Wall Street wants to see Nvidia pull off a ‘Triple Lindy’ when it reports earnings

Wall Street wants to see Nvidia pull off a ‘Triple Lindy’ when it reports earnings

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. Markets pullback : Stocks were selling off Wednesday after a handful of earnings-related disappointments in retail and weakness in big tech. Some of the weakness in … Read more

Microsoft outsourcing best AI, Google could end up winning: Okta CEO

Microsoft outsourcing best AI, Google could end up winning: Okta CEO

This photograph shows a screen displaying the logo of Bard AI, a conversational artificial intelligence software application developed by Google, and ChatGPT. Lionel Bonaventure | Afp | Getty Images LONDON — Microsoft is handing over the development of all of its best artificial intelligence tools and software to OpenAI, according to one tech CEO — … Read more

Databricks is buying data optimization startup Tabular

Databricks is buying data optimization startup Tabular

Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks, speaks at the company’s Spark and AI Summit in San Francisco in April 2019. Databricks Data analytics software maker Databricks said in a statement on Tuesday that it’s acquiring Tabular, a startup that helps optimize data stored in the cloud. The gesture could help Databricks more quickly bring … Read more

Software stocks got pummeled this week on troubling earnings reports

Software stocks got pummeled this week on troubling earnings reports

Salesforce executives told investors that deals are shrinking or getting delayed. Dell said its margin is getting smaller. Okta highlighted macroeconomic challenges. And Veeva’s CEO said on his company’s earnings call that generative artificial intelligence has been “a competing priority” for customers. Add it all up and it was a brutal week for software and … Read more

Company to cut 10% or around 500 employees

Company to cut 10% or around 500 employees

Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. Evan Spiegel attends the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online child sexual exploitation at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, U.S., January 31, 2024.  Nathan Howard | Reuters Social media company Snap said Monday that it will lay off 10% of its global workforce, or around 500 employees, in part … Read more

Tech’s longtime highfliers are growing up by getting smaller

Tech’s longtime highfliers are growing up by getting smaller

Visitors take photos in front of the Meta sign at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, December 29, 2022. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Technology companies are learning an old lesson from Wall Street: maturing means shrinking. Meta and Amazon saw their shares spike on Friday following their fourth-quarter earnings reports. While … Read more

Company cuts 150 jobs, 2% of workforce

Company cuts 150 jobs, 2% of workforce

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan speaks at the Dropbox Work In Progress Conference in San Francisco on September 25, 2019. Matt Winkelmeyer | Getty Images for Dropbox Zoom is cutting about 150 jobs, CNBC confirmed on Thursday, the latest tech company to slash headcount this year as investors continue to push for efficiency. A Zoom spokesperson confirmed … 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

3 reasons why investors keep sending Palo Alto Networks to record highs

3 reasons why investors keep sending Palo Alto Networks to record highs

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora said Tuesday that cybersecurity demand will only intensify in 2024. He cited three reasons that highlight why investors keep pushing the Club stock to record highs. During a CNBC interview at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Arora said that Palo Alto Networks stands to benefit … Read more

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on China, Microsoft and the SEC

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on China, Microsoft and the SEC

George Kurtz, co-founder and chief executive officer of Crowdstrike Holdings Inc., during a Bloomberg Technology television interview at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has had a banner year. The cybersecurity firm has seen its stock … Read more