Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit Is Another Blow To Global Tech

TAIPEI, TAIWAN – AUGUST 03: Speaker of the U.S. House Of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), left, … [+] poses for photographs after receiving the Order of Propitious Clouds with Special ...

SoftBank Is Ready to Slash Its Massive Stake in Alibaba. Here’s Why.

Text size SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son was a major early investor in Alibaba. Koki Nagahama/Getty Images SoftBank is positioned to sharply sell down its stake in Chinese tech giant Alibaba through a...

Dragonfly Capital’s Managing Partner Says Cardano Has Religion Without Technology, Charles Hoskinson Reacts

– Advertisement –   Charles Hoskinson gave a sarcastic response to comments about Cardano being more of a religious community.  In a recent interview, Haseeb Qureshi, the Managing Partner ...

Oracle Lays Off Hundreds of Employees

Oracle laid off hundreds of employees this week as the business software provider prioritizes its healthcare IT services and cloud businesses, according to people familiar with the company’s actions. ...

Amazon Stock Has Rallied 41%. Buy or Sell?

Amazon  (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com Inc. Report is in the news on Friday and not necessarily because of the stock’s blistering rally over the past few weeks. Instead, it’s because the company is sco...

Fuel cell-powered truck maker Hyzon’s stock suffers record plunge after accounting questions raise delisting fears

Shares of Hyzon Motors Inc. were suffering a record plunge toward a record low Friday, after the maker of fuel cell-powered trucks disclosed a “myriad of issues,” including accounting regularities tha...

Opinion: Step aside, FAANMGs. This new crop of tech companies are the ones to watch for the next decade.

Investors have had a change of heart after selling technology stocks for the better part of eight months.   There has been a trend reversal after bellwether tech companies reported earnings for the mo...

What a Buyback Tax Means for Apple, Meta, and Microsoft

Text size Arizona Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Drew Angerer/Getty Images Democratic party leaders struck a deal with moderate holdout vote Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, moving their climate and healthcare bi...

Twitter Stock Is Downgraded. Analyst Needs Just One Sentence to Explain Why.

Text size Twitter stock is downgraded given uncertainty over the company’s pending acquisition by Elon Musk. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Twitter stock received another downgrade on Friday, fuel...

New Buyback Tax Will Force Companies to Think Twice on How to Use Cash

In the scrap over how to fund President Joe Biden’s spending plans, the Democrats’ focus has shifted from taxing private funds to public at the last minute. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) backs dropp...

Musk Thinks Tesla Can Be World’s Most Valuable. Stock Split Is Part of the Plan.

Text size Spencer Platt/Getty Images Tesla ’s 2022 annual shareholder meeting has wrapped up. Investors voted on several issues, including an item that authorizes a higher number of shares outstanding...

Musk’s SpaceX raises $250 million in equity, up to $2 billion in 2022

A Starship prototype stands on the company’s launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas on March 16, 2022. SpaceX Elon Musk’s SpaceX raised $250 million in an equity round last month, the company disc...

Apple’s enviable cash hoard is dwindling — and that’s surprisingly good news for the stock price

Apple’s cash position is plunging, and that’s positive for both the business and the company’s shareholders. Yet many investors and Wall Street analysts see signs of trouble that Apple’s AAPL, -0.14% ...

Varda signs NASA partnerships for space factory demo flight next year

Varda co-founders Varda Space Industries Early stage Varda Space Industries has signed a pair of agreements with NASA, the company announced Friday, securing access to key technologies the company wil...

State of Scaling Issue 2: StarkEx and StarkNet

August 4, 2022, 12:31PM EDT • 19 min read Quick Take In this bi-weekly series, we look into some of the most interesting data and developments across the Layer 2 blockchain landscape, from DeFi and br...

Virgin Galactic Stock Tumbles as Commercial Service Again Delayed

Text size Courtesy Virgin Galactic Shares of Virgin Galactic were tumbling Friday after the space tourism company pushed back the launch of commercial service to the second quarter of 2023. Virgin Gal...

Crypto startup Nomad offers 10% bounty after $190 million hack

Over $2 billion has been stolen from cross-chain bridges so far this year, according to crypto analysis firm Chainalysis Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto via Getty Images Crypto company Nomad said it’s...

Warner Bros Discovery Had an Ugly Quarter. It’s Combining HBO Max and Discovery+.

In its first quarter as a combined company, Warner Bros. Discovery missed Wall Street’s estimates across the board, saw streaming subscriber growth slow, and watched its leverage rise. Warner Bros. Di...

Block’s Earnings Beat Estimates but the Stock Drops. Here’s Why.

Text size Jack Dorsey co-founded Block and remains its chair but is no longer CEO. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Block said Thursday that Bitcoin revenue at its Cash App unit dropped 34% in the second quart...

FuboTV shares rally 23% after company shows double-digit revenue growth

Shares of streaming platform FuboTV Inc. FUBO, +1.71% were trading higher in Thursday’s after-hours market, following the release of second-quarter financial results which showed the company’s North A...

Cloudflare stock rallies 25% following earnings beat, raised revenue outlook

Cloudflare Inc. shares surged in the extended session Thursday after the cybersecurity company reported results that topped Wall Street expectations and hiked its revenue outlook for the year. Cloudfl...

Warner Bros. Discovery stock slammed after earnings debut

In its first earnings report since bringing in HBO Max and other WarnerMedia properties, Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. on Thursday missed revenue expectations by roughly $2 billion and reported a large ...

Zillow is almost done selling homes, but stock slumps as the hard part is still to come

Zillow Group Inc. is almost done selling all the homes it bought in a flurry that led to a flameout of its iBuying business, but its plans for the future led to shares plunging in extended trading Thu...

Twilio stock declines as weak outlook follows a quarterly beat

Twilio Inc. shares fell in the extended session Thursday after the software company’s outlook came in below Wall Street expectations following a reported beat in the previous quarter. Twilio TWLO, +0....

Virgin Galactic again delays space tourism flights to second quarter 2023

Carrier aircraft VMS Eve takes off from Spaceport America in New Mexico, carrying spacecraft VSS Unity on July 11, 2021. Virgin Galactic Space tourism company Virgin Galactic on Thursday delayed the b...

Shift to new rocket amid losses, investigation

The company’s LV0010 rocket stands on the launchpad at Florida’s Cape Canaveral ahead of the NASA TROPICS-1 mission. Astra Small rocket-builder Astra said Thursday it would not have any ad...

Coinbase Has Rallied 90% This Week. Could This Be Another GameStop Moment?

Text size Brian Armstrong, chief executive and co-founder, Coinbase (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) Shares in beaten-down cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global have torn higher thi...

AMD Stock Dips. Why Analysts See It as a Buying Opportunity.

Text size An AMD central processing unit for a desktop PC. Alamy Wall Street is telling investors to buy Advanced Micro Devices shares any time they fall. Analysts believe the chip maker’s second-quar...

Here are both sides of the argument on why a recession is debatable

If you’re unsure if the U.S. economy is in a recession, you’re not alone. Gross domestic product has declined in back-to-back quarters this year, which is a common signal to market watcher...

Unleashing the potential of Financial Technology and Accelerating Financial Inclusion Through Digital Adoption

The 4th Edition of Connected Banking will be held in Nairobi, Kenya this year Africa is fully embracing the potential of financial technology, in spite of various challenges. There have also been seve...

Coinbase shares soar in boost from meme traders, BlackRock crypto deal

The logo for Coinbase Global Inc, the biggest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, is displayed on the Nasdaq MarketSite jumbotron and others at Times Square in New York, U.S., April 14, 2021. Shannon Staple...

Lordstown Motors (RIDE) Q2 2022 earnings and production

Workers install door hinges to the body shell of a prototype Endurance electric pickup truck on June 21, 2021 at Lordstown Motors assembly plant in Ohio. Michael Wayland | CNBC Embattled electric truc...