Pinterest shares soar 18% on earnings beat, strong revenue growth

Pinterest shares soar 18% on earnings beat, strong revenue growth

Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of Pinterest popped 18% in extended trading Tuesday after the company reported first-quarter results that beat analysts’ estimates and showed its fastest revenue growth since 2021. Here’s how the company did, compared to LSEG analyst expectations: Earnings per share: 20 cents adjusted vs. 13 cents expected Revenue: … Read more

Amazon cost cuts lift operating margin to double digits for first time

Amazon cost cuts lift operating margin to double digits for first time

Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, speaks at the ceremonial ribbon cutting prior to tomorrow’s opening night for the NHL’s newest hockey franchise the Seattle Kraken at the Climate Pledge Arena on October 22, 2021, in Seattle. Bruce Bennett | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images For most of its 27 years as a public company, … Read more

AWS Q1 earnings report 2024

AWS Q1 earnings report 2024

Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, speaks during the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on June 22, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon said Tuesday that revenue from its cloud unit grew 17% year over year in the first quarter, a more rapid rate than Wall Street had expected. … Read more

GEHC’s unwarranted post-earnings plunge is a buying opportunity

GEHC’s unwarranted post-earnings plunge is a buying opportunity

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. (We’re no longer recording the audio, so we can get this new written feature to members as quickly as possible.) April showers : The Dow Jones … Read more

Amazon’s advertising revenue jumps 24% in first quarter

Amazon’s advertising revenue jumps 24% in first quarter

An Amazon contract worker stacks packages onto a luggage cart outside an apartment building in New York, US, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.  Angus Mordant | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon reported 24% growth in its advertising unit on Tuesday, the latest sign that the digital ad market is continuing its rebound. Ad revenue climbed … Read more

Newspaper publishers sue Microsoft, OpenAI over copyright infringement

Newspaper publishers sue Microsoft, OpenAI over copyright infringement

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, during a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images Eight U.S. newspaper publishers filed suit against Microsoft and OpenAI in a New York federal court on Tuesday, claiming the technology companies reuse their articles without permission … Read more

Amazon (AMZN) Q1 earnings report 2024

Amazon (AMZN) Q1 earnings report 2024

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on June 8, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon will report first-quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday. Here’s what analysts are expecting according to LSEG: Earnings per share: 83 cents Revenue: $142.5 billion Wall Street is also … Read more

Oracle boosts generative AI capabilities as cloud competition intensifies

Oracle boosts generative AI capabilities as cloud competition intensifies

US multinational computer technology company Oracle’s logo is pictured at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry’s biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on February 27, 2024. The world’s biggest mobile phone fair throws open its doors in Barcelona with the sector looking to artificial intelligence to try and reverse declining sales. (Photo by PAU … Read more

Best way to make regular income from stocks — plus, how to use our trade alerts

Best way to make regular income from stocks — plus, how to use our trade alerts

Here’s our Club Mailbag email [email protected] — so you send your questions directly to Jim Cramer and his team of analysts. We can’t offer personal investing advice. We will only consider more general questions about the investment process or stocks in the portfolio or related industries. This week, we’re answering two questions. Question No. 1: … Read more

How working for Big Tech lost ‘dream job’ status

How working for Big Tech lost ‘dream job’ status

Despite blockbuster earnings from giants such as Alphabet and Microsoft, layoffs continue to ripple through the tech industry. Layoffs.fyi, a platform monitoring job cuts in the tech sector, recorded more than 263,000 job losses in 2023 alone. As of April, there have been more than 75,000 job losses in the industry so far in 2024. … Read more