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Investing.com -- Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) shares fell 7% on Friday after the Financial Times reported the company is considering a major equity raise to fund its artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Technology stocks tumbled sharply Friday as the Nasdaq headed for its worst week in a year. Nasdaq Inc. shed nearly 2% in afternoon trades, as Nvidia, Micron and Sandisk fell. Tech behemoths like Amazon and Google edged lower.
Dow Jones futures fell slightly after hours, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. The May jobs report is on tap before Friday's open. The stock market saw the Dow Jones jump to a record high, aided by lower oil prices and Treasury yields.
Broadcom held the line on its AI guidance for its upcoming third quarter on Wednesday night, but the stock still fell 15% on Thursday morning. That counterintuitive outcome sits at the center of KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst John Vinh’s reaction on CNBC’s Squawk Box, where he defended his Overweight rating on Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) while reiterating ... Wall Street Analyst: Broadcom’s Flat AI Guidance Justified the Selloff, but Nvidia Remains Best-in-Class Chip Play
Broadcom forecast third-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, betting on robust demand for its custom AI chips and networking gear. However, shares of the Palo Alto, California-based company fell more than 2% in extended trading. They had gained nearly 8% last week in the run up to earnings.
Google, which is raising a fresh $80 billion, has a strategy for getting around the biggest bottleneck.
The stock market hit new highs amid a win streak. AI and metals led while Google tested support. Palo Alto jumped late on earnings.
Investing.com -- Meta Platforms, TikTok parent ByteDance, Snap, and Alphabet’s YouTube have agreed to pay roughly $27 million to settle claims brought by a Kentucky school district alleging their platforms contributed to a student mental health crisis, Reuters reported on Friday.
By Diana Novak Jones May 29 (Reuters) - A Kentucky school district secured approximately $27 million in settlements from social media companies over claims they fueled a student mental‑health crisis,
A Kentucky school district secured roughly $27 million in settlements from Meta Platforms and other social media companies over claims they fueled a student mental‑health crisis, according to records seen by Reuters on Friday. Meta agreed to pay the most at $9 million in the bellwether case for school districts, according to documents that reveal financial terms for the first time as terms of the deals had not been disclosed in court. The operator of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp settled the case brought by Breathitt County School District on May 21, a few weeks before a planned June trial, following settlements by co-defendants Snap Inc, YouTube parent Alphabet and TikTok parent ByteDance.
The company lost about 70% of its value as Amazon gained ground and relationships with top ad agencies soured.
Dropbox said on Tuesday that CEO and co-founder Andrew Houston will step down after a transition period, promoting insider Ashraf Alkarmi to co-CEO ahead of his succession as the sole chief executive. The file hosting service provider's shares fell more than 1% in early trading. They have fallen over 3% this year.
Meta resolves a major school district case, but roughly 1,200 related lawsuits remain pending.
What's better: paying $2 trillion for SpaceX, with under $20 billion in revenue, or $5 trillion for Google (GOOG), generating $400 billion in revenue and $100 billion in profits.
The Breathitt County School District in Kentucky had sought over $60 million from Meta and other platforms over students' mental health
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Intel (INTC) stock has lost about 19.17% since hitting its highest-ever closing price of $129.44 on May 11. It is currently trading at $104.62, according to Yahoo Finance at the time of writing, Tuesday morning, May 19. Intel repurchased Apollo’s (APO) equity interest in the joint venture related ...
Roughly $1.5 trillion has flowed into artificial intelligence deployment since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, according to Advisor Perspectives, a sum that matches the projected fiscal year 2027 U.S. defense budget. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are projecting approximately $725 billion in ...
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Investors will get highly anticipated quarterly results from Nvidia (NVDA) on Wednesday in what's expected to be the marquee earnings event of the week.
Investing.com -- Artificial intelligence is beginning to account for a significantly larger share of corporate workforce reductions, according to a UBS Global Research report issued on May 13, 2026.