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Orbex is a startup that develops both small and medium-sized space rockets. The firm uses a renewable form of propane known as bio-propane to fuel its rockets. Michal Wachucik | AFP via Getty Images The U.K. government announced Wednesday a £20 million ($24.8 million) investment in Orbex, a Scottish spaceflight startup aiming to rival Elon

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump greets Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk during a rally the day before Trump is scheduled to be inaugurated for a second term, in Washington, U.S., January 19, 2025.  Brian Snyder | Reuters Tesla’s fourth-quarter earnings report lands just over a week after President Donald Trump began his second term

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks next to SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son after U.S. President Donald Trump delivered remarks on AI infrastructure at the Roosevelt room at White House in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2025.  Carlos Barria | Reuters OpenAI on Tuesday announced its biggest product

A sales clerk shows off Elpida Memory Inc. memory chips at an electronics shop in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, March 5, 2009. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares in Japan’s chip-related companies extended declines for a second day as Chinese startup DeepSeek’s AI competitiveness calls into question the United States’ leadership in the

Dado Ruvic | Reuters 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

In this article CORZQ COIN BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A bitcoin is on a screen showing the bitcoin-U.S. dollar exchange rate. Fernando Gutierrez-Juarez | picture alliance | Getty Images Cryptocurrencies tumbled to begin the final week of January, with the market in a cooling period after running to a new record and

Workers weld acid batteries at the Leoch International Technology Ltd. factory in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024.  Mauricio Palos | Bloomberg | Getty Images The world’s most valuable chipmaker and the world’s largest contract manufacturer for electronics announced in November that Foxconn was building a massive factory in Guadalajara, Mexico, to assemble

Photo illustration of TikTok app logo on a smartphone screen displayed with the American flag. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Perplexity AI on Sunday revised the merger proposal it had submitted to TikTok parent ByteDance. The proposal, which would create a new entity combining Perplexity and TikTok U.S., would now also allow for the

The logo of TP-Link appears on the products of router manufacturer TP-Link in Fuyang, China, on December 19, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images While the TikTok ban has lawmakers scurrying and chatter about Chinese influence over U.S. tech at a fever pitch, another danger is lurking. One

In this article META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Instagram added a new short-form video feature to the image-focused platform in a direct challenge to TikTok. Chris Delmas | AFP | Getty Images Meta is offering deals to creators to promote Instagram on other short-form video apps, including TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube, CNBC has

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet shares closed at $200 per share for the first time on Friday as investors grow increasingly bullish on the company’s opportunities in artificial intelligence. The stock gained 1.1% on Friday and

Thilina Kaluthotage | Nurphoto | Getty Images Meta will begin testing ads on its Threads microblogging service with a few companies in the U.S. and Japan, the company said in a blog post Friday. The experiment marks Meta’s first run at generating revenue from Threads. Meta launched the app in July 2023 to rival X,

In this article .FKRX300 Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT SK Hynix Inc. signage at the company’s office in Seongnam, South Korea, on Monday, April 22, 2024. SK Hynix is scheduled to release earnings figures on April 25. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images South Korea’s SK Hynix, one

In this article META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi. Databricks Data analytics software startup Databricks said Wednesday that Meta has signed on as an investor. As the company that trains the popular Llama open-source large language models, or LLMs, that Databricks builds on, Meta plays an important role

Photo illustration shows the TikTok logo displayed on a mobile phone screen. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Canadian investor Kevin O’Leary is still interested in a TikTok deal, but it’s not possible under current law, he told CNBC, as President Donald Trump extended the deadline for a ban on the social media platform.

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Think about the apps you use on your phone every day. Studies have shown Americans use an average of 46 mobile apps each month to complete a variety of everyday tasks. Now imagine if you could combine all of those programs into a single, standalone

In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Bitcoin hit a new all-time high overnight after the incoming first couple launched a pair of meme coins and as traders await the inauguration of incoming President Donald Trump. On Monday the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by

Dado Ruvic | Reuters TikTok was available to some U.S. users on Sunday after President-elect Donald Trump said that he would sign an executive order on Monday following his inauguration to delay a federal ban of the app. In a statement on X, the company wrote that it would bring back access to its American

In this article TSM 2330-TW Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT TSMC Arizona’s first chip fab on November 7, 2024 Katie Tarasov U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has accused Taiwan of “stealing” his country’s chip industry. But Taiwan’s biggest chip company is confident the Trump administration will continue funding its projects in the U.S. Taiwan Semiconductor

An aerial view of repair vehicles at sunset passing near beachfront homes that burned in the Palisades Fire as wildfires cause damage and loss through the LA region on January 15, 2025 in Malibu, California.  Mario Tama | Getty Images Midway through December, tech entrepreneur Dan Preston debuted insurance startup Stand’s first product focused on