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Pentagon expects to award up to $9 billion in cloud contracts in December
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a news conference in Tbilisi, Georgia October 18, 2021. Irakli Gedenidze | Reuters The U.S. Defense Department said Tuesday that it plans to award as much as $9 billion in contracts for cloud infrastructure services in December, about eight months later than it expected. The Joint Warfighter Cloud […]
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Businesses oppose Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill banning discussion of LGBTQ issues in public schools
Revelers celebrate on 7th Avenue during the Tampa Pride Parade in the Ybor City neighborhood on March 26, 2022 in Tampa, Florida. The Tampa Pride was held in the wake of the passage of Florida’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” Bill. Octavio Jones | Getty Images Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed legislation banning the […]
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Apple shares on pace for best daily winning streak since 2003
CEO of Apple Tim Cook attends the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party following the 94th Oscars at the The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California on March 27, 2022. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Apple shares rose on Tuesday, putting them on track to close higher for […]
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Reid Hoffman’s new start-up poaches first staff from Google and Meta
Reid Hoffman, founder and Chairman, Linkedin, at 2015 WEF in Davos, Switzerland. David A. Grogan | CNBC Inflection AI, the start-up launched earlier this month by LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman and DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, has poached artificial intelligence gurus from Google and Meta, according to CNBC analysis. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Inflection’s aim is […]
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Sequoia leads $80 million funding round for Swiss expense management start-up Yokoy
Sequoia Capital is betting the next European tech giant will emerge in Switzerland. The Silicon Valley venture capital firm told CNBC that it led an $80 million funding round for Yokoy, a platform that helps large companies manage their expenses, invoicing and credit card processing. Previous investors Left Lane and Balderton Capital also took part […]
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Jim Cramer says investors should use these rules to build a turbulence-proof portfolio
Investors should follow a certain set of rules when building their portfolios to weather the market volatility that Monday’s rally suggests could happen, Jim Cramer said. “When you see new, unseasoned merchandise exploding higher, along with names like Tesla surging on … a stock split, it tells you there might be a little too much […]
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MLB reaches a $125 million sponsorship deal with Capital One
Fernando Tatis Jr. #23 of the San Diego Padres runs past third base in the 8th inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers on April 18, 2021 at Petco Park in San Diego, California. Matt Thomas | San Diego Padres | Getty Images Major League Baseball has a new banking partner: Capital One. Under the deal, […]
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Amazon, Walmart and more: Cowen loves these stocks it says can beat surging inflation
Cowen has identified several tech and internet stocks it rates as likely to outperform, some of which are set to return “at least” 15% over the next 12 months. Source
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Jim Cramer says to buy FAANG stocks next time analysts say they’re not investable
Investors should buy FAANG stocks next time they plunge and analysts turn bearish, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday. When analysts come out in droves to claim FAANG stocks are uninvestable, “that’ll be the perfect moment to do some buying,” he said. FAANG is Cramer’s acronym for Facebook-parent Meta, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google-parent Alphabet. Cramer […]
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Stocks could take their cue from oil, inflation and interest rates in the week ahead
Traders on the floor of the NYSE, Feb. 24, 2022. Source: NYSE March’s employment report is coming up in the week ahead, but developments in Ukraine, the price of oil and an inflation report are likely to steer the market. Stocks notched gains for the week, while interest rates ripped higher and oil prices jumped. […]
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