Bill.com Holdings Inc. Chief Executive René Lacerte is optimistic that the COVID-19 crisis will drive a longer-term shift toward remote work that increases demand for digital accounting tools. The company already saw signs of those trends in its recently ended fiscal fourth quarter, as it added 6,700 net new customers, gains it attributed in part […]
Epic Games Inc. launched Wolverine and Dr. Doom into “Fortnite” on Thursday, but fans of the popular videogame who play on Apple and Android devices may not know it. In the first major consequence for consumers caught in the crossfire of the legal battle royale between “Fortnite” publisher Epic Games and tech giants Apple Inc. […]
A Tesla Inc. logo is reflected in the glass of a closed showroom in San Diego. Bloomberg News Elon Musk confirmed Thursday that the Tesla Inc. gigafactory in Nevada was the target of a cyberattack that was foiled by the FBI. The blog Teslarati reported Thursday that a Russian man approached a worker at the […]
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Nutanix Inc. NTNX, +0.27% shares surged in the extended session Thursday after the cloud-software company reported a narrower-than-expected loss, topped revenue expectations, announced a large private equity investment, and said its chief executive was retiring. Nutanix shares surged 16% after hours, following a 0.3% rise in the regular session to close at $21.70. The company […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said on Thursday that Joe Biden should not participate in debates with President Trump during the general election campaign. “Don’t tell anybody I told you this, especially don’t tell Joe Biden: I don’t think there should be any debates,” Pelosi told reporters at a press conference. “I do not […]
After Haley Zager was arrested for child abuse, police found a metal Altoids tin full of various pills stuffed in her underwear. Haley Zager, a 30-year-old white Florida woman, has been arrested after she allegedly slapped an 11-year-old Black boy and called him the n-word. She was charged with child abuse, which was increased to […]
Sputnik/Aleksey Nikolskyi/Kremlin via Reuters Vladimir Putin says he has formed a reserve of law enforcement officers to send to Belarus to help president Alexander Lukashenko if necessary, Russian media reported on Thursday. Putin said he will not deploy these forces unless “extremist elements in Belarus cross a line and start plundering.” Speaking to the state-run […]
Forecasters are watching two tropical waves in the Atlantic early Friday that are moving west and one of them has a differing forecast for its northern and southern side. Wave 1, the closest one, is moving across the far eastern tropical Atlantic at 15 mph and is about 1,000 miles east of the Windward Islands, […]
The Milwaukee Bucks decided to “strike” and not take the floor for their playoff game today in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. The game between the Bucks and the Orlando Magic was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, but the teams remained in their respective locker rooms. Games between the Houston […]