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March 7 (Reuters) – Shareholders of Dutch-registered Yandex NV approved the sale of “Russia’s Google,” the country’s most valuable technology asset, to a management-led consortium of Russian investors, the company said on Thursday. Yandex last month struck a 475-billion-rouble ($5.27 billion) deal after months of negotiations to sell its assets in Russia at a heavily discounted price due to Kremlin demands on foreign asset sales. (Reporting by Alexander Marrow and… Source link

Snap stock (SNAP) tanked on Wednesday, sinking almost 35% as investors digested another disappointing quarterly report. The Snapchat parent company posted Q4 quarterly revenue of $1.36 billion, below Street estimates for $1.38 billion. The company has now missed revenue estimates on six of the last eight reports. And now, it says it expects to lose more money in the current quarter than Wall Street expected too. The company is now projecting an adjusted EBITDA loss in a range of $55 million… Source link

Shares of Tesla (TSLA) are down over 25% since the start of 2024 amidst declining EV delivery growth. Analysts at Daiwa Capital Markets downgraded Tesla stock to Neutral from Outperform with a price target of $195, down from $245 due to mounting issues with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Gerber Kawasaki Wealth & Investment Management CEO Ross Gerber — a Tesla investor himself — joins Yahoo Finance to discuss Tesla’s performance and how he feels about Musk’s position as CEO. “The cost of Elon’s… Source link

AMC (AMC) stock is in free fall so far this year. The theater chain hit a new all-time low on Friday, down more than 2% to close the session at $5.17 per share. The stock is down more than 15% over the past four sessions. The stock has been on a downward spiral as the company continues to issue shares, which dilutes investors’ holdings amid its looming debt. Earlier this week AMC said it “entered into a series of privately negotiated exchange agreements, under which it has issued or will… Source link

Google staff are overpaid and the tech giant must cut thousands more jobs, a British activist investor has said. Sir Chris Hohn, who previously donated to Extinction Rebellion, wrote in a letter dated January 20 that Google’s 12,000 layoffs did not cut deep enough to reduce bloat at the tech giant. The billionaire founder of The Children’s Investment Fund Management (TCI) , who holds a $6bn stake in Google-parent company Alphabet, wrote to chief executive… Source link

While Disney (DIS) CEO Bob Iger wages a campaign against proven value creator and activist investor Nelson Peltz, Unilever CEO Alan Jope has embraced the billionaire change agent. Peltz joined the board of consumer products giant Unilever in May 2022 and according to Jope — who has said he will retire in 2023 — has brought “all kinds of good ideas” to the company since then. “His view on what the company needs to do is very aligned with the agenda that we’re working on,” Jope told Yahoo… Source link

Bob Iger will face yet another challenge as Disney (DIS) CEO — activist investor Nelson Peltz. On Wednesday, Disney announced Nike executive chairman Mike Parker will take over Susan Arnold’s position as chairman of the board, and also recommended shareholders vote against Peltz in his efforts to win a seat on the company’s board. “While senior leadership of The Walt Disney Company and its Board of Directors have engaged with Mr. Peltz numerous times over the last few months, the Board does… Source link

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc.(Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg) © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Even Google isn’t immune to the severe downturn in the tech sector. Although more than 135,000 white-collar professionals in the tech and startup space have been downsized year to date, the giant search engine has avoided this trend. Amidst pressure from an activist hedge fund, adverse market conditions and a need to cut costs, Google launched a ranking system and… Source link

The hedge fund of the billionaire Sir Christopher Hohn has written to Alphabet saying staff at the Google and YouTube parent are paid too much and its workforce should be drastically cut back. London-based TCI, which has been a significant investor in the company since 2017 and holds a stake valued at $6bn (£5.1bn), has written to its chief executive, Sundar Pichai, urging it to emulate cost-cutting measures introduced by big tech rivals including the Facebook-owner, Meta, Amazon and… Source link

So far so good says Unilever’s CEO Alan Jope in working with his new board member, noted activist investor Nelson Peltz. “I would like to just confirm that Nelson is turning out to be a great member of the board,”Jope said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “I’m thoroughly enjoying working with him. And as far as he tells me, he’s enjoying working with me.” Peltz joined the board of the consumer products giant in May. Investors are banking on Peltz to push through a turnaround of the… Source link