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Pinterest plunges 20% after weak results as tariffs drag on ad revenue
Silas Stein | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Pinterest shares plummeted 20% on Wednesday after lackluster third-quarter earnings as advertising took a hit from larger retailers dealing with tariffs. The company posted a profit of 38 cents per share adj., while analysts polled by LSEG expected earnings of 42 cents per share. However, the platform’s […]
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Lyft, United Airlines launch loyalty program months after Delta partnership ends
Lyft customers can once again earn miles toward their next flight. The ridesharing company on Wednesday said it’s partnering with United Airlines to offer MileagePlus points to riders who link their accounts, months after it ended an eight-year partnership with Delta Airlines. Once linked, riders can earn one mile for every dollar spent on Standard […]
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Super Micro stock drops on slumping sales, weak earnings
Charles Liang, CEO of Super Micro Computer Inc., during the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 5, 2024. Annabelle Chih | Bloomberg | Getty Images Super Micro Computer shares plunged as much as 10% in extended trading on Tuesday after the server maker issued weaker-than-expected results for the fiscal first quarter. Here’s how the […]
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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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OpenAI launches Sora for Android devices
OpenAI on Tuesday launched its Sora app of AI-generated videos for Android devices. The artificial intelligence company first launched Sora for Apple devices in September. The announcement on Tuesday brings the popular AI app to the Google Play app store for users in the U.S., Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Sora reportedly […]
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Spotify tops third-quarter estimates on strong user growth, issues mixed guidance
Thomas Fuller | Lightrocket | Getty Images Spotify on Tuesday reported strong third-quarter results that topped Wall Street expectations and saw total revenue climb 12% year over year, but issued weak guidance for revenue and subscribers for the current quarter. Shares of Spotify fell 2% on Tuesday. Here’s what Spotify reported compared with LSEG estimates: […]
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Scale AI’s life after Meta deal has been rocky, but CFO insists it’s not a ‘zombie company’
Scale AI CFO Dennis Cinelli. Courtesy of Scale AI. After Meta shocked the tech world in June by announcing plans to invest $14.3 billion in Scale AI, primarily as a way to hire the startup’s founder, Alexandr Wang, and a handful of his employees, the future of Scale was immediately thrown in doubt. OpenAI soon […]
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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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Evolve Bank CEO fired after propositioning FBI agent who pretended to be a teen boy
Evolve Bank CEO Bob Hartheimer booking photo. Source: Shelby County Jail Bob Hartheimer, CEO of Tennessee’s Evolve Bank & Trust, was fired after U.S. law enforcement officials caught him propositioning a law enforcement officer posing as a 15-year-old boy on gay dating app Grindr. On Oct. 19, an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation […]
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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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