Dave Zhong | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Haiyan Song, Senior VP & GM of Security Markets of Splunk, speaks during Fireside Chat on Day 3 of CNBC East Tech West at LN Garden Hotel Nansha Guangzhou.  The “Internet of Things” has created all sorts of problems on the …

Dave Zhong | Getty Images Imran Khan, former chief strategy officer of Snap, speaks during Fireside Chat on Day 3 of CNBC East Tech West at LN Garden Hotel Nansha Guangzhou.  Snap’s former chief strategy officer believes that while companies should be wary of their competitors, they must not forget …

Bitcoin saw a double-digit rebound Wednesday after weeks of struggling to recover above the $4,000 mark. The world’s largest cryptocurrency spiked as much as 16 percent, hitting a high of $4,341.44, according to data from CoinDesk. The upward move was an abrupt turnaround from bitcoin’s terrible Thanksgiving week. The cryptocurrency …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images People enter the Adobe Systems Inc. office in San Francisco, California. Investors looking for a good deal in the bruised technology sector may be best served in U.S. software companies, according to an analyst at UBS. The last two corrections in the …

Bill O’Leary | The Washington Post | Getty Images A Juul vaping system with accessory pods in varying flavors on May, 02, 2018 in Washington, DC.  Altria is in talks to take a significant minority stake in e-cigarette company Juul, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Any deal is …

Richard Carson | Reuters The astronauts assigned to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon acknowledge the media upon introduction at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, U.S., August 3, 2018. The astronauts are (L to R): Victor Glover, Robert …

Andy Jassy, CEO Amazon Web Services, speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, U.S., October 25, 2016. Even as cryptocurrencies are getting crushed, Amazon sees plenty of opportunity with blockchain technology. The company said on Wednesday that it’s introducing two new services, including a managed blockchain offering, …

Don Arnold | WireImage | Getty Images Teddy Lee and Mazen Kourouche pose with their iPhone Xs during the Australian release of the latest iPhone models at Apple Store on September 21, 2018 in Sydney, Australia.  You might want to consider upgrading your iPhone now if you’ve been on fence …

AZWAR IPANK | AFP | Getty Images Members of the search team lift part of the landing gear of the ill-fated Lion Air flight JT 610 during search operations at sea off the coast from Karawang on November 5, 2018. Boeing shares rose Wednesday after a preliminary report from Indonesia …

Issei Kato | Reuters A customer looks at Apple’s new iPhone XS after it went on sale at the Apple Store in Tokyo, Japan, September 21, 2018. Google’s super-simple and cheap cell phone service will now work with a broader selection of devices, including iPhones from arch-rival Apple. Google Fi …