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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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Behind the wave of white-collar layoffs: Old-school cost cutting, tariffs and, yes, AI
Corporate America is getting rocked by historic rounds of white-collar layoffs, leading some to wonder: Has AI finally come for their jobs? While the proliferation of generative and agentic artificial intelligence is playing a role, recent job cut announcements from companies like Amazon, UPS and Target are about a lot more than just the advance […]
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Nvidia adds nearly $100B in market cap in a matter of days. Here is what’s going right
Nvidia was once again on the move after the world’s three biggest cloud companies, along with Meta Platforms , guided spending higher last week to keep pace in the artificial intelligence arms race. Some, if not much, of that spend should continue to fill the coffers of the Jensen Huang-run AI chip king. Club stock […]
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November trading, Berkshire’s cash hoard, Big Tech’s ad revenue and more in Morning Squawk
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 30, 2025 in New York. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images 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. November […]
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Stocks are defying gravity — but investors say these triggers could spark a ‘sizeable’ correction
Global stock markets are soaring, with U.S. indexes continuing to rally and the Stoxx Europe 600 , FTSE 100 and Spain’s IBEX all hitting record highs last week. But some investors are now warning that a wave of rising risks — from weaker consumer spending to faltering earnings growth and a potential bond market revolt […]
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Why the ‘Mag 7 is too much of the market, get out’ is money-losing, false narrative
Investing is not just a game of giant Jenga. But the pessimistic hedge funds, or the ones who must have shorts on to justify their high fees, as well as their media acolytes who sound so painfully bearish even if they are just trying to sound like informed skeptics, sure make it seem that way […]
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