Avengers Endgame Source: Marvel Studios. “Avengers: Endgame” is expected to become the highest-grossing film of all time in a matter of days, Kevin Feige, the head of Marvel Studios announced Saturday to a crowd of thousands in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con. In just thirteen weeks in theaters, the Disney superhero flick will finally surpass
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Amazon made sweeping changes to its terms of service for third-party sellers on Wednesday in an effort to address an issue that’s plagued the biggest piece of its e-commerce business. As part of a settlement it reached with German antitrust authorities over its marketplace policies, Amazon said it will now give a 30-day notice to
Facebook Vice President David Marcus is the face of the company’s Libra digital currency, but the original driving force was a 26-year-old female engineer named Morgan Beller. Source: Facebook On February 12, 2018, Silicon Valley investor and cryptocurrency technologist Howard Wu was invited to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park to discuss the implications, opportunities and
Tom Cruise on the set of “Top Gun.” Paramount Pictures | Sunset Boulevard | Corbis | Getty Images On Thursday, Paramount debuted the first trailer for “Top Gun: Maverick,” a sequel to the much beloved ’80s classic “Top Gun,” at San Diego Comic-Con. By Friday, eagle-eyed fans had spotted one big difference between the iconic
Signage is displayed outside a JC Penney Co. store in Chicago, Illinois. Christopher Dilts | Bloomberg | Getty Images J.C. Penney on Friday afternoon said it hasn’t hired any advisors to prepare for an “in-court restructuring or bankruptcy.” The statement followed a report Thursday evening that the embattled department store chain had hired advisers to explore
Shares in French advertising conglomerate Publicis slumped after the group cut its 2019 revenue growth guidance. Late Thursday, the company reported lower-than-expected revenue for the second-quarter of 2019. Shares of Publicis plunged 8.5% to their lowest level since December 2012 in early trading on Friday. The company posted organic growth of 0.1% against analyst expectations
2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Source: General Motors General Motors is gunning for Ferrari with its newest redesign of the Chevrolet Corvette — the 2020 Stingray unveiled Thursday night. First introduced in 1954, the Chevy Corvette quickly stood out in a market dominated by the heavy metal that was rolling out of most Detroit factories in
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Digital-Life-Design conference in Munich, Germany, on January 16, 2017. Tobias Hase | dpa | Getty Images Microsoft stock rose after the company released better-than-expected earnings results for the fourth quarter of its 2019 fiscal year. Here are the key numbers: Earnings: $1.37 per share, excluding certain items, vs.
Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin SAUL LOEB | AFP | Getty Images Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that the department will police bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with “very, very strong” regulations so that they don’t become like anonymous Swiss bank accounts. “We’re going to make sure that bitcoin doesn’t become the equivalent of Swiss-numbered
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday that a number of bank stocks are worth buying, despite signs that the economy is weakening and the Federal Reserve won’t be raising interest rates this year. The banking cohort that have reported earnings thus far — Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs — combined made $29.5 billion, which the