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Comcast shifts strategy to mobile as fourth-quarter broadband numbers disappoint
Igor Golovniov | Lightrocket | Getty Images Cable giant Comcast is looking to the wireless business for growth. Comcast executives said Thursday the company will shift its focus to its mobile business after reporting a loss of 139,000 residential broadband customers during the fourth quarter. Broadband has long been the growth engine of the cable […]
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Comcast beats earnings estimates as broadband revenue rises despite customer losses
Jeff Fusco | Getty Images Comcast topped Wall Street’s fourth-quarter estimates on Thursday as revenue from the company’s broadband business gave it a boost despite losing customers. Here is how the company performed for the quarter, compared with average analyst estimates from LSEG: Earnings per share: 96 cents adjusted vs 86 cents Revenue: $31.92 billion […]
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Zuckerberg says Meta won’t slow down AI spend despite DeepSeek’s breakthrough
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., arrives for the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said it’s too early to tell what impact DeepSeek’s breakthrough AI model will have on his company and the broader […]
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Mark Zuckerberg starts Meta earnings call by praising Trump administration
(L-R) Priscilla Chan, CEO of Meta and Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, and Lauren Sanchez attend the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg praised the Trump administration […]
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Meta’s Reality Labs posts $5 billion loss in fourth quarter
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, demonstrates the Meta Quest Pro during the virtual Meta Connect event in New York on Oct. 11, 2022. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta continues to lose billions of dollars developing the virtual reality and augmented reality technologies needed to underpin the nascent metaverse. The social media […]
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Amazon lays off ‘small number’ of employees in communications and sustainability units
A person walks by The Spheres at the Amazon.com Inc. headquarters on November 14, 2022 in Seattle, Washington. David Ryder | Getty Images News | Getty Images Amazon is laying off some employees in its communications and sustainability units, an executive overseeing the divisions announced internally on Wednesday. In a note to staffers viewed by […]
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Meta to report fourth-quarter earnings after the bell
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta is slated to report fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the close of regular trading. Here is what analysts polled by LSEG are expecting: Earnings per share: $6.77 Revenue: […]
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DeepSeek app unavailable in Apple and Google app stores in Italy
The Chinese artificial intelligence application DeepSeek appeared to be unavailable on Wednesday in Apple and Google app stores in Italy on Wednesday. A notice displayed to customers on Apple’s App Store said the app was “currently not available in the country or area you are in. A message on the Google app platform, said the […]
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Google reclassifies U.S. as ‘sensitive country’ alongside China, Russia after Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ comments
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Google‘s maps division on Monday reclassified the U.S. as a “sensitive country,” a designation it reserves for states with strict governments and border disputes, CNBC has learned. The new classification for the U.S. came after President Donald Trump said his administration would make name changes on official maps […]
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Google employees petition for ‘job security’ ahead of expected cuts
The Google logo is displayed during the Made By Google event at Google headquarters on August 13, 2024 in Mountain View, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Google employees have begun circulating an internal petition titled “job security” ahead of expected cost cuts this year, CNBC has learned. The petition has been signed by more […]
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