Tech titans including Google parent Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta META, +2.79%, IBM IBM, +0.27% and Amazon AMZN, +1.96% have announced thousands of job cuts in recent months, as the sector attempts to mee...
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This Robot Electric Cargo Plane Could Be The Start Of A Wave That Transforms Shipping
Pyka’s autonomous electric Pelican cargo carrier is an adaptation of a plane it developed for crop spraying. The Oakland-based startup sees it as a step on the road to developing a zero-emission...
China E-Commerce Giant Alibaba Falls After Reports of Move to Singapore
Stock in Alibaba the Chinese e-commerce site, fell 7% in Hong Kong trading on Monday after reports the company is moving its headquarters out of the country. Alibaba (ticker: HK:9988) to be building a...
Asian shares mostly rise, but Hang Seng drops over 2% as Alibaba tumbles on reports of headquarter shift
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were trading mixed in Asia on Monday after Wall Street benchmarks closed higher on Friday, capping a third week of gains out of the last four. Tokyo and Shanghai rose while Hong ...
Opinion: Microsoft gave Wall Street hope, but then the cloud forecast turned dark
Microsoft Corp. sparked a relief rally for the cloud Tuesday, then rained on that parade after less than two hours of joy. Microsoft MSFT reported slightly disappointing holiday-quarter results, but t...
Small-cap companies are going after naked short sellers in growing numbers: ‘It’s the biggest risk to the health of today’s public markets’
A growing number of small-cap companies are announcing plans to go after naked short sellers, claiming their stocks are being artificially depressed by illegal trading activity. Verb Technology Co. In...
Holiday sales tanked, trucking data shows e-commerce wasn’t the issue
The market did not like what it saw from the final retail holiday sales numbers for 2022 which sets up a tough year for retailers, but e-commerce is continuing to boom, including in areas outside the ...
CVS eyes next-generation health clinics after Amazon’s move for One Medical
CVS Health Corp. is investing in a young chain of health clinics, and may be looking to acquire another. CVS CVS, -0.12% invested $100 million in a Carbon Health Inc., a San Francisco-based chain of u...
6 value stock picks for 2023 from successful money managers
Following a down year for the stock market, there is no shortage of recession predictions for 2023, especially as the Federal Reserve has signaled it will continue to raise interest rates to fight inf...
How Alibaba Stock Can Double Off Its 2022 Low
Shares of Alibaba (BABA) – Get Free Report are starting the year off higher, already up more than 15% so far. The stock jumped 4.4% on Jan. 3, the first trading day of the year. Today, the shar...
Opinion: Three value-stock investors favor these six picks for a rocky 2023
Analysts expect value stocks to maintain outperformance over growth stocks as interest rates rise and the economy falters. To find some of the best value names to consider, I recently checked in with ...
Alibaba Stock Is Soaring. What’s Driving Its Big Move.
Alibaba stock was on a tear Wednesday amid signs that the tough regulatory landscape for Chinese tech stocks—one of two key headwinds facing the sector—is improving. Progress has put investors on a bu...
The Dramatic Fall of Carvana, “The Amazon of Used Cars”
It is a buoyant red in the portfolio of the shareholders of Carvana, the online used car platform. In one year, their shares have lost most of their value, no doubt giving them the impression that the...
Southwest, Tesla, Alibaba, NIO, and More Stock Market Movers Tuesday
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IRS pauses rule requiring people to report PayPal, Venmo transactions over $600. Here’s what went wrong.
To avert taxpayer confusion in the upcoming tax season, the IRS is delaying a rule that would have required e-commerce sites and payment platforms like eBay EBAY, +0.12%, Etsy ETSY, -0.32% and PayPal ...
Amazon Nightmare Is Reminiscent of the Dotcom Collapse
It’s a dark year for Amazon. A year to forget. The e-commerce giant undoubtedly wants to put 2022 behind it and get out of what appears to be a real stock market nightmare. The numbers speak f...
Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google face earnings test amid Big Tech layoffs
In the biggest week of the holiday-earnings season, Big Tech results will receive the spotlight amid thousands of layoffs that could only be the beginning. After tech stocks were decimated in 2022, in...