Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is escorted into court for his arraignment in New York Supreme Court, June 27, 2019. Lucas Jackson | Reuters A New York state court appeals division ruled Thursday that Paul Manafort, the disgraced former chief of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, cannot be prosecuted on state criminal charges related
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SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 03: Apple chief design officer Jony Ive (L) uses an iPad. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Former Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive will consult with Airbnb on hiring and future products, the company announced on Wednesday. Ive is best known for being Apple’s longtime head
Early Google executive Tim Armstrong told CNBC on Wednesday he believes the company did not do “evil things” to amass its dominance in online search. Rather, Armstrong said it was Google’s deftly executed strategy that has grown the business to a position where it faces antitrust scrutiny. On Tuesday, the Department of Justice sued Google
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 will allow employees who can work from home to
Ford Motor plans to launch its self-driving vehicle businesses in 2022 with vehicles based on its Escape Hybrid crossover. Ford Ford Motor plans to launch its self-driving commercial business in 2022 with vehicles based on the Ford Escape Hybrid crossover, the company said Tuesday. The vehicles are the automaker’s fourth-generation self-driving test vehicles in partnership
Source: Allbirds The start-up known around Silicon Valley for its comfy slip-on sneakers is hoping to take over another part of your closet. Allbirds is venturing further into the clothing category, debuting four new items Tuesday: A T-shirt made out of discarded crab shells; a wool cardigan; a wool jumper (a Briticism for a pullover
President Donald Trump on Monday said the government’s top pandemic fighter, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is a “disaster” — and possibly an “idiot” — as he claimed that Americans are “tired of” Covid-19, even as the number of coronavirus cases continued spiking in much of the United States. “People are tired of Covid,” Trump said in
U.S. government debt prices were lower Monday morning amid renewed optimism that a coronavirus aid package could be agreed in the coming weeks. At around 2 a.m. ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 0.7573% while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was up at 1.5435%. Yields move inversely to
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer stands on stage at an event where General Motors announced that GMs Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant will build the all-electric Cruise Origin self-driving shuttle on January 27, 2020 in Hamtramck, Michigan. Bill Pugliano | Getty Images Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said on Sunday that President Donald Trump was fueling domestic terrorism
The Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max is unveiled during a virtual product launch. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images The price Americans will pay for an iPhone 12 depends on what cell service they plan to use it with. The three U.S. carriers are actively competing for subscribers by discounting the new iPhone, which
Melissa Leaston Director of nursing at Whittier Street Health Center swabs Steve Rose of Boston at a COVID testing site in Nubian Square on October 15, 2020 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Matt Stone | MediaNews Group | Boston Herald via Getty Images The United States reported more than 69,000 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the highest
Amazon employees are told they can get health care on call Amazon Care, the company’s online medical clinic for its own employees, is trying to hire half a dozen people in business development roles to “build and grow relationships with commercial and public sector enterprises.” Most of the roles were posted in the past month.
Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, pictured on September 13, 2018. Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon‘s pandemic-delayed Prime Day appears to have been more disappointing than previous years, according to a note from Citi analysts published on Friday. Citi looked at web traffic information collected by market research firm SimilarWeb and found that Prime
President Donald Trump fielded an intense line of questioning at a town hall on Thursday night that touched on the coronavirus, conspiracy theories and his reelection campaign. “Oh, you always do this. You always do this,” Trump said at one point when the moderator, NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, asked him to clearly denounce White supremacy, a
Cruise Automation COO Dan Kan (l to r), Cruise Automation CEO Kyle Vogt and General Motors President Dan Ammann Tuesday, November, 20, 2018 at Cruise Automation offices in San Francisco, California. Source: Noah Berger | General Motors Cruise, a majority-owned subsidiary of General Motors, plans to begin testing unmanned autonomous vehicles by the end of
Tesla CEO Elon Musk cut the price of the company’s flagship sedan, the Model S, for the second time within one week on Wednesday. He disclosed the price reduction in a tweet, which said: “The gauntlet has been thrown down! The prophecy will be fulfilled. Model S price changes to $69,420 tonight!” Musk frequently demonstrates
Virgin Orbit Sir Richard Branson’s small satellite launch specialist Virgin Orbit is looking to bounce back from the failure of its first demonstration launch in May, aiming to fly its next demo mission in December. Virgin Orbit, which uses a modified Boeing 747 aircraft to launch its rockets, diagnosed the failure to a high-pressure fuel
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies during the second day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., October 13, 2020. Bonnie Cash | Pool | Reuters Judge Amy Coney Barrett will face a second day of grilling from lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee