The most serious threat to Google’s ad tech dynasty is regulation. Google has been at the center of countless antitrust lawsuits worldwide, with governing bodies slowly forcing more balance in the advertising marketplace. The recently introduced Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act, for example, would compel Google to sell off its ad tech products. Without its ad tech business, Google would still be a formidable force in digital advertising. After all, most of its ad… Source link
Read More »Tech leads stocks higher as earnings rush in, ECB hikes rates
Technology stocks led markets higher for a third straight session Thursday as investors mulled a slew of mixed earnings and a surprise rate hike from the European Central Bank. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 1.3%, while the benchmark S&P 500 index rose 1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 160 points, or 0.5%. Shares of Amazon (AMZN) pushed higher for a seventh straight day, placing the e-commerce giant on pace for its longest winning streak since June 2020. The stock climbed 13%… Source link
Read More »Elon Musk doesn’t have ‘a leg to stand on’: veteran tech analyst
Elon Musk “doesn’t have a leg to stand on” in what could become a long courtroom battle with Twitter (TWRT), says one veteran stock analyst. “After a careful reading of Twitter’s lawsuit against Elon Musk, we flipped our view. We were formally skeptical about Twitter, now we’re skeptical about Elon’s position,” Barton Crockett of Rosenblatt Securities told Yahoo Finance Live. Twitter filed a suit in Delaware against Musk earlier this week after the CEO of Tesla (TSLA) Source link
Read More »Google becomes the latest tech giant to slow hiring
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, announced the news on Tuesday in an internal memo, noting “the uncertain global economic outlook.” Google confirmed the authenticity of the letter to CNN Business, but declined to comment further. “Moving forward, we need to be more entrepreneurial, working with greater urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger than we’ve shown on sunnier days,” Pichai said in the memo, according to The Wall Street Journal. “In some cases, that means… Source link
Read More »Google Is the Lates Tech Company to Slow Hiring
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Read More »Betting Against Tech Is Finally a Winning Trade as Short Sellers Sit on $20 Billion Profit
(Bloomberg) — Betting against tech has become a winning trade, with short sellers sitting on billions in paper profits as growth stocks slump. Most Read from Bloomberg A historic rout in the so-called FAANG cohort — Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc., Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc. and Google parent Alphabet Inc. — has delivered $19.8 billion in mark-to-market profits for investors speculating on declines as of June 30, according to data-analytics firm S3 Partners. “It was… Source link
Read More »How mRNA tech blew open the door of UPS’s cold chain logistics business
UPS (UPS) will have doubled its health-care facilities footprint by 2023, as a result of unprecedented demand for mRNA vaccines, and the company is making a long-term bet that demand for cold chain storage in medicine will only grow in coming years. The logistics giant began building out millions of square feet of space as a result of its partnership with Pfizer (PFE)/ BioNTech (BNTX), according to UPS Healthcare and Life Sciences President Wes Wheeler, but that only sped up a strategy the… Source link
Read More »Tech stocks are having their worst year ever. Here’s what history says happens next
This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, June 30, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Jared Blikre, a reporter focused on the markets on Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @SPYJared. The Nasdaq (^IXIC) and Russell 2000 (^RUT) are having their worst year ever. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) is off to its worst start since 1962. And you’d have to travel back to 1970 for a… Source link
Read More »Tencent Leads China Tech Losses as Major Backer Plans to Cut Its Stake
(Bloomberg) — Chinese technology stocks fell as a plan by Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s major backer to further cut its stake in the company fueled concerns more investors may look to take profits following a strong rally. Most Read from Bloomberg The Hang Seng Tech Index slid as much as 2.9% Tuesday, the most since June 22, before paring some losses. Tencent slumped as much as 5.8%, the most in nearly six weeks, after Prosus NV on Monday said it intends to sell more of the mobile gaming… Source link
Read More »Russia-based tech giant Yandex pulls the plug on Irish subsidiary
Yandex, the Russian tech giant, is shutting down its Irish entity less… Source link
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