A close up image of a CPU socket and motherboard laying on the table. Narumon Bowonkitwanchai | Moment | Getty Images GUANGZHOU, China — If you talk about chipmaking, two companies usually spring to mind — Taiwan’s TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics. The two Asian firms combined control more […]
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Microsoft in advanced talks to buy speech-recognition company Nuance
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the Future Decoded Tech Summit in Bengaluru, India, on Feb. 25, 2020. Samyukta Lakshmi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft is in advanced talks to acquire speech-recognition company Nuance Communications, a person familiar with the discussions told CNBC on Sunday. A transaction could be […]
Tech comedians poke fun at employers
Alexis Gay quit her job in tech to pursue comedy full-time amid the Covid-10 pandemic. Images courtesy of Alexis Gay When Alexis Gay had to present second quarter results to her team on a Zoom video call, she sat down and wondered how she could do it. She wanted be […]
How baseball cards’ collision with NFTs, SPACs changes the game
Topps baseball cards Ari Levy | CNBC On a recent family ski trip in California, my kids and I popped into an old baseball card shop in the city of Sonora, a former gold mining town in the Sierra Nevada foothills. As a former rabid card collector, I lit up […]
Ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials tackles battery recycling
Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere — in phones, laptops, tablets, cameras and increasingly cars. Demand for lithium-ion batteries has risen sharply in the past five years and is expected to grow from a $44.2 billion market in 2020 to a $94.4 billion market by 2025, mostly due to the boom in […]
China fines Alibaba $2.8 billion in anti-monopoly probe
Exterior of Alibaba Group Beijing Headquarters on November 10, 2019 in Beijing, China. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images Chinese regulators hit Alibaba with a 18.23 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) fine in its anti-monopoly investigation of the tech giant. In a Saturday statement, China’s State Administration for Market […]
Chris Cox paid $69 million after rejoining Facebook
Chris Cox Asa Mathat | Re/code Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox got paid approximately $69 million to rejoin the social media company in 2020. Cox rejoined Facebook in June 2020 after a more than one year hiatus away from the company. Cox is a key moral leader at Facebook […]
Venture funding soars to record $64 billion in Q1, Ernst & Young says
Coming off a boom year for the tech industry, investors spent the early part of 2021 pouring money into food delivery companies, online brokerages and Elon Musk’s SpaceX, leading to a record quarter for U.S. venture funding. Venture-backed companies raised $64 billion in the first three months of the year, […]
Google Pixel 5a not canceled, Google says
Google Pixel 4a Todd Haselton | CNBC Google on Friday denied reports that said its next phone, the Pixel 5a, is canceled and said it will launch later this year in the U.S. and Japan. The phone has not yet been officially announced and this is the first time Google […]
White House to host Google, Intel CEOs to discuss chip supply chain
President Joe Biden holds a chip as he speaks prior to signing an executive order aimed at addressing a global semiconductor shortage, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 24, 2021. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Chief executives from companies including Google parent Alphabet, AT&T, […]