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Earnings must support soaring expectations around the chipmaker's turnaround

Alphabet shareholders await results from the first of the Magnificent Seven stocks.

There is a real difference between paying for something and paying to use it. Most people do not notice which one they agreed to until the final payment clears. For roughly a decade, financing an expensive phone in the United States worked one way. You committed to a monthly number, you made the ...

Revenue growth is expected to accelerate.

Intel shares have surged over 350% in the past year on the promise that CPUs are becoming the backbone of AI infrastructure, but Thursday's earnings report will reveal whether that thesis has real legs or just hype propping up a lofty valuation.

Investing.com -- Apple’s trade secret lawsuit named OpenAI and io Products directly as defendants, alongside two former Apple employees, but the litigation is unlikely to derail OpenAI’s IPO plans, according to Ross Carmel, a partner and IPO expert at Sichenzia Ross Ference Carmel LLP.

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday unveiled a passport-sized foldable phone and raised prices of two updated foldable models, as it grapples ‌with rising memory chip prices while bracing for a new threat from Apple ‌in the niche but growing segment. The South Korean technology company pioneered foldable smartphones but its dominance is set to ​be challenged by Apple which analysts expect this year to launch a foldable phone with a screen similar in size to an iPad mini. "Strategically, this is one of Samsung's most important foldable launches," said Francisco Jeronimo, vice president at researcher IDC.

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Intel's results on Thursday will show whether the American chip icon has the numbers to back a Wall Street rally that has ‌sent its shares nearly three times higher this year, as its turnaround ‌push wins over investors and the AI buildout powers demand. Investors are also eager for details on potential new customers for its contract manufacturing business, which has shown growing traction with deals including a ‌Tesla tie-up. • Among the biggest ⁠questions for Intel is a potential deal to manufacture processors for Apple that U.S. President Donald Trump announced in April but neither ⁠company has confirmed.

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July 22 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures dipped on Wednesday, pressured by weakness in chip stocks, as investors remained cautious ahead of the first batch of Big Tech earnings that could decide

Alphabet will report second quarter earnings after the stock market closes Wednesday. Analysts expect capex for the quarter to be $45.1 billion, a 101% increase from a year earlier.

The Shenzhen-listed company plans to raise more than US$7 billion in a Hong Kong public offering that would be the city’s largest listing so far this year.

The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index jumped over 5%, its best single-day gain in a month, as bargain buyers piled onto semiconductor stocks.

A Berkshire acquisition from 10 years ago gives the Oracle of Omaha's conglomerate exposure to the data center proliferation trend.

Earnings are the most important thing, and expectations are high. But interest rates are rising, and energy tensions aren't easing.

Alphabet and Tesla Are Due to Report Results Wednesday Afternoon

Alphabet and Apple both crushed their last quarters, but they are running completely opposite playbooks heading into earnings season. One is burning through cash to own the AI future while the other hands it back to shareholders, and only one setup looks sharp right now.

July 30 is Tim Cook's last earnings call as Apple's CEO. He's been running the company since 2011, and when he gets off that call, John Ternus takes over. That alone makes this quarter worth paying attention to, beyond the usual revenue-and-margins conversation. Bank of America published its ...

Investing.com -- Klarna shares jumped 9% Tuesday after Bloomberg reported that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) will partner with the Swedish fintech company for a new device leasing program called Apple Upgrade.

Apple is launching a device leasing program called 'Apple Upgrade' on July 28 in the U.S. to ‌boost sales, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people with ‌knowledge of the matter. The new service arrives as Apple has raised prices on ​its iPads, MacBooks and other devices except the iPhone, no longer able to shield customers from surging memory and storage chip costs driven by the AI industry's data-center buildout. Apple Upgrade will support most iPhone, ‌Mac, iPad and Apple Watch ⁠models and the company is partnering with Klarna Group as the financial backer for the program, the report ⁠said.

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Apple Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:AAPL) valuation has officially shattered records, trading at an unprecedented 11 times its sales revenue just as CEO Tim Cook prepares to oversee his final earnings report. The technology behemoth touched an intraday all-time high of $334.99 on Friday, July 17, reflecting surging investor optimism in artificial intelligence and pushing the company to its “highest valuation level in company history.” Artificial Intelligence Drives Sentiment Shift Apple’s recent stock surge on

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Apple's federal lawsuit against OpenAI looks like a trade secret dispute on the surface, but one analyst thinks it signals Apple spotted something alarming in OpenAI's hardware roadmap and moved to get ahead of it.

Strong services growth may offset weaker product margins

Expectations are running high for Alphabet's Q2 results on Wednesday, July 22, but so is the company's earnings momentum.

The next "Magnificent Seven" stocks won't be the "Mag 10," Citi analysts say: Watch these "Growth Industry" sectors instead.