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Pinterest shares surge as much as 20% after company beats on fourth-quarter revenue, shows strong user growth
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Pinterest shares surged as much as 20% after the social media company reported fourth-quarter earnings Thursday that beat on revenue. Here’s how the company did, compared to analysts’ consensus estimates from LSEG: Revenue: $1.15 billion vs. $1.14 billion expected Fourth-quarter EBITDA: $470.9 million adjusted vs. $444.8 million expected […]
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Amazon’s advertising business grew 18% in the fourth quarter
An Amazon warehouse and distribution centre in an industrial park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. Graham Hughes | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon’s online advertising business logged $17.29 billion in the fourth quarter, up 18% from a year ago. Analysts polled by StreetAccount were expecting Amazon to report ad revenue of […]
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Uber beats fourth-quarter revenue expectations but offers soft guidance
Uber shares fell around 7% in premarket trading Wednesday after the ride-sharing company reported fourth-quarter results that beat analysts’ expectations for revenue but offered soft guidance. Here’s how the company did: Earnings per share: $3.21. That does not compare with the 50 cents expected by LSEG. Revenue: $11.96 billion vs. $11.77 billion expected by LSEG. Uber’s revenue […]
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Snap shares soar on better-than-expected profit and revenue
Snap shares jumped in extended trading Tuesday after the company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter results. Here is how the company did compared with Wall Street’s expectations: Earnings per share: 16 cents adjusted vs. 14 cents expected, according to LSEG Revenue: $1.56 billion vs. $1.55 billion expected, according to LSEG Global daily active users: 453 million vs. 451.1 million […]
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Silicon Valley venture capital pioneer Dick Kramlich, an early investor in Apple, dies at 89
Dick Kramlich, founder of New Enterprise Associates, discusses on “Sexism in the valley” during the third day of Web Summit in Altice Arena on Nov. 8, 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. Horacio Villalobos | Corbis News | Getty Images Dick Kramlich, the venture capital pioneer who co-founded New Enterprise Associates almost 50 years ago and built […]
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Trump Media gifts DJT shares to FBI pick Kash Patel, Linda McMahon and president’s son
Kash Patel, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be director of the FBI, looks on as he testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 30, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Trump Media this week gifted thousands of shares of company stock to President Donald Trump’s nominee for […]
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TikTok’s traffic bounces back despite being pulled off app stores, fears of shutdown
A 3D-printed miniature model of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and TikTok logo are seen in this illustration taken January 19, 2025. Dado Ruvic | Reuters TikTok has nearly bounced back to its original traffic levels after usage fell 85% when the app temporarily shut down earlier this month, according to Cloudflare Radar. “DNS traffic for […]
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Chinese state-linked accounts hyped DeepSeek AI launch ahead of US stock rout, Graphika says
Chinese state-linked social media accounts amplified narratives celebrating the launch of Chinese startup DeepSeek’s AI models last week, days before the news tanked U.S. tech stocks, according to online analysis firm Graphika. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images Chinese state-linked social media accounts amplified narratives celebrating the launch of Chinese startup DeepSeek’s AI models last week, days before the news tanked U.S. tech stocks, according to online […]
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Instagram tests Reels pause feature as TikTok remains in limbo
Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Meta is testing a long-awaited pause feature on Instagram Reels that will allow users to start and stop videos with just one tap. The new feature is the latest sign that Meta is looking to capitalize on TikTok’s uncertain future in the U.S. after it briefly went dark earlier […]
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Apple’s gross margin hits record as services business keeps growing
Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Apple is struggling to squeeze growth out of its flagship iPhone unit, but its profit margin keeps going up thanks to a flourishing services business. In its fiscal first-quarter earnings report on Thursday, Apple reported a gross margin — the profit left after accounting for the cost of […]
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