Nvidia-backed GPU cloud provider CoreWeave is worth $19 billion

Nvidia-backed GPU cloud provider CoreWeave is worth  billion

Nvidia-backed startup Coreweave is based in Roseland, New Jersey, with 160 employees. CoreWeave CoreWeave, a cloud infrastructure startup that rents out graphics processing units to companies, said Wednesday that it has raised $1.1 billion in funding. The new investment values the company at $19 billion, up from $7 billion months ago, a person familiar with … Read more

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

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

Super Micro (SMCI) Q3 earnings report 2024

Super Micro (SMCI) Q3 earnings report 2024

Lisa Su, chair and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, left, and Charles Liang, CEO of Super Micro Computer, speak at the AMD Advancing AI event in San Jose, California, on Dec. 6, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Super Micro shares slipped as much as 12% in extended trading on Tuesday after … 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

Digital ad market on mend as Meta, Alphabet, Snap show faster growth

Digital ad market on mend as Meta, Alphabet, Snap show faster growth

A view of Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California, United States on March 23, 2024.  Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu | Getty Images Advertising is so back. After a brutal 2022, when brands reeled in spending to cope with inflation, and a 2023 defined by layoffs and cost cuts, the top digital advertising companies have started … Read more

Microsoft says cloud AI demand exceeds supply despite spending surge

Microsoft says cloud AI demand exceeds supply despite spending surge

Amy Hood, chief financial officer at Microsoft, speaks during a presentation on affordable housing in Bellevue, Washington, on Jan. 17, 2019. Chona Kasinger | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft is increasing spending at a rate not seen since at least 2016. It still might not be enough. In its earnings report on Thursday, Microsoft said … Read more

Alphabet issues first ever dividend, $70 billion buyback

Alphabet issues first ever dividend,  billion buyback

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai departs federal court on October 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. Pichai testified on Monday to defend his company in the largest antitrust case since the 1990s. Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images Alphabet’s board said Thursday the company would issue a 20 cent per share dividend, … Read more

Microsoft (MSFT) Q3 earnings 2024

Microsoft (MSFT) Q3 earnings 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella arrives at federal court in Washington on Oct. 2, 2023. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft will report financial results for its fiscal third quarter after the market close on Thursday. Here is what analysts are looking for, according to LSEG: Earnings per share: $2.82 expected Revenue: $60.80 billion … Read more