Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s prominent incubator and startup fund, has half of its latest class of entrepreneurs from outside of the United States, more than ever before, as the pandemic has pushed all of its work online, Managing Director Michael Seibel said Thursday at the Reuters Next conference.
What happenedShares of several special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) that are set to merge with electric-vehicle start-ups closed higher on Thursday, as investors continued to snap up shares of everything EV-related following last year's spectacular run by category leader
Parler on Thursday urged a U.S. judge to order Amazon.com Inc to restore the company's account, saying Amazon had no evidence the social media platform was used to incite last week's storming of the U.S. Capitol.
Barilla said on Thursday it had bought a majority stake in Britain's Pasta Evangelists, re-entering the fresh pasta market and boosting its digital offering at time when the pandemic is driving demand for home deliveries of food and drinks.
The outgoing Trump administration said Thursday it was issuing new rules that would allow manufacturers of automated vehicles to bypass some crash standards required of conventional vehicles, which would cut production costs.
Do You Have These Top E-Commerce Stocks On Your Watchlist? Some of the best-performing stocks last year were e-commerce stocks. Admittedly, this is because of the pandemic keeping people at home. Coupled with the ease of use and convenience of online shopping, the industry has bo
Late last week, Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) announced it had come to an agreement with Quibi, the failed short-form streaming platform, to exclusively host its content on the Roku Channel. Being the operating system for internet-connected TVs (CTVs), it probably came as a bit of a surpri
The U.S. Trade Representative's office on Thursday said it has found that digital services taxes imposed by Austria, Spain and the United Kingdom discriminate against U.S. companies and are inconsistent with international tax principles, but will take no immediate action.
In this week's episode of Rule Breaker Investing, Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner is joined by analysts Rick Munarriz and Karl Thiel to break down some not-so-good stocks. Find out what went wrong for these companies, if there's light at the end of the tunnel, and more.To ca
The Walmart (NYSE: WMT) of today may not seem too terribly different than the Walmart of five years ago. Sure, it's got a much bigger online presence now, second only to Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) in terms of e-commerce sales within the United States. The addition of curbside pick
There's no denying Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) was the big winner of the coronavirus pandemic. Already established as the king of e-commerce, it was the name best prepared for the sudden rush of online shopping. Last year's revenue will likely roll in 35% better than 2019's, once the c
Nokia on Thursday partnered with Alphabet's Google Cloud unit to build 5G core network infrastructure and allow business customers to offer services such as smart retail and automated manufacturing.
When Sea Limited (NYSE: SE) went public in late 2017, I wasn't impressed by the Singapore-based e-commerce and gaming company. Its revenue was soaring, but its losses were widening as it faced tough competition in Southeast Asia from Alibaba's (NYSE: BABA) Lazada.I turned bullish
Lemonade (NYSE: LMND) was one of the hottest IPOs of 2020, and its run is spilling over into 2021. Shares are up some 150% since the stock's first day of trading last July, and this small insurance technology company's market cap has surged to about $10 billion. Given that Lemona
GoodRx Holdings (NASDAQ: GDRX) was one of the top healthcare IPOs of 2020, and today it has a market cap of $17 billion. However, it's been on a bumpy ride since the stock made its debut in September -- falling by more than 13%, even as the S&P 500 climbed by 16%. Although th
Connecticut is investigating whether Amazon.com Inc is engaged in anti-competitive behavior in the e-book business through its distribution agreements with certain publishers, the state's Attorney General William Tong said on Wednesday.
Connecticut is looking into how Amazon.com Inc sells and distributes digital books, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing the state's attorney general.
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Social media platform Parler, which has gone dark after being cut off by major service providers that accused the app of failing to police violent content, may never get back online, said its CEO John Matze.
Social media platform Parler, which has gone dark after being cut off by major service providers that accused the app of failing to police violent content, may never get back online, said its CEO John Matze.