Amazon (AMZN) Q4 earnings report 2023

Amazon (AMZN) Q4 earnings report 2023

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on June 8, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is slated to report fourth-quarter earnings Thursday after the closing bell. Here’s what analysts are projecting: Earnings per share: 80 cents, according to LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv Revenue: … Read more

Apple (AAPL) earnings report Q1 2024

Apple (AAPL) earnings report Q1 2024

Apple reports fiscal first-quarter earnings after the bell. The quarter, which ends in December, is Apple’s biggest of the year by sales and the first full sales period for the iPhone 15, which launched in September. Apple faces significant challenges, coming off four straight quarters with revenue declines. Investors will be closely watching to see … Read more

Meta to report fourth-quarter earnings after the bell

Meta to report fourth-quarter earnings after the bell

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 will report fourth-quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday. Here’s what analysts surveyed by LSEG, formerly Refinitiv, are expecting: Earnings: $4.96 per share Revenue: $39.18 billion … Read more

Activist Elliott builds roughly 13% stake in Etsy, secures board seat

Activist Elliott builds roughly 13% stake in Etsy, secures board seat

Etsy Sellers Market in Times Square celebrating Etsy’s celebration going IPO at Nasdaq on April 16, 2015 in New York City. Paul Zimmerman |  Getty Images Activist investor Elliott Management has a “sizable” investment in e-commerce firm Etsy, which announced on Thursday that Elliott partner Marc Steinberg would join the company’s board. The activist investor … Read more

Okta to lay off 7% of staff, about 400 employees

Okta to lay off 7% of staff, about 400 employees

Identity management company Okta said on Thursday in a message to employees that it would lay off 400 employees, about 7% of the company’s headcount. The firm also reaffirmed its fourth quarter and full-year guidance in a securities filing. CEO Todd McKinnon said in his message that the “reality is that costs are still too … Read more

Neuralink competitor Synchron buys equity stake in manufacturer

Neuralink competitor Synchron buys equity stake in manufacturer

Philip O’Keefe, one of Synchron’s patients in the SWITCH clinical trial, was the first person in the world to tweet using a BCI device. Source: Synchron Neurotech startup Synchron is ramping up production of its flagship brain-computer interface to prepare for commercial demand, as the company inches closer to bringing its device to market.  Synchron … Read more

Mastercard launches GPT-like AI model to help banks detect fraud

Mastercard launches GPT-like AI model to help banks detect fraud

BARCELONA, SPAIN – MARCH 01: A view of the MasterCard company logo on their stand during the Mobile World Congress on March 1, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Joan Cros Garcia/Corbis via Getty Images) Joan Cros Garcia – Corbis | Corbis News | Getty Images Payments giant Mastercard says it has built its own … Read more

Meta, X, TikTok, Snap and Discord confront Congress eager for tighter social media regulation

Meta, X, TikTok, Snap and Discord confront Congress eager for tighter social media regulation

(L-R) Shou Zi Chew, CEO of TikTok, Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X, and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images “We could regulate you out of business if we wanted to,” a frustrated … Read more

Qualcomm (QCOM) earnings report Q1 2024

Qualcomm (QCOM) earnings report Q1 2024

Cristiano Amon, CEO of Qualcomm, responds to a question during a keynote conversation at CES 2024, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 10, 2024.  Steve Marcus | Reuters Qualcomm reported fiscal first-quarter results on Wednesday that topped analysts’ estimates as sales of handset chips jumped 16% from a year … Read more

Meta’s continued rally could hinge on fortunes of Temu and Shein

Meta’s continued rally could hinge on fortunes of Temu and Shein

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg meets Founder and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma (not pictured), at the China Development Forum in Beijing, China, March 19, 2016.  Shu Zhang | Reuters Like many Facebook and Instagram users, marketing veteran Victor Lee is inundated with ads from Chinese online retailer Temu when he opens … Read more