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Amazon records .9 billion loss on Rivian investment, bringing markdown for the year to .5 billion
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Amazon records $3.9 billion loss on Rivian investment, bringing markdown for the year to $11.5 billion

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tour one of the company’s electric delivery vans. Amazon Amazon’s stake in electric vehicle maker Rivian Automotive was once worth $27 billion. That was in November, shortly after Rivian’s IPO, which took place just before the Nasdaq peaked. But with investors rotating out of risk in […]

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Facebook lawsuit delivers on FTC chair Lina Khan’s progressive agenda
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Facebook lawsuit delivers on FTC chair Lina Khan’s progressive agenda

FTC Commissioner nominee Lina M. Khan testifies during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 21, 2021. Graeme Jennings | AFP | Getty Images Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan’s lofty vision of bringing challenging cases to expand the bounds of antitrust enforcement is no […]

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Mark Zuckerberg says economic downturn is here, so Meta must do more with less
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Mark Zuckerberg says economic downturn is here, so Meta must do more with less

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown University in Washington on Oct. 17, 2019. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on the company’s second-quarter earnings call Wednesday that the economy seems to be in a downturn that will hurt digital advertising, so the Facebook parent company must […]

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Qualcomm sales rise 37% despite ‘challenging macroeconomic environment’
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Qualcomm sales rise 37% despite ‘challenging macroeconomic environment’

Qualcomm president and CEO Cristiano Amon speaks about Qualcomm’s technology for automakers at a news conference during CES 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 4, 2022. Steve Marcus | Reuters Qualcomm reported third-quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday, slightly beating Wall Street expectations, but guidance for the current quarter was short of consensus expectations. […]

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Meta lost .8 billion on its virtual reality ambitions during Q2
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Meta lost $2.8 billion on its virtual reality ambitions during Q2

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, speaks during the virtual Facebook Connect event, where the company announced its rebranding as Meta, in New York on Oct. 28, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Facebook parent Meta lost $2.81 billion on $452 million in revenue from its virtual reality division, Reality Labs, during the quarter […]

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Meta reports earnings miss and forecasts second consecutive quarter of declining revenue
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Meta reports earnings miss and forecasts second consecutive quarter of declining revenue

People take photos of the new “Meta” sign at the One Hacker Way in Menlo Park, as Facebook changes its company name to Meta in California, on October 28, 2021. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Facebook parent Meta reported a steeper-than-expected drop in revenue, missed on earnings and issued a surprisingly weak […]

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Google delays cookie-cutting to 2024
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Google delays cookie-cutting to 2024

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 09: Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a panel at the CEO Summit of the Americas hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on June 09, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. The CEO Summit entered its second day of events with a formal signing for the “International Coalition to Connect […]

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FTC sues to block Facebook owner Meta from buying VR fitness app maker
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FTC sues to block Facebook owner Meta from buying VR fitness app maker

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee during An Examination of Facebook and Its Impact on the Financial Services and Housing Sectors hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 23, 2019. Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission is suing to block Facebook-owner Meta from buying […]

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The space economy grew at fastest rate in years to 9 billion in 2021, report says
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The space economy grew at fastest rate in years to $469 billion in 2021, report says

People watch from Canaveral National Seashore as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Feb. 3, 2022. The rocket is carrying 49 Starlink internet satellites for a broadband network. Paul Hennessy | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images The global space economy grew […]

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Boeing takes additional charge for Starliner astronaut capsule, bringing cost overruns to near 0 million
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Boeing takes additional charge for Starliner astronaut capsule, bringing cost overruns to near $700 million

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is seen before docking with the International Space Station on May 20, 2022 during the uncrewed OFT-2 mission. NASA Boeing disclosed a charge of $93 million in the second quarter for its Starliner astronaut capsule program, bringing the program’s overrun costs to nearly $700 million. The aerospace giant said the latest charge […]

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