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Snap shares rocket 25% on strong forecast, $400 million Perplexity deal
Snap shares climbed as much as 25% on Wednesday after the company issued its third-quarter earnings, reporting revenue that beat analysts expectations and a $500 million stock repurchase program. Here is how the company did compared with Wall Street’s expectations: Earnings per share: Loss of 6 cents. That figure is not comparable to analysts’ estimates. Revenue: $1.51 […]
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New bipartisan bill would require companies to report AI job losses
A pedestrian walks past Amazon Ireland corporate offices in Dublin, as Amazon.com, Inc., said on Tuesday it plans to cut its global corporate workforce by as many as 14,000 roles and seize the opportunity provided by artificial intelligence (AI), in Dublin, Ireland, Oct. 28, 2025. Damien Eagers | Reuters A new bipartisan bill seeks to […]
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Amazon upheaval: With morale shaken, Jassy looks for next big play after mass layoffs
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during the GeekWire Summit in Seattle on Oct. 5, 2021. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sat on a stage in a Seattle conference center in September, looking out at an audience of thousands of sellers who’d traveled from around the world to the company’s […]
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Pinterest shares plummet 15% on earnings miss, weak forecast
Bill Ready, CEO of Pinterest, rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on May 15, 2024. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Pinterest shares tanked as much as 15% on Tuesday after the company reported third-quarter financial results that missed on earnings per share and provided weak guidance. Here’s how the company did, compared […]
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IBM cutting thousands of jobs in the fourth quarter
Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM, arrives for the Inaugural AI Insight Forum in Russell Building on Capitol Hill, on Wednesday, September 13, 2023. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images IBM said Tuesday that it will lay off a small percentage of its employees in the current quarter. “In the fourth quarter we […]
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Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of bullying with legal threat over Comet browser
Aravind Srinivas, chief executive officer of Perplexity AI Inc., during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, June 5, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Perplexity AI accused Amazon of “bullying” on Tuesday after it received a letter from the e-commerce giant demanding it prevent people from using […]
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Spotify tops third-quarter estimates on strong user growth, issues mixed guidance
Thomas Fuller | Lightrocket | Getty Images Spotify on Tuesday reported strong third-quarter results that topped Wall Street expectations and saw total revenue climb 12% year over year, but issued weak guidance for revenue and subscribers for the current quarter. Shares of Spotify fell 2% on Tuesday. Here’s what Spotify reported compared with LSEG estimates: […]
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Scale AI’s life after Meta deal has been rocky, but CFO insists it’s not a ‘zombie company’
Scale AI CFO Dennis Cinelli. Courtesy of Scale AI. After Meta shocked the tech world in June by announcing plans to invest $14.3 billion in Scale AI, primarily as a way to hire the startup’s founder, Alexandr Wang, and a handful of his employees, the future of Scale was immediately thrown in doubt. OpenAI soon […]
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Lambda, Microsoft agree to multibillion-dollar AI infrastructure deal with Nvidia chips
In this photo illustration, a person is holding a smartphone with the logo of US GPU hardware company Lambda Inc. (Lambda Labs) on screen in front of website. Timon Schneider | SOPA Images | AP Cloud computing startup Lambda announced on Monday a multibillion-dollar deal with Microsoft for artificial intelligence infrastructure powered by tens of […]
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While AI spending is top of mind, online ads are driving a lot of Big Tech’s growth
META CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Getty Images As tech giants increase their already breathtaking spending on artificial intelligence, their respective digital advertising businesses have also gained momentum. Quarterly earnings reports this week from Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft all showed healthy revenue on the ads front. The rising online advertising […]
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