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The parabolic AI trade has sent many chip stocks to the moon, as investors have bet that hyperscalers such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta will continue to aggressively expand AI capital expenditures. However, the rally now faces significant headwinds, with valuation and revenue sustainability concerns resurfacing amid rising competition from cheaper Chinese models. The […]
The internet map of the world is not drawn by engineers. It is drawn by lawyers, by regulators, and by whoever is willing to sign the local paperwork. A rocket can reach any patch of ground on Earth. A license cannot. That gap between what a technology can do and what a government will let it do is ...
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This company aims to rival AI chip giant Nvidia.
With Q2 earnings closing in, Jefferies just named its top Magnificent 7 pick and the choice cuts across some of the most widely held retirement stocks in America. One of these three tech giants wins on valuation, one wins on income, and one barely shows up to the fight.
Amazon said Wednesday that the technology company will launch its new satellite internet service Amazon Leo in South Africa in 2027, seemingly pushing ahead of Elon Musk's rival Starlink to win business in Africa's most advanced economy. Amazon, which was founded by Jeff Bezos, said that it would partner with South African internet provider Herotel to launch a new service in the country of 62 million people.
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The M&S storefront on Amazon.nl will stock over 1,000 items across women's, men's and children's clothing.
The past few months have seen frenetic buying and selling by individual stock traders. Leading market maker Citadel Securities says that retail cash equity volumes in May hit a record, doubling in two years. Then that accelerated in June with nine of the 10 busiest days the market maker has ever experienced coming in a month, according to a mid-June report by strategist Scott Rubner.
Meta Platforms shares had their best day since January after Bloomberg reported that the Facebook parent will sell access to AI computing power and models similar to those offered by Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

<body><p>STORY: :: Kroger</p><p>Shares of U.S. grocer Kroger fell about 2% Wednesday morning after the company said it would buy regional supermarket chain Giant Eagle in a nearly $1.7 billion deal.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>The move strengthens Kroger's presence in the Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic region amid intensifying competition.</p><p>The transaction is the first under CEO Greg Foran, and is also Kroger's first major acquisition since its $25 billion merger with Albertsons fell apart in 2024.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>Family-owned Giant Eagle generates about $9 billion in annual sales. It operates nearly 200 supermarkets and about a dozen standalone pharmacies across parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana.</p><p>:: Kroger</p><p>Foran said the chain was a good strategic fit for Kroger, which has been battling intense competition from Walmart, Amazon and other grocers as still-elevated inflation has many consumers seeking cheaper essentials.</p><p>Kroger has previously said it plans to cut prices on thousands of items, funded partly by direct imports and better use of technology.</p><p>The Giant Eagle acquisition is expected to close in 2027.</p></body>
Alphabet (GOOGL) just got one of the most renowned promotions in the stock market. Google parent Alphabet officially entered the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 29, replacing Verizon Communications (VZ) and giving the 30-stock blue-chip index a stronger stake in the artificial intelligence ...
Tech bull Dan Ives of Wedbush initiated coverage of SpaceX with an Outperform rating and a $190 price target, weighing in on a stock that has whipsawed investors in the three weeks since its record-setting initial public offering. Ives sees SpaceX as a player in the hyperscaler wars too.
Analyst says media spinoff was long overdue.
As corporate borrowing tied to artificial intelligence shows no sign of slowing, bankers are coming up with new ways to sell ever larger volumes of debt. The surge in spending on chips, cloud infrastructure and data centers has led large technology companies, known as hyperscalers, to increasingly issue bonds in currencies other than the U.S. dollar to tap a wider pool of investors and prevent saturation in the U.S. with colossal volumes of debt. Companies such as Amazon.com and Alphabet have issued $60 billion in bonds in multiple currencies in the last 12 months.
AI customers are rushing to Micron for memory products.
Buying platforms often do not include audio as a major part of their ad inventory. A recent partnership could change this, with separate data that makes the case stronger by showing how audio increases a campaign's conversion rates.
Amazon stock climbed Wednesday afternoon as tech stocks more broadly bounced back from a rough start to the week.
As part of the agreement, Asda will deploy Amazon Retail Ad Service across its online business.
Slate Auto’s all-electric truck, priced in the mid-$20,000s, aims to prove that affordable cars can be both profitable and adored.
Ryan Cohen, the billionaire CEO of GameStop, will not receive a potential performance award from the videogame retailer and plans to unveil more details about his bid to takeover eBay soon, the company said on Tuesday. GameStop unveiled a compensation package worth roughly $35 billion for Cohen in January, hinging on a turnaround that requires him to lift the struggling company's market value more than tenfold and sharply boost its profit. EBay rejected a $56 billion takeover bid from the much smaller GameStop in May, citing financing doubts and calling the proposal "neither credible nor attractive."
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