Economy

Trade fair visitors walk past a Google logo at the Google stand at Hannover Messe 2024. Julian Stratenschulte | Picture Alliance | Getty Images After years of delay, Google says it will no longer cancel and replace third-party cookies — a practice long used by advertisers — for its internet browser Chrome. Cookies are small […]

Elon Musk speaking during the Tesla Annual Shareholder’s meeting in Austin, Texas on June 13th, 2024. Source: Tesla Inc. Tesla will report second-quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday. The company’s vehicle deliveries report on July 2 was better than analysts feared but still represented a decline from the previous year. The earnings call on […]

Representation of Ethereum, with its native cryptocurrency ether. Dado Ruvic | Reuters The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission appears to have given the green light for exchange-traded funds that hold ether the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency. Trading is expected to begin as soon as Tuesday. Several fund issuers submitted additional registration statements Monday afternoon, and exchanges […]

Passengers seen waiting after a major disruption in Microsoft Corp.’s cloud services caused widespread flight cancellations and delays at T3 IGI Airport in New Delhi, India, on July 19, 2024. Vipin Kumar | Hindustan Times | Getty Images Republican representatives on Monday called on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify in front of the House Committee […]

George Kurtz, president CEO and Co-Founder at CrowdStrike speaks at the WSJTECH live conference in Laguna Beach, California, U.S. October 21, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters CrowdStrike shares slipped 13% during Monday’s trading session, as the cybersecurity software company continued to help clients across industries recover from an outage that took millions of Microsoft Windows […]

Starbucks has allowed customers to order with their own personal reusable cup at store counters since 1985, but the extension of this to drive-thru and mobile ordering is a much bigger deal.StarbucksSince 1985, Starbucks has allowed customers to order with their own personal reusable cups at a store counter, offering a 10-cent discount for customers… […]

Jade Weatherington, 36, had long been teaching English on various websites when she created two classes on Outschool, an online course platform for kids, in 2018. One was in arts and crafts and the other was about mastering the five paragraph essay.Business took a few months to pick up, but by early 2021, Weatherington had… […]

Tom Siebel has been riding the artificial intelligence wave.Three years after selling his prior software company, Siebel Systems, to Oracle for nearly $6 billion in 2006, he started C3.ai, a provider of AI solutions to businesses. That company, which went public in 2020, now sports a roughly $4 billion market cap and, in Siebel’s words,… […]

A view of a Canadian athletic apparel retailer Lululemon logo seen at one of their stores.Alex Tai | LightRocket | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines in early morning trading.MongoDB — The data developer platform stock surged 27% after the company issued a strong forecast for the second quarter, seeing between $388 million and $392… […]

The U.S. economy continued to crank out jobs in May, with nonfarm payrolls surging more than expected despite multiple headwinds, the Labor Department reported Friday.Payrolls in the public and private sector increased by 339,000 for the month, better than the 190,000 Dow Jones estimate and marking the 29th straight month of positive job growth.related investing… […]