The Airbnb acquisition that could be key to its post-pandemic playbook

HotelTonight CEO Sam Shank Ben Robertson In this weekly series, CNBC takes a look at companies that made the inaugural Disruptor 50 list, 10 years later. Like many mobile-first, on-demand service-base...

Peloton Stock Halted, Tumbles After Surprise Membership Price Hike

Updated at 3:23 pm EST Peloton  (PTON) – Get Peloton Interactive, Inc. Class A Report said Thursday that it will boost the price of its connected fitness programs for the first time in eight yea...

Musk’s Cannabis-Themed Twitter Offer Looks High but Not Wacky

Text size Elon Musk is offering $54.20 a share for all of Twitter. Al Drago/Bloomberg Elon Musk is offering $54.20 a share for all of Twitter —and you don’t need to work up a discounted cash flow anal...

Ripple’s court battle with SEC has gone ‘exceedingly well,’ CEO says

PARIS — Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse is confident the company will come out well as its lengthy court battle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission nears a conclusion. The San Francisco-base...

Elon Musk and Twitter: What Happens Next

Text size Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk could continue to face legal questions over his new stake in Twitter. Win McNamee/Getty Images Elon Musk’s back and forth with Twitter  took another turn this...

Ford Is Now 3 Businesses. What That Means for the Stock.

Text size Ford stock is down about 25% year to date. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images Ford Motor Chief Financial Officer John Lawler spoke at the Bank of America conference taking place at the New Y...

Facebook parent Meta set to take nearly 50% cut from virtual sales — and Apple is calling it out

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc.’s intent to take a nearly 50% cut of digital asset sales within its emerging metaverse is drawing widespread criticism from developers and longtime nemesis Apple In...

Serenity Shield makes first non-custodial private key system using NFT technology

Serenity Shield has officially launched the first non-custodial key system that focuses on protecting and transmitting access to digital assets in an innovative way using NFT technology. The move make...

PayPal Stock Is Falling. It’s Not Because Its CFO Is Leaving for Walmart.

Text size PayPal’s has a new interim CFO. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Walmart said late Tuesday that it had named John Rainey as its chief financial officer. Rainey currently holds the same pos...

Meta Stock Might Have Another Round of Weaker Earnings Ahead

Text size Meta stock saw a couple of price target cuts as analysts worried about its coming earnings report. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Wall Street is bracing for another rough quarter for Facebook ...

Cathie Wood Watch: Ark Buys a Fascinating Tech Stock, More Biotech

Renowned investor Cathie Wood, chief executive of Ark Investment Management, on Tuesday continued her recent patterns, buying biotechnology stocks, a spectrometry stock, a 3D printer maker and a robot...

Nvidia’s Gaming and Datacenter Outlook Is Strong. The Stock Gets an Upgrade.

Text size Gamers compete at the ‘Nvidia’ booth during the Electronic Entertainment Expo E3 in Los Angeles. Christian Petersen/Getty Images Nvidia stock was rising Wednesday after it receiv...

EV Battery Firm QuantumScape Stock Is Rising

Text size Car batteries at a factory. STR/AFP via Getty Images Electric-vehicle battery technology company QuantumScape picked up a new rating. It’s lukewarm, but the stock is rising Wednesday. Deutsc...

Dogecoin Aims for Offline Transactions via Starlink Technology

Two key staff members working for the Dogecoin Foundation penned an article recently about using RadioDoge technology combined with the Starlink satellite network to conduct DOGE transactions without ...

‘The weight of this debt is crushing’: I’m 74, and a retired speech-language pathologist with a student-loan debt of $200K. Am I obliged to pay it off?

Dear Quentin, I have not seen anyone address student-loan debt for people over 70 years of age. I am a 74-year-old retired  speech-language pathologist with a student-loan debt of $200,000.  I’m on a ...

Meta plans to take a nearly 50% cut on NFT sales in its metaverse

Facebook on Thursday announced that it is opening up Horizon World, its virtual reality world of avatars, to anyone 18 and older in the U.S. and Canada. Courtesy of Meta Facebook-parent Meta is planni...

AMD Rallies Support from Reddit Traders

Once again the battle lines are being drawn. On one side, we have the traditional Wall Street investment community.  On the other, we have the social media crowd who rally around a stock they think is...

Three value stocks that can provide safety as interest rates rise

Stocks have been on a rocky road this year, as investors have tried to anticipate every possible move by the Federal Reserve to combat inflation. Value strategies have held up better than growth strat...

The end of one-chip wonders: Why Nvidia, Intel and AMD’s valuations have experienced massive upheaval

It wasn’t too long ago that Intel Corp. was the unquestioned king of U.S. chip makers and the largest semiconductor company by market capitalization. It’s also not long since most computing was done w...

Buy the Dip in Nvidia Stock or Wait for Lower Prices?

Nvidia  (NVDA) – Get NVIDIA Corporation Report stock has been on a horrid skid, racking up a near-20% decline over the last five days. At one point, Nvidia stock was up more than 3% on April 12,...

Cathie Wood Watch: Ark Buys Roku, Bulks Up on Biotech, Sells Twitter

Renowned investor Cathie Wood, chief executive of Ark Investment Management, on Monday bought shares of a top video-streaming company, several biotechnology companies and an array of other tech-relate...

Why Apple’s Stock Buybacks and Its Dividend Could Get a Big Boost

Text size Apple stock has faced headwinds in 2022 but is still up 26% from this time a year ago. Dreamstime Apple ’s quarterly earnings reports frequently hog the spotlight on days when they drop. The...

Cisco Stock Slumps. It Faces Competition From Arista and Juniper, Analyst Says

Text size Cisco Systems logo Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images Shares of Cisco Systems were falling Tuesday after the networking hardware and software giant was downgraded to a Sell by Citi. Analyst ...

Why The Vogu Collective Is the Face of Web3, the New Technology Space

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp Understanding the NFT world can be demanding as many types of these non-fungible tokens are available. A non-fungible asset might be a single thing o...

Dogecoin Might Soon Be Able to Perform Offline Transactions Using Starlink’s Technology

Tomiwabold Olajide Dogecoin transactions might soon be conducted offline via Starlink’s technology In a recent blog post by the Dogecoin Foundation, Timothy Stebbing and Michi Lumin shared updat...

Nvidia Is Piling Up Some Very Bad News

The bad streak continues for Nvidia  (NVDA) – Get NVIDIA Corporation Report.  The semiconductor manufacturer starts the second quarter as it ended the first: badly. And each week seems to bring ...

Microsoft Stock Slips on Concern About Growth for Office 365

Text size Microsoft Office is one of the company’s biggest businesses. Dreamstime Microsoft shares are under pressure from concerns about how the company might be affected by slowing growth in t...

Why Schlumberger and Other Oil Services Firms Are Early in Their Comeback Story

Text size Schlumberger well service trucks. A Piper Sandler analyst thinks Schlumberger stock could rise 29%. Dreamstime Companies producing and selling oil have been the most prominent beneficiaries ...

Alibaba Stock Stake Slashed by Charlie Munger’s Daily Journal

Text size Charlie Munger attends the annual Berkshire shareholders meeting in Omaha in 2019. JOHANNES EISELE / AFP / Getty Images Daily Journal , which Charlie Munger had served as chairman until rece...

U.S. fintech Plaid hires Booking.com exec as head of Europe

Ripsy Bandourian, head of Europe at Plaid. Plaid LONDON — Financial technology firm Plaid has hired Ripsy Bandourian, a long-time Booking.com executive, to head up its European operations. Bandourian ...

Nvidia stock stumbles after Baird voices concern about graphics business

Shares of Nvidia Corp. shares were slipping Monday after an analyst took a more cautious outlook on the company’s gaming business. Baird’s Tristan Gerra downgraded Nvidia’s stock NVDA, -5.20% to neutr...

Elon Musk May Have Nasty Surprises for Twitter Soon

Investors have become accustomed to Elon Musk, Tesla’s  (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report chief executive, making spectacular announcements.  He has a knack for surprising them when they least...