Tag: Technology

Billionaire George Soros’ investment fund has taken a more than $1 billion stake in electric-pickup maker Rivian Automotive Inc. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Fr...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Has Found a Smart Way to Get Free Money

You don’t change a formula that wins, says an adage. In this case, the formula is doubly winning. The electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report continues to ...

Giant Pension Exited Alibaba and Bought Coinbase, Lucid, and Rivian Stock

Text size Alibaba is no longer a holding in a New Jersey pension fund. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Late in 2021, New Jersey’s state pension bought up newly public stocks that have plunged so far i...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Stays the Course, Betting Big on Innovation

Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management LLC is snapping up more shares of largely unprofitable companies, doubling down on a bet that many traders and investors expect to be tested this year by rising...

Gold Rallies on Ukraine War Talk. Why It Could Head Higher

This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. Weekly UpdateThe Aden ForecastFeb. 11: Gold is breaking out on the...

Buy Synaptics Stock. It’s the Best-Performing Chip Stock.

Synaptics historically made fingerprint sensors and other chips to power touchscreens and has more recently expanded into the Internet of Things business. Illustration by Stuart Briers Text size The s...

MU Stock Rebounds As Micron Touts Technology Lead

Micron Technology (MU) says its innovations in memory chips will keep it several quarters ahead of competitors. Meanwhile, MU stock has rebounded from the recent stock market correction. X “We h...

6 Stocks for a 2022 of Higher Interest Rates and Slower Earnings Growth

Don’t let inflation fears dominate your investment thoughts. Save time to worry about earnings growth, too. Below, some statistical bellyaching and portfolio defeatism, plus one Wall Street bank’s top...

The Arm deal is dead, but Nvidia is not expected to slow down

Nvidia Corp.’s acquisition of Arm Ltd. has been scuttled, but that isn’t expected to stop the chip maker’s charge into the data center. seeks to cut further into Intel Corp.’s and Advanced Micro Devic...

Zillow Is Betting on a Housing Super App. What Wall Street Thinks.

Text size Zillow Group announced plans to shut down its home-flipping business in November. Chris Goodney/Bloomberg Zillow ‘s spectacular decision to shut down its home-flipping business last year has...

Weekend reads: Inflation fear and opportunities for investors

U.S. consumer price inflation rose to a 40-year high of 7.5% in January. That pace is running way ahead of wage growth, and the official figures can mask even more pain, depending on a family’s circum...

Blockchain

Intel announces plans to venture into blockchain technology

Intel will be moving into the blockchain sector, as announced by the company’s senior vice president, Raja M. Koduri. In a statement shared on Friday, Koduri stated that Intel was focusing on developi...

The fall of Peloton’s John Foley and the market’s big founder problem

John Foley, co-founder and chief executive officer of Peloton Interactive Inc., stands for a photograph during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in front of the Nasdaq MarketSite in Ne...

Teladoc Stock Has Tumbled. Goldman Sachs Sees a Major Recovery.

Text size Teladoc stock is set for a big comeback, says Goldman Sachs. Courtesy of Teladoc Teladoc Health stock has shed half its value in the past six months. An analyst at Goldman Sachs says it’s ti...

The Chip Shortage Has Made These 4 Stocks a Buy

Text size GlobalFoundries, which makes basic chips for everything from cars and phones to toys and power tools, says chip capacity is growing at half the needed pace. Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomber...

The risks and rewards of investing in the metaverse real estate boom

There’s a land rush happening — and it’s not in New York City or Beverly Hills. Early speculators, professional real estate agents, and celebrities are buying up land that doesn’t ev...

AMD Stock Sees Steep Drop Ahead of Xilinx Acquisition

Text size This week, AMD stock saw its biggest two-day decline since October 2018. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Advanced Micro Devices stock has come under severe selling pressure just ahead of the com...

Blockchain

NFL Lobbied SEC on ‘Blockchain Technology’ Issues: Report

In brief According to SEC disclosures, the NFL spent money on blockchain-related lobbying efforts in 2021. The NFL has been slower than some other leagues to partner with cryptocurrency companies. Las...

After Alphabet’s Stock Split, Amazon and Others Look Ripe to Split Shares

Text size Amazon, Chipotle, and others could be candidates for splitting their stocks. Noah Seelam/AFP via Getty Images Alphabet recently announced it is splitting its stock. It probably won’t be the ...

Blockchain

NFL lobbies the SEC on blockchain technology

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports | Reuters The National Football League lobbied the Securities and Exchange Commission on “issues related to blockchain technology”...

Asana CEO Has Bought $1 Billion of Company Stock in Historic Buying Spree

Text size Asana co-founder and CEO Dustin Moskovitz has bought more than $1 billion worth of the company’s stock since last June. Courtesy Asana In what is likely the most aggressive run of insi...

Alibaba Earnings Are Coming. What to Expect.

A selloff in the technology sector and macroeconomic headwinds in China make Alibaba’s looming earnings report sure to be an interesting one. The Chinese e-commerce giant announced Friday that its fin...

Expedia CEO Peter Kern says metaverse doesn’t pose a threat to ‘real-verse’ travel

Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern told CNBC on Friday he’s not worried about customers abandoning actual travel for a virtual-reality alternative. “I don’t see [the metaverse] as a compet...

SpaceX’s Starship is solution to efficient space travel

Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during a press conference at SpaceX’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on February 10, 2022. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images CAMERON COUNT...

Alibaba Earnings Are Coming. Here’s When, What to Expect and 4 Numbers to Watch.

Uber’s New Earnings Outlook Leaves Investors Hungry for More

Uber Technologies Inc. spooked investors with a midterm earnings forecast that fell short of expectations and overshadowed the company’s pledge to be cash-flow positive by the end of this year. Chief ...

AMD Stock Is Down This Year. Why the Dip Is an Opportunity to Buy.

Text size AMD stock has taken a beating, along with shares of other tech companies. Courtesy AMD Advanced Micro Devices stock looks more attractive following upbeat earnings and a lower share price, m...

Ethereum

Morgan Stanley Wants to Educate Investors on Ethereum

It’s not often that one of the major wirehouses tells clients to pay attention to cryptocurrencies, so when Morgan Stanley Wealth Management introduces a 20-page primer on the cryptocurrency Ether, it...

Watch Elon Musk give an update on SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket

Note: SpaceX is producing the webcast for this event. [The livestream is slated to begin at 9 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if the web player above is not visible.] SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is giving a...

Zillow’s lost more than $230 million in its iBuying fire sale, but the stock is still surging

Three months after a home-flipping initiative imploded in an embarrassing public display, Zillow Group Inc. reported record revenue from selling the underwater homes Thursday and predicted big sales a...

Astra stock drops 26% after NASA mission fails mid-launch