Category: Technology

The Facebook logo is displayed during the F8 Facebook Developers conference on April 30, 2019 in San Jose, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Facebook will pay the Federal Trade Commission a record-breaking $5 billion fine to settle a probe into its privacy practices.  The fine is the largest ever imposed by the FTC against […]

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg meets Founder and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma (not pictured), at the China Development Forum in Beijing, China, March 19, 2016.  Shu Zhang | Reuters Facebook warned on Wednesday that it expects changes in its ability to target ads to sting later this year and into 2020. […]

Jeff Bezos announces Blue Moon, a lunar landing vehicle for the Moon, during a Blue Origin event in Washington, DC, May 9, 2019. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images After spending $800 million in recent months to speed up package delivery, Amazon is seeing some signs of growth acceleration, at least from the first […]

Ruth Porat, Alphabet CFO Adam Galica | CNBC Entering its second-quarter earnings report on Thursday, Alphabet’s in a bit of a slump. The stock has dropped almost 10% in the past three months, leaving it up only about 9% for the year, dramatically underperforming its mega-cap tech peers and the benchmark S&P 500, which is […]

Brian Roberts, chairman and chief executive officer of Comcast Corp. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Comcast on Thursday reported second-quarter earnings that beat expectations but revenue that fell short. It also exceeded estimates on high-speed internet customer additions. Share prices were down roughly flat during morning trading Thursday from Wednesday’s closing price […]