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Silicon Valley venture capital pioneer Dick Kramlich, an early investor in Apple, dies at 89

Dick Kramlich, founder of New Enterprise Associates, discusses on “Sexism in the valley” during the third day of Web Summit in Altice Arena on Nov. 8, 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. Horacio Villalobos | Corbis News | Getty Images Dick Kramlich, the venture capital pioneer who co-founded New Enterprise Associates almost 50 years ago and built […]

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Apple (AAPL) Q1 earnings 2025

Apple’s overall revenue rose by 4% in its first fiscal quarterbut it missed on Wall Street’s iPhone sales expectations and saw sales in China decline 11.1%, the company reported on Thursday. Shares fell less than 2% in extended trading. Here’s how Apple did versus LSEG consensus estimates for the quarter ending Dec. 28. Earnings per […]

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Here’s what you should know

On Monday, Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek took over rival OpenAI’s coveted spot as the most-downloaded free app in the U.S. on Apple‘s App Store, dethroning ChatGPT for DeepSeek’s AI Assistant. Global tech stocks sold off and were on pace to wipe out billions in market cap. Tech leaders, analysts, investors and developers say that […]

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Fed meeting and Big Tech earnings

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said next week as Wall Street launches into earnings season, he’ll be following the Federal Reserve’s meeting and earnings from a few tech giants. Investors should not to make any major moves, he advised. “Look it’s a sheer hell week. Our heads will be spinning, swivel-like, lazy Susan even, as each day […]

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Perplexity AI makes a bid to merge with TikTok U.S.

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Perplexity AI officially made a play for TikTok on Saturday, submitting a bid to its parent company, ByteDance, to create a new merged entity combining Perplexity, TikTok U.S. and new capital partners, CNBC has learned. The new structure would allow for most of ByteDance’s existing investors to retain […]

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TikTok says it will go dark on Sunday unless Biden intervenes

Beata Zawrzel | Nurphoto | Getty Images TikTok said its services will go dark on Sunday without a guarantee from the Biden administration that it won’t punish Apple, Google and other service providers if they support the app. “Unless the Biden Administration immediately provides a definitive statement to satisfy the most critical service providers assuring […]