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Pentagon expects to award up to $9 billion in cloud contracts in December
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a news conference in Tbilisi, Georgia October 18, 2021. Irakli Gedenidze | Reuters The U.S. Defense Department said Tuesday that it plans to award as much as $9 billion in contracts for cloud infrastructure services in December, about eight months later than it expected. The Joint Warfighter Cloud […]
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Businesses oppose Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill banning discussion of LGBTQ issues in public schools
Revelers celebrate on 7th Avenue during the Tampa Pride Parade in the Ybor City neighborhood on March 26, 2022 in Tampa, Florida. The Tampa Pride was held in the wake of the passage of Florida’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” Bill. Octavio Jones | Getty Images Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed legislation banning the […]
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Reid Hoffman’s new start-up poaches first staff from Google and Meta
Reid Hoffman, founder and Chairman, Linkedin, at 2015 WEF in Davos, Switzerland. David A. Grogan | CNBC Inflection AI, the start-up launched earlier this month by LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman and DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, has poached artificial intelligence gurus from Google and Meta, according to CNBC analysis. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Inflection’s aim is […]
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Jim Cramer says investors should use these rules to build a turbulence-proof portfolio
Investors should follow a certain set of rules when building their portfolios to weather the market volatility that Monday’s rally suggests could happen, Jim Cramer said. “When you see new, unseasoned merchandise exploding higher, along with names like Tesla surging on … a stock split, it tells you there might be a little too much […]
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Stocks could take their cue from oil, inflation and interest rates in the week ahead
Traders on the floor of the NYSE, Feb. 24, 2022. Source: NYSE March’s employment report is coming up in the week ahead, but developments in Ukraine, the price of oil and an inflation report are likely to steer the market. Stocks notched gains for the week, while interest rates ripped higher and oil prices jumped. […]
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Google employees bombard execs with questions about pay at recent all-hands meeting
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Anindito Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google executives, facing a barrage of criticism from employees on issues related to compensation, defended the company’s competitiveness at a recent all-hands meeting while acknowledging that the performance review process could change. The companywide virtual gathering earlier this month followed the release of […]
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Here are Thursday’s biggest analyst calls of the day: Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Uber, Rivian & more
Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Thursday. Source
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Buy the dip and stay long on Nvidia, Jim Cramer says
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday urged investors to add Nvidia stock to their portfolios and watch for chances to buy the dip. “I know this is a tough market for a stock like Nvidia, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it has another leg lower. But when you look at what this incredible company is coming […]
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Here’s why stocks can still go higher, even with the Fed’s aggressive rate-hiking stance
Stocks may actually like an inflation-fighting Federal Reserve, despite volatility leading up to the central bank’s first rate hike in more than three years. Source
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The metaverse may bring new cyber risks. Here’s what companies can do
An employee wearing HTC’s Vive virtual reality headset plays a video game at the T.UM showroom in the SK Telecom Co. headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, on June 11, 2021. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images Imagine discussing a confidential multimillion-dollar deal with your boss. The conversation ends, and you both leave. A while […]
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