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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff admonishes tech billionaires to give more

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff speaks at the grand opening of the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco in May 2018.  Salesforce co-CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff called San Francisco’s 70 billionaires and other tech elites to donate more to their own community in …

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai discusses censored search app in China 

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images 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.  On stage Monday night, Google CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged the company’s leaked plans to create a censored …

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‘Twitter does contribute to filter bubbles’

Rolf Vennenbernd | dpa | picture alliance | Getty Images Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is grappling with the unintended consequences of his invention, like many of his peers in the technology industry. On stage at Wired’s 25th anniversary summit on Monday, he spoke in a …

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Investors should take a bite of this stock

Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Workers assemble semi trailers on the factory floor at the Wabash National Corp. manufacturing facility in Lafayette, Indiana. Finally, Cramer looked into why a top truck manufacturer at the “sweet spot of e-commerce” issued a wildly negative earnings preannouncement on Friday. Between a …

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Microsoft co-founder Paul  Allen dies of cancer at age 65

Ramin Talaie | Corbis Historical | Getty Images Paul Allen, Co-Founder of Microsoft, speaks during an event at the 92nd Street Y in New York, April 17, 2011.  Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen has died from complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Vulcan Inc. said Monday on behalf of his family. Allen passed …

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Why he left consumer tech for health

Matt Winkelmeyer | Getty Images Sean Parker speaks onstage at WIRED25 Summit: WIRED Celebrates 25th Anniversary With Tech Icons Of The Past & Future on October 15, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Sean Parker, founder of Napster and the first president of Facebook, pivoted to medical technology because he worried …

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Kuo bumps Q4 iPhone XR shipments, expects buyers want cheaper iPhone

Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The new Apple iPhone XR is displayed during an Apple special event at the Steve Jobs Theatre on September 12, 2018 in Cupertino, California. Consumers will be flocking to Apple’s new iPhone XR at an unexpectedly fast rate, according to a report from Ming-Chi Kuo, …

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Adobe, JB Hunt and more

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images People enter the Adobe Systems Inc. office in San Francisco, California. Adobe stock rose nearly 6 percent during after-hours trading after it announced its growth strategy on Monday at its analyst meeting. It estimates that its 2019 revenue to grow 20 percent …

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Instagram former CEO Kevin Systrom on why he left Facebook

Matt Winkelmeyer | Getty Images Lauren Goode and Kevin Systrom speak onstage at WIRED25 Summit: WIRED Celebrates 25th Anniversary With Tech Icons Of The Past & Future on October 15, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Instagram’s former CEO Kevin Systrom spoke publicly for the first time on Monday since leaving …

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Amazon health JV should focus on life expectancy, disease prevention

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anne Wojcicki, chief executive officer and co-founder of 23andMe Inc., speaks during the WSJDLive Global Technology Conference in Laguna Beach, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. The health-care partnership between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and J.P. Morgan, announced early this year, is …

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