Markets rise on tariff pause, but earnings disappoint

Markets rise on tariff pause, but earnings disappoint

Google’s Munich headquarters on Jan. 31, 2025 in Munich, Germany. The company’s development center is located in Arnulfpark. More than 2,500 employees work for the US company at various locations in Germany.  Matthias Balk | Picture Alliance | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday paused tariffs on Mexico and Canada (but, notably, not … Read more

Meta Q4 earnings report 2024

Meta Q4 earnings report 2024

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta shares were up slightly in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the company reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat on the top and bottom. Here’s how the company did, compared … Read more

Why 2025 is set to be a crucial year for Amazon’s Zoox robotaxi unit

Why 2025 is set to be a crucial year for Amazon’s Zoox robotaxi unit

A Zoox robotaxi sits outside the company’s large office and warehouse in Las Vegas. Michael Wayland / CNBC LAS VEGAS — This year is expected to be a crucial one for Amazon’s autonomous vehicle unit Zoox, as the company plans to grow its operations and commercialize its robotaxi business. Zoox is aiming to begin offering … Read more

Cohere sees big AI opportunity in enterprise, away from ChatGPT

Cohere sees big AI opportunity in enterprise, away from ChatGPT

Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst is surrounded by chatter of artificial general intelligence, or AGI. He’s perfectly happy to stay out of the conversation. Founded in 2019, by ex-Google AI researchers, Cohere is valued in the billions of dollars and is one of the more high-profile names in the … Read more

Black British entrepreneurs seek to overcome VC funding declines

Black British entrepreneurs seek to overcome VC funding declines

Former Goldman Sachs executive Ayesha Ofori was confident that investors would be keen to fund her investment platform startup — then came the wall of rejections. Some of the venture capitalists who gave the cold shoulder to Ofori’s female-focused financial investment platform, Propelle, ultimately rejected her, citing her lack of experience. Ofori notes her background at Morgan … Read more

UK visitors from dozens of countries will have to pay new entry fee

UK visitors from dozens of countries will have to pay new entry fee

Pedestrians shelter from the rain under umbrellas as they pass the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known by the name of the clock’s bell, Big Ben, at the Palace of Westminster, home to the Houses of Parliament, in London on Feb. 22, 2024. Henry Nicholls | AFP | Getty Images If you’re traveling to the U.K. as … Read more

Google CEO Pichai tells employees ‘The stakes are high’ for 2025

Google CEO Pichai tells employees ‘The stakes are high’ for 2025

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. Fabrice COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees last week that “the stakes are high” for 2025, as the company faces increased competition and regulatory hurdles and contends … Read more

How Google’s Sundar Pichai navigated a pressure-filled year

How Google’s Sundar Pichai navigated a pressure-filled year

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford’s 2024 Business, Government, and Society forum in Stanford, California, April 3, 2024. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Google’s blowout earnings report in April, which sparked the biggest rally in Alphabet shares since 2015 and pushed its market cap past $2 trillion for the first time, tempered fear … Read more

GM’s Cruise robotaxi business is latest growth initiative to falter

GM’s Cruise robotaxi business is latest growth initiative to falter

A Cruise autonomous taxi in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday Aug. 10, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images DETROIT — For years, General Motors CEO and Chair Mary Barra has promised a new future for the company, away from a stodgy metal-bending automaker into a tech-driven, forward-thinking company poised for growth. … Read more

Email security startup Sublime raises $60 million

Email security startup Sublime raises  million

Across the world, companies rely on Microsoft and Google to administer email accounts for employees. Keeping all those mailboxes secure, however, is a business opportunity. Proofpoint went public in 2012, and as enterprises migrated to the cloud, many adopted the company’s secure email gateway software as a precautionary measure. But private equity firm Thoma Bravo … Read more