By Suzanne McGee (Reuters) – Shares of headphone maker Koss Corp. soared for the second session in a row on Friday, closing at $13.35 a share, after trading as high as $18.50 early in the day, as social media posts speculated that a post by meme stock influencer Keith Gill indicated his interest in the…
By Yuvraj Malik and Jaspreet Singh (Reuters) – Meta Platforms’ newest social media offering Threads has over 175 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed on Wednesday, ahead of its first anniversary. A challenger to X, formerly known as Twitter, Threads hit app stores on July 5 last year, timed to win users from…
(Reuters) -Amazon.com said on Wednesday it would discontinue its security robot, Astro for Business, for small- and medium-sized businesses as it shifts its focus to household robots. The e-commerce giant initially launched the canine-like robot for household use in 2021. Astro for Business was launched last November for a range of customers including retail, manufacturing,…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Walmart must face a lawsuit claiming it often charges higher prices at the register than it posts on store shelves, costing consumers hundreds of millions of dollars a year, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday. Reversing a lower court judge, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago…
By Nora Eckert DETROIT (Reuters) – Ford Motor is trying to get more of its managers to buy electric vehicles, according to an internal email the automaker sent last week that was reviewed by Reuters. The Dearborn, Michigan-based company changed a leasing program it offers to eligible current and former managers, now requiring them to…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – The former senior Apple lawyer who avoided prison time after pleading guilty to insider trading must pay a $1.15 million fine in a related U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil case, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge William Martini in Newark, New Jersey, said that while Gene…
By Granth Vanaik and Siddharth Cavale (Reuters) – Keith Gill, the meme stock trader “Roaring Kitty,” thrust Chewy Inc into the spotlight when he made a $245 million bet on the online pet products retailer on Monday. What is Chewy and why has it attracted Gill’s interest? WHAT’S THE BUSINESS? Chewy is an $11 billion…
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Meta Platforms was charged by EU antitrust regulators on Monday for failing to comply with landmark tech rules as they took aim at the U.S. company’s newly introduced pay or consent advertising model, already the target of privacy regulators and activists’ ire. The tech giant launched the no-ads subscription…
(Reuters) – Robinhood Markets said on Monday it had bought artificial intelligence-powered investment platform Pluto Capital, adding the trading app to a growing list of companies looking to offer AI tools to customers. Top technology companies are racing to build AI into their products and services. Generative AI, which aims to create human-like interactions by…
By Saeed Azhar and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Citigroup urged a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by a former managing director who accused the bank of firing her in retaliation for refusing to give regulators false information. The third-largest U.S. bank said it lawfully terminated Kathleen Martin because she lacked the leadership and engagement…
