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Elon Musk's X partners with Visa on payment service in an effort to become an 'everything app,'

Jan. 28, 2025 14:18 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — X is teaming up with Visa to soon offer a system for real-time payments on the social media platform — signaling some progress in a yearslong vision from billionaire owner Elon Musk to create an “everything app.” Visa is the first partner for the platform's...

LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman sees bright AI future and hopes his tech peers are right about Trump

Jan. 27, 2025 12:22 PM EST

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has been immersed in Silicon Valley since his August 1967 birth in Palo Alto, California, in the shadow of Stanford University, where he and fellow technology luminary Peter Thiel became friends as college students during the 1980s. They went on to start...

Vance will make his mark as the first millennial vice president and the potential MAGA torchbearer

Jan. 19, 2025 07:24 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — As he prepares to become the nation's first millennial vice president, JD Vance is already the presumptive heir to the “Make America Great Again” movement. Vance hasn't been assigned a specific portfolio in the White House like some of his predecessors. While he...

As Biden warns of an 'oligarchy,' Trump will be flanked by tech billionaires at his inauguration

Jan. 16, 2025 20:04 PM EST

President Joe Biden's pointed warning about the U.S. becoming an “ oligarchy ” of tech billionaires will be illustrated at Donald Trump's inauguration, when the world's three richest men will sit on the dais as Trump is sworn in for a second term. Elon Musk, the world's...