Serial entrepreneur Bill Harris, who was the founding CEO of PayPal for five months, now runs a self-funded IRA advisory called Evergreen Wealth. He credits his energy to a radically simple personal life, living in a small Miami Beach cottage and biking everywhere.
Honda is taking full control of its Ohio battery plant joint venture from LG Energy Solution in a $2.85 billion deal. The move comes as Honda and other automakers scale back EV production plans amid slowing demand. Instead, Honda is pivoting investment toward new hybrid models.
Jim Cramer’s market notes highlight Nvidia’s CES keynote announcing its Vera Rubin AI chips are in “full production.” Meanwhile, Wells Fargo got a surprising sell rating, and analysts are split on oilfield services and homebuilders.
Brazil’s antitrust regulator, CADE, has launched an administrative inquiry into Microsoft’s cloud computing and software licensing. The probe, which began on January 2, directly cites the UK CMA’s recent findings of anti-competitive effects. Microsoft has a January 12 deadline to answer a detailed q
Consulting giant Accenture is acquiring UK-based AI services firm Faculty. As part of the deal, Faculty’s CEO Marc Warner will become Accenture’s new chief technology officer.
According to Blackstone CTO John Stecher, entry-level software engineers today are far more talented than he was starting out in 2001. However, the rise of AI coding tools is creating a crisis of opportunity, making it harder for new hires to learn the fundamentals by doing the work.
Kuaishou Technology has pulled off a dramatic pivot to AI video, with its Kling app driving an 84% stock surge. The company, once a laggard to TikTok, now projects $140 million in 2025 revenue from the tool and has amassed 60 million users by moving faster than rivals.
A federal judge has rejected Amazon’s attempt to dismiss a major price gouging lawsuit. The case alleges the company and its sellers inflated prices on essentials by over 1,000% during the pandemic’s peak.
Qualcomm is doubling down on its Windows on Arm push with new budget-friendly Snapdragon X2 Plus processors. Announced at CES, they promise huge efficiency gains and an 80 TOPS NPU, but the company still faces an uphill battle against entrenched x86 rivals in the enterprise market.
ASUS has told partners it won’t release new smartphones in 2026. The company insists its phone operations will continue, but distributors report a shutdown date of December 31, 2025. This looks like a quiet wind-down.
