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Adobe Systems world headquarters in downtown San Jose, Calif. Lisa Werner | Moment Mobile | Getty Images Software company Adobe told U.S. employees Friday that they have to be vaccinated against Covid-19 by Dec. 8 or they will be placed on unpaid leave. In an email to employees viewed by CNBC, Adobe said the policy

In this article FB SNAP TWTR GOOGL Shares of Facebook and Twitter and other social media and digital advertising companies are sharply down in after-hours trading, after Snap reported it missed revenue expectations in the third quarter as Apple‘s iPhone privacy changes disrupted its advertising business. Snap also warned that supply chain disruptions were stifling

In this article SNAP In this screengrab, CEO of Snap Inc. Evan Spiegel takes the stage at the virtual Snap Partner Summit 2021 on May 20, 2021 in Los Angeles. Snap Partner Summit 2021 – Snap Inc | Getty Images Snap stock fell 25% after reporting its third-quarter earnings on Thursday. The company’s revenue missed

In this article .BBKA The logo of German software group SAP is pictured at its headquarters in Walldorf, Germany, May 12, 2016. Ralph Orlowski | Reuters German software giant SAP on Thursday posted a jump in revenue at its fast-growing cloud unit, which helped boost the company’s earnings performance in the third quarter. SAP’s third-quarter

In this article TSLA Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk unveils a new all-wheel-drive version of the Model S car in Hawthorne, California October 9, 2014. Lucy Nicholson | Reuters Tesla reported third-quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday, and it’s a beat on both the top and bottom lines. Here are the results. Earnings per share

In this article BABA Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group, attends opening ceremony of the 3rd All-China Young Entrepreneurs Summit on September 25, 2020 in Fuzhou, Fujian Province of China. Lyu Ming | China News Service via Getty Images GUANGZHOU, China — Alibaba’s Hong Kong shares rallied as much as 9% on Wednesday following reports

Scene from “Squid Game” by Netflix Source: Netflix It may seem like every American you know has watched “Squid Game,” but the show’s popularity has not yet created a surge of new Netflix subscribers in the U.S. 142 million Netflix subscribers have seen at least two minutes of the wildly popular South Korean drama, Netflix

In this article AAPL Apple MacBook Pro Source: Apple Before Monday, the last major redesign for Apple‘s larger MacBook Pros came in 2016, with several features that looked to the future. The 2016 MacBook Pros sported universal USB-C connectors that could power displays and peripherals, a “butterfly” keyboard that allowed the devices to become even

In this article GOOGL 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 employees are filing back into their offices across the country, according to CEO Sundar Pichai. Pichai, who spoke at the Wall

The Klarna logo displayed on a smartphone. Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images LONDON — Swedish fintech firm Klarna on Monday said it is introducing a number of changes to its product in the U.K., as regulators in the country prepare to tighten regulation on the fast-growing “buy now, pay later”

People celebrate the Gitlab IPO at the Nasdaq, October 14, 2021. Source: Nasdaq On Oct. 9, 2017, GitLab announced a $20 million funding round led by Alphabet’s GV, formerly known as Google Ventures. The news hit just as larger rival GitHub was about to start its annual developer conference. It was just one instance of

Sarah Ostrowski was convinced to finally get vaccinated after reading numerous stories on Reddit’s r/HermanCainAward of unvaccinated people dying from Covid-19. Courtesy of Sarah Ostrowski For most of the pandemic, Sarah Ostrowski went to her full-time gas station job in Indiana, accepting the risk of being unvaccinated. Many times a day she interacted with customers

2020 MacBook Air with M1 chip Todd Haselton | CNBC Apple is holding a launch event on Monday to announce new products, like a redesigned MacBook Pro. Apple has a chance to drive continued momentum to its Macs ahead of the holiday shopping season, especially since it’s expected to announce more computers that run on

In this article DIS NFLX Scene from “Squid Game” by Netflix Source: Netflix In the streaming wars, one company’s hit is another company’s failure. Netflix‘s “Squid Game” is an exception. Netflix has its biggest hit ever with “Squid Game,” the gory dystopian South Korean series that has taken the world by storm. More than 111

Recent data from LinkedIn shows the skills that are most in-demand as the labor market attempts to slowly regain its footing after the steep decline caused by Covid-19. Aytac Unal | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Microsoft announced Thursday it will shut down its local version of LinkedIn in China. LinkedIn was the last major

A customer uses a SumUp payment card reader in Lisbon, Portugal, on Sept. 13, 2019. Angel Garcia | Bloomberg via Getty Images LONDON — SumUp, a U.K.-based payment processor, has acquired marketing start-up Fivestars in a bid to expand its reach across the U.S. and take on giants like PayPal and Square. The company said

Joseph “Joe” Montana, co-founder of iMFL and retired National Football League (NFL) quarterback, speaks during an interview in San Francisco, California, U.S. on Tuesday, April 30, 2013. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Joe Montana won his first Super Bowl as an NFL quarterback in 1982. Almost four decades later, he’s about to

The U.S. is now the number one destination for bitcoin miners, eclipsing China for the first time ever. While it was already trending in that direction, new data from Cambridge University released early Wednesday makes it official. As of July, 35.4% of bitcoin’s hashrate – an industry term used to describe the collective computing power

In this article AAPL Tim Cook opens the Apple Event on Sept. 14th, 2021. Source: Apple Inc. Apple announced Tuesday it plans to hold a launch event on Oct. 18, where the company could announce new MacBook laptops and AirPods headphones. The event was revealed in invites to media and a tweet from Apple’s senior

In this article 708-HK People walk by an unopened shop for Evergrande’s electric cars during the last day of the National Day and Golden Week holidays on October 7, 2021 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. Evergrande, China’s largest property developer, is facing a liquidity crisis with total debts of around $300 billion. The problems faced

The Amazon headquarters sits virtually empty on March 10, 2020 in downtown Seattle, Washington. In response to the coronavirus outbreak, Amazon recommended all employees in its Seattle office to work from home, leaving much of downtown nearly void of people. John Moore | Getty Images Amazon is giving its employees more flexibility to work from

In this article BABA 700-HK 3690-HK GUANGZHOU, China — Meituan shares surged over 7% on Monday, leading China technology stocks higher, after the food delivery giant was slapped with a fine as a result of an antitrust probe. On Friday, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said Meituan abused its dominant position in the

Former Google, Facebook and Pinterest employee Ifeoma Ozoma launched a free resource guide and a new California law in the same week. Ifeoma Ozoma Whistleblowers are getting louder in Silicon Valley. Most notable is ex-Facebook employee Frances Haugen, who testified in front of Congress this week after revealing documents that showed the company is aware

In this article FB A person using Instagram. Lorenzo Di Cola | NurPhoto via Getty Images Lakinya Francis is building a LinkedIn account, Haley Sanchez is expanding her email list and Michael Elefante plans to build out his website. “We get so fixated on what’s working and that’s fine but we need to have a

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., center, arrives at U.S. district court in Oakland, California, on Friday, May 21, 2021. Nina Riggio | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple filed a notice of appeal in the Epic Games case and is asking for a stay on the injunction that lets developers add in-app links

Thrasio, an early leader in the big business of Amazon aggregators, had a booth at the popular Prosper Show for Amazon sellers in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 14, 2021. Katie Schoolov Thrasio, the top U.S. aggregator of Amazon third-party sellers, was racing to the public markets to fuel its rapid expansion. But the company

A South Korean flag, left, and Samsung Electronics flag fly outside the company’s headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, on July 5, 2019. Jean Chung | Bloomberg | Getty Images Samsung Electronics shares edged higher on Friday after the company said its operating profit for the quarter that ended in September was likely 28% higher than

Hungarian-born US investor and philanthropist George Soros delivers a speech on the sideline of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting, on January 24, 2019 in Davos, eastern Switzerland. Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty Images Soros Fund Management, the asset management company founded by billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros, has revealed that it

An attendee watches a live demonstration of Link Kit’s Snow World online game displayed in a Twitch Interactive’s streaming video service. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon‘s video streaming service Twitch was hacked Wednesday in a breach that included details on payments to content creators and an unreleased product from Amazon Game Studios.

In this article UBER A Uber driver in New York City. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Uber is trying to make it less of a hassle to get a ride home from the airport after your plane lands. The company announced Wednesday that customers can now book a ride up to 30 days in advance. Travelers

In this article FB Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram logos are displayed through broken glass in this illustration taken October 4, 2021. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Facebook has apologized for the mass outage that left billions of users unable to access Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger for several hours. “To all the people and businesses around

In this article FB Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, October 23, 2019. Erin Scott | Reuters Facebook employees and contractors complained on Monday that they were unable to log into their work accounts following the company’s worst service outage since 2008. The outage, which

In this article FB Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images A Facebook whistleblower who brought internal documents detailing the company’s research to The Wall Street Journal and the U.S. Congress unmasked herself ahead of an interview she gave to “60 Minutes,” which aired Sunday night. Frances Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook’s civic