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Fintech Ramp lands Eagles’ Saquon Barkley as investor and Super Bowl commercial star
Philadelphia Eagles’ star running back Saquon Barkley has not only become an investor in fintech startup Ramp, he is also the star of the company’s first Super Bowl commercial.
Interestingly, it was Barkley who reached out to Ramp…
Google scraps diversity ‘aspirations,’ as a federal contractor
Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks with Emily Chang during the APEC CEO Summit at Moscone Center West in San Francisco on Nov. 16, 2023.Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesGoogle is scrapping its diversity goals, becoming the…
Boston Dynamics joins forces with its former CEO to speed the learning of its Atlas humanoid robot
Boston Dynamics Wednesday announced a partnership designed to bring improved reinforcement learning to its electric Atlas humanoid robot. The tie-up is with the Robotics & AI Institute (RAI Institute), earlier known as The Boston…
Temu steers users to ‘local’ products after Trump ends de minimis
A package from Temu is seen in front of a screen with the Temu logo. (Photo by Nikos Pekiaridis/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesChinese online retailer Temu has been surfacing more products on its app that can…
AMD shares drop 7% on disappointing data center revenue
Lisa Su, chair and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., during the AMD Advancing AI event in San Jose, California, on Dec. 6, 2023.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAdvanced Micro Devices shares fell 7% on Wednesday after the…
Google launches new AI models and brings ‘thinking’ to Gemini
Google launched its much-anticipated new flagship AI model, Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental, on Wednesday. The announcement was part of a series of other AI model releases. The company is also making its “reasoning’ model, Gemini 2.0 Flash…
Toyota Motor posts nearly 28% drop in third-quarter operating profit, missing estimates
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Toyota is pictured in Cuautitlan Izcalli, Mexico, January 30, 2025 Raquel Cunha | ReutersJapan's Toyota Motor on Wednesday reported a second consecutive fall in quarterly profit, while announcing that it will set…
Google wants Search to be more like an AI assistant in 2025
Google Search is in the midst of a “journey” around AI, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during the company’s earnings call on Tuesday. The start of that journey was AI overviews, a controversial and monumental shift in how Google delivers…
Alphabet Q4 earnings report 2024
Alphabet shares fell more than 9% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company reported fourth-quarter results that missed on revenue expectations and announced more AI investments.Earnings per share for the Google parent company…
PayPal (PYPL) Q4 earnings
Alex Chriss, CEO of PayPal Inc.Courtesy: PayPalPayPal reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter results on Tuesday and issued guidance that also topped analysts' expectations. The shares slid more than 8% in premarket trading.Here's…
Team behind Twitterrific launches a multi-feed app called Tapestry
After Elon Musk took over Twitter, the company blocked third-party clients in 2023, including ones like Twitterrific, Tweetbot, and Fenix. Iconfactory, the company behind Twitterrifc, finally launched its multi-feed app called Tapestry…
Asia tech stocks rise after Trump pauses tariffs on China and Mexico
Meituan Dianping application icons are displayed on an Apple Inc. iPhone in Hong Kong, China, on Friday, March 23, 2018.Justin Chin | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAsian tech stocks rose Tuesday, following news that U.S. president Donald Trump…
Ontario cancels, then restores, $68 million Starlink contract after protesting US tariffs
On Monday, Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, one of Canada’s most populous provinces, announced on X that the province’s government would be “ripping up” its $68 million ($100 million CAD) contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite…
Tesla shares fall 5% on tariffs, drop in Europe vehicle registrations
Oslo Taxi's Tesla model Y (L) and the NIO ET5 electric vehicle from Nio Inc, a Chinese multinational electric car manufacturer, drive through the Norwegian capital Oslo, on September 27, 2024.Jonathan Nackstrand | Afp | Getty ImagesTesla…
Tana snaps up $25M as its AI-powered knowledge graph for work racks up a 160k+ waitlist
An app that helps people and teams in the working world simplify their to-do lists — ideally by organising and doing some of the work for them — has remained one of the unsolved goals in business technology. Leaning into AI, on top of…
Fintech GoCardless halves loss, targets full-year profit by 2026
Hiroki Takeuchi, co-founder and CEO of GoCardless.Zed Jameson | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFinancial technology unicorn GoCardless more than halved losses in 2024 and said it's aiming to reach full-year profitability by 2026.The…
Bitcoin slides toward $90,000 after Trump orders tariffs
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Bitcoin.Cheney Orr | Dado Ruvic | ReutersCryptocurrencies tumbled on Sunday in a risk-off move after President Donald Trump hit Canada, Mexico and China with long-threatened import tariffs.The price…
Dub: the copy trading app that has teens talking
Social media changed everything from news consumption to shopping. Now, Dub thinks it can do the same for investing through an influencer-driven marketplace where users can follow the trades of top investors with a few taps. Think of it…