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A view of the atmosphere during the Snap Partner Summit 2023 at Barker Hangar on April 19, 2023 in Santa Monica, California.  Joe Scarnici | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Snap shares surged 28% on Friday after the company surprised Wall Street by showing a profit and reported sales and user numbers that exceeded analysts’

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai departs federal court on October 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. Pichai testified on Monday to defend his company in the largest antitrust case since the 1990s. Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images Alphabet’s board said Thursday

In this article SNAP META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Snap reported first-quarter results on Thursday that beat analysts’ estimates and showed a return to double-digit revenue growth. Shares soared more than 25% in extended trading.   Here’s how the company did:  Earnings per share: 3 cents adjusted vs. a loss of 5 cents expected

An animated avatar generated by the AI video platform Synthesia. Synthesia Nvidia-backed artificial intelligence firm Synthesia on Thursday unveiled a new wave of AI-generated digital avatars that can convey human emotions using a user’s text inputs. The company said its “Expressive Avatars” can blur the lines between the virtual world and real characters. It aims

In this article META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Meta Platforms, in July 2021. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images News | Getty Images Meta will report first-quarter results after the bell Wednesday. Here’s what analysts are expecting. Earnings per share: $4.32, according to LSEG. Revenue: $36.16 billion, according to LSEG. Daily

Amazon is opening cloud regions in Southeast Asia because customers want their data stored securely in their own countries, Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels said in an exclusive interview. “The reason for this is that many of our customers have been asking for that. They really wanted something local such that they can meet, for

In this article IBM HCP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT HashiCorp at the Nasdaq MarketSite on Dec. 9, 2021. Source: Nasdaq HashiCorp shares jumped as much as 26% on Tuesday following a media report claiming IBM was in talks to acquire the cloud software maker. Developers use HashiCorp’s software to set up and manage

In this article 9984.T-JP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Signage at a SoftBank Corp. store in the Ginza district of Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank is looking to develop a ”world-class” Japanese-language-specific generative artificial intelligence model, and plans to invest $960 million in the next two

In this article WOLF Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Scott Ostfeld, managing partner and portfolio manager with JANA Partners LLC., speaks during the 13D Monitor’s Active-Passive Investor Summit in New York City, U.S., October 17, 2023.  Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Activist investor Jana Partners has a built a “significant” position in semiconductor firm Wolfspeed

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT “There are a lot of people coming into the middle class, and I really feel that India is at a tipping point, and it’s great to be there,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in May last year. His comments underscore one reason Apple has recently

The Bitcoin network on Friday evening completed its fourth “halving,” reducing the rewards earned by miners to 3.125 bitcoins from 6.25. The price of bitcoin fell about 4% this week to about $64,100, according to Coin Metrics. Mechanically, the halving itself shouldn’t affect the price of bitcoin in the short term, but many investors are

Dado Ruvic | Reuters The Bitcoin network on Friday night slashed the incentives rewarded to miners in half for the fourth time in its history. The celebrated event, which takes place about once every four years as mandated in the Bitcoin code, is designed to slow the issuance of bitcoins, thereby creating a scarcity effect

In this article SMCI Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Super Micro Computer shares plunged 18% on Friday as investors scaled back their holdings of one of the market’s hottest stocks ahead of earnings later this month. Shares of Super Micro, which joined the S&P 500 in

A drone operator loads a Walmart package into Zipline’s P1 fixed-wing drone for delivery to a customer home in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, on March 30, 2023. Bunee Tomlinson Autonomous delivery drone startup Zipline said Friday that it hit its 1 millionth delivery to customers and that it’s eyeing restaurant partnerships in its next phase of

Morning traffic outside Meta headquarters, in Mountain View, California, U.S. November 9, 2022. Peter Dasilva | Reuters The Dutch government said Friday that it may be forced to stop using Facebook after a warning from the Netherlands’ privacy regulator about the Meta-owned social media platform’s privacy risks. The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued a

Taiwan plays a critical role in the AI chip revolution and the global semiconductor industry, the chief executive of the Taiwan Stock Exchange told CNBC in an exclusive interview. Sherman Lin, chairman and CEO of Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation attributed the strong gains on the Taiwan Weighted Index to “the AI revolution.” “It is just

In this article GOOGL GOOG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google and Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington, Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. Jose Luis Magana | AP Google terminated 28 employees Wednesday, according to an internal memo viewed by CNBC, after a series of protests against labor conditions

In this article CSCO Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Cisco logo is on display at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on February 26, 2024.  Charlie Perez | Nurphoto | Getty Images Enterprise technology titan Cisco Systems on Thursday unveiled a new security architecture product aimed at securing data centers, clouds, and

In this article GOOGL GOOG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat. Adam Galica | CNBC Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said in a memo Wednesday that Google is restructuring its finance organization, a move that will include layoffs and relocations, as the company pushes resources to favor investments

In this article ASML ASML-NL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT President Joe Biden’s administration plans to press the Netherlands next week to stop its top chipmaking equipment maker ASML from servicing some tools in China, two people familiar with the matter said, as the U.S. leans on allies in its bid to hobble Beijing’s