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Meta shares surge 15% after Facebook parent beats earnings estimates
Expectations were already low going into Meta’s latest quarterly results, which were a mixed back. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of Facebook parent company Meta continued to rally Thursday after the company reported better-than-expected profit in the first quarter. Meta reported earnings per share of $2.72, higher than the $2.56 expected by […]
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Bitcoin adopted as legal tender by African country — the second to do so after El Salvador
Bitcoin is a volatile asset, and has been known to swing more than 10% higher or lower in a single day. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images The Central African Republic has become the second country in the world to adopt bitcoin as official currency, after El Salvador took the same step last year. […]
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Musk is not supposed to disparage Twitter while trying to buy it. He’s doing it anyway.
Elon Musk may tweet about the Twitter deal but not “disparage the company or any of its representatives,” according to a securities filing. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Less than 48 hours after Elon Musk and Twitter went public with their $44 billion deal to take the company private, Musk has continued to […]
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Facebook forecast points to possible revenue drop for the first time after decade of growth
Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, October 23, 2019. Erin Scott | Reuters Prior to the first quarter of this year, Facebook’s revenue growth had never sunk into the single digits. In the second quarter, it may not grow at all. Though shares of Facebook […]
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Gibraltar became a hub for crypto — now it wants to tackle attempts to manipulate the market
The overseas British territory wants to become a global hub for crypto firms. Geography Photos | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Gibraltar has unveiled new regulations for the cryptocurrency industry, taking aim at potential market manipulation and insider trading in the fast-evolving space. The overseas British territory, located on the southern tip of Spain, […]
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Alphabet CFO warns of another potentially weak quarter
Alphabet executives on their Q1 earnings conference call warned Q2 will show more deceleration. Source
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Alphabet announces $70 billion buyback
CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai during press conference at the Chancellery in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022. Mateusz Wlodarczyk | Nurphoto | Getty Images Alphabet said on Tuesday that its board of directors authorized $70 billion in share repurchases, a major step up from last year’s authorization of $50 billion and authorization […]
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Amazon won’t face OSHA penalties after warehouse collapse
The site of a roof collapse at an Amazon.com distribution center in Edwardsville, Illinois. Drone Base | Reuters The Labor Department has ordered Amazon to review how it responds to severe weather events following an investigation into a deadly warehouse collapse in Illinois last year but is not levying a citation with fines or other […]
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Alphabet reports miss on earnings and revenue
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures while speaking during a discussion on artificial intelligence at the Bruegel European economic think tank in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 20, 2020. Geert Vanden Wijngaert | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet reported first quarter earnings after the bell. Here are the results: Earnings per share (EPS): $24.62 per share, vs. […]
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Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover sets him on a collision course with Europe
Thierry Breton, a former CEO of French IT consulting firm Atos, is seen as a key architect of the European Union’s digital reforms. Anadolu Agency | Getty Images After Elon Musk’s $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, EU officials have a message for the eccentric tech billionaire: follow the rules. Over the weekend, the European […]
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