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Underwater cables are a vital piece of the AI buildout and internet — investment is booming
Over 95% of international data and voice call traffic travels through nearly a million miles of underwater communication cables. These cables carry government communications, financial transactions, email, video calls and streaming around the world. The first commercial telecommunication subsea cable was used for telegraphs and was laid across the English Channel between Dover, England and […]
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Meta reportedly projected 10% of 2024 sales came from scam, fraud ads
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during a dinner with tech leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. US President Donald Trump said he would be imposing tariffs on semiconductor imports “very shortly” but spare goods from companies like Apple […]
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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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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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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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While AI spending is top of mind, online ads are driving a lot of Big Tech’s growth
META CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Getty Images As tech giants increase their already breathtaking spending on artificial intelligence, their respective digital advertising businesses have also gained momentum. Quarterly earnings reports this week from Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft all showed healthy revenue on the ads front. The rising online advertising […]
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Samsung building facility with 50,000 Nvidia GPUs to automate chip manufacturing
Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., during the keynote address at the Nvidia GTC (GPU Technology Conference) in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Bloomberg | Getty Images Korean semiconductor giant Samsung said on Thursday that it plans to buy and deploy a cluster of 50,000 Nvidia graphic […]
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Apple isn’t playing the same AI capex game as the rest of the megacaps
While many of the largest tech companies race to build massive data centers for their artificial intelligence ambitions, Apple is taking a more modest approach. Instead of simply buying as many AI chips as possible, Apple buys computing capacity from outside partners, finance chief Kevan Parekh explained Thursday on the company’s fourth quarter earnings call. […]
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Reddit shares climb on earnings beat, strong forecast
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman stands on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after ringing a bell on the floor setting the share price at $47 in its initial public offering (IPO) on March 21, 2024 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Reddit reported third-quarter earnings on Thursday in which […]
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Apple reports fourth quarter earnings after the bell
FILE PHOTO: Formula One F1 – United States Grand Prix – Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas, U.S. – October 23, 2022 Tim Cook waves the chequered flag to the race winner Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Mike Segar | Reuters Apple reports fiscal fourth quarter earnings on Thursday after the bell. The fourth quarter, which […]
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