Published on: 2025-06-09 16:21:23
SXSW had branding all around the neighbourhood of Shoreditch in London. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC South by Southwest (SXSW) may be a well-known event in the United States, but it certainly hasn't reached the same level of recognition in Britain. "What's that?" asked a pedestrian who was passing by a SXSW London sign. SXSW is a festival held in Austin, Texas, every year that brings together big names in music, film, art and technology. The organizers have brought the event to London for the first tim
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 21:57:45
Security officers block entrance doors after pro-Palestinian protesters attempted to enter the Microsoft Build conference at the Seattle Convention Center Arch building in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. Microsoft employees are concerned that the company has been blocking Outlook emails containing the words "Palestine," "Gaza," "genocide," "apartheid" and "IOF off Azure," even if they're including those terms in an HR complaint, according to screenshots, recordings and documents viewed by
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is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Universal appears to have confirmed that the next Mario film will be titled Super Mario World. The title was included in a press release about upcoming movies, but apparently by mistake, since it was removed shortly after publication. The title first appeared in a press release about NBCUniversal’s upcoming content slate, listed as part of a selection of films scheduled to s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 16:28:59
The Paper, a new spin-off of The Office set at a small Ohio newspaper, will premiere exclusively on Peacock in September, according to a post from the streaming service's X account. Considering NBCUniversal's streaming service has mostly existed as a dedicated The Office and Parks & Recreation rewatch tool, this is a pretty big get. The new series "features the documentary crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch," but this time looks at a different industry — in this case, journ
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 11:25:12
The late Jim Fagan's iconic voice defined National Basketball Association (NBA) promos throughout the 1990s and early 2000s — and now, NBC is bringing that voice back from the dead using AI. In a press release, the broadcaster announced that it's teaming up with the family of the beloved sports narrator, who died from complications related to Parkinson's disease in 2017, to clone his voice for new coverage, promotions, and title sequences when basketball season resumes in October. Fagan's voic
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-24 00:27:57
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. NBC’s upcoming NBA coverage will include the AI-generated voice of Jim Fagan, a longtime sports narrator who died in 2017. In an announcement on Tuesday, NBC said the AI-generated voice of Fagan will appear across select title sequences, show opens, and promos when the network resumes airing NBA games in October. Fagan’s voice appeared in NBC’s NBA
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-03 00:00:33
Workers cross a junction near the Bank of England (BOE) in the City of London, UK, on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Britain is at risk of losing budding fintech and cryptocurrency entrepreneurs to rival hubs if it doesn't address pressing regulation and funding challenges, according to industry leaders. Several crypto bosses told CNBC this week that the U.K. has created an unfavorable environment for fintech and crypto. They argued that the local regulato
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In Brief Temu is adding “import charges” of around 145% in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on goods shipped from China, CNBC reports. The fees cost more than the products that U.S. consumers are buying, and in some cases are more than doubling the price of a standard order. For example, CNBC found that a summer dress sold on Temu for $18.47 will cost $44.68 after $26.21 in import charges. Shein has also hiked prices, but isn’t implementing an import charge, it appears. The moves
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Shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise jumped nearly 5% after Elliott Investment Management built a more than $1.5 billion stake in the server maker, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC. The activist investor hopes to engage the company in discussions on how to improve shareholder value, the source said. Elliott declined to comment on the news. HPE did not immediately respond to CNBC's request. Shares of the data center equipment maker have lost more than a fourth in value this year. La
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-31 00:27:52
In Brief General Motors is laying off 500 workers at a factory in Canada because of weak demand for its all-electric BrightDrop vans, according to CNBC. GM told CNBC that the cuts were not related to the ongoing trade war being waged by President Donald Trump. The company is cutting one of the two shifts at the CAMI plant in Ontario, and will idle the facility for 20 weeks beginning in May. The cuts are the newest twist in BrightDrop’s short but somewhat tumultuous history. It created BrightD
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-08 20:36:21
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: 2025-09-25 16:53:09
Nvidia is aiming to anchor CoreWeave's initial public offering at $40 a share with a $250 million order, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company initially filed the offering at $47 to $55 per share. The source told CNBC's Leslie Picker that CoreWeave is not planning on downsizing or refiling at this time. CoreWeave did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment. Nvidia is already a significant customer of CoreWeave, which rents out remote access to computers bas
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-17 06:48:37
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. NBC will continue airing the Olympics in the US for the foreseeable future. Its parent company, Comcast, just announced a deal with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that will keep the games on NBC’s platforms, including Peacock, through 2036. As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, NBC’s previous agreement with the IOC gave it the rights to st
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-19 15:31:52
is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Attorneys at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked a federal judge Wednesday to delay its consumer protection trial against Amazon by two months, saying that staffing losses and a possible office move could hinder its ability to prepare. “We have lost employees in the agency, i
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Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO of Salesforce, speaking on CNBC's Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22nd, 2025. Salesforce on Wednesday announced plans to invest $1 billion in Singapore over the next five years. The cloud software giant said the investment is designed to accelerate the country's digital transformation and the adoption of Salesforce's flagship AI offering Agentforce. Salesforce is among the many technology companies hoping to boost revenue
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-22 06:19:19
In a new tell-all book, a former senior Facebook employee claims, among other things, that employees used to let founder Mark Zuckerberg win at Settlers of Catan. As former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams told NBC News ahead of the release of her new memoir, titled "Careless People," Zuckerberg insisted that his underlings weren't losing on purpose. "You don’t want to win that way?" Wynn-Williams, a former diplomat from New Zealand who worked as Facebook's director of global public poli
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The Xiaomi booth at the Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, Spain. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC Just as Huawei is looking to dip its toe into international smartphone sales again and other Chinese players are growing quickly, Trump is back in the White House, which is likely to overshadow these companies' presence at MWC, according to Ben Wood, chief analyst at CCS Insight. "I think also unfortunately for Huawei, just as they are starting to get back on their feet, the re-emergence of Trump and hi
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is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today dismissed a lawsuit against Early Warning Services, the company that runs the Venmo-like Zelle payment platform, as well as the three banks that share ownership of it, reports CNBC. The CFPB, which enforces regulations against the financial services industry, had claimed in its December 2024 lawsuit th
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Standard Chartered's bullish crypto analyst still sees bitcoin's price hitting $500,000 during Donald Trump's presidency — even after a selloff that sank the world's largest digital currency to a three-month low. Geoffrey Kendrick, who heads up digital assets research at Standard Chartered, told CNBC he believes bitcoin will hit the $200,000 mark this year before climbing even further in the coming years. "Within the crypto ecosystem, what we need are traditional financial players, like Standa
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