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Alibaba shares jump 7% after quarterly earnings beat expectations
Alibaba has faced growth challenges amid regulatory tightening on China’s domestic technology sector and a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy. But analysts think the e-commerce giant’s growth could pick up through the rest of 2022. Kuang Da | Jiemian News | VCG | Getty Images Alibaba reported fiscal first-quarter earnings on Thursday that beat […]
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Pelosi’s Taiwan trip puts the world’s biggest chipmaker back in the spotlight of U.S.-China rivalry
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is the biggest contract chipmaker in the world. But it has been thrust in the middle of U.S.-China geopolitical tensions. logo displayed on the screen. Rafael Henrique | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have left Taiwan but the visit has cast a spotlight […]
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Why Amazon’s digital ad business grew faster than all its rivals in the second quarter
The Amazon logo displayed on a smartphone and a PC screen. Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket via Getty Images Social media giants Meta and Snap are telling investors that the online advertising market is experiencing some turbulence due to the economic slowdown. Amazon is sending a very different message. While the bulk of its business comes […]
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Amazon warehouses face expanded probes into safety hazards as investigators visit three more sites
A worker assembles a box for delivery at the Amazon fulfillment center in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., April 30, 2019. Clodagh Kilcoyne | Reuters Federal officials are sharpening their focus on Amazon’s workplace safety hazards. Investigators from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which is part of the Labor Department, visited Amazon sites near Albany, New […]
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Instagram boss Adam Mosseri to move to London as Meta tries to counter TikTok’s rise
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters Instagram chief Adam Mosseri is relocating from San Francisco to London, in a bid to boost parent company Meta’s ambition to lure users away from TikTok as it grapples with a slump in users. Mosseri will move to London later this year, and the move will be […]
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Pinterest shares jump after Elliott confirms it’s the company’s largest investor
Shares of Pinterest jumped 14% Tuesday morning, a day after activist investor Elliott Management confirmed it’s Pinterest’s largest investor. The move comes despite Pinterest’s disappointing second-quarter earnings on Monday evening. “Pinterest is a highly strategic business with significant potential for growth, and our conviction in the value-creation opportunity at Pinterest today has led us to […]
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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba teams up with Tesla rival Xpeng on tech for driverless cars
XPeng is still focused in boosting the sales of its electric cars. But it has been focusing on building out future businesses in flying cars and robotics. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and electric vehicle startup Xpeng are opening a computing center to train software for driverless cars, the […]
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Hackers drain nearly $200 million from crypto startup in ‘free-for-all’ attack
Billions of dollars of value have been wiped off the cryptocurrency market in recent months. Companies in the industry are feeling the pain. Lending and trading firms are facing a liquidity crisis and many firms have announced layoffs. Yu Chun Christopher Wong | S3studio | Getty Images Hackers drained almost $200 million in cryptocurrency from […]
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Pinterest climbs on user numbers and Elliott investment even as financials disappoint
A woman walks past sign at the headquarters of Pinterest in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco. Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images Pinterest shares jumped on better-than-expected user numbers even as earnings and revenue missed estimates and the company gave weak guidance for the third quarter. Activist investor Elliott […]
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Amazon emissions increased 18% last year as Covid drove online shopping surge
Amazon vans line up at a distribution center to pick up packages for delivery on Amazon Prime Day in Orlando, Florida. Paul Hennessy | NurPhoto | Getty Images Amazon’s carbon emissions jumped 18% last year, as the company reckoned with a pandemic-driven surge in e-commerce and grew its business to meet that demand. In its […]
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