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In this article ASML-NL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte speaks with U.S. President Joe Biden, on June 29, 2022. The U.S. has been putting pressure on the Netherlands to block exports to China of high-tech semiconductor equipment. Susan Walsh | AFP | Getty Images The Netherlands on Friday announced

In this article .FKRX300 Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT SK Telecom’s “A.” (pronounced “A dot”) artificial intelligence chatbot has a character that speaks to people. The company has integrated its various service from music streaming to e-commerce into A. and is planning to launch it fully in 2023. SK Telecom, one of South Korea’s

In this article BABA BABA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Alibaba’s Freshippo or Hema supermarkets are known for its fresh produce like seafood. Alibaba wants to take Freshippo public. Costfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Alibaba’s grocery unit Freshippo expanded its number of physical stores in China, the company said on Friday, as

Oil rigs on platforms in Gaoyu Lake in east China’s Jiangsu province Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. Barcroft Media | Getty Images Oil and gas will continue to be leading sources of energy for decades to come on the back of a lagging energy transition, major industry players said at the Energy Asia conference held in

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google tried to distance itself from a pre-planned drag show featuring longtime performer “Peaches Christ” in San Francisco but employees still attended. Some of them booed their employer for what they viewed as a caving to pressure of an internal religion-led protest. Jennifer Elias A

Pokemon Go players are seen in search of Pokemon and other in-game items in the Pasadena Playhouse District. PG/Bauer-Griffin | GC Images | Getty Images Niantic, a mobile games developer based in San Francisco, announced Thursday that it would lay off 230 employees as part of a reorganization. The privately held company will also cancel

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration a Minecraft logo is seen on a smartphone screen. Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images In the latest blow to Reddit after its controversial billing changes, the makers of Minecraft – one of the best-selling video games

Karl-Josef Hildenbrand | AFP | Getty Images Car-sharing service Turo filed its IPO prospectus in January 2022. A month earlier, Reddit said it submitted a draft registration for a public offering. Instacart’s confidential paperwork was filed in May of last year. None of them have hit the market yet. Despite a bloated pipeline of companies

In this article ATVI MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella arrives to court in San Francisco on June 28, 2023. Microsoft and Activision Blizzard CEOs are expected to testify to persuade a federal judge in California to reject the Federal Trade Commission’s effort to block their $69 billion deal. Shelby

Samsung is the world’s biggest maker of memory chips. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Samsung Electronics on Wednesday laid out its roadmap to expand its chip manufacturing business, including leading-edge semiconductors, as it looks to catch up with leader TSMC. Perhaps best known for its smartphones, the South Korean technology firm has a

A Nvidia Corp. HGX H100 artificial intelligence supercomputing graphics processing unit (GPU) at the showroom of the company’s offices in Taipei, Taiwan, on Friday, June 2, 2023. I-Hwa Cheng | Bloomberg | Getty Images China’s artificial intelligence stocks fell Wednesday after the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. is planning to impose new curbs

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at a cloud computing conference held by the company in 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Google is having productive early conversations with regulators in the European Union about the bloc’s groundbreaking artificial intelligence

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google Maps’ Go tab. Todd Haselton | CNBC Google is cutting jobs at its Waze mapping service as it merges the unit with its own map products. In an email to employees on Tuesday, Chris Phillips, who oversees Google’s maps division called Geo, said the

The Google logo is seen with the rainbow flag as a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and queer pride and LGBT social movements in New York City on June 7, 2022. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images Google is distancing itself from a drag performance that it planned as the closing event

In this article BIDU Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Chinese technology giant Baidu has launched its own ChatGPT rival, Ernie bot. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Baidu said Tuesday the artificial intelligence model underpinning its chatbot outperformed OpenAI’s ChatGPT in several key areas. The Chinese search engine has been publicly testing the

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the Google I/O developers conference at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, May 10, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Google users have long been able to append their search queries with

Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., during an event with senior officials and chief executive officers in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, June 22, 2023. Chris Kleponis | CNP | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told fellow executives and board members last

In this article IBM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT IBM CEO Arvind Krishna speaks at a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 17, 2023. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images IBM on Monday announced it will acquire the software company Apptio from Vista Equity Partners for $4.6

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple Watch Ultra underwater Apple Even as developers, financial analysts, and select members of the media get hands-on with Apple’s new Vision Pro headset, the company is slated to release refreshed versions of existing offerings, according to a report from Bloomberg. Apple is expected to

In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Andriy Onufriyenko | Moment | Getty Images Bitcoin has rallied sharply this month — but not for reasons you might think. The world’s largest digital currency has risen more than 12% since the beginning of June. On Wednesday, its price topped $30,000 to hit its