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Google faces loss of Chrome as Perplexity bid adds drama to looming breakup decision
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Google faces loss of Chrome as Perplexity bid adds drama to looming breakup decision

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, May 20, 2025. Jeff Chiu | AP Perplexity AI’s bid on Tuesday to buy Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion represents a dramatic moment for the internet search giant, a week before it celebrates the 20th anniversary of its IPO. […]

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Cisco reports narrow earnings beat, issues inline forecast for the year
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Cisco reports narrow earnings beat, issues inline forecast for the year

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins speaks at the Business Roundtable CEO Workforce Forum in Washington on June 17, 2025. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images CIsco reported results on Wednesday that narrowly exceeded analysts’ expectations and issued quarterly guidance that was also better than expected. The stock slipped in extended trading. Here’s how the company […]

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CoreWeave stock slumps 14% on wider-than-expected loss ahead of lockup expiration
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CoreWeave stock slumps 14% on wider-than-expected loss ahead of lockup expiration

CoreWeave‘s stock dropped 14% after the renter of artificial intelligence data centers reported a bigger-than-expected loss. In its second quarterly financial results as a public company, CoreWeave reported an adjusted loss of 27 cents per share, compared to a 21-cent loss per share expected by analysts polled by LSEG. CoreWeave’s results came as the lock-up […]

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Quantum computing could be commercial real estate’s next big tailwind
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Quantum computing could be commercial real estate’s next big tailwind

Parts of the IBM Quantum System Two are displayed at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center on June 6, 2025 in Yorktown Heights, New York. Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Olick. Property Play covers new and evolving opportunities […]

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LinkedIn launches Mini Sudoku, pushing deeper into casual games that keep users coming back
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LinkedIn launches Mini Sudoku, pushing deeper into casual games that keep users coming back

Nikoli’s president, Yoshinao Anpuku, poses for a photo at Nikoli headquarters in Tokyo on March 19, 2025. LinkedIn worked with Nikoli and Sudoku champion Thomas Snyder to launch its Mini Sudoku game. Nikoli LinkedIn on Tuesday released a new game for the professional social networking app’s 1.2 billion users. It’s a miniature version of Sudoku, […]

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Microsoft’s GitHub chief is leaving as competition ramps up in AI coding market
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Microsoft’s GitHub chief is leaving as competition ramps up in AI coding market

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke speaks at the VivaTech technology startup and innovation fair in Paris on June 12, 2025. Mustafa Yalcin | Anadolu | Getty Images Microsoft’s GitHub unit, which is facing a torrent of competition from AI-powered coding tools, is losing its leader, and the company isn’t immediately naming a successor. Thomas Dohmke, who […]

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SoftBank founder Son makes his biggest bet by staking the Japanese giant’s future on AI
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SoftBank founder Son makes his biggest bet by staking the Japanese giant’s future on AI

Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks at the SoftBank World event in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Masayoshi Son is making his biggest bet yet: that his brainchild SoftBank will be the center of a revolution driven by artificial intelligence. […]

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AI is creating new billionaires at a record pace
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AI is creating new billionaires at a record pace

Mira Murati, Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI (L) and Dario Amodei, Getty Images | CNBC A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Artificial intelligence startups have minted dozens of new […]

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The S&P 500 is on the cusp of another record. How long can this bull keep dodging danger?
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The S&P 500 is on the cusp of another record. How long can this bull keep dodging danger?

A week removed from a brutal payroll report that triggered worry over a tapped consumer and a trapped Federal Reserve, the broad stock indexes are back at the cusp of all-time highs, market volatility has returned to year-to-date lows and some investors are calling off the August hurricane watch. The S & P 500’s 2.4% […]

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Goldman Sachs names five stocks with more upside following their latest earnings
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Goldman Sachs names five stocks with more upside following their latest earnings

Goldman Sachs highlighted five companies that have more room to run following their latest quarterly earnibgs reports. The Wall Street investment bank says stocks like Shake Shack have plenty of upside ahead. Other buy-rated names include: Tyson Foods, FMC, Match Group and Woodward. FMC Corporation Buy the dip in shares of the chemical maker, analyst […]

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