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MOSCOW: Russian internet giant Yandex on Tuesday reported a sharp drop in adjusted annual net profit, but said total revenue could surge this year to around US$6.5 billion, driven in part by high turnover growth in e-commerce. Yandex’s core advertising business, which accounted for 47 per cent of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2021, suffered during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, but surging interest in online transactions allowed its other businesses to… Source link

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AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su struck a very upbeat tone Monday on what the newly acquired Xilinx will mean to the chip giant’s top and bottom lines. “This acquisition is accretive in the first year for gross margins, for earnings per share and for free cash flow. It’s a good deal overall. And when we look at growth rates, what we said at the time of the acquisition is that we felt we could grow significantly ahead of the industry — 20% plus for the next few years. And we still believe that’s the… Source link

As detailed in a broad SEC filing this week, Tesla gave investors an update on its Bitcoin holdings. Parsing through the disclosure, it boils down to this: Tesla bought around $1.5 billion in bitcoin (BTC-USD) in the early part of 2021; realized a gain of $128 million on a sale of some of its stake earlier in 2021; has now taken a $101 million impairment on the holding as bitcoin’s value has diminished; and currently Tesla’s bitcoin stake has a market value of nearly $2 billion, and a ‘carrying… Source link

Apple (APPL) shouldn’t let Peloton (PTON) end up in the hands of Nike or Amazon, contends Wedbush tech analyst Dan Ives. While Apple is known to be cautious on doing big deals (last one was $3 billion for headphone maker Beats in 2014), a bid for Peloton makes sense. “Acquiring Peloton would be a major strategic coup and catalyze the company’s aggressive health and fitness initiatives over the coming years. With ~2.8 million paid subscriptions today and a very strong/unique competitive moat,… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Meta Platforms Inc.’s one-day crash may rank as the worst in stock-market history. Most Read from Bloomberg The Facebook parent plunged 24% in U.S. trading Thursday on the back of poor earnings results, putting it on track to erase more than $200 billion. At current levels, that’s the biggest collapse in market value for any U.S. company. But there’s no certainty the losses will hold, especially given the recent volatility that’s whipped across technology shares. Markets… Source link

Congress is getting better at heading off devastating recessions. Yet the gusher of stimulus money Congress provided to offset the COVID recession during the last two years included hundreds of billions of dollars for wealthy Americans, with little benefit to the ordinary workers the money was supposed to help. New research by MIT economist David Autor and nine others finds that the Paycheck Protection Program, an $800 billion aid package Congress passed in March 2020, was one of the… Source link

Google parent company Alphabet hit a new record for annual revenue in 2021, showing no ill effects from the lingering coronavirus pandemic or ongoing issues with the global supply chain. For full-year 2021, the company saw a 41 percent year-over-year jump in revenue to $257 billion. The company reported revenue of $75.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021, up 32 percent from the year earlier. “Q4 saw ongoing strong growth in our advertising business, which helped millions of… Source link

NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The latest market outlook report titled “Cyber Security Market by Deployment, End-user and Geography – Forecast and Analysis 2021-2025” has been added to Technavio’s catalog. This recent market analysis report identifies the market to witness a potential growth difference of USD 189.70 billion from 2020 to 2025. The cyber security market is anticipated to record an accelerating growth momentum at a CAGR of 14.97% during this period. Attractive… Source link

Google will invest as much as $1 billion in the Indian telecom operator Airtel, the latest in a series of bets the search giant has made in the world’s second largest internet market as part of a $10 billion commitment to the country. Google said it will invest $700 million to acquire a 1.28% stake in Airtel, the second largest telecom operator in India with over 300 million subscribers, and pour up to $300 million more to explore multi-year commercial agreements… Source link