Founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg leaves after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France on May 10, 2019. Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Facebook is preparing for the United States to rely on mail-in voting for the 2020 presidential election and will educate users on the
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The U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Futures contracts tied to the major U.S. stock indexes held steady Sunday evening as investors turned their attention back to Washington and the economy after a busy week of corporate earnings. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures slipped 4 points, implying an opening trade slightly under
SwipeSense uses sensors in badges to track the coronavirus SwipeSense Around 50 hospitals today use a technology from a company called SwipeSense to monitor whether medical staff are washing their hands when they enter and exit patient rooms. Others use it to track expensive assets, like wheelchairs or IV pumps, which have a tendency to
A Starlink user terminal, which would connect consumers to the company’s satellite internet service. SpaceX SpaceX said Starlink, its nascent satellite internet service, has already seen “extraordinary demand” from potential customers, with “nearly 700,000 individuals” across the United States indicating they are interested in the company’s coming service. Due to the greater-than-expected interest, SpaceX filed
EDMONTON, ALBERTA – JULY 29: Bo Horvat #53 of the Vancouver Canucks and Mark Scheifele #55 of the Winnipeg Jets compete for a faceoff during the second period in an exhibition game prior to the 2020 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Rogers Place on July 29, 2020 in Edmonton, Alberta. (Photo by Jeff Vinnick/Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the BOK Center on June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images The Trump campaign is shifting its strategy to put more focus on early voting states, according to campaign officials — one of the most noticeable changes so far under new campaign
Pedestrians pass in front of Pinterest signage displayed outside of the New York Stock Exchange. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Pinterest shares rocketed more than 38% in pre-market trading Friday morning after the company reported second-quarter earnings which reflected how people turned to the service for at-home cooking, remote work and activities during
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the BOK Center, June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Win McNamee | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s campaign has virtually disappeared from the airwaves as it undertakes “a review and fine-tuning of the campaign’s strategy” as an official put it after the replacement of campaign
Sen. Mark Warner isn’t taking a break-up of U.S. tech giants off the table, but said Thursday he’s wary of having their Chinese equivalents take their place. “I’m not in the break-’em-up category – yet,” said Warner, D-Va., when asked on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” about how companies like Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon could be
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., speaks during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California, U.S., on Monday, June 5, 2017. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images In the summer of 2017, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that Amazon’s Prime Video service would be launching on the Apple
Gorodenkoff | iStock | Getty Images Data breaches are always costly but have become even more of an issue in recent months as cybercriminals ramped up to take advantage of coronavirus confusion. According to a new study from cloud computing company Iomart, large-scale breaches are growing in intensity and frequency in 2020, with the number
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, speaks in Brussels, on October 24, 2018. ARis Oikonomou | AFP | Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to tell the House Antitrust Subcommittee on Wednesday that the company is in fierce competition with rivals for the smartphone market. “The smartphone market is fiercely competitive, and companies like Samsung, LG,
The Federal Reserve said Tuesday it is extending its menu of lending programs to businesses, governments and individuals to the end of 2020. Originally set to expire Sept. 30, the myriad facilities, stretching from credit to small businesses up to the purchase of junk bonds now will stretch to Dec. 31. The Fed began rolling
A pedestrian walks past Intel Corp. signage at the entrance to the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Intel said Monday that Venkata “Murthy” Renduchintala, the chipmaker’s chief engineering officer and group president of its technology, systems architecture and client group, will resign on August 3. The announcement
A “Now Hiring” sign is displayed outside a Papa John’s International Inc. pizza restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Papa John’s on Monday announced it would hire 10,000 more workers as it tries to meet surging demand for its pizzas. Consumers who are sheltering in place are ordering more Papa
Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith SAP said Sunday that it would sell some shares of its Qualtrics survey-software unit on a U.S. public market. The announcement comes less than two years after SAP announced a plan to buy Qualtrics for $8 billion, days before Qualtrics was set to go public as an independent company. The move
States are taking differing approaches to reopening and closing during the pandemic, and the economy has been feeling the impact. More than half of states have instituted statewide mask mandates to slow the spread of the coronavirus, and some have imposed curfews and group size limits for bars and restaurants. These five charts illustrate trends in
A health-care worker collects samples using a nasal swab at a mobile Covid-19 testing facility, in Miami Beach, Florida, United States on July 24, 2020. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Florida has reported more confirmed coronavirus cases than New York state, as the epicenter of the pandemic has shifted from the Northeast