
Sept 18 (Reuters) - Futures tracking the Nasdaq 100 led Wall Street higher on Friday, putting the tech-heavy index on course for weekly gains as a drop in oil prices tempered inflation concerns.
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Sept 18 (Reuters) - Futures tracking the Nasdaq 100 led Wall Street higher on Friday, putting the tech-heavy index on course for weekly gains as a drop in oil prices tempered inflation concerns.

Broadcom is generating gobs of free cash flow to support rapid dividend raises.
Google pushed the Thompson Center opening to 2028 as redevelopment continues, with at least 600K SF planned for its Chicago workforce.

Just as the industries she has traversed throughout her career have evolved rapidly — from ads to beauty and beyond — so, too, has the executive.

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) is back in focus after Greg Abel, now running the operation, exited the Domino’s Pizza position in the first quarter of 2026. That portfolio move gives fresh clues about Berkshire’s evolving playbook. Recent moves under Greg Abel, including the Domino’s exit and heavier concentration in giants like Apple, American Express, and Alphabet, have arrived while Berkshire Hathaway’s share price has inched ahead. A 90 day share price return of 4.13% and a 5 year total...

SINGAPORE, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Alphabet's autonomous driving unit Waymo will roll out its autonomous all-electric ride-hailing service in Singapore by 2028, Waymo announced on Friday, marking its

Its performance this year has been underwhelming, but its long-term appeal is strong.

Cuban noted a major irony that nobody in the industry has called out.

Apple, American Express, and Alphabet make up more than 50% of Berkshire's stock portfolio.

Splitting a half-million dollars between two popular ETFs feels like textbook diversification, but a quiet look under the hood reveals something most investors never bother to check before their next contribution.

Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) concluded the recent trading session at $343.87, signifying a +1.33% move from its prior day's close.

Alphabet (GOOGL) closed the most recent trading day at $347.33, moving +1.3% from the previous trading session.

Shares of digital advertising technology company PubMatic (NASDAQ:PUBM) jumped 2.6% in the afternoon session after a federal court ordered behavioral remedies against Google, prohibiting the company from favoring its own ad tools over rival ad tech platforms.

Wells Fargo calls Cipher Digital a high-risk, high-reward investment.
Agentic commerce adoption is hitting a structural wall where discovery tools are outpacing back-end payment readiness. Retailers are currently investing in front-end AI integration at a rate that the underlying merchant infrastructure cannot yet support, creating a gap between shopper interest and transaction completion. Google’s Rethink ROI summit in New York underscored this push toward […]

International Business Machines (IBM) shares trade near $237, and options price a one-year range around that from $161.75 to $348.69. That band is the calmer version of this stock. Over the past year IBM moved harder than its options now assume. The business question hanging over IBM comes from the second quarter of 2026: whether the software deals that slipped were delayed or lost.

Investors shouldn't ignore Alphabet's enterprise AI success.

Snap (SNAP) generates free cash worth 7.4% of its market value a year, against 4.5% for the median S&P 500 company. A yield that high usually points one of two ways: a bargain, or a business the market expects to shrink. Snap is not shrinking: revenue grew 19% year over year in Q2 2026. So the market is pricing something else, the profit that sits underneath the cash.
Self-hosted agents widen Cisco's addressable market while pricing and customer commitments remain undisclosed.
Third-party AI access broadens Google's smart-home infrastructure role while increasing security and privacy exposure.

A London-based start-up which claims to have built an AI system capable of predicting global events has raised funds from a group of investors including Microsoft's ventures arm. Sky News has learnt that ManticAI, whose founders include a former Google DeepMind engineer, has raised over $20m in a funding round jointly led by Balderton - one of the early backers of Revolut - and Radical Ventures, a Canadian investment fund. ManticAI emerged from stealth just over a year ago, and made headlines by beating a number of human forecasters in a competition to predict events ranging from hostilities between Donald Trump and Elon Musk to Kemi Badenoch being removed from the Conservative party leadership.

Oracle just reported the loudest cloud quarter in enterprise software history, yet the stock keeps sliding. Here is why that disconnect may be the most asymmetric setup in the market right now.

Judge Brinkema filed a full remedies opinion in U.S. v. Google's ad-tech monopoly suit. The court publicly released the unredacted document. Both sides were given 14 days to propose redactions for confidential business information, but neither side did so.

Coinbase (COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong joins Scott Melker for a conversation the latest innovations in crypto trading, such as perpetual futures products and AI trading agents. "The Daily Wolf with Scott Melker" airs every day at 12:00 p.m. Tune in for your daily dose of all things crypto.

The adtech specialist is benefiting from a major court ruling and analyst optimism.

The AI industry is facing growing backlash in Canada, with half of Canadians viewing the tech as a threat to humanity
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