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Comcast is in talks with 21st Century Fox about buying major assets, sources say

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Brian Roberts, CEO, Comcast Comcast has approached 21st Century Fox and expressed interest in an acquisition of some of Fox’s assets, sources say. Comcast is interested in the same set of assets that Disney approached Fox about earlier this year. CNBC reported last …

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Facebook launches Facebook Creator App

Stephen Lam | Reuters Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks on stage during the annual Facebook F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S., April 18, 2017. Facebook hoping to court more video creators to its platform with the launch of a new app. The Facebook Creator App will …

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Buy Tesla shares ahead of big semi truck unveil, ‘major’ autopilot update: Analyst

Wall Street is eager to see Tesla’s new semi truck and hear updates on its autonomous driving technology ahead of the company’s event Thursday. Tesla’s leadership in autopilot technology and the semi truck’s success is critical for one analyst at Nomura, who reiterated his buy rating on CEO Elon Musk’s …

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Amazon’s high-tech grocery stores are nearly upon us, report says

David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Employees stand outside the new Amazon Go grocery store in Seattle, Washington. Amazon is ironing out the final kinks in its cashier-free convenience store platform, according to a Wednesday report from Bloomberg. The company’s latest brick-and-mortar experiment, called Amazon Go, excises the checkout …

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Bitcoin jumps more than 9% after news Square is testing the digital currency

Bitcoin has again recovered quickly from a sharp drop. The digital currency briefly surged more than 9 percent Wednesday to a high of $7,251.81, according to CoinDesk. That’s within 10 percent of its record high of $7,879.06 hit last Wednesday. Bitcoin had fallen 30 percent below that record over the …

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Jack Dorsey’s Square rises on news it’s testing support of bitcoin

Traders have another potential stock play on bitcoin: Square. Jack Dorsey’s company is testing support for bitcoin through its Cash payments app. “We’re exploring how Square can make this experience faster and easier, and have rolled out this feature to a small number of Cash app customers,” a Square spokesperson …

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New Senate tax plan removes stock option provision that had Silicon Valley sweating

Getty Images President Donald Trump (2nd L) welcomes members of his American Technology Council, including (L-R) Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in the State Dining Room of the White House June 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. A revised tax plan released Tuesday …

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Cramer’s charts unveil 5 ways you should diversify away from tech

From a technical perspective, Cramer and Moreno both agreed that the daily chart of Abbott Laboratories was “a beautiful picture.” “In fact, Moreno says it’s a picture-perfect uptrend, [with the] stock steadily rising above its 50-day moving average,” Cramer added. Even though shares have recently been trading sideways, Moreno noticed …

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Tesla class action lawsuit alleges racism, unsafe factory conditions

Peter Parks | AFP | Getty Images Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX speaks at the 68th International Astronautical Congress 2017 in Adelaide on September 29, 2017. Shares of Tesla closed down 2.1 percent on Tuesday afternoon following news of a civil rights lawsuit against the automakers. The proposed class-action suit …

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Roku downgraded by Oppenheimer after parabolic surge

Brendan McDermid | Reuters People pass by a video sign display with the logo for Roku Inc, a Fox-backed video streaming firm, that held it’s IPO at the Nasdaq Marketsite in New York, U.S., September 28, 2017. Investors should take profits after Roku shares more than doubled in three days, …

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