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Google (GOOGL) Cloud's backlog nearly doubled in a single quarter, reaching a scale of over $460 billion. This is not just incremental growth; it is a fundamental shift in the business. The segment's revenue accelerated to 63% growth, becoming a primary engine for the entire company.
Amkor trades at a steep P/S discount despite AI-driven advanced packaging growth, Arizona expansion and rising smartphone demand, backed by long-term catalysts.
Investing.com -- KeyBanc Capital Markets downgraded Apple to Underweight from Sector Weight in a note on Tuesday, setting a price target of $250 per share, citing weakening hardware demand data and concerns about 2027 growth expectations.
Unity Software's stock has cratered while its AI ad engine and mobile game dominance keep growing, and at least five deep-pocketed giants are now circling a company that may be too strategically valuable to stay independent.
FEATURE The artificial-intelligence trade appeared to be reignited Tuesday as investors digested a slew of bank earnings reports ahead of the consumer-price index inflation report for June. International Business Machines sank 23% after the company’s preliminary second-quarter adjusted earnings and revenue missed analysts’ targets.
Shares could soon look “too expensive,” KeyBanc’s Brandon Nispel warns as he cuts his rating for the iPhone maker.

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Berkshire Hathaway stock has delivered an 82.2% return over the past 5 years, yet the latest intrinsic value checks and earnings multiples both still point to the shares trading at a discount to what the business may be worth. That mix of solid long term returns and a perceived valuation gap is drawing fresh attention as Greg Abel reshapes the portfolio toward large technology and AI holdings. Over 5 years, Berkshire Hathaway has returned 82.2%, which is the kind of compounding that often...
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<body><p>STORY: From Apple losing out against landmark EU rules to solar-powered EVs...</p><p>This is Tech Weekly.</p><p>:: Tech Weekly</p><p>Apple lost its challenge against landmark EU rules.</p><p>The tech giant tried to refute the designation of its app stores and operating system as gatekeepers. </p><p>It means Apple is subject to obligations aimed at giving rivals more room to compete.</p><p>The EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) sets out a list of rules for Big Tech with the threat of big fines if they don't follow along.</p><p>It has triggered legal challenges by Apple, Meta and ByteDance since it took effect over three years ago.</p><p>Global smartphone shipments fell 11% in the second quarter to their lowest level for the period since 2013.</p><p>That's according to early estimates from Counterpoint Research, which said a memory chip shortage has driven up smartphone prices and hurt demand.</p><p>Memory chip prices have soared as suppliers focus on AI data center customers over consumer electronics.</p><p>It’s forced smartphone makers to pass along higher costs through price hikes, particularly for entry- and mid-range devices.</p><p>SK Hynix shares fell more than 15% in trading on Monday - just days after its U.S. listing.</p><p>It was the South Korean chip giant's biggest one-day decline on record.</p><p>Investors in Seoul cashed out of a massive share price rally following its Nasdaq debut last week.</p><p>The fall in SK Hynix and rival Samsung Electronics stock led to a 9% plunge in South Korea's Kospi and triggered a 20-minute trading halt.</p><p>And an electric vehicle made by Renault completed a 1,000-mile journey using only solar power. </p><p>Easee CEO, Anthony Fernandez, said the vehicle was charged at solar installations along the route from the UK’s Land's End to John o' Groats…</p><p>As well as portable lithium-ion battery units that had been charged using only solar power.</p><p>"I think what's going on in the world at the moment is really forcing people to rethink where their energy comes from, and I think people are gravitating more and more towards renewable technology. And also to reduce the dependency that we have on the grid, which in many parts of the world is aging quite rapidly."</p><p>The car's five-day trip was backed by Easee and Renault.</p></body>
Investing.com -- Morgan Stanley expects Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) to raise iPhone prices by approximately $200 in September, a move the firm estimates could deliver 2–4% upside to F3Q26 EPS and roughly 1% upside to FY27 EPS estimates. All else equal, Morgan Stanley analysts see a bullish setup that the market has not fully priced in.
Futures tracking the Nasdaq 100 were rising on Tuesday–but the tech-heavy index's biggest names weren't benefiting from the broader rebound. Roundhill's Magnificent Seven exchange-traded fund, which tracks shares of seven mega-cap tech companies, slid 0.
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Apple stock hit a record as an AI-driven memory crisis split the smartphone market and crushed budget Android.
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Apple sued OpenAI last week, alleging that OpenAI encouraged Apple employees to share information about upcoming products and other insider information.
China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% to 66 million units in the second quarter from a year earlier, as many manufacturers hiked prices to reflect rising memory and component costs, research firm IDC said on Tuesday. It was the fifth straight quarterly decline, and first-half shipments were down 4.2% from a year earlier. Huawei Technologies and Apple were the only vendors to post growth in the quarter, with shipments up 19.4% and 24.4%, respectively.
In early July 2026, Broadcom Inc. announced that it and Apple Inc. had expanded their long-running technology collaboration through 2031 with new multi-year agreements for Broadcom to develop and supply custom ASIC silicon across multiple generations of Apple products. This long-dated Apple deal, alongside Broadcom’s rapidly growing AI semiconductor business and deepening relationships with major cloud and AI customers, reinforces its role as a key infrastructure supplier to some of the...
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TSMC, the world's largest manufacturer of advanced AI chips, will likely notch a fifth consecutive quarter of record earnings, driven by booming AI infrastructure spending. Analysts say demand for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co's (TSMC) 3-nanometre and 2-nanometre process technologies for AI chips, as well as for its advanced chip packaging technology, CoWoS, remains strong. Its market capitalisation is now nearly double that of South Korean rival Samsung Electronics at around $1.97 trillion.
The artificial intelligence boom has been nothing but a headache for Apple (AAPL) since it started. The stock quickly gained a reputation as an AI laggard. The company recently had to raise prices for some of its products due to the skyrocketing memory prices, caused by the AI buildout. The ...
Investors backed strong catalysts, including analyst upgrades, biotech trial results and improving freight outlooks.
Almost every advanced AI chip on the planet is built in one place. Nvidia's Blackwell processors, Apple's silicon, custom accelerators for Meta and AMD — they all run through the same foundry in Taiwan. That foundry is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM). TSMC is set to ...