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In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Microsoft logo is seen at the Microsoft store in New York City. Mike Segar | Reuters Microsoft users were on Wednesday hit with a cloud outage that affected several of its products, including Teams and Outlook. The U.S. technology giant has now rolled back

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella leaves the Elysee Palace after a meeting with the French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on May 23, 2018. Aurelien Morissard | IP3 | Getty Images Microsoft executives on Tuesday told analysts to expect a continuation of the weak pace of

In this article GOOG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet Lluis Gene | AFP | Getty Images Days after Google announced the largest round of layoffs in the company’s 25-year history, executives defended the job cuts and took questions from a concerned workforce during a town hall meeting Monday. Google CEO

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the company’s Ignite Spotlight event in Seoul on Nov. 15, 2022. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft on Monday announced a new multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. Microsoft declined to provide a specific dollar amount, but

In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Bitcoin had a tough 2022. Now investors are looking toward 2023 with caution when it comes to cryptocurrencies. Thomas Trutschel | Photothek | Getty Images Bitcoin rose further over the weekend, as traders took news of another crypto bankruptcy in their stride and placed bets

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Anindito Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google employees are scrambling for answers from leadership and from colleagues as the company undergoes a massive layoff. On Friday, Alphabet-owned Google announced it was cutting 12,000 employees, roughly 6% of the full-time workforce. While employees had been bracing for a potential layoff,

In this article TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Pedestrians outside Twitter headquarters in San Francisco on Oct. 6, 2022. David Paul | Bloomberg | Getty Images Twitter’s full-time headcount has dwindled to approximately 1,300 active, working employees, including fewer than 550 full-time engineers by title, according to internal records viewed by CNBC. Around

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Alex Spiro, attorney to Elon Musk, center, departs court in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023. Benjamin Fanjoy | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared in a San Francisco federal court on Friday to defend tweets he posted to his

Former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried (C) arrives to enter a plea before US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in the Manhattan federal court, New York, January 3, 2023.  Ed Jones | AFP | Getty Images Federal prosecutors seized nearly $700 million in cash and assets connected to Sam Bankman-Fried, primarily in the form of Robinhood

In this article GOOGL TWTR MSFT META AMZN CRM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View, California, United States on September 26, 2022. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Tech companies have laid off tens of thousands of workers

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 09: Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a panel at the CEO Summit of the Americas hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on June 09, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. The CEO Summit entered its second day of events

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a panel at the CEO Summit of the Americas hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on June 09, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Google executives are deferring a portion of employees’ year-end bonus

In this article MSFT CRM NFLX AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An employee cleans a window at Apple Inc.’s new Canton Road store in the Tsim Sha Tsui district of Hong Kong, China. Xaume Olleros | Bloomberg | Getty Images Many of the biggest technology companies are laying off staff as fears of

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The front desk of the Amazon office is pictured in New York, May 1, 2019. Carlo Allegri | Reuters Amazon on Wednesday commenced the latest wave of job cuts in its corporate workforce in what’s poised to be the largest round of layoffs in the

In this article TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk Twitter page seen on mobile with his poll to step down as head of Twitter Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Twitter is auctioning off espresso machines, kegerators, computers, and even oversized neon displays with the company’s logo as the social messaging

FTX logo displayed on a phone screen is seen through the broken glass in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on November 14, 2022. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Bankrupt crypto firm FTX said on Tuesday that $415 million worth of crypto was hacked from the exchange’s accounts, representing a sizable portion of the

In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A number of factors are behind bitcoin’s New Year rise, according to analysts, including an increased probability of interest rates being lowered and purchases by large buyers known as “whales.” Filip Radwanski | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Bitcoin has begun 2023 on

After a tumultuous 2022, crypto investors are trying to figure out when the next bitcoin bull run could be. Last week, at a crypto conference in St. Moritz, Switzerland, CNBC spoke to industry insiders who painted a picture of 2023 as year of caution. Bitcoin is expected to trade within a range, be sensitive to

In this article AMZN RIVN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT For the 275,000 Amazon drivers dropping off 10 million packages a day around the world, the job can be a grind. But a lot has changed since drivers in 2021 told CNBC about unrealistic workloads, peeing in bottles, dog bites and error-prone routing software.

In this article FTT.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Representative French Hill, a Republican from Arkansas, left, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 24, 2018. Zach Gibson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Republican lawmakers announced late Thursday the launch of a new subcommittee that will oversee the crypto