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Cisco Rings a Worrisome Bell
Cisco Systems CSCO -4.43% is nothing if not reliable. Rare disappointments tend to be painful. The tech heavyweight known best…
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MicroStrategy Won’t Change Bitcoin Plans Despite Recent Declines, New CFO Says
MicroStrategy Inc.’s new chief financial officer on Wednesday said its strategy to buy and hold bitcoin long term won’t change…
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How Warren Buffett made the stock market selloff work for Berkshire Hathaway
The stock market’s selloff has been bad news for most investors. Not for Warren Buffett and his team. Buffett’s Berkshire…
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15 stocks that have fallen at least 33% but by these measures are still standouts in their sectors
During a year in which more than half of the stocks in the S&P 500 Index have declined 10% or…
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India Can’t Hang Up on Chinese Smartphones
India and China are in a standoff again, but it isn’t at the border. India is investigating Chinese smartphone maker…
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Apple Is No Longer World’s Most Valuable Company
Apple’s stock is down roughly 20% for the year and down nearly 10% so far this month. Photo: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg…
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Silicon Battery Maker Amprius to Go Public in $1.3 Billion SPAC Merger
Amprius Technologies Inc. has reached a deal with a special-purpose acquisition company that values the maker of silicon-anode batteries at…
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U.S. stocks bounce in choppy trade after CPI shows inflation slows less than expected
Major stock indexes were higher in choppy price action after an eagerly awaited consumer price index reading showed U.S. inflation…
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Tech stock rout sees Tiger Global lose $17bn
The hedge fund Tiger Global has lost roughly two-thirds of the cumulative gains it has made for investors since its…
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Here’s a list of 50 companies that are well-armed to beat back inflation
Another turnaround Tuesday may be in the cards after a litany of concerns including stagflation dragged the S&P 500 SPX,…
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Palantir stock tumbles toward worst drop on record after outlook falls short
Executives at Palantir Technologies Inc. see the software company as strongly positioned for the current uncertain environment, but shares were…
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Shopify to Buy E-Commerce Fulfillment Specialist Deliverr for $2.1 Billion
Shopify Inc. has agreed to buy U.S. fulfillment specialist Deliverr Inc. for $2.1 billion in a cash-and-stock deal, as the…
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Western Digital stock shoots toward best day in two years after activist pushes for business split
Shares of Western Digital Corp. were rocketing in Tuesday trading after Elliott Investment Management issued a call for the chip…
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Apple Suppliers Given Priority for Factory Restarts in Shanghai Region
Suppliers to Apple Inc. AAPL -2.17% are among the businesses taking precedence in local governments’ efforts to restart factories in…
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Apple May Post Third-Best Quarter Ever as Wall Street Worries About Consumer Slowdown
Apple Inc. AAPL 2.23% may post one of its best quarters in its 46-year history on Thursday. But investors will…
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Facebook earnings beat sends Meta stock soaring, but sales hit slowest growth in a decade
Meta Platforms Inc. is the latest tech giant to feel an economic pinch, as Facebook’s parent company reported its slowest…
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Microsoft beats on earnings after raising prices for Office
Microsoft Corp. eclipsed profit and sales estimates and produced stronger-than-expected revenue across all of its business segments in an earnings…
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Google Sales Growth Expected to Continue Despite Broader Economic Concerns
Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOG -2.75% is expected to report strong sales growth despite global economic turmoil, propelled by digital…
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Activision Blizzard Revenue Falls as Call of Duty Demand Sputters
Activision’s sales fell 22.3% to $1.77 billion for the quarter. A game shot from ‘Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.’ Photo:…
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Companies Try to Sell Videogaming as the Next Big Advertising Channel
An advocacy group this week accused Roblox Corp.’s online gaming platform of deceiving players partly by failing to clearly distinguish…
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Plaid Co-Founder Takes Aim at Rickety Banking Tech
Lots of tech entrepreneurs who strike gold splurge on trophy homes. William Hockey bought a bank. Northern California National Bank…
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U.S. Taps Industrial and Cyber Firms for Help Amid Warnings of Russian Hacks
The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday added several industrial and cybersecurity firms to a program aimed at thwarting hacks…
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How Meta Platforms Fell Behind in Indian Mobile Payments
Mark Zuckerberg has pinned his hopes on commerce to save his business from stagnating user engagement and decelerating advertising revenue…
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These 20 highly rated stocks are expected to rise at least 70% over the next year
A sliding stock market means many companies are on sale, which spells opportunity for investors with investment horizons of several…
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Bain Capital mulls potential Toshiba takeover
Toshiba’s top shareholder said 31 March it had agreed to support a possible takeover bid led by US private-equity firm Bain…
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reveals 11% stake in HP
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has built a stake of more than 11% in computer-and-printer maker HP, marking another foray into…
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Pentagon seeks bids from Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle for major cloud contract
The Pentagon said Friday it is seeking bids from the four largest cloud providers for a controversial multibillion-dollar contract that…
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PwC and Microsoft partner on digital banking cloud solution
Audit firm PwC launched a new digital banking solution as part of its ongoing partnership with tech giant Microsoft. The product, which…
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Square’s CFO on bitcoin, Afterpay, and where the firm goes next
Square started out in 2009 as a payment-services provider, enabling small businesses to process card payments with inexpensive white card…
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Snap stock plummets as it blames Apple for sales miss, Facebook and Google also drop
Snap Inc. shares were slammed Thursday, initially plunging more than 25% in extended trading, after the social-media company reported middling…
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How a City fund manager’s idea to hire 100 Black interns spread to Goldman, Google and TikTok
Ami Ophelia-Brown submitted over 300 job applications during her final year at the University of Northampton, from where she graduated…
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5 reasons ‘Squid Game’ is dominating memes, streams and Halloween
Note: While this piece avoids specific “Squid Game” plot spoilers, it does give a general overview of the story and…
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Evergrande plunge wipes $250m off BlackRock, Vanguard holdings
BlackRock and Vanguard are among the largest shareholders in Evergrande that have posted hundreds of millions of dollars in paper…
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Facebook, Twitter, TikTok need to ‘do the right thing’, says FCA
Tech giants Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and TikTok need to “do the right thing” when it comes to promotions and advertisements for…
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