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Oracle shares slide on earnings and revenue miss
Oracle chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison speaks at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2019. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Oracle shares slid 7% in extended trading on Monday after the database software company reported fiscal second-quarter results that fell short of analysts’ estimates. Here […]
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Amazon is bringing Intuit QuickBooks software to its millions of third-party sellers
Sasan Goodarzi, president and CEO of Intuit Inc. and Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon has for years counted on millions of third-party sellers to provide the bulk of the inventory that consumers buy daily. But keeping track of their finances has long been a challenge for […]
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ByteDance, TikTok seek temporary halt to U.S. ban pending Supreme Court review
Justin Sullivan | Getty Images China-based ByteDance and its short-video app TikTok on Monday asked an appeals court to temporarily block a law that would require that parent company ByteDance divest TikTok by Jan. 19 or face a ban, pending a review by the U.S. Supreme Court. The companies filed the emergency motion with the […]
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TikTok says ban would cost U.S. small businesses, creators $1.3 billion in first month
An advocate holds a sign for TikTok following a news conference outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty Images TikTok in a court filing Monday warned that U.S. small businesses and social media creators would lose $1.3 billion in revenue and earnings in […]
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Reddit begins testing AI-powered answers feature to win more users
Reddit is rolling out a new artificial intelligence feature designed to help people quickly find answers based on user posts, the company said Monday. A small portion of Reddit’s U.S. user base will have access to the Reddit Answers feature as part of an initial test before the company rolls the feature out more broadly. […]
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The weight-loss drug boom has become one of the internet’s biggest scams
A production line of Wegovy injection pens for the Asian market at the Novo Nordisk A/S pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Hillerod, Denmark, on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images One interpretation of the law of supply and demand is that when demand outstrips supply, scammers get busy. That’s certainly the case […]
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Op-ed: If Trump reverses TikTok ban, donors win and U.S. national security loses
The Washington Post | The Washington Post | Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump was early to warn about the national security dangers posed by TikTok during his first term in office, with rhetoric and policy discussions that framed the social media app within his aggressive anti-China stance. But during the 2024 campaign, Trump seemed to […]
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Nvidia tangos with an activist hedge fund: An excerpt from Tae Kim’s new book on the tech giant
The following is excerpted from the book “The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant,” written by Tae Kim, a senior technology writer at Barron’s, and publishing Dec. 10 by W.W. Norton & Company. The excerpt is from a chapter about activist hedge fund Starboard Value, founded by Jeff Smith. Early […]
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Salesforce shares rise after earnings beat on revenue, fourth-quarter guidance
Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce speaks during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland on January 18, 2024. Halil Sagirkaya | Anadolu | Getty Images Salesforce shares were up 7% on Tuesday after the company reported its fiscal third-quarter earnings, reporting revenue and fiscal fourth-quarter guidance that exceeded analysts’ expectations. Here is […]
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Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund loses one of first partners to emeritus role
Entrepreneur Brian Singerman (R) and Noelle Moseley arrive at the Tenth Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California, on April 13, 2024. Etienne Laurent | Afp | Getty Images Brian Singerman, one of the earliest employees of Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, said on Tuesday that he’s stepping down […]
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