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Why Black entrepreneurs flock to Martha’s Vineyard every August
Sign at Martha’s Vineyard Airport, Massachusetts Cindygoff | Istock | Getty Images Martha’s Vineyard has long been a summer vacation destination for Black families, but August in the Massachusetts beach community is becoming an important hub for Black entrepreneurs, investors and financial firms, too. “I would say the magic of it is really about introducing […]
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Google has dropped more than 50 DEI-related organizations from its funding list
Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, on May 20, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google has purged more than 50 organizations related to diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, from a list of organizations that the tech company provides […]
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Amazon stock sinks 7% after earnings: Here are the key takeaways
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy looks on during an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City, U.S., February 26, 2025. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Amazon on Thursday reported second-quarter earnings that beat expectations on most metrics, but the results weren’t good enough to please Wall Street. Amazon stock slid following the release and […]
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‘What am I falling in love with?’ Human-AI relationships are no longer just science fiction
Nikolai Daskalov lives alone in a small house in rural Virginia. His preferred spot is a brown suede recliner in the middle of his living room facing a vintage wooden armoire and a TV that’s rarely turned on. The front of the white home is covered in shrubs, and inside there are trinkets, stacks of […]
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Amazon’s cloud business records 18% growth in second quarter
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman speaks at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas on Dec. 4, 2024. Noah Berger | Reuters Amazon’s cloud group grew recorded revenue growth of 18% in the second quarter, slightly ahead of analysts’ estimates. Amazon Web Services continues to lead the cloud infrastructure market, but is facing intensifying […]
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Reddit shares jump more than 10% on second-quarter sales and guidance beat
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman hugs mascot Snoo as Reddit begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange on March 21, 2024. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images Reddit shares jumped more than 10% after the company reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday that beat on sales and guidance. Here’s how the company did compared […]
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Amazon earnings primer: Why AI and tariffs are key to the second quarter
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 9, 2025. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Amazon will report second-quarter results after the market close Thursday. Here’s what analysts surveyed by LSEG are expecting: Earnings per share: $1.33 Revenue: $162.1 billion Wall Street is also looking […]
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Microsoft ends tradition of naming competitors in regulatory filings
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella leaves after attending a meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Willy Kurniawan | Reuters Microsoft has abandoned a decades-long tradition of calling out the names of its rivals in regulatory documents. When the 50-year-old technology company released its annual report […]
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Meta’s big AI spending blitz will continue into 2026
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S. September 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to continue his company’s artificial intelligence spending blitz well into the next year as rival tech giants do the same. […]
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Arm shares slip as smartphone royalties disappoint
The replica of the ARM is an electronic chip board during a collaborative ceremony launching a partnership between Malaysia and ARM Holdings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 5, 2025. Hari Anggara | Nurphoto | Getty Images Arm Holdings shares dipped as much as 9% in after-hours trading on the company’s first-quarter earnings results Wednesday. […]
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