Whinstone CEO Chad Harris takes CNBC on a tour of the largest bitcoin mine in North America. Bitcoin mining has totally recovered from the Chinese crypto crackdown that took more than half the world’s miners offline virtually overnight earlier this year. The recovery is measured by looking at hashrate, a term used to describe the
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In this article ORCL A sign is posted in front of Oracle headquarters on December 09, 2021 in Redwood Shores, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Shares of Oracle were up more than 13% during premarket trading on Friday after the company reported earnings and revenue that beat analyst estimates for the second quarter of
In this article GOOGL Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Inc., speaks during the Google I/O Developers Conference in Mountain View, California, U.S., on Tuesday, May 8, 2018. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google executives are acknowledging employee concerns about rising inflation, but say they have no plans to respond with
Packages move along a conveyor at an Amazon fulfillment center on Cyber Monday in Robbinsville, New Jersey, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Robotic vacuum cleaners couldn’t be summoned. Whole Foods orders were suddenly canceled. Parts of Amazon’s mammoth retail operation slowed to a standstill. Amazon Web Services,
Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos Inc., leaves federal court in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images SAN JOSE, Calif. — In her final effort to try and sway the jury in her criminal fraud trial, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes blasted ex-boyfriend Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, her
In this article MMAT A worker picks up trash in front of a new logo and the name ‘Meta’ on the sign in front of Facebook headquarters on October 28, 2021 in Menlo Park, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Meta, formerly Facebook, has announced it will fully reopen its U.S. offices on Jan. 31,
In this article AMZN Attendees at an Amazon.com annual cloud computing conference Salvador Rodriguez | Reuters Amazon‘s cloud-computing unit on Tuesday was hit with an outage that took down some websites and services. A notice on Amazon Web Services’ status page said it was experiencing problems with certain APIs and the AWS Management Console. The
In this article FOUN People wait in line for t-shirts at a pop-up kiosk for the online brokerage Robinhood along Wall Street after the company went public with an IPO earlier in the day on July 29, 2021 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images This year’s bull market
In this article TSLA Robotics arms install the front seats to the Tesla Model 3 at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, on Thursday, July 26, 2018. Mason Trinca | The Washington Post | Getty Images Tesla is replacing repeater cameras in the front fenders of at least several hundred Model S, X and 3
SoftBank Group founder, chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son announces his group’s earnings results on May 9, 2019, in Tokyo. Alessandro Di Ciommo | NurPhoto | Getty Images SoftBank Group shares fell by more than 8% Monday as the value of its portfolio companies continued to slide. The Japanese tech giant’s share price fell from 5201
Kacper Pempel | Reuters Hackers have taken $196 million from crypto trading platform Bitmart, a security firm said Saturday. Bitmart confirmed the hack in an official statement Saturday night, calling it “a large-scale security breach” and writing that hackers withdrew about $150 million in assets. However, blockchain security and data analytics firm Peckshield estimates that the
American multinational technology company Google logo seen at Googleplex, the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc. Alex Tai | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images While judges review subpoenas in an almost year-long case that pits Google against its workers, former company employees are doing their part to highlight
For years, Amazon has been quietly chartering private cargo ships, making its own containers, and leasing planes to better control the complicated shipping journey of an online order. Now, as many retailers panic over supply chain chaos, Amazon’s costly early moves are helping it avoid the long wait times for available dock space and workers
In this article DOCU ETSY DASH ZM A trader working after the Nasdaq opening bell ceremony on April 18, 2019 in New York City. Kena Betancur | Getty Images A funny thing happened on the way to the stock market’s retreat. Stay-at-home stocks that benefitted most from Covid-19 and the ensuing lockdowns, like Etsy, DoorDash,
In this article TWTR Parag Agrawal named Twitter CEO on Nov 29th, 2021. Courtesy: Twitter Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who on Monday replaced co-founder Jack Dorsey, is quickly reorganizing the company’s leadership structure across product and engineering. Twitter said in a regulatory filing on Friday that “to drive increased accountability, speed, and operational efficiency,” the
In this article ENEL-IT ENR-DE RDSA-GB IBE-ES The Iberdrola Tower in Bilbao, Spain. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Spanish power company Iberdrola and Sweden’s H2 Green Steel are to partner and develop a major facility that will produce green hydrogen, in yet another example of how companies are taking an interest in the
In this article GOOGL Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during the Google I/O keynote session at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California on May 7, 2019. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Google will not be returning to offices as expected on Jan. 10 after all, according to a companywide email sent Thursday that
In this article HRB Jack Dorsey (L), CEO of Square and CEO of Twitter, live casts video while standing outside the New York Stock Exchange for the IPO of Square, in New York November 19, 2015. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Square is renaming itself Block as it focuses on technologies like blockchain and expands beyond
Susan Arnold Source: Disney Susan Arnold is taking over as Disney‘s Chairman of the Board, the company announced Wednesday. She’ll succeed Bob Iger, who stepped down as Disney CEO early last year. Iger, who served as Chairman of the Board since 2012, had been set to step away as board chair by the end of
Wind turbines and solar panels in Kayseri, Turkey. temizyurek | E+ | Getty Images The world is set to add nearly 290 gigawatts of renewable power capacity this year, according to the International Energy Agency, with the Paris-based organization expecting 2021 to “set a fresh all-time record for new installations.” Published on Wednesday, the IEA’s