last year, according to a filing at the Securities and Exchange Commission.The new, smaller stake represents 5.2 percent of the electric auto maker's common shares outstanding at the end of December.Previously, T. ...
Samsung teases the first foldable smartphone expected to go on sale this year
Samsung releases a video titled 'The Future Unfolds,' suggesting that it will finally make good on promises to sell a phone that can fold.Samsung will unveil its new phones on Feb. 20 in San Francisco.Other expected announcements include its new Galaxy S10 phones. Samsung is holding an event on Feb. ...
Google's top policy chief calls for 'common rules of the road' globally for tech regulation
Karan Bhatia, vice president of global public policy and government relations at Google, called for 'common rules of the road' when it comes to the regulation of technology.Different countries have taken different approaches to regulation such as GDPR in the European Union.Margaret Peterlin, ...
A major port operator is planning to launch its first hyperloop for cargo in India
Last year, DP World, UAE's state-owned port operator, signed a partnership with Virgin Hyperloop One to develop a cargo transporter. Now it's revealed its first project destination will be in the world's largest democracy.'The first project will be in India, ...
Here's why medical chatbots could help doctors but won't replace them
Sutter Health and Ada Health are teaming up for a new symptom-checking chatbot, which will roll out next week. I got an early look. Here's how it went. Chatbots that analyze users' symptoms and offer advice are all the rage in Silicon Valley. ...
A tech bear starts to 'creep out of the bunker' and says the Nasdaq could outperform the market
Technology investor Paul Meeks is no longer avoiding the group that made him famous on Wall Street. Meeks, who ran the world's biggest tech fund for Merrill Lynch in the late 1990s and early 2000s, expects the tech-heavy Nasdaq to end the year at least 10 percent higher. ...
Tesla's delivery team said to be gutted in recent job cuts
The cuts could fuel investor worries that demand for the Model 3 in the United States has tailed off after a large tax break for consumers expired last year and the car remains too expensive for most consumers.'There are not enough deliveries,' one of the former employees told Reuters. ...
Jeff Bezos 1999 interview on Amazon before the dotcom bubble burst
Jeff Bezos explained his ambitious vision for Amazon in a 1999 interview. He made clear the company's focus was on 'great customer service' and discussed his real estate strategy. Bezos said, 'There's no guarantee that Amazon.com can be a successful company. ...
Silicon Valley start-up investors haven't been this pessimistic since the financial crisis
Confidence among venture investors in the fourth quarter plunged to the lowest since 2009.VCs are concerned about political instability, macroeconomic threats and Bay Area prices. Silicon Valley investors may be excited about all the wacky innovation in their backyard, ...
One of Tesla's largest investors just increased its stake
Baillie Gifford is Tesla's second-largest institutional shareholder.The U.K-based firm slightly increased its stake to 7.71 percent from 7.64 percent on Friday. Tesla shareholder Baillie Gifford & Co. has just increased its stake in the electric car maker, according to a regulatory filing Friday. ...
Richard Branson talks small rockets with the Air Force, which has 'huge money to invest' in space
Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson met in January with top Air Force officials, including Secretary Heather Wilson, the Air Force told CNBC.They discussed the ways the Air Force can better partner with and invest in the private space industry.'If we can understand what a company needs ... ...
The rocket engine that Elon Musk wants to use to get to Mars just passed a key milestone
SpaceX's Raptor engine 'just achieved power level needed' to lift the company's Starship rocket, CEO Elon Musk says.Starship will have seven Raptor engines on board, and the 'Super Heavy' booster that launches it will have 31 Raptor engines. ...
There's one key driver behind the biggest bank merger in a decade: Technology
BB&T and SunTrust are combining to create the sixth-largest U.S. bank in $66 billion deal, the companies announced Thursday.The combined bank plans to focus on technology to compete with giants like J.P. Morgan and stay relevant among endless mobile and start-up banking options. ...
Amazon just invested in self-driving car company Aurora
Amazon invested in a self-driving car start-up named Aurora.Self-driving cars may help Amazon make deliveries. It's already hauling cargo with self-driving trucks.Aurora raised $530 million, some of which came from Sequoia. ...