Facebook considers action to ensure Bloomberg posts made by Bloomberg employeesPresidential candidate Michael Bloomberg has already spent $40 million on traditional campaign advertising. CNBC’s Julia Boorstin reports on what the campaign is doing on non-traditional platforms.

Google has reached a settlement with state attorneys general over outside consultants hired to work on the states’ antitrust investigation, CNBC has learned. The settlement means that potential roadblocks to the states’ probe may be cleared for now, allowing the attorneys general to continue digging into Google’s business. Texas is leading the the probe into Google’s digital advertising business, which is backed by 49 other attorneys general from U.S. states and territories. The investigation is

People wait in line to vote on the final day of early voting for the upcoming Nevada Democratic presidential caucus on February 18, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Instead of an app, Nevada’s Democrats will use a “Caucus Calculator” tool to add up votes and combine Election Day ballots with votes cast at early voting sites. The Nevada caucuses started with four days of early voting between Feb. 15 and Feb. 18 at more than 80 sites across Nevada. About 75,000 Nevadans have cast their ballots during ea

Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $3 billion and admit wrongdoing to settle criminal and civil investigations with the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission over its fraudulent fake-account scandal, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Friday. “Simply put, Wells Fargo traded its hard-earned reputation for short-term profits, and harmed untold numbers of customers along the way.” San Francisco-based Wells Fargo avoids criminal prosecution as part of the deal. By contrast, Wells Far

Magic: The Gathering introduced a brand-new format on Thursday called Jumpstart. Traditionally, fans of Magic fuel their hobby by purchasing prebuilt 60-card Planeswalker decks and 15-card blind booster packs. If you absolutely must merge the greatest evils in the multiverse together, Cats and Phyrexian packs are waiting for you.” “What theme each booster contains is randomized, but each themed 20 cards will be sealed inside the pack and labled,” Wizards said. There are even brand-new cards that

Cloud Imperium Games, the developer and publisher of Star Citizen, and Crytek told a judge this week they’ve settled a 2-year-old lawsuit over the game’s use of CryEngine 3. Crytek sued Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space Industries, the companies founded by Star Citizen creator Chris Roberts, in December 2017. Squadron 42, a single-player narrative adventure starring Mark Hamill, Gillian Anderson, Gary Oldman, and John Rhys-Davies, has been in development since the beginning of Star Citizen

Dan DiDio, the co-publisher of DC Comics and one of the most influential comics-industry creatives of the last decade, has departed the company. DC confirmed the news with Polygon on Friday afternoon, but could not offer additional details behind the sudden departure. DiDio joined DC Comics in January 2002, as a vice president of editorial and a writer on Superboy. A key voice in DC’s growth during the mid-2000s, he and comics writer Jim Lee were eventually made co-publishers of the outfit in 20

A week after losing all its Activision Blizzard games, Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming service has lost “most Bethesda Softworks titles,” Nvidia said in an announcement Friday afternoon. Other Bethesda games leaving GeForce Now include the remainder of the Wolfenstein series; Fallout 3, 76, and New Vegas; The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim (and its Special Edition); Doom (2016); Dishonored and Dishonored 2; and The Evil Within 2. “As we approach a paid service, some publishers may choose to remove games

So it makes sense that their ideal side hustle — baking and selling gluten-free bread at farmers markets — feels theatrical. Even baking the bread, loading up the van, getting everything set up so everyone can go to the market — it’s theater.” It’s also lucrative: At the pop-up bakery Super Bloom, Boucai earns roughly $20 per hour, pulling in between $250 and $300 each week. That’s a total of up to $3,200 per month in side hustle income, more than three times their $1,000 monthly rent. ‘Being pa

How kombucha became a near $500 million fermented tea empireIt seems like kombucha, the fizzy fermented tea known for its probiotic properties, is having a moment: The U.S. market for the drink went from $152 million dollars in 2015 to $492 million dollars in 2019, according to research from Nielsen. Here’s how kombucha went from a niche farmers’ market beverage to a global phenomenon.

An outbreak of coronavirus in northern Italy worsened on Friday, with officials announcing 14 confirmed cases in the wealthy region of Lombardy, while two cases were reported in the adjacent region of Veneto. Just hours after revealing that six people had come down with the virus in the first known cases of local transmission in Italy, officials said a further eight had tested positive for the disease, including five health workers. Separately, ANSA news agency said two people had been diagnosed

President Donald Trump criticizes Oscar-winning ‘Parasite’ during Colorado campaign rallyPresident Donald Trump criticized the South Korean film ‘Parasite’ during his campaign rally on Thursday.

Where White House sees US economy headedTomas Philipson, CEA Acting chairman, joins ‘The Exchange’ to discuss the White House’s GDP projection for 2020.

A woman wears a masks in Chinatown following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. January 30, 2020. California, Nebraska and Illinois are the only U.S. states that can currently test for coronavirus, the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) told Reuters on Friday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week said some of the testing kits sent to U.S. states and at least 30 countries produced “inconclusive” results due to a flawed co

If you’re buying soon and want a save haven, then you’re going to pick a more conservative account like a checking or high-yield savings account. Checking or savings accountMost people saving for a house use their checking account or open a separate savings account, McDaniels says. Your best bet is to open a high-yield savings account at a bank or cash account via a fintech platform like Betterment or Wealthfront. The appeal is that traditionally, those rates have been higher than what a savings

Facebook’s Libra Association added a new member after shedding several partners in its ambition to create a new cryptocurrency. Shopify’s new membership follows a slew of defections from the Libra Association in the months since its unveiling in 2019. All three companies stepped back from the Libra Association and would be joined by PayPal, eBay, Booking Holdings, Mercado Pago and Vodafone. Zuckerberg told the House Financial Services Committee in October that Facebook would leave the Libra Asso

The source said Facebook is considering taking steps to make it clearer that the people posting messages of support are paid employees. Facebook has taken a range of steps to improve transparency around political advertising since the Cambridge Analytica scandal in March 2018. This follows last week’s news from Facebook when a company spokesperson told CNBC that Facebook would not put political posts from influencers into its ad database, even if a candidate paid the influencer for the post. How

“The slow way to wealth is to save.” It’s a lot easier to make more money than to save more. Plus, if you make a lot, “it’s a lot easier to save anyways,” he says. “Meanwhile, the wealthy are focusing their energy on not just earning — but earning a lot of money.” The wealthy are focusing their energy on not just earning — but earning a lot of money.

What is it about social media that so effectively supercharges frauds by Sorokin, aka Delvey, and so many others? Mendelson, author of the book “Social Media is Bulls—,” said platforms that rely heavily on images are especially tricky because of our trusting nature. “You can do a reverse image search to see if that image was stolen.” Consider how the social media figure interacts with them. “If you message someone and they message you right back at, like, 3 o’clock in the morning, that should

…but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. They had never heard that line from the famous Holiday Inn commercials. Geothermal energy means sticking pipes about 500 feet down into the earth instead. The utility companies would need to offer something similar for geothermal systems to be similarly within reach for most people. Final note: we started looking into solar systems after a power outage and a headache-inducing experiment with a portable generator that needed a lot of maintena