An attendee wearing a Super Mario costume uses a Nintendo Switch 2 game console while playing a video game during the Nintendo Switch 2 Experience at the ExCeL London international exhibition and convention centre in London, Britain, April 11, 2025. Isabel Infantes | Reuters Nintendo on Friday announced that retail preorder for its Nintendo Switch […]
Discord sued by New Jersey over child safety features
Jason Citron, CEO of Discord in Washington, DC, on January 31, 2024. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images The New Jersey attorney general sued Discord on Thursday, alleging that the company misled consumers about child safety features on the gaming-centric social messaging app. The lawsuit, filed in the New Jersey Superior Court by Attorney […]
Chip stocks drop as Nvidia, AMD warn of China export control costs
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers the keynote for the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, on March 18, 2025. Brittany Hosea-small | Reuters Technology stocks dropped Wednesday, led by a 7% plunge in Nvidia, as the chipmaking sector signaled that President Donald Trump‘s sweeping tariff plans could hamper semiconductor […]
Meta CEO Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram 2018: FTC trial
Thilina Kaluthotage | Nurphoto | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning out Instagram in 2018 on concerns about the rising threat of antitrust litigation against Facebook, according to an email presented Tuesday in a Washington, D.C. courtroom. During Zuckerberg’s second day of testimony in Meta’s antitrust trial with the Federal Trade Commission, lawyers […]
Apple regains $3 trillion market cap after Trump exempts iPhone tariff
Apple CEO Tim Cook greets former President Barack Obama at the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. Julia Demaree Nikhinson | Getty Images Apple shares rose more than 2% on Monday, pushing the company’s market cap back above $3 trillion, as Wall Street […]
Tokenization of the market coming if we fix one problem: BlackRock CEO
Bitwise Spot Bitcoin ETF (BITB) signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, with trading commencing on the first US exchange-traded funds that invest directly in the biggest cryptocurrency. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images If the vision of Larry Fink — CEO […]
Apple, Google, Cash App alums ditch Big Tech to build on bitcoin
AUSTIN — On a Friday morning last spring, Mark Suman called out sick from his job as a senior engineering project manager at Apple and made his way downtown to a place called the Bitcoin Commons, a sort of clubhouse for enthusiasts of the world’s largest cryptocurrency, situated a few blocks south of the Texas […]
Tech roller-coaster pushes Nasdaq to best week in three years
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers the keynote for the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, on March 18, 2025. Brittany Hosea-Small | Reuters The wild week is finally over for technology and the broader market. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite jumped 7% this week for its best week since 2022 […]
Nasdaq suffers historic plunge, drops most in almost a week
Technology stocks plummeted Thursday and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 4% on the heels of its record-setting session. The index is headed for its best week since September. Markets reversed course, giving up some gains from a monster rally after President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on some tariffs and dropped the tariff on most […]
Nasdaq rallies most since 2001, notches second-best day ever
CEO of Apple Tim Cook speaks at an event in 2022. Jerod Harris | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images The Nasdaq Composite climbed more than 12% for its second best day ever as markets clawed back after a rocky few trading sessions spurred by President Donald Trump’s wide sweeping tariffs. The tech-heavy index posted […]