Amazon was the Postal Service’s “largest customer” in fiscal 2019, according to documents obtained by a watchdog group.
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Unity is set to wrap up a big week for tech IPOs on Friday, and investors showed bullishness, pricing the stock above its expected range.
Shares of Snowflake traded sharply lower a day after the company’s blockbuster market debut.
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Texas Instruments Inc. ) said Thursday it will raise its quarterly cash dividend by 13%, from 90 cents a share to $1.02 a share. The dividend will be payable Nov. 16 to stockholders of record on Oct. 30, contingent upon a formal OK by the board of directors at its regular meeting in October. Texas Instruments said it has authorized dividend increases for 17 straight years. Shares of Texas Instruments were flat in the extended session after ending the regular trading day up 0.5%.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday outlined to employees a new set of principles to guide debates and conversations within Workplace, the company’s internal social network.
Facebook announced new policies that will limit the spread of groups on its social network that focus on giving users health advice as well as groups with ties to violence.
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Redwood Materials will be working with Amazon to recycle electric vehicle batteries, other lithium-ion batteries and e-waste from various operations within Amazon.
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Tonal raises $110 million from Amazon Alexa Fund, Steph Curry and others, after seeing surging demand for its at-home strength training machines during the pandemic.
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Redwood Materials, the recycling start-up founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel, is among the recipients.
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CNBC takes a first look at the Apple Watch Series 6 and explains how it compares to the Apple Watch Series SE and Apple Watch Series 3.
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It must be “100% as far as national security is concerned,” said Trump, adding that he would have to see the deal first before signing off on it.
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Beijing-based ByteDance, which owns the popular short video sharing app, rejected Microsoft’s bid to buy TikTok’s U.S. operations and instead chose Oracle to become TikTok’s U.S. technology partner.
The two-year study is looking at whether data collected from the Apple Watch can help people with asthma predict potentially serious outcomes, which could lead to hospitalization. About 1.8 million people end up in emergency rooms from asthma each year.
Mike Speiser, who helped create Snowflake and served as its first CEO, is generating massive returns from the software company’s IPO.
One of Snowflake’s key suppliers, Amazon, happens to be a major competitor. The situation has improved, Snowflake’s CEO said.
Sony announced the price and release date for the PS5 on Wednesday.