Vamvakidis said the market has learned to filter out Trump’s tweets and focus on only those that could impact policy. “We started the year with the market following Trump’s tweets and responding to them. As for the bond market, yields were lower Tuesday in part amid concern over Trump’s passing of information to Russia. Vamvakidis said the market is not very optimistic on tax reform, but it would be a major negative if there is no legislation. He said he expects to see tax reform by the end of t

Online registration began this week for the service’s first civilian bug bounty program, designed to find website and network security vulnerabilities. The Air Force has done a great job in the last two years to modernize that stuff and get off floppies.” HackerOne’s website describes the Air Force’s program as “the largest Department of Defense bug bounty challenge yet.” However, once the agency invited hackers to do the bug bounty program for the Pentagon, “within minutes they got some serious

After a decade that saw a recession lead into historically low growth, a large swath of investors believes conditions globally are now just about right. Some 34 percent of market professionals responding to this month’s Bank of America Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey described the economy as fitting the “Goldilocks” standard of “high growth and low inflation.” Global GDP growth likely was 3.4 percent in 2016 and is expected to pick up to 3.6 percent this year, according to International Moneta

Israel was the U.S. ally that collected the highly classified intelligence that President Donald Trump reportedly shared in a meeting with Russian officials last week, NBC News confirmed with three government officials with knowledge of the matter. The press secretary said, however, that the U.S. appreciates the “strong relationship that we have with Israel when it comes to intelligence sharing.” Earlier Tuesday, Trump defended his conduct in his meeting with key Russian diplomats, calling it “v

Former FDA commissioner Robert Califf is in talks with Alphabet’s life sciences arm Verily for a leadership role, according to several people familiar with the matter. The details of the position are still being worked out, and the talks could fall through, but Califf, a legendary cardiologist, is expected to take a joint role at Stanford and Verily. The appointment of Califf would be a big win for Verily, and couldn’t come at a better time. The company just lost its top academic, former nationa

Thirty-one percent of the 184 respondents consider Chinese credit tightening the biggest “tail risk” for markets. The second worry is a crash in the global bond market, at 19 percent, followed by trade war, at 16 percent. The China worries also feed into existing worries about expensive stocks. The BofAML survey found that 37 percent of respondents think global equity markets are overvalued. On Monday, the Nasdaq composite, S&P 500, German DAX, and Hang Seng closed at records — survey respondent

President Donald Trump allegedly asked ousted FBI Director James Comey to “let go” of the investigation into former national security advisor Michael Flynn, NBC News confirmed with a former federal law enforcement official. “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Trump told Comey, according to a memo the former FBI director penned soon after the meeting. This is not a truthful or accurate portrayal of the conversation between the president and Mr. Comey,” the

Josh James started Domo, his software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, in 2010 after selling his web analytics company, Omniture, to Adobe Systems for $1.8 billion. Read More FULL LIST: 2017 DISRUPTOR 50Domo’s solutions can be parsed by role (CEO, CFO or sales, for instance) or by industry. Domo for CEOs, for example, gives business leaders all the metrics they need together in one place, highlighting risks and opportunities at a glance. Domo’s most recent round of funding in April put to rest any

Helping businesses trade with other businesses across borders is the mission of Payoneer, a global provider of payment-processing technologies. The New York City-based company was started in 2005 by Yuval Tal, an Israeli entrepreneur who helped start other technology and e-commerce payments companies before Payoneer. Read More FULL LIST: 2017 DISRUPTOR 50The company helps facilitate global commerce by connecting businesses, professionals, countries and currencies. Now, the global payment process

For more than 16 years, Bloom Energy’s aim has been to supply customers with cleaner, more reliable energy. PowerSecure will acquire an estimated 50 megawatts of Bloom Energy Servers under a long-term agreement. Over the past year, the company has supplied its fuel cells to power IKEA stores in California and Connecticut, enabling the retailer to drastically reduce its carbon footprint. In late 2016 the Wall Street Journal reported that the company filed a confidential registration with the SEC

This Silicon Valley start-up — whose founders include two of the people that helped to start Zipcar — aims to build city-scale networks of connected vehicles that can expand wireless coverage. That means cars and buses, for instance, can become live networks that allow people to be online without being dependent on a cellular network. Veniam co-founder and CEO João Barros says the company can also take the data it collects to keep track of buses and other municipal vehicles and better manage tra

The 14-year-old San Francisco-based company lets users in multiple industries and professions electronically “sign on the dotted line.” Read More FULL LIST: 2017 DISRUPTOR 50The company, which has built a $3 billion valuation, is now adding electronic payments to its arsenal. Earlier this year it rolled out DocuSign Payments, allowing customers to collect a signature and payment in one transaction. In January, DocuSign named Daniel Springer, the former head of marketing software company Responsy

When MongoDB co-founders Dwight Merriman and Eliot Horowitz were building web applications at DoubleClick, the internet advertising agency that Google bought for $3.1 billion in 2007, they battled development and scalability issues with traditional database approaches. That’s why they created MongoDB as a company that could process huge sets of data in a fraction of the time it takes traditional databases. MongoDB comes in with the solutions to that data-processing challenge. The company claims

Illumio, a data center and cloud security company, says that billions of dollars have been spent by companies detecting hackers and malware, but little attention has gone to what happens once a company is breached. That’s why Andrew Rubin and PJ Kirner — both formerly of tech security company Cymtec — started Illumio in 2013. Read More FULL LIST: 2017 DISRUPTOR 50The company is a leader in the field of adaptive segmentation, the new foundation for data center and cloud security. Adaptive segment

Synack uses software security tools, along with a network of highly skilled ethical hackers — so-called white-hat hackers — to help keep its clients’ networks secure. Founders Jay Kaplan, CEO, and Mark Kuhr, CTO, specialized in counterterrorism at the NSA before starting Synack in 2013. Read More FULL LIST: 2017 DISRUPTOR 50Synack offers companies penetration testing that enables them to find vulnerabilities in their networks that hackers can exploit. With that information in hand, Synack can co

Since launching in 2010, Pinterest has amassed more than 175 million active users around the world, as well as 1 million businesses. Read More FULL LIST: 2017 DISRUPTOR 50To stay relevant and keep users engaged, the company recently launched Lens. The product basically allows users to point at an object (a chair, blouse or fruit, for instance) with their smartphone and receive related information about that item on Pinterest. The company took in roughly $300 million in revenue last year, nearly

Here we are, 20 years later, and Mr. Bezos has an authentic, legitimate claim on having changed the way we live. He has changed the way companies use computers, by moving much of their information and systems to cloud services. That’s not to say investors were always happy with Mr. Bezos — they would frequently punish his stock, making it seem like a volatile investment. To Mr. Bezos’ credit, he was always upfront with his ambitions and long-term approach. “Amazon is not happening to book sellin

You could have learned about all of these start-ups on previous years’ CNBC Disruptor 50 lists. This year marks the fifth year of the CNBC Disruptor 50, and in that short history a lot has changed for these companies. Seventeen past Disruptors are now public companies; 13 have been acquired; three of the previous Disruptors went the way of many start-ups: bankrupt. Seven companies have made the Disruptor list all five years. Below is the complete history of the CNBC Disruptor 50, with details on

Despite Trump declaring on his campaign trail last year that he was a fan of WikiLeaks – the organization that leaked Hillary Clinton’s emails – other members of his administration have targeted Assange. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said last months that arresting Assange is a “priority”. The WikiLeaks founder is currently at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. “We call on you as President of the United States to close the Grand Jury investigation into WikiLeaks and drop any charges planned

Usually, Space X lands the rocket back on earth after it has released its payload into space. But because of the size of this launch, the company was unable to do that. Inmarsat’s mission was SpaceX’s second launch in just two weeks and the next launch is scheduled in another two weeks. Even though the rocket could not be reused for the Inmarsat missions, SpaceX has proven that its technology works. In March, Musk’s firm launched a previously used portion of a Falcon 9.