In Tech’s New World, Layoffs and Buybacks Are In, Mergers Are Out

Silicon Valley could use a reboot. The biggest players aren’t growing, and more than a few are seeing sharp revenue declines. Regulators seem opposed to every proposed merger, while legislators push f...

What the YouTube strike means for Big Tech’s return to office plans

A group of YouTube contractors went on strike today outside the Google office in Austin, Texas, after the tech giant announced a return to office by Feb. 6. The workers are employed by Cognizant, whic...

Ivan on Tech’s Moralis becomes latest crypto firm to cut headcount

Moralis, a blockchain infrastructure firm co-founded by popular crypto content creator Ivan Liljeqvist (aka Ivan on Tech), is the latest crypto company to cut jobs, Liljeqvist told The Block. “I...

Tech’s Slump Camouflages a Rally Sweeping Across Most of S&P 500

(Bloomberg) — The S&P 500 is technically still mired in a bear market, but a closer look below the surface shows that most of its stocks are in the midst of a big rally. Most Read from Bloom...

Tech’s Bill Is Coming Due. Investors Aren’t the Only Ones Who Will Pay.

For two years now, tech companies have spent massive amounts of money building the capacity to serve what they believed would be a higher level of postpandemic demand. If you build it, they will come....

Big Tech’s $4.5 Trillion Bloodbath

It’s a real bloodbath — one that tech has probably not seen since the internet bubble burst in 2000.  This disaster can be measured by different parameters. One set is the individual fortu...

Veteran manager offers 5 ‘cheap, quality, dividend’ stocks that will let you play one of tech’s biggest themes.

2022 may be remembered as the year investors fell out of love with tech stocks. While the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -3.91% is up about 5.3% this quarter, that’s after three dismal ones, and a 28% loss fo...

Tech’s good intentions and why Satoshi’s new ‘social order’ foundered

All revolutions have their dogmas, and the cryptocurrency/blockchain insurgency is no different. It’s an article of faith among crypto adherents that decentralization will solve many of society’s ills...

Big Tech’s Push To Connect The Unconnected Signals Growth For Clean Tech

Now more than ever, access to connectivity is essential. As a result of the pandemic, all aspects of our lives were reinvented on virtual platforms, ultimately increasing our reliance on mobile connec...

Tech’s record-breaking buybacks matter for investors — here’s why

Big Tech’s been doing big buybacks. Sure, this has been the case for years, but we’re seeing companies like Apple (AAPL), Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), Amazon (AMZN), and Nvidia (NVDA) doubling ...

2 Stocks to Buy Amid Tech’s Wreckage

Text size Tens of billions of investors’ capital has been vaporized inside some top tech hedge funds. It could be the quickest collapse of dollar value in hedge fund history. Dreamstime Warren Buffett...

The creator economy will explode in the Metaverse, but not under Big Tech’s regime

In his monthly crypto tech column, Israeli serial entrepreneur Ariel Shapira covers emerging technologies within the crypto, decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain space, as well as their roles i...

Amazon Loses Less than Other Techs Amid Corporate Bonds Announcement

The “wait and see” mood on the back of feeble corrective slopes in the market seems to be an appropriate investment stance for the current week, when “no deal” used as a safety...

Techs Lead Stock Market Losses; Elon Musk Walks Away From Twitter Board

Indexes opened lower Monday as technology shares led the selling, and Twitter (TWTR) climbed after Elon Musk went back on plans to join the company’s board. X The Nasdaq composite, which is more...

EU Passes Law to ‘Rein In’ Big Tech’s Domination Over Smaller Players

“This legislation will rebalance digital markets, increase consumer choice and put an end to many of the worst practices that Big Tech has engaged in over the years,” said Ursula Pachl, deputy directo...

Big techs targeted by the US Congress

The Justice Committee of the US Senate approved on Thursday its second bill on technological competition, highlighting the issue concerning Apple and Google app stores and the restrictions imposed on ...

Dow Jones Futures Fall, Techs Dive As Treasury Yield Hits 2-Year High; Apple, Qualcomm Near Buy Points

Dow Jones futures fell Tuesday morning, along with S&P 500 futures and especially Nasdaq futures, as the 10-year Treasury yield spiked to a fresh two-year high. The stock market rally is set to un...