Investors will focus on streaming service subscription numbers, analyst saysApple TV+ just launched at the beginning of the month with Disney+ on deck. Larry Jones, CEO of Blackthorn and former president of TV Land, and Mark Mahaney, lead internet analyst at RBC Capital Markets, join “Squawk Box” to discuss the growing competition in the streaming space.

Why the Toyota Land Cruiser is disappearing from AmericaThe Toyota Land Cruiser is one of the auto industry’s longest lasting and most widely-known brands. Land Cruisers have been in continuous production since the 1950s. It was also one of the first vehicles Toyota imported to the United States, establishing the reputation that turned Toyota into one of the best-selling brands in America. But in 2019, the Land Cruiser seems to be disappearing from the United States, attracting one-fifth of the

Tobias Schwarz | AFP | Getty ImagesA candidate to be Germany’s next leader has again called for the country to play a more active military role on the world stage. In a translation provided by media outlet DW.com, Kramp-Karrenbauer is reportedly set to say Thursday that German armed forces should take a greater lead in armed missions around the world. In March, German budget figures put 2020 defense spending at €45 billion, or 1.37% of GDP. Germany has been careful to restrict its military activ

Heineken U.K. is to introduce cardboard packaging to replace the plastic rings used on its multipack cans. By the end of 2021 all of Heineken U.K.’s multi-pack cans — which include brands such as Strongbow and John Smith’s — will be free from plastic. Heineken U.K. is the latest major business to attempt to reduce the amount of plastic it uses. In October, consumer goods giant Unilever said it would halve its use of virgin plastic by 2025. The Anglo-Dutch firm also vowed to “help collect and pro

LISBON, Portugal — When a start-up raises money, it shouldn’t necessarily be seen at as a good thing, according to the co-founder of tech unicorn Branch. “We will never ever celebrate a fundraise,” Seghete said at a CNBC-moderated panel at the Web Summit tech conference. “When you raise money, it’s definitely important that you raise money to fuel your company.” The company has raised $113 million in funding to date and is backed by Android founder Andy Rubin’s Playground Ventures. Branch last y

Congress must approve the United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement in order to provide a linchpin for global trade discussions, according to Rick Dearborn, the former White House deputy chief of staff for policy. Republican lawmakers have been ramping up public pressure on Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to approve the deal, a replacement for NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement). “I think USMCA is the linchpin to every other agreement that is going to come down the road,”

The world’s biggest seller of cars, Toyota Motor Corporation, is to set up a joint venture with China’s BYD Company — a company quarter-owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. The two companies announced in a statement Thursday that they would each invest 50% of the capital needed to set up a joint venture which designs and develops battery-electric cars. No details about the total value of the venture were released. BYD and Toyota said they plan to staff the new company by transferring en

Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, speaks ahead of the Balkan summit at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on Monday, April 29, 2019. French President Emmanuel Macron, in an interview with British weekly The Economist, warned fellow European countries that they could no longer rely on the United States to defend North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies. “What we are currently experiencing is the brain death of NATO,” Macron was quoted as saying. I’d argue that we should reassess the r

LISBON, Portugal — Apple’s digital wallet is stifling competition in the payments market, according to a high number of complaints sent to the EU’s Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager. “We get many, many concerns when it comes to Apple Pay for pure competition reasons,” Vestager said in a press conference at the Web Summit tech conference in Lisbon, Portugal on Thursday. Apple Pay is now available in all EU member states and venture capital firm Loup Ventures estimates that 88% of its us

Don’t want dirty methods or dirty money used in elections, EU justice commissioner saysVera Jourova, European commissioner for justice, consumer and gender equality, discusses disinformation and Twitter’s political ads ban.

LISBON, Portugal — A top EU official weighed in on the debate over political ads on tech platforms Thursday, telling CNBC that European lawmakers will determine the rules while companies including Facebook and Twitter must obey them. Further legislation around political ads would bolster the EU’s efforts to take a leading role regulating the world’s biggest technology companies on issues ranging from disinformation to competition and data privacy. “For us the task of the day is to come up with t

The professional bodies representing traders, the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and the Investment Association (IA), have asked European exchanges to shorten trading hours by 90 minutes. Both the AFME and the IA argued a culture of long hours impacted traders’ mental health and wellbeing. She warned European trading risked lagging behind its global peers in terms of diversity and inclusion unless long hours were “tackled by an industry-wide approach.” While she acknowledged

Women working in Silicon Valley start-ups own just a quarter of the equity of their male colleagues, according to a report by software platform Carta. The report highlighted that both female start-up founders and employees owned just 26 cents of equity for every dollar held by men. Women made up a third of the participants in the study but held just 11% of the total equity wealth. Just one in eight start-up CEOs are women and the most highly compensated executive roles continued to be dominated

A 2019 report from iCIMS, a recruitment software provider, says app software developers are the most sought-after tech workers, making up nearly one-third of all tech openings. In some of the most competitive markets for tech, software engineers of varying specialties easily earn upwards of $150,000, according to data from Hired, a tech recruitment platform. Rishon Blumberg is co-founder of 10x Ascend, a company that negotiates compensation packages on behalf of senior tech leaders. Beyond pay,

There’s a lot of talk of “maxing your match” and don’t leave “free money on the table.” But most of the time, these advisors don’t mention the fine print: You don’t “own” the money contributed by your employer until you’re fully vested. If you were to leave the job after one year, you wouldn’t get any of the money that the employer invested in your 401(k). After two years, if you’re 20% vested, you would get $600, plus 20% of any investment returns that money earned. “Your vesting schedule appli

More than 11 years ago, former Major League Baseball star Alex Rodriguez told CNBC’s Becky Quick he would rather be on the cover of Fortune magazine than Sports Illustrated. And since retiring from the New York Yankees and professional baseball in 2016, A-Rod has been busy focusing on his multiple businesses. “I work so much harder at my business than I did at baseball because I don’t have the competitive advantage,” Rodriguez told Quick on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Wednesday. In 2008, Rodriguez fo

President Donald J. Trump and Attorney General William Barr depart after delivering remarks on citizenship and the census in the Rose Garden at the White House on Thursday, July 11th, 2019 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump on Thursday slammed a report from The Washington Post that said he had asked Attorney General William Barr to hold a news conference defending his controversial call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Post reports that Barr decided not to hold the presser

Sen. Bernie Sanders would revamp North American trade relationships and expand protections for workers as part of a sweeping new immigration plan. The senator’s proposal ties trade and labor rights to immigration at a time when trade stands at the top of Trump’s economic agenda. Sanders also says his signature universal health-care plan, “Medicare for All,” would “provide comprehensive care to everyone in America,” regardless of immigration status. Democrats seeking the presidential nomination h

As internet rollout continues to gain pace in developing countries, experts have warned that it could risk perpetuating and even exacerbating existing gender inequalities. New research from the International Telecommunication Union, which is a United Nations specialized agency, found that despite rising global internet penetration, a subsequent digital gender gap could potentially hinder women’s access to education, healthcare and other government services. The digital gender gap is defined as t

China has officially launched research and development work for 6G mobile networks, having only just rolled out 5G. One group will consist of relevant government departments responsible for promoting how 6G research and development will be carried out. 5G refers to next-generation mobile networks that offer super-fast data speeds that promise to support technologies like driverless cars and virtual reality. China turned on its 5G networks earlier this month ahead of an initial 2020 schedule. To