Microsoft (MSFT) Q4 earnings report 2024

Microsoft (MSFT) Q4 earnings report 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the company’s Build developer conference in Seattle on May 21, 2024. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft is scheduled to report fiscal fourth-quarter earnings after U.S. market close on Tuesday. Here’s what analysts polled by LSEG are looking for: Earnings per share: $2.93 Revenue: $64.39 billion Microsoft … Read more

Meta reaches $1.4 billion settlement in Texas biometric data suit over Facebook

Meta reaches .4 billion settlement in Texas biometric data suit over Facebook

Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online child sexual exploitation at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 31, 2024.  Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Meta agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit by the state of Texas over the Facebook owner’s unauthorized use of biometric data by users, … Read more

Perplexity AI to share revenue with publishers after plagiarism accusations

Perplexity AI to share revenue with publishers after plagiarism accusations

Perplexity AI on Tuesday debuted a revenue-sharing model for publishers, after more than a month of plagiarism accusations. Media outlets and content platforms like Fortune, Time, Entrepreneur, The Texas Tribune, Der Spiegel and WordPress.com are the first to join the company’s “Publishers Program.” The announcement follows an onslaught of controversy in June, when Forbes said … Read more

WeRide expands globally as transportation industry adopts AI

WeRide expands globally as transportation industry adopts AI

BEIJING, CHINA – JULY 11: People take photos of WeRide Robobus, a fully-driverless shuttle capable of SAE Level 4 autonomous driving, at Beijing High-level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Area on July 11, 2024 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Jia Tianyong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images) China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images Self-driving … Read more

We’re encouraged by Abbott stock trading but discouraged by moves in Honeywell

We’re encouraged by Abbott stock trading but discouraged by moves in Honeywell

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Market moves: The S & P 500 was on track for small gains following a solid rally last Friday. There’s still some market rotation happening, but … Read more

Apple says its AI models were trained on Google’s custom chips

Apple says its AI models were trained on Google’s custom chips

Google CEO Sundar Pichai (L) and Apple CEO Tim Cook (R) listen as U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a roundtable with American and Indian business leaders in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 23, 2023. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Apple said on Monday that the artificial intelligence … Read more

Temu, Shein soaring popularity could hit Amazon, Meta, eBay earnings

Temu, Shein soaring popularity could hit Amazon, Meta, eBay earnings

In just 17 days after launch, Temu surpassed Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat and Shein on the Apple App Store in the U.S., according to Apptopia data shared with CNBC. Stefani Reynolds | Afp | Getty Images Temu and Shein have exploded in the U.S. by going on an online marketing blitz and offering consumers inexpensive goods … Read more

Donald Trump headlines Bitcoin 2024, after a U-turn on crypto

Donald Trump headlines Bitcoin 2024, after a U-turn on crypto

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump walks off stage after speaking at a campaign rally at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on July 20, 2024. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images NASHVILLE — Former president Donald Trump headlines the biggest bitcoin conference of the year on Saturday afternoon, as the race to capture the votes and the … Read more

Search competition fears hit Alphabet stock yet again. We see no reason to join the sellers

Search competition fears hit Alphabet stock yet again. We see no reason to join the sellers

Fears that OpenAI’s new search engine will challenge Google’s dominance in the near term are exaggerated, especially because Alphabet is already playing offense by integrating generative AI tools into its own platform. ChatGPT creator OpenAI on Thursday announced a prototype of its search engine, SearchGPT, in an effort to directly compete with Google Search. The … Read more

Crypto firm Ledger hikes price of Stax crypto wallet, launches Flex

Crypto firm Ledger hikes price of Stax crypto wallet, launches Flex

The Ledger Flex is a new, cheaper hardware crypto wallet from French startup Ledger. It sports an E-ink display and can be used to secure a range of crypto assets. The device is retailing at $249. Ledger Cryptocurrency storage company Ledger is raising the price of its iPod-like Stax hardware wallet by 40% — just three … Read more