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In this article BTC.BS=-USS BTC.CB= BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Cryptocurrency industry insiders predict bitcoin could hit a new all-time high in 2023 and possibly reach $100,000. It comes after a noted investor bet that the digital currency could go to $1 million in 90 days. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Dave Limp, senior vice president of devices & services for Amazon.com Inc., speaks during an unveiling event at the company’s headquarters in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. Chloe Collyer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Since Amazon unveiled its Alexa voice assistant in 2014,

In 2022, the fintech world took a beating, with some of the world’s most richly valued companies seeing their valuations slashed. But innovation is still happening — with a vengeance. Oscar Wong | Moment | Getty Images CNBC and independent research firm Statista are working together to identify the world’s top fintech companies, to be

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. Fabrice COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told employees that the success of its newly launched Bard

Misalignment Museum curator Audrey Kim discusses a work at the exhibit titled “Spambots.” Kif Leswing/CNBC Audrey Kim is pretty sure a powerful robot isn’t going to harvest resources from her body to fulfill its goals. But she’s taking the possibility seriously. “On the record: I think it’s highly unlikely that AI will extract my atoms

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon will lay off 9,000 more employees in the coming weeks, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff on Monday. The cuts are on top of the previously announced layoffs that began in November and extended into January. That round totaled more than

ChartHop CEO Ian White ChartHop ChartHop CEO Ian White breathed a major sigh of relief in late January after his cloud software startup raised a $20 million funding round. He’d started the process six months earlier during a brutal period for tech stocks and a plunge in venture funding.  For ChartHop’s prior round in 2021,

The TikTok logo is displayed outside TikTok social media app company offices in Culver City, California, on March 16, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images TikTok is at risk of being banned in the U.S. if Chinese parent ByteDance won’t sell its stake. Millions of Americans who use the popular video app

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes (C) arrives at federal court with her mother Noel Holmes (L) and father Christian Holmes on September 01, 2022 in San Jose, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Elizabeth Holmes hasn’t paid back over $25 million to creditors of her former Theranos company as she tries to delay her 11-year

In this article GOOG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on education as he holds a campaign rally with supporters, in Davenport, Iowa, U.S. March 13, 2023.  Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Google-owned YouTube will allow former President Donald Trump’s account to post new videos as of Friday, lifting

In this photo illustration the social media application logo for TikTok is displayed on the screen of an iPhone in front of a US flag and Chinese flag background in Washington, DC, on March 16, 2023. Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images A star-studded array of Silicon Valley venture investors have joined forces with

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A man walks through Google offices on January 25, 2023 in New York City. Leonardo Munoz | Corbis News | Getty Images Google is indicating to ex-staffers, who got laid off while on maternity and medical leave, that they won’t get paid for all of

In this article GOOG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Silhouettes of laptop and mobile device users are seen next to a screen projection of the YouTube logo. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Google announced a price increase for its YouTube TV subscription on Thursday. It’s rising from $65 per month to $73 per month starting

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 Thanks to recent advances in artificial intelligence, new tools like ChatGPT are wowing consumers with their ability to create compelling writing

SINGAPORE — Compared to startups, Southeast Asia’s venture capital firms could see a bigger impact from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank because finding a replacement for the U.S.-based bank in the region will be challenging. “I think from a VC firm’s perspective, you will see a bigger impact here,” said David Gowdey, managing partner

In this article SIVB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A view of Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, CA, after the federal government intervened upon the bankâs collapse, on March 13, 2023. Nikolas Liepins | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Silicon Valley Bank was the go-to bank for startups seeking bankers who understood

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, walks from lunch during the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 6, 2022, in Sun Valley, Idaho. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images News | Getty Images OpenAI announced the latest version of its primary large language model, GPT-4,

In this article META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on “An Examination of Facebook and Its Impact on the Financial Services and Housing Sectors” in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC on October 23, 2019. MANDEL NGAN | AFP

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a keynote address announcing ChatGPT integration for Bing at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, on February 7, 2023. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Before OpenAI’s ChatGPT emerged and captured the world’s attention for its ability to create compelling sentences, a small startup called Latitude was wowing consumers with

As the fallout from Silicon Valley Bank‘s failure continues to unfold, the Federal Reserve needs to slow down before “a lot more stuff” breaks, Altimeter Capital’s Brad Gerstner told CNBC’s Halftime Report Monday. Gerstner said he wasn’t “pointing fingers” at Fed Chair Jerome Powell. But Gerstner said that there would be “plenty of questions” about

In this article SBNY SIVB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A man walks by the headquarters of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10, 2023 in Santa Clara, California. Liu Guanguan | Getty Images Banking regulators devised a plan Sunday to backstop depositors with money at Silicon Valley Bank, a critical step in stemming a

In this article SIVB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Employees stand outside of the shuttered Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) headquarters on March 10, 2023 in Santa Clara, California.  Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Big names in Silicon Valley and the finance sector are calling publicly for the federal government to push another bank to

A Brinks armored truck sits parked in front of the shuttered Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) headquarters on March 10, 2023 in Santa Clara, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Tech founders and execs were undeterred by the inclement weather on Friday, as they crowded the doors of Silicon Valley Bank locations across the Bay Area,

Logo of Silicon Valley Bank is at a location in San Francisco, California, U.S. March 10, 2023. Staff | Reuters The U.S. cryptocurrency firm Circle’s USD Coin lost its dollar peg and fell to a record low Saturday morning after the company revealed it has nearly 8% of its $40 billion in reserves tied up

In this article SIVB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has thousands of tech startups wondering what happens now to their millions of dollars in deposits, money market investments and outstanding loans. Most importantly, they’re trying to figure how to pay their employees. related investing news Our two

In this photo illustration of the TradingView stock market chart of SVB Financial Group seen displayed on a smartphone with the SVB Financial Group logo in the background.  Igor Golovniov | Lightrocket | Getty Images Venture capital firms on both sides of the Atlantic have been urging their portfolio companies to move money out of

In this article SIVB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Silicon Valley Bank has long been considered the lifeblood for tech startups, providing traditional banking services while funding projects and companies deemed too risky for traditional lenders. Billions of dollars in venture capital flow into and out of the bank’s coffers. But the 40-year-old firm’s

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Chesnot | Getty Images Apple announced Thursday that it will launch a standalone app called Apple Music Classical, which will be available at no added cost to existing Apple Music subscribers, on March 28. Apple said the catalog will include over five million unique tracks

In this article SI Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Silvergate Capital, a central lender to the crypto industry, said on Wednesday that it’s winding down operations and liquidating its bank. The stock plunged more than 36% in after-hours trading. Silvergate has served as one of the two

Elon Musk speaking at Tesla Investor Day.  Courtesy: Tesla Elon Musk on Tuesday backed down from his attacks on a disabled Twitter employee who was laid off by the company and apologized for what he called a “misunderstanding.” On Tuesday, the Twitter CEO questioned the work performance of Haraldur Thorleifsson — who goes by “Halli”

U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) and other U.S. senators unveil legislation that would allow the Biden administration to “ban or prohibit” foreign technology products such as the Chinese-owned video app TikTok during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 7, 2023. Bonnie Cash | Reuters The White House threw its support behind a

In this article NVDA MBG-DE TSLA MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT For about a quarter century, Nvidia has been leading the revolution in computer graphics, becoming a beloved brand by gamers along the way. Nvidia dominates the market for graphics processing units (GPUs), which it entered in 1999 with the GeForce 256. Gaming

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. FABRICE COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images Google CEO Sundar Pichai defended the cloud unit’s new desk-sharing policy for employees, describing some of