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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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HubSpot adds Clara Shih, Meta’s head of business AI, to board of directors
Clara Shih, who’s now head of business AI at Meta., speaks during the 2024 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images HubSpot announced on Wednesday that Clara Shih, Meta’s head of business AI, has been added to the software company’s Board of […]
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Op-ed: The fuel for the AI boom driving the markets is advertising. It is also an existential risk.
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images With OpenAI’s recent release of its AI browser, the historic level of capital expenditures being made in the current AI arms […]
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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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Election results, McDonald’s earnings, AI valuation fears and more in Morning Squawk
A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 3, 2025. NYSE This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day: 1. Shock value Stocks sold off yesterday amid investor concerns about the valuations of […]
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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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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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Amazon’s new subsea internet cable Fastnet will have the capacity to stream 12.5 million HD movies simultaneously
Amazon is building a subsea fiber-optic cable called Fastnet to connect Maryland’s Eastern shore to County Cork, Ireland, in what will be the company’s first wholly-owned subsea cable project. Subsea fiber-optic communication cables carry over 95% of international data and voice traffic across the globe. These cables transmit hundreds of terabits of data per second […]
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