Mall Santa visits go virtual during pandemic-afflicted holiday
Cities across the country are turning to alternative methods to celebrate Christmas during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Walmart expands self-driving program with fully driverless vehicles
Walmart says it has tested the multi-temperature trucks on a small scale in Bentonville in order to see how they may be able to transfer customer orders from a dark store to a live store, or one that is open to the public.
Disney World will stop digital addition of masks to coronavirus pandemic-era ride photos
Disney World announced over the weekend that it would stop digitally adding masks to photos of patrons who were not wearing them.
Amazon Fashion launches Made For You, a custom clothing service with virtual body doubles
Amazon Fashion is creating virtual body doubles for users to customize their own T-shirt. The service is $25.
Oracle's Ellison relocates from California to Hawaii
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has moved from California's Silicon Valley to the Hawaiian island of Lanai.
Pornhub purges all unverified user videos -- over two-thirds of content
The move follows weeks of controversy following a report that alleged negligence on the website's part.
High school dropout starts company that offers free delivery for restaurants
A 21-year-old high school dropout has created a company that is rapidly changing the scope of the restaurant and food delivery industries.
Google lost $1.7M in ad revenue during YouTube outage, expert says
Google lost an estimated $1.7 million in ad revenue during Monday’s brief YouTube outage, according to online shopping platform LovetheSales.com.
Christmas decorations sell out faster than usual
And then, there weren’t enough lights for the tree.
When the Robinhood crowd buys for the long haul
Fractional shares are an easy way for small investors to buy a piece of Tesla or Apple, but many are using it as a way to slowly accumulate exchange-traded funds that give them a small piece of the broader market.
Flamethrower drone incinerates wasp nests in China
A search and rescue group raised $12,200 to buy a drone and equip it with a gasoline tank and an arm-length nozzle.
Facebook's Sandberg jabs government over antitrust lawsuits
Officials have accused Facebook of using its wealth to squelch competition by buying rival social media platforms.
California files to join US antitrust lawsuit against Google
Google has broadly denied wrongdoing in response to the government’s lawsuit and other probes.
Oracle moving from California to Texas, joins Tesla, Hewlett Packard
The tech giant is kissing California goodbye.
Who is Eric Yuan?
TIME Magazine on Thursday named Zoom CEO Eric Yuan their annual "businessperson of the year."
GoFundMe sharing stories of 1 family per day until Congress approves COVID-19 relief
GoFundMe is sharing the personal stories of one family per day until Congress approves a COVID-19 relief bill.
Intelligence expert weighs in on what a spy could gather by lurking on Facebook friends lists
Christine Fang or Fang Fang, a suspected spy whose reported mission was to network with and befriend up-and-coming American officials on behalf of China, remained Facebook “friends” with a number of her targets for years after her cover was blown and she left the country in 2015.
Uber wants drivers to get coronavirus vaccines early with other essential workers
On Thursday, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi sent a letter to all 50 U.S. governors asking them to prioritize the company’s ride-share and delivery drivers after healthcare workers and long-term care facility residents.
How big data turned into big business for cyber and privacy lawyers
Companies that rely on customer data to anchor their products and services are driving demand for much of the legal talent, with some startups paying privacy lawyers as much as general counsels.
AT&T Inc agrees to sell Crunchyroll anime business to Sony Corp’s Funimation Global Group, LLC
U.S. telecommunications firm AT&T Inc has agreed to sell its Crunchyroll anime business to Sony Corp’s Funimation Global Group, LLC, both companies said in a joint statement late Wednesday.



















