Every hyperscaler on the planet just committed to a spending spree that funnels through one chokepoint, and the Aug. 26 earnings report will either validate the conviction or expose the cracks in it.
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Anthropic is reportedly meeting investors for its IPO and could launch the share sale as early as next month. OpenAI has reportedly deferred its plans to next year.
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Platforms like Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and Google are facing a long road of litigation.
The appeals court ruled Section 230 provides a liability defense, not immunity, making Meta's appeal premature
A U.S. appeals court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms, Alphabet's Google, ByteDance's TikTok, and other social media companies over claims they designed their products to be addictive to young users. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the companies’ bid to reverse a lower court’s ruling forcing them to face some 2,400 lawsuits over the claims filed in federal court. The companies, which also include Snap Inc's Snapchat, had argued that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 - which shields them from lawsuits over content posted by their users - also shields them from allegations that they failed to warn the public about the addictive nature of their platforms.
Argus Research analyst Jim Kelleher early Monday upgraded Sandisk to Buy from Hold with a 12-month price target of $1,600. Sandisk stock advanced 2.2% to $1,238.50 on Monday. At the time, Sandisk was trading around $1,757.
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Revenue up 44.7%, high-performance computing at 66% of sales, and capex guidance lifted to as much as $64 billion
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Berkshire Hathaway ended June with $364.7 billion in cash and Treasury bills, 4% less than three months earlier. The drop, driven by the $6.8 billion purchase of Taylor Morrison Home and a $10 billion investment in Alphabet, was the first for the conglomerate in four years.
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) are responsible for a large share of the S&P 500’s second-quarter earnings growth, a concentration highlighted by investor Ross Gerber using FactSet (NYSE:FDS) data. Alphabet, Amazon Drive 71% of Earnings Increase Gerber highlighted FactSet data cited by the Wall Street Journal showing that Alphabet and Amazon account for about 71% of the dollar increase in S&P 500 blended earnings since July. ‘Alphabet and Amazon alon
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A highlight was the repurchase of $4.5 billion of shares in the second quarter. The figure was just $235 million in the first quarter
Warby Parker (NYSE:WRBY) reported second-quarter revenue of $235.5 million, up 9.8% from a year earlier, as retail sales growth, eye exam expansion and higher average order values helped offset continued softness in customer traffic and the effects of ending its Home Try-On program. Adjusted EBITDA
Investing.com -- Strong second-quarter earnings from major U.S. companies have pushed stock indexes to fresh highs and eased concerns that the rally relies too heavily on a small group of artificial intelligence companies, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The tech mogul is the world's third-richest person.
NiSource (NYSE:NI) reported second-quarter 2026 adjusted earnings of $0.16 per share, compared with $0.22 per share a year earlier, while reaffirming its full-year earnings outlook and long-term growth targets. Year-to-date adjusted earnings rose to $1.22 per share, up $0.03 from the same period in
S&P 500 earnings just shattered a record that has stood since 2008, but two tech giants are responsible for a distortion that changes everything investors think they know about this earnings season.
More than a year after announcing plans to phase it out, Google is finally moving ahead with a major change that will affect millions of consumers. The familiar tool has been part of people's daily routines for years, helping with everything from simple questions and reminders to controlling ...
Berkshire Hathaway's new CEO Greg Abel spent a significant chunk of the company's massive pile of cash as it invested $10 billion in Google's parent company and repurchased about $4.5 billion of its shares. The conglomerate that legendary investor Warren Buffett built reported its second-quarter earnings Saturday morning and disclosed that its cash holdings had shrunk to $365.5 billion from nearly $400 billion at the end of March. Berkshire's report suggested that it had added more than $24 billion worth of commercial, industrial and other stocks to its portfolio, but the earnings report doesn't name the stocks it bought.
The conglomerate struck a $6.8 billion deal, repurchased Berkshire shares and was a net buyer of other stocks, while more than doubling quarterly profits
The cloud infrastructure giant still has a bright future.
Firefox developer Mozilla is warning that it could be forced to "exit the browser and browser engine markets" if it can no longer receive payment from Google for distributing its search engine.
Aug 7 (Reuters) - A New Mexico state court ordered Meta Platforms, owner of Facebook and Instagram, to make major changes to its platforms and pay the largest sum yet in a growing wave of U. litigation over claims that social media harms young people.