Prince Harry's interview with Barack Obama aired on the BBC's Radio 4 on Wednesday. The royal sat down with the former president to discuss social media's effect on society. While Obama did credit social media to part of his political success, he acknowledged a bubble phemonenon, saying one of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities.
What do you get the Kardashian who has everything? Stock - and lots of it. Kanye West gave his wife Kim Kardashian hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stocks for Christmas. including Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Disney, and Adidas.
Americans are expected to send back approximately $90 billion dollars worth of goods, according to reports from Optoro, a firm that tracks the business of return shipments. The firm notes that January is peak time for all returns, but 40 percent of holiday returns happen immediately after Christmas, between December 26th and 31st.
About nine million people with student loans missed their first payment after the recent pandemic pause, according to data.
Spending this holiday season is set to significantly rise, according to an economic survey from CNBC.
Google settled an antitrust lawsuit, Tesla is reportedly raising pay, a group is suing Utah over its social media policies for kids and the founder of Nikola was sentenced to prison.
The White House is lending its support to an auto industry effort to standardize Tesla’s electric vehicle charging plugs for all EVs in the United States.
Some of America’s biggest retailers are working to increase their shipping speeds to please shoppers expecting faster and faster deliveries.
A group representing several big tech companies is suing Utah over state laws about children's social media use.
Google has agreed to pay $700 million to settle an anti-trust settlement.
Stocks were up after the closing bell as Wall Street continued to pin their hopes on rate cuts after last week's comments from the Fed.
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Google has agreed to pay $700 million and make several other concessions to settle allegations that it had been stifling competition against its Android app store — the same issue that went to trial in another case that could result in even bigger changes.
