Shares of DocuSign were flying higher in aftermarket action Thursday after the e-signature company topped expectations with its latest financial results. The company posted a fiscal third-quarter net ...
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Amazon, Walmart, and Kroger Could Have the Solution to Grocery Deliveries
Shoppers returning to stores in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, venture-capital money drying up, and higher labor costs mean the first golden age of food delivery looks to be over. But customers ha...
Snowflake stock drops after sales forecast that CFO admits is ‘conservative’
Shares of Snowflake Inc. fell more than 5% in after-hours trading Wednesday, when the data-software company’s executives announced quarterly revenue that topped expectations but came up shy with their...
Okta stock jumps 15%, CEO promises profit as sales reps get on same page
Okta Inc. executives on Wednesday said they will report an adjusted profit in the fourth quarter and, in a surprise, predicted profitability for all of next fiscal year, trumping profit concerns stemm...
Cloud software is suffering a cold November rain. Can Snowflake and Salesforce turn it around?
The week after Thanksgiving could determine if cloud software is still too fat or if there are some tasty leftovers for Wall Street. Autodesk Inc. ADSK, +1.82% signaled a slowdown in business spending...
Employers Rethink Need for College Degrees in Tight Labor Market
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Google looks to shed 10,000 ‘poor performing’ workers: report
Another major tech titan is bracing for thousands of layoffs. Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL, +1.45% GOOG, +1.53% Google is considering 10,000 layoffs — or 6% of its worldwide workforce — based on a ranking sy...
Baidu Beats Revenue Expectations Despite Continued Covid Worries
Baidu on Tuesday became the latest Chinese technology company to report a return to annual growth, as it beat expectations for its third-quarter revenue. Baidu (ticker: BIDU)—often referred to as Chi...
Fed Tightening Is Having More Impact Than You Might Think
We’ve learned a lot about the transmission of disease in the past few years. Ideas, good and bad, are spread similarly. Robert Shiller, the Yale University Nobel laureate, wrote in Irrational Exuberan...
Alibaba Gets a Price Target Cut After Strong Earnings
Text size Benchmark analyst Fawne Jiang maintained her Buy rating on Alibaba despite cutting her price target. AFP via Getty Images Alibaba Group Holding stock popped on Thursday, prompting an analyst...
Opinion: The new bull market will be led by stocks in these three industries.
We don’t know yet if the recent rally kicks off a new bull market in stocks. But here’s a safe bet: Once the new bull market is here, entirely different groups will lead. It’ll be out with the old — t...
Alibaba, Tencent, lead Hong Kong tech stocks higher after upbeat China online retail sales data
Shares of Chinese internet giants jumped in Hong Kong, after official data showed better-than-expected October retail sales in the world’s second-largest economy. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BABA, +0.7...
Walmart Is Flexing Its Muscle Again
America’s biggest retailer has a new message for its suppliers: We’re not going to pay higher prices anymore. Walmart Inc. Chief Executive Doug McMillon delivered the warning in person last month in a...
Amazon Has Lost $1 Trillion in Market Cap. Ouch.
Amazon.com has now lost more than $1 trillion in market capitalization, the most ever by a U.S. company and the first time one company has shed that much market value. It’s a painful reminder to inves...
Cloud software is a ‘fight for a knife in the mud,’ and Wall Street is souring on the one sector that was winning
The cloud-software business has come to resemble a “fight for a knife in the mud,” as one popular TV character would put it, with vendors scrambling for the crumbs of declining business spending and h...