Microsoft earnings on deck amid layoffs, recession fears: What to expect

Microsoft, which is laying off nearly 1,000 workers across multiple divisions, reports its fiscal first-quarter results after market close on Oct. 25. With fears of a recession looming, Axios and Busi...

Big Tech Earnings Are Coming. 5 Key Things to Watch.

Brace yourself. This coming week, the world’s largest tech companies all report their September-quarter financial results. And I mean all of them— Alphabet Microsoft Meta Platforms Apple Amazon.com an...

Super Micro Computer shares jump 17% on raised Q1 guidance

Super Micro Computer Inc. SMCI, +13.03% shares jumped 17% to $64.88 in after-hours trading Wednesday after the company issued preliminary financial information for the first quarter above its prior gu...

Apple Stock Is Top Pick, but Hardware Sector Set for Pain, Says Morgan Stanley

The sharp drop in sales of personal computer and consumer electronics in recent quarters augurs poorly for stocks in the computer hardware sector, Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring cautioned in a r...

These 11 stocks can lead your portfolio’s rebound after the S&P 500 ‘earnings recession’ and a market bottom next year

This may surprise you: Wall Street analysts expect earnings for the S&P 500 to increase 8% during 2023, despite all the buzz about a possible recession as the Federal Reserve tightens monetary pol...

Why Zelle moves twice as much money as Venmo and the Cash App combined

Zelle may not have its own clothing line or suggest emojis when you pay your friend, but the peer-to-peer payment service is moving serious money, and that seems to be raising eyebrows these days. Sen...

American Executives in Limbo at Chinese Chip Companies After U.S. Ban

SINGAPORE—American workers hold key positions throughout China’s domestic chip industry, helping manufacturers develop new chips to catch up with foreign rivals. Now, those workers are in limbo under ...

ARK Innovation ETF Closed Below Its Covid-Era Low. Why It Might Stay There.

Cathie Wood’s flagship exchange-traded fund finally closed below its early pandemic lows on Friday, after slipping below that line in intraday trading twice this week. The $7.1 billion ARK Innovation ...

Quantum computers could ‘massively’ change computing world; What it means for Bitcoin

In today’s technological society, new advances are constantly being put forward, and innovative solutions are being developed, including the never-ending work on the creation of a quantum computer wit...

Investing in the Future of Digitization and Computing

Of course, any discussion about digitization enabled by crypto will be incomplete without what feels like the oldest use case of them all: Allowing patients to digitize their medical records to enable...

Taiwan Semi reports stronger-than-forecast profit

Third-party silicon-wafer manufacturer reported Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported a stronger-than-forecast 80% increase in profit for the third quarter. The chipmaker said earnings rose ...

U.S. Suppliers Halt Operations at Top Chinese Memory Chip Maker

BEIJING–U.S. chip-equipment suppliers are pulling out staff based at China’s leading memory-chip maker and pausing business activities there, according to people familiar with the matter, as they grap...

Layoffs at Intel Could Spell a Bitter Winter for Tech. It’s Not All Bad News.

Intel looks set to be the latest tech company to announce job cuts in the face of a gloomy macro outlook—a sign that a bitter winter is coming for the sector. From a more macro perspective, there are ...

Chip stocks slammed by new ban on chip and AI technology for China

The chip sector melted down Friday after U.S. regulators moved to pump the brakes on China’s military ambitions by issuing new restrictions on semiconductor and AI technology that can be sold to the c...

AMD Cuts Revenue Forecast Amid Worst Slump in PC Shipments in Years

Listen to article (1 minute) Advanced Micro Devices cut its revenue forecast for the most recent quarter citing weaker-than-expected demand for the personal computers that use its chips. The chip make...

Opinion: The stock market is in no man’s land. Prepare to cash in when the turnaround comes

If you were too scared to buy stocks last week when investors panicked, I’d suggest doing a little selling now to free up your nerves — and capital. I’ll be a buyer on the next leg down, just as I was...

Opinion: Technology stocks are booming, and these four companies have staying power for years to come

Shares of technology companies from chip makers to FAANGs slumped for a third quarter at the end of September, as softer revenue, profit warnings and fading CEO confidence added to the doom. The backd...

Elon Musk says Twitter will eventually be part of ‘X, the everything app’

Elon Musk has a new plan for Twitter Inc. after giving up a legal battle and agreeing to pay $44 billion for the company Tuesday. ““Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app”” ...

These 20 stocks in the S&P 500 tumbled between 20% and 30% in September

Stocks declined again on Friday, closing out September with large losses across the board as the rally from the June lows partway through August faded into memory. The S&P 500 SPX fell 1.5% on Fri...

It’s Time to Buy Tech Again. Here Are 20 Stocks to Start With.

One cruel truth the stock market confirmed this past week is that trying to pick the bottom for technology stocks is a fool’s errand. The Nasdaq Composite’s terrible September—it was down 10.5% on the...

The SPAC Bubble Has Burst. 6 Stocks That Still Have Potential.

One year ago, investors couldn’t get enough of special-purpose acquisition companies. Now, they can’t dump SPACs fast enough. In 2021, some 613 SPACs came to market, two-and-a-half times as many as in...

Palantir Stock Is Rising. The Company Won a Big Defense Contract.

Palantir stock is modestly higher after the data-analytics software company announced a contract from the Department of Defense worth up to $229 million. It’s a one year pact to support test and deplo...

Can quantum computing break Bitcoin?

Let me start this piece off with a disclaimer. I don’t have a brain anywhere near big enough to come close to understanding what quantum computing is. Having said that, I am super curious as to its po...

Intel Introduces Videogame Graphics Chips to Challenge Nvidia

Sept. 27, 2022 3:02 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Intel plans to start selling graphics chips for videogamers next month, aiming to get a piece of a lucrative market dominated by competitors Nvi...

Top 5 Distributed Computing Tokens below $1M Market Capitalization

Distributed Computing is just the distribution of computer data and components of an interconnected network of computers under stable communication. Distributed Computing Tokens have a total market ca...

If chip production is recovering, why are automakers still making fewer cars?

Automakers trimmed 76,000 vehicles from global production plans in mid-September, according to analysts from AutoForecast Solutions. They’ll produce about 3.23 million fewer this year than planned, th...

Oracle’s Ellison’s Compensation Topped $130 Million Last Fiscal Year

Sept. 23, 2022 8:24 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Oracle top executives are again among the highest-paid at big U.S. companies, thanks to a decision last year to give them more time to earn stoc...

ETH Merge Forks, Quantum Computing, Biden Draining Oil Reserves, DOJ Targets Criminal Crypto Use — Week in Review – The Weekly Bitcoin News

With the Ethereum Merge event now successfully completed, new proof-of-work (PoW) forks have emerged to vie for miner acceptance. This, as the United States government, has warned that the post-quantu...

Alibaba Pours $1 Billion Into Cloud Computing. The Move Is Critical for Its Growth.

Text size Alibaba stock has tumbled since early 2021 amid waves of regulatory pressures. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Alibaba will invest $1 billion into its cloud computing division, doubling down...

These 20 stocks in the S&P skidded as much as 21.5% during another brutal week for the market

Another difficult week for U.S. stocks ended with shares of oil producers sliding and Ford Motor Co. tumbling further on concerns over supply shortages. The S&P 500 SPX, -1.72% fell 1.7% on Friday...

Netflix chief accounting officer gives up $2.4 million position after just 4 months on the job

Netflix Inc. is seeking a new chief accounting officer after its current one quit the role after less than four months. The streaming giant NFLX, -5.69% said in a regulatory filing Friday that Ken Bar...

Amazon, Microsoft, Google Face UK Probe Over Dominance in Cloud Computing

There are also plans to investigate digital markets including personal messaging and virtual assistants in 2023. The UK media regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation into the positions of compan...