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  • FILE PHOTO -The rear of a Lexus SUV equipped with Google self-driving sensors is seen during a media preview of Google's prototype autonomous vehicles in Mountain View, California September 29, 2015. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo

    Self-Drivings Cars May Change Where You Want to Live

    By Deborah Findling, CNBC

    Menlo Ventures managing director Venky Ganesan says that urban spaces will change dramatically once self-driving cars become widespread. "The average house is roughly 3,000 sq ft and it's been going...

  • Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin poses for a portrait wearing Google Glass glasses before the Diane von Furstenberg Spring/Summer 2013 collection show during New York Fashion Week in this September 9, 2012 file photo. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/Files

    Remember Google Glass? It's Not a Flop After All

    By Christina Farr, CNBC

    Google Glass isn't dead. In fact, it's a growing business. That's according to developers who license the smart glasses technology from Google Glass' enterprise-focused " Glass at Work " program...

  • Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk talks at the Automotive World News Congress at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, January 13, 2015. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

    Tesla Is Now Worth More Than Ford as It Shares Surge Higher

    By Robert Ferris, CNBC

    Tesla shares hit an all-time high on Monday, after the electric carmaker announced strong first-quarter delivery numbers Sunday that outpaced analysts' expectations. Tesla shares surged as high as $...

  • File photo of Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk standing on the podium as he attends a forum on startups in Hong Kong

    Why China Is a Big Part of Tesla’s Future

    By Evelyn Cheng

    Elon Musk's Tesla is a growing player in China, where the global fight to develop electric, self-driving cars is raging hot. Hong-Kong traded Tencent, a company best known for its WeChat messaging...

  • FILE PHOTO: A Tesla charging station is seen in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. on September 28, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo

    The New Tesla Model 3 Could be the Safest Car Ever

    By Robert Ferris, CNBC

    Tesla's Model 3 sedan could end up being significantly safer than the average car currently on the road, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas. And customer preferences suggest that level of...

  • Amazon unveils 3D 'Fire' phone

    Amazon unveils 3D 'Fire' phone

    By Deepa Seetharaman, Reuters

    SEATTLE (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's <AMZN.O> new cellphone seeks to offer shoppers instant gratification by recognizing thousands of products, television shows and songs and allowing users to...

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    4 Disruptors Are Changing How We Manage Money

    By Bryan Borzykowski, CNBC

    It's been five years since the recession ended, and most of America's financial institutions are still standing. The crisis didn't alter the country's banks like some people had thought it would, yet...

  • Health Care’s Big Data Destined for Big Growth

    By Eric Whitney, Kaiser Health News

    A computer programmer and a kid in a Batman suit walk into a pancake house...it sounds like a joke, but it really happened, and now the programmer, Dave Vockell, has a new product to bring to market...

  • Space Race 2.0: Google Searches for an Edge

    By John Grgurich, The Fiscal Times

    Call it Space Race 2.0. More than fifty years after the U.S. and Russia began a contest to reach the moon, a new sort of space race is underway. Now it's about one private-sector competitor beating...

  • Alibaba discloses powerful partners, reveals slowing growth

    Alibaba discloses powerful partners, reveals slowing growth

    By Paul Carsten and Matthew Miller, Reuters

    BEIJING (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding IPO-ALIB.N revealed the members of its powerful 27-person partnership and board on Monday, while disclosing that the Chinese e-commerce giant's growth has...