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A National Labor Relations Board judge found Amazon CEO Andy Jassy broke labor law by suggesting employees would be "less empowered" if they voted in a union.The judge cited interviews Jassy gave to CNBC, Bloomberg and The New York Times in 2022.The interviews coincided with an upswing in organizing activity in Amaz...

Google is laying off at least 200 employees from its "Core" organization, which includes key teams and engineering talent, CNBC has learned.As part of the unit's reorganization, the company will be hiring corresponding roles in Mexico and India."Announcements of this sort may leave many of you feeling uncertain or f...

Alphabet beat on earnings and revenue in its first-quarter results.Revenue increased 15% from a year earlier, the fastest rate of growth since early 2022.The company also announced its first dividend and a $70 billion buyback.Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, speaks on artificial intelligence during a Brueg...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unnerved investors on the company's quarterly earnings call Wednesday by focusing on its long-term investments in AI and the metaverse.Shares of Meta tumbled as much as 19% in extended trading Wednesday."We've historically seen a lot of volatility in our stock during this phase of our produc...

The cuts affect hundreds of staffers in AWS' store technology and sales and marketing units.Sales growth in AWS' has decelerated in recent quarters as companies trimmed their cloud spend.A day earlier, Amazon said it would remove its cashierless checkout technology from its U.S. Fresh stores.Attendees walk through a...

Reddit shares are plummeting after experiencing a rally stemming from the social media company's IPO last week.Shares closed Thursday at $49.30, falling below their closing price on Reddit's first day of trading last week on the New York Stock Exchange. Earlier this week, Reddit disclosed in a corporate filing that ...

Following the lead of companies like Airbnb and Rivian, Reddit is inviting some users to participate in its upcoming IPO. Reddit moderators told CNBC that they're declining the offer, citing lingering tensions with management and concerns over the company's business."It doesn't really feel like Reddit is necessarily...

In this photo illustration a Reddit logo is seen displayed on a smartphone.Mateusz Slodkowski | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesReddit, the 19-year-old website that hosts millions of online forums, priced its IPO on Wednesday at $34 a share, the top of the expected range.The offering brought in $519 million,...

Ambient clinical documentation was the talk of the HIMSS conference this year, where more than 30,000 health and tech professionals gathered in Orlando, Florida.The technology allows doctors to record conversations with patients to automatically turn them into clinical notes and summaries using AI.Companies like Mic...

Google fired an employee who disrupted an Israel executive's conference keynote this week, CNBC has learned.It's the latest sign of controversy at the company, which has struggled with employee dissent for several years.Google also prematurely shuttered an internal discussion forum ahead of a planned International W...

A New Jersey man was arrested on charges for allegedly trafficking 675 SpaceX Starlink terminals purchased with stolen credit card accounts or hacked Starlink billing accounts, police said.Kelvin Rodriguez-Moya of Newark was stopped by police Dec. 4 while driving 223 Starlink terminals in a pickup truck and trailer ...

Google's Sergey Brin spoke to a roomful of entrepreneurs over the weekend at the "AGI House" in Hillsborough, California.Brin said Google "definitely messed up," referring to the company's faulty Gemini image generation launch earlier this month.Regarding changes in the search business, Brin said, "As long as there’...

Alef Aeronautics, which is based in San Mateo, California, said preorder numbers recently hit a fresh record after previously reporting 2,500 preorders for its two-seater flying car, the Alef Model A.Alef is planning to charge customers $300,000 for the Model A when it becomes commercially available — on 2,850 preor...

In this photo illustration, the Reddit logo is displayed on a cell phone and computer monitor on February 13, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty ImagesReddit is seeking a valuation of up to $6.5 billion in its upcoming IPO, according to a person familiar with the matter.The company plans to price it...

Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake, on the day of the company's initial public offering on Sept. 16, 2020.CNBCSnowflake said Wednesday that billionaire CEO Frank Slootman, who joined the cloud software company in 2019 and took it public the following year, is retiring and will be replaced by former Google ad chief Sri...

Bumble announced plans to lay off about 350 employees as part of its fourth-quarter earnings report Tuesday.The company said the layoffs will help drive stronger operating leverage and align its operating model with "future strategic priorities."Bumble CEO Lidiane Jones said the company is taking "significant and de...

Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesSocial media company Reddit filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday after a yearslong run-up. The company plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "RDDT."Reddit said it had $804 million in annual sales fo...

A patient implanted with Neuralink's brain technology can now control a computer mouse just by thinking, the company's founder Elon Musk said.The billionaire's startup says it has developed a brain implant to help humans use their neural signals to control external technologies.Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla, sa...

Meta's Reality Labs unit brought in more than $1 billion in fourth-quarter sales but recorded an operating loss of $4.65 billion.The company's heavy spending on the metaverse comes as Apple jumps into the market with its Vision Pro headset, which is slated to debut Friday.The VR and AR market saw a 40% sales drop in...

A host of companies including Ecosia, Qwant and Shibsted have signed an open letter accusing Big Tech "gatekeepers" of not doing enough to engage effectively with them and others.The firms have called on the European Commission and the European Parliament to do everything in their power to ensure the gatekeepers com...

Amazon continues to trim its headcount after a year of mass layoffs. Beginning at the end of 2022 and continuing through 2023, Amazon initiated the largest layoffs in its history, cutting more than 27,000 jobs across almost every area of the company.Team,We've taken significant steps towards our long-term vision of ...

Unity Software said Monday that it would lay off about 1,800 employees, or 25% of its overall workforce, as part of a corporate restructuring plan.The company said it is unable to "reasonably estimate the costs and charges in connection with this reduction, which it expects will be substantially incurred in the firs...

Apple's iPhone sales in China were down more than 30% year over year for the first week of the year, while competitors like Huawei have "remained much stronger," according to a note from Jefferies analysts Sunday.The analysts said Huawei gained the most smartphone market share in China in 2023, rising by about 6% ye...