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Stock market today: Wall Street closes its worst week in six months with more losses
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street wheezed to more losses Friday as it limped to the finish of its worst week in six months. The S&P 500 slipped 9.94 points, or 0.2%, to 4,320.06 after a late-day swoon erased a modest gain it had held for most of the day. It capped an ugly slide...
Seagen, Activision Blizzard rise; Scholastic, Intel fall, Friday, 9/22/2023
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Friday: Scholastic Corp., down $5.15 to $33.80. The book publisher reported a bigger fiscal first-quarter loss than Wall Street expected. Activision Blizzard Inc., up $1.57...
Microsoft's revamped $69 billion deal for Activision is on the cusp of going through
LONDON (AP) — British competition regulators gave preliminary approval Friday to Microsoft’s restructured $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard, easing a final global hurdle that paves the way for one of the largest tech transactions in history to go through. ...
DuckDuckGo founder says Google's phone and manufacturing partnerships thwart competition
WASHINGTON (AP) — Appearing in the biggest antitrust trial in a quarter century, DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg testified Thursday that it was hard for his small search engine company to compete with Google because the powerhouse has deals with phone companies and equipment manufacturers to...
Prince William, billionaires Gates and Bloomberg say innovation provides climate hope
NEW YORK (AP) — With deadly extreme weather hitting all over the globe, rising temperatures peaking during the hottest summer on record and carbon pollution levels that keep climbing, Britain’s Prince William and wealthy entrepreneurs Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg promised a warming world a...
Google brings its AI chatbot Bard into its inner circle, opening door to Gmail, Maps, YouTube
Google is introducing Bard, its artificially intelligent chatbot, to other members of its digital family — including Gmail, Maps and YouTube — as it seeks ward off competitive threats posed by similar technology run by Open AI and Microsoft. Bard's expanded capabilities announced...
Microsoft's chief product exec to step down. Panos Panay was behind Surface devices and Windows 11
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — A top product executive at Microsoft who launched its Surface line of computers and Windows 11 is leaving the company. Panos Panay is stepping down after nearly two decades at Microsoft, most recently as chief product officer, according to a staff memo...
Tech industry leaders endorse regulating artificial intelligence at rare summit in Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's biggest technology executives on Wednesday loosely endorsed the idea of government regulations for artificial intelligence at an unusual closed-door meeting in the U.S. Senate. But there is little consensus on what regulation would look like, and the political path...
Stock market today: Asian shares slide after tech, rising oil prices drag Wall St lower
Stocks fell Wednesday in Asia after a slide for technology stocks dragged Wall Street lower ahead of a key report on U.S. inflation. Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 0.3% to 17,970.01 and the Shanghai Composite index sank 0.9% to 3,109.88. Japan's Nikkei 225 index shed...
Google's search engine dominance is at the center of the biggest US antitrust trial in decades
The U.S. government is taking aim at what has been an indomitable empire: Google’s ubiquitous search engine that has become the internet’s main gateway. The legal attack will swing into full force Tuesday in a Washington D.C. federal courtroom that will serve as the battleground...
