Published on: 2025-04-22 03:00:00
Brands are chasing Gen Z inTO games, and so it’s no surprise that Jack in the Box is springing into the gaming world of Fortnite. Jack in the Box will bring its mascot Jack Box and his irreverence to Epic Games’ Fortnite game, where players will grind their way through corporate ranks in “Jack’s CEO Minigames,” an exclusive experience that culminates with the ultimate prize: becoming CEO of Jack in the Box. This innovative collaboration reimagines classic Fortnite maps into an immersive Jack-t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 21:00:00
StrictlyVC, the boutique brand powered by TechCrunch and known for evening events that invite headliners into smaller rooms to connect with live audiences, is headed back to London on May 13 — and its latest speaker lineup is one of its strongest yet. Joining the stage is TS Anil, CEO of Monzo Bank, the digital banking powerhouse that has helped reshape the UK’s financial landscape. Known for his global leadership background and steady hand at the helm of one of Europe’s most prominent fintechs
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 23:13:23
Publishing platform Medium says it’s still committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), even as many other U.S. tech companies have scaled back their efforts in this space to appease the Trump administration. In a blog post published on Monday, Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine backed the company’s diverse community, saying that businesses shouldn’t have to choose between inclusion and profit. Plus, more people value “understanding and respect over hate and division,” the CEO noted, explainin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 03:30:51
Step into an extraordinary fireside chat featuring Ali Ghodsi, the visionary co-founder and CEO of Databricks, alongside Dario Amodei, the innovative co-founder and CEO of Anthropic. Discover how their groundbreaking partnership is set to accelerate the evolution of domain-specific AI agents. During this free, virtual event, you’ll also gain exclusive access to three additional sessions that expand on the groundbreaking CEO discussion: What you’ll learn: What AI agents are — and why they’re i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 19:50:15
Intel is selling off its majority share in chip-maker Altera as part of its new CEO's first steps toward stabilizing the company. The 51 percent stake sold today for $4.46 billion in a deal that is expected to close in the second half of this year. "Today's announcement reflects our commitment to sharpening our focus, lowering our expense structure and strengthening our balance sheet," CEO Lip-Bu Tan said of the sale. Altera makes field programmable gate array chips, which are often used to pow
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 21:00:00
It’s about time I told you about some of the excellent speakers we have lined up for GamesBeat Summit 2025, which will take place on May 19 to May 20 at the Marriott Marina del Rey in Los Angeles. Here’s a limited-time offer for buy one, get one free (BOGO) tickets for the event. We’re returning to Los Angeles, the No. 1 city in the world for game jobs, at a time when the industry has had a tough time, as chronicled by observers like Matthew Ball. The industry went through 30 months of layoffs
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 19:00:00
If you logged on to X or Bluesky this past week, you were likely swept up in the onslaught of posts about Trump’s reciprocal tariffs and the plunging stock market. And, if you follow the tech industry as closely as I do, you probably also noticed who wasn’t posting about the tariffs: many of the same tech founders and CEOs who flanked Trump on Inauguration Day in January. Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, and Mark Zuckerberg have kept mum on the topic of tariffs (although both Pichai and Zuck
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 07:10:50
AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are increasingly being used to assist with programming tasks. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in October that 25% of new code at the company is generated by AI, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has expressed ambitions to widely deploy AI coding models within the social media giant. Yet even some of the best models today struggle to resolve software bugs that wouldn’t trip up experienced devs. A new study from Microsoft Research, Microsoft’s R&D
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 23:36:21
In Brief On Monday, Microsoft reportedly terminated the roles of two software engineers, Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal, who protested the company’s reported dealings with the Israeli military during Microsoft’s Copilot and 50th anniversary event last week. According to an internal message viewed by CNBC, Microsoft wrote that Aboussad could have raised concerns “confidentially with your manager, or with Global Employee Relations. Instead, you chose to intentionally disrupt the speech of M
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-10 03:45:43
Microsoft has fired one of the employees who disrupted the company’s 50th-anniversary event. In an email seen by The Verge, Microsoft told Ibtihal Aboussad that their employment has been terminated due to “acts of misconduct.” Aboussad was one of two protesters that interrupted Microsoft’s 50th anniversary event on Friday by calling Microsoft’s AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, a “war profiteer” and demanding that Microsoft “stop using AI for genocide in our region.” A second protester, Vaniya Agrawal,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 07:00:00
Kalshi is the largest prediction market in America, creating an entire trading economy around political, sports, and cultural events. To some, including several states, it’s an illegal effort that requires gambling licenses. To others, including some courts and members of the Trump administration, it’s just a new financial opportunity. In a conversation with TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff, CEO Tarek Mansour offers his perspective on why he views Kalshi as a global source of truth.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 11:11:08
CEO of Meta and Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attend the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th U.S. president in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. Technology stocks plummeted Thursday for their worst session since the Covid pandemic after President Donald Trump's new tariff policies sparked widespread market panic. Apple led the declines among the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 10:37:00
Not all of us are computer geniuses, but it's good to be able to sound like we know what we're talking about. Nvidia stock makes headlines on a regular basis, but do you know how to pronounce the company's name? Does Jeff Bezos pronounce his own name "Bee-zos," evoking worker bees in hexagonal warehouses, "Bay-zos" like Baywatch, or "Bezz-os" like the first part rhymes with PEZ candy? And what about Huawei? Here's a starter list of a dozen tech terms and how they are pronounced. iOS: The easie
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 15:59:10
CEO of Meta and Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attend the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th U.S. president in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. Other megacaps also felt the pressure. Meta Platforms and Nvidia fell more than 6% each, as well as Tesla and Amazon . Nvidia builds its new chips in Taiwan and relies on Mexico for assembling its artifi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 15:20:56
The end-Cretaceous extinction—the massive extinction event widely attributed to an asteroid impact that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs approximately 66 million years ago—had a profound impact on the evolution of all life on Earth. Specifically, mammals eventually diversified into thousands of distinct species. By studying mammal remains from the end of the Cretaceous period (approximately 145 to 66 million years ago) and the early Paleogene period (66 to 23 million years ago) an internationa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 15:59:47
In Brief Intel’s new CEO Lip-Bu Tan wasted no time laying out his plans for the semiconductor giant. Speaking at the Intel Vision conference this week, Tan told attendees that the company will spin off assets that aren’t core to its mission, Bloomberg reported. Tan didn’t specify what was classified as core and noncore to the company’s business. Intel will also launch new products, including custom semiconductors for customers, Tan added. But he made no mention of breaking up the company, acc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 06:59:47
In Brief Intel’s new CEO Lip-Bu Tan wasted no time laying out his plans for the semiconductor giant. Speaking at the Intel Vision conference this week, Tan told attendees that the company will spin off assets that aren’t core to its mission, Bloomberg reported. Tan didn’t specify what was classified as core and non-core to the company’s business. Intel will also launch new products including custom semiconductors for customers, Tan added. But he made no mention of breaking up the company, acc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 20:17:19
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, speaking at a fintech event in London on Monday, April 4, 2022. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg via Getty Images LONDON — After 20 years in the role as Klarna's CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski is about to face his toughest test yet as the financial technology firm prepares for its blockbuster debut in New York. Siemiatkowski, 43, co-founded Klarna in 2005 with fellow Swedish entrepreneurs Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsson with the aim of taking on traditiona
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Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, speaking at a fintech event in London on Monday, April 4, 2022. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg via Getty Images LONDON — After 20 years in the role as Klarna's CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski is about to face his toughest test yet as the financial technology firm prepares for its blockbuster debut in New York. Siemiatkowski, 43, co-founded Klarna in 2005 with fellow Swedish entrepreneurs Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsson with the aim of taking on traditiona
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Moderators at more than 100 Reddit communities banned links to X after Elon Musk’s infamous Nazi-style salutes back in January, a rather understandable reaction to seeing public displays of violent fascist ideology. The billionaire oligarch very publicly complained about Reddit in the middle of the controversy, but we now learn that Musk wasn’t just whining on X. The Tesla CEO was also privately pressuring the CEO of Reddit to help him out by apparently silencing critics of the Trump regime, acc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 15:40:00
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Rumor mill: A new analyst report suggests that Nvidia may use Intel's foundries to manufacture some of its future gaming GPUs. If true, this would mark a significant win for Intel's foundry business as it aims to gain market share from TSMC. The information comes from Timothy Arcuri, an analyst at Swiss investment bank UBS. He stated in a press note to investors that Nvidia is "closer" than Broadco
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 02:15:00
What just happened? Samsung Electronics has announced that its co-CEO, Han Jong-Hee, has passed away. Han died from cardiac arrest this week, aged 63. His passing leaves Jun Young-hyun, who was appointed co-CEO last week, solely in charge of the company. According to local reports, Han suffered a heart attack on March 22, not long after attending his daughter's wedding at a banquet hall. He was taken to Samsung Medical Center in Seoul but died on Tuesday. Born in 1962, Han graduated from Inha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 22:15:00
What just happened? Samsung Electronics has announced that its co-CEO, Han Jong-Hee, has passed away. Han died from cardiac arrest this week, aged 63. His passing leaves Jun Young-hyun, who was appointed co-CEO last week, solely in charge of the company. According to local reports, Han suffered a heart attack on March 22, not long after attending his daughter's wedding at a banquet hall. He was taken to Samsung Medical Center in Seoul but died on Tuesday. Born in 1962, Han graduated from Inha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 23:38:15
Han Jong-hee, co-chief executive officer of Samsung Electronics Co., at the company's annual general meeting at the Suwon Convention Center in Suwon, South Korea, on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that its co-CEO Han Jong-hee, 63, died of a heart attack. He headed Samsung's digital appliances division, as well as its device experience unit, which includes mobile phones and home appliances. Han joined Samsung in 1988, rising through the ranks over the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-01 00:38:15
Han Jong-hee, co-chief executive officer of Samsung Electronics Co., at the company's annual general meeting at the Suwon Convention Center in Suwon, South Korea, on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that its co-CEO Han Jong-hee, 63, passed away due to a heart attack. He headed Samsung's digital appliances division, as well as its device experience unit, which includes mobile phones and home appliances. Han joined Samsung in 1988, rising through the ran
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 01:24:00
Nvidia stock makes headlines on a regular basis, but do you know how to pronounce the company's name? Does Jeff Bezos pronounce his own name "Bee-zos," evoking worker bees in hexagonal warehouses, "Bay-zos" like Baywatch, or "Bezz-os" like the first part rhymes with PEZ candy? And what about Huawei? Here's a starter list of a dozen tech terms and how they are pronounced. iOS: The easiest of the bunch, right? It's simply saying the three characters separately, "Eye," "Oh" and "Ess." Apple backs
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 00:15:13
In Brief The Bot Company, the robotics startup founded by former Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt, has raised $150 million in a round led by Greenoaks, according to Reuters, citing unnamed sources. Vogt founded the startup with Paril Jain, who led the AI tech team at Tesla, and former Cruise software engineer Luke Holoubek. Vogt did not respond to a request for comment. The fresh round of funding comes less than a year since Vogt launched The Bot Company, which is aiming to produce a rob
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 22:04:45
Tesla's financial health isn't looking great lately, to put it mildly. Earlier this week, four top senior executives at Tesla dumped their stocks amidst an ongoing freefall caused by poor quarterly sales, tons of recalls, and global protests against CEO Elon Musk. Now, after the loss of some of his highest-moneyed investors, Musk is pleading with Tesla employees not to do the same. "There are times when there are rocky moments, a little bit of stormy weather, but I’m here to tell you the futur
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 18:24:35
In Brief Intel’s new CEO Lip-Bu Tan seems ready to get right to work to turn around the struggling company. The semiconductor giant’s new executive is considering sweeping changes for the company’s chip manufacturing and AI strategies, according to Reuters, including: cutting middle management staff and revamping the company’s approach to manufacturing chips. Tan reportedly told company employees that he would need to make “tough decisions” to get the company back on track. Tan was announced
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 03:05:00
Welcome back to Week in Review! I’m Karyne Levy, TechCrunch’s deputy managing editor, and I’ll be writing this newsletter from here on out. Thrilled to be here! This week we’re checking out everything at SXSW; Waymo’s expansion into Silicon Valley; Intel’s new CEO; TikTok’s new suitor; and why DeepSeek isn’t taking VC money. Let’s get to it! Environmental impact: The FBI, the EPA, the EPA inspector general, and the Treasury Department requested that Citibank freeze accounts of several nonprofi
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