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Snap shares dive 35% following poor earnings report
In this screengrab, CEO of Snap Inc. Evan Spiegel takes the stage at the virtual Snap Partner Summit 2021 on May 20, 2021 in Los Angeles. Snap Partner Summit 2021 – Snap Inc | Getty Images Shares of Snap fell 35% Friday morning, a day after the company reported disappointing second-quarter results. Snap missed Wall […]
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Twitter misses earnings expectations, partially blames revenue drop on Elon Musk takeover bid
Musk would have been appointed to Twitter’s board on Saturday, but the world’s richest man informed the company on the day that he would not, in fact, be taking the board seat. Andrew Burton | Getty Images News | Getty Images Twitter reported earnings for the second quarter on Friday that missed analyst estimates on […]
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Social media and online ad stocks drop in wake of alarming Snap earnings report
Snap Inc. signage is displayed on screens outside of the Morgan Stanley building in New York. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Social media and ad tech stocks fell in after-hours trading on Thursday after Snap reported disappointing second-quarter results and plans to slow hiring. Analysts were expecting sales growth of 18% for the […]
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Snap shares plunge 25% on disappointing second-quarter results and plans to slow hiring
Kirsty O’Connor | Getty Images Snap shares plummeted more than 25% in extended trading on Thursday after the social media company reported disappointing second-quarter results and said it plans to slow hiring as it reckons with weakening revenue growth. Co-founders Evan Spiegel, the CEO, and technology chief Bobby Murphy agreed to new employment contracts that […]
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Chinese TikTok owner increased U.S. lobbying spending by 130% this quarter
Rafael Henrique | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance had its biggest lobbying quarter ever, spending more than $2.1 million in the second quarter to lobby the U.S. government, according to its disclosure filed Wednesday in a federal database. That represents a 130% increase from ByteDance’s spending the previous quarter […]
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Facebook goes old school with a new feed that favors friends and family
Facebook is launching a new feature on Thursday that lets users see posts in reverse chronological order rather than content that’s been ranked by an algorithm. Called “Feeds,” the tool is a dedicated tab in the Facebook app that shows all the latest posts from users’ friends. The main news feed will now be known […]
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Raimondo warns of ‘deep and immediate recession’ if U.S. were to be cut off from Taiwan chip manufacturing
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo warned on Wednesday that the country’s current dependence on foreign computer chip fabrication puts it at risk of a recession if it’s ever cut off. Her comments come as Congress nears key votes on a bill to fund U.S. semiconductor manufacturing, While many computer chips are designed in the U.S. by […]
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FaZe Clan goes public in $725 million SPAC, a market bet on Gen Z and the creator economy
Digital entertainment and esports brand FaZe Clan is being listed on the Nasdaq Wednesday after completing a SPAC merger in a deal valued at $725 million, a big step for creator economy companies to be publicly traded. FaZe Clan is an online media company made up of 93 members, consisting primarily of esports competitors and […]
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Google will let Android developers use rival payments systems in Europe
An Android statue is displayed in front of a building on the Google campus on January 31, 2022 in Mountain View, California. Google parent company Alphabet will report fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday after the closing bell. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Google will let nongaming app developers use rival payments systems on its Android […]
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FBI says fake crypto apps defrauded investors of more than $42 million
Bankruptcy filings from Celsius and Voyager have raised questions about what happens to investors’ crypto when a platform fails. Rafael Henrique | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The FBI recently issued a warning to consumers about fraudulent crypto applications that have scammed 244 victims out of about $42.7 million since October 2021. “The […]
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