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Meta has launched a dedicated Seller app for Facebook Marketplace, aimed at professional sellers. The app focuses on enhanced seller tools and potentially lower fees, directly challenging eBay's core seller base. This development introduces fresh competitive pressure on eBay's marketplace model and its high-margin seller segment. eBay, traded as NasdaqGS:EBAY, now faces a new competitor targeting the same professional sellers that are central to its marketplace model. The stock trades at...

Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS:META) and Lightspeed Commerce have launched a direct integration that syncs in-store sales data with Meta's advertising systems. The integration allows physical retailers to connect point-of-sale transactions to Meta ad campaigns, even without an ecommerce site. The move is aimed at improving attribution of Meta ads to offline purchases and expanding Meta's role in brick-and-mortar retail marketing. Meta Platforms enters this partnership with Lightspeed Commerce...

Meta's stock has shed nearly 10% while its business keeps accelerating, creating a tension that puts investors in a tough spot ahead of the July 29 earnings report. Whether the pullback is an opportunity or a warning depends on one question Wall Street is still debating.

Cathie Wood's latest trade makes a strong case for Meta stock prior to Q2 earnings.

Big Tech is pouring hundreds of billions into AI every year, but investors are quietly starting to separate the winners from the companies that may never see a return on their colossal bets.

Drive past enough American commercial real estate and you start to notice the second acts. The bowling alley that became a church. The Sears that became a self-storage warehouse. Somebody put up the building for one reason, the reason expired, and the concrete found a new job. That pattern is not a ...

Iran's conflict is spiking oil prices and rattling markets, but a quieter energy threat is already reshaping how Americans pay their utility bills, and Big Tech may be the one responsible.

Some markets observations, compliments of Yahoo Finance AlphaSpace.

Wall Street spent months buying the AI buildout — this week it started asking who actually pays for it.

Despite tremors in its share price, Cramer continues to be lukewarm about Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META). The shares are down by 8.5% year-to-date and by 16.7% over the past year. One major point of debate surrounding Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) relates to its heavy capital expenditure in order to keep up with other mega cap peers. However, […]

Meta has abandoned a global pledge by leading companies to source all of their electricity from renewable sources, the social media giant confirmed Friday.A Meta spokesperson told AFP the company is continuing to scale up investments in renewable energy, and that leaving RE100 does not change its goal of matching its electricity use with 100 percent clean energy. 

Big Tech Draws Line on AI: Nvidia, Microsoft Push Back on New Restrictions

Meta escapes proposed class-action as WhatsApp privacy lawsuit is tossed

It’s peak earnings season, and investors could be forgiven for wanting an escape hatch. Corporate America is delivering solid results, but it’s not helping stocks. Last night, chip maker Intel’s quarterly results blew past Wall Street estimates.

The market reaction to Alphabet's Q2 results has significantly raised the bar for its Magnificent Seven peers that are on deck to report results this week, namely Microsoft and Meta Platforms on Wednesday, July 29th, and Apple and Amazon on Thursday, July 30th.

Just over a month since its initial public offering, SpaceX has delivered one of the weakest post-debut performances of any major U.S. listing since the end of the 2008-2009 financial crisis. A Barron’s analysis found that the stock performed worse than 90% of other U.S. IPOs with market capitalizations of $1 billion or more since July, 2009. Over the first 27 trading days, SpaceX was down 23% from its first day closing price of $161.

The White House is expanding its voluntary Ratepayer Protection Pledge for AI data centers, adding nearly 200 utilities, governors, electricity cooperatives, public power providers and developers to the initiative, according to a White House official who confirmed the move to...

Asking for a Trend Host Brooke DiPalma previews several of the biggest stories to come next week, including Mag 7 earnings from Microsoft (MSFT), Meta (META), Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN), as well as the Fed decision and the latest Consumer confidence data.

Dow Jones futures will open Sunday evening, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. Apple, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Amazon.com headline a massive earnings wave. The Federal Reserve meets, with a rate hike a possibility.

Investors aren’t buying the earnings story this summer, in contrast to the spring rally that powered stocks to a record high in early June, suggesting a tough climb for markets over the back half of the year. Early second-quarter earnings data suggests companies are beating Wall Street forecasts by nearly 9%, well ahead of the four-quarter average of around 7.5% and the 4.4% tallied since 1994, according to LSEG. Nearly 85% of companies are beating estimates, compared with the recent average of around 80% and the historic reading of around 68%, and LSEG figures suggest overall second-quarter profit growth of 27%.

Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta joined more than 20 technology companies in urging U.S. policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models

<body><p>STORY: Investor concerns over the growing cost of AI investments have become a central theme for markets after results from Google parent Alphabet, and Tesla, highlighted rising capital spending and cash burn among major technology companies.</p><p>That has set a cautious tone ahead of next week's earnings from Microsoft, Amazon and Meta.</p><p>If those companies "continue to raise their CapEx spending, then guess what? There'll be a negative reaction from the stocks, just like we saw this week from Google," Reyle said.</p><p>"I think the real trick will be, one of these guys is going to finally say 'enough's enough' and they will finally cut back on spending," he added. "And guess what? Their stock price will react positively to that."</p><p>To that point, Reyle noted that Apple, which has avoided massive AI spending, has seen its stock rise more than 20% this year.&nbsp;</p></body>

Tech stocks were lower late Friday afternoon, with the State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ET

The chip king’s debut post on X, backed by twenty-five other big tech companies, supports open weights as Washington prepares to clamp down.

Real risk-free bond yields haven’t been this high in years. As for 30-year maturities, you would have to go back to the 2008-09 financial crisis to encounter real yields of nearly 3%. Real interest rates are what you earn after the bite taken by inflation.

Tech coalition urges US support for open-weight AI to strengthen competitiveness and expand AI adoption.

Nvidia chief backs open models alongside Microsoft and Meta

Nvidia, Microsoft and other tech heavyweights made a public case to lawmakers on Friday in favor of open-source ‌AI models, wading into a debate roiling the business and policy worlds over ‌who controls the powerful technology. In a letter posted on X and also signed by two dozen companies and groups ​including Meta Platforms and IBM, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that lawmakers should avoid "premature restrictions on open models that stifle competition or drive innovation overseas." The letter adds to the growing debate about open-source models that are harder to regulate, such as Nvidia's own and those released ‌in recent weeks by Chinese ⁠labs, and the closed-source models controlled by specific companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.

Meta avoids an immediate setback as refiling remains possible

The Nvidia CEO pens an open letter in support of the open-weight artificial-intelligence models competing with OpenAI and Anthropic.