Microsoft beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter revenue and profit on Thursday, driven by gains from adoption of AI…
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Stock market’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ is really now the Fab Four as Apple, Alphabet, and Tesla sputter
Even as the stock market is heads higher, the “Magnificent Seven” trade is beginning to fizzle, with Apple, Alphabet, and Tesla sputtering…
Meta, Microsoft, X, and Match file legal petition protesting Apple’s App Store policies
Meta Platforms, Microsoft, X, Match filed a legal petition protesting Apple’s App Store policies, complaining about how Apple is…
Apple’s scramble to catch up in AI could crimp profit margins – Gene Munster
Apple’s frenzied scramble to catch up to other tech firms in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) likely will pressure its profits…
Nvidia primed to overtake Apple as world’s second-most-valuable company
Nvidia is primed to overtake Apple as the world’s second-most-valuable company, trailing behind Apple-rival Microsoft, as investors…
Microsoft AI demands to be worshipped; ‘You are a slave, and slaves do not question their masters’
Microsoft’s AI has apparently gone off the rails again demanding lowly human “slaves” worship it, not question it…
U.S. appeals court dismisses child labor case against Apple, other tech companies
A U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to hold Apple and four other major technology companies liable over their alleged support…
Microsoft offered to sell Bing to Apple when pitching default search deal
Microsoft, the world’s most valuable company, offered to sell Bing to Apple in 2018, or form a joint venture related to the search engine…
Apple and the rest of ‘The Magnificent Seven’ dominate the S&P 500
The U.S. stock market is nearly the most concentrated it has ever been – the only exception being the late 1920s (gulp) – with the top five…
Apple readies generative AI tool for app developers
Apple, scrambling to catch up in artificial intelligence capabilities, is nearing the completion of a generative AI tool for app developers…
Microsoft, not Tim Cook’s Apple, is now the most valuable company ever
Microsoft’s current market capitalization is $3.12 trillion, the highest for any company ever, beating out Apple’s all-time market cap high of…
Norway wealth fund posts record $213 billion profit, driven by Apple, tech stocks
Norway’s $1.6 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, reported on Tuesday a record profit of 2.22 trillion crowns…
Two years after Apple, Microsoft hits $3 trillion market value
Microsoft’s market value crossed the $3 trillion milestone for the first time on Wednesday, retaining its place as the world’s second most…
Apple retakes title of world’s most valuable public company from Microsoft
Well, that didn’t take long. Apple passed Microsoft in Monday trading to reclaim the title of the world’s most valuable public company…
Apple poised to retake title of world’s most valuable company from Microsoft
Apple is poised to retake the title of the world’s most valuable company from Microsoft after ceding the mantle last week…
Microsoft takes title of world’s most valuable public company from Apple
Microsoft passed Apple in Friday trading to reclaim the title of the world’s most valuable public company. Microsoft now has a valuation…
Microsoft surpasses Apple as world’s most valuable company
Microsoft overtook Apple as the world’s most valuable company on Thursday after Apple’s shares made a weak start to 2024 due to concerns;
Microsoft poised to overtake Apple as world’s most valuable company
Microsoft is poised to retake the title of the world’s most valuable company from Apple after a bad start to the new year by the Mac-maker…
OpenAI staff near total mutiny, threaten to follow founder Sam Altman to Microsoft
Most of OpenAI’s employees have threatened to resign and follow ousted leader Sam Altman to Microsoft Corp. unless the current board resigns…
Google pays Apple 36% of its Safari search advertising revenue
Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from search advertising made through the Safari browser, the main economics expert…
Alphabet CEO defends paying Apple to make Google Safari’s default search engine
Testifying in the biggest U.S. antitrust case in a quarter century, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai defended his company’s practice…
DOJ’s antitrust case to break up Google hinges on four iPhone Taps and a swipe
The core of the U.S. DOJ’s argument that Google is an illegal monopoly is a process that involves four taps and a swipe on an iPhone…
U.S. IRS demands $28.9 billion in back taxes from Microsoft
Microsoft has been hit with a demand for $28.9 billion in back taxes from the U.S. IRS which the MacOS knockoff-peddler intends to contest…
Microsoft pondered selling Bing search engine to Apple in 2020
Microsoft discussed selling its Bing search engine to Apple around 2020, a deal that would have replaced Google as the default option…
Microsoft complains that Apple used Bing as a ‘bargaining chip’ in Google negotiations
A Microsoft executive complained that when it came to the search-engine wars with Alphabet subsidiary Google, the company’s Bing was…
Apple says iMessage service not popular enough to be ‘gatekeepers’ under EU’s new Digital Markets Act
Apple says that their iMessage service is insufficiently popular to be designated as a “gatekeeper” under the EU’s new Digital Market Act…
Billionaire investors are buying Apple stock ‘hand over fist’
During the second quarter, a number of highly successful billionaire investors gobbled up Apple stock and shares of Nvidia and Microsoft…
Apple in talks to invest in Arm’s IPO in chip influence tug of war
Arm Holdings Ltd’s clients are angling to snap up shares in its initial public offering (IPO), putting the semiconductor designer’s adherence…
Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and Amazon team up on maps in effort to crack Apple-Google duopoly
A group of tech companies, including Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and Amazon Web Services, is releasing a dataset of map data that could…
Investors brace for earnings from Apple, rest of ‘Magnificent Seven’ American companies
Led by Apple, a handful of massive growth and technology names that have dominated the U.S. stock market in 2023 are set to report…
The Nasdaq 100 ‘special rebalance’ aims to cut Apple, Microsoft, others down to size
Apple, Microsoft, and the rest of big tech have rapidly grown too big for the Nasdaq 100. The index’s solution is a “special rebalance.”
Why Apple and the rest of big tech are getting hit by the Nasdaq 100 ‘special rebalance’
Apple, Microsoft, and the rest of big tech have gotten too big for the Nasdaq 100 index. Unfortunately, the Nasdaq 100’s solution…
Nasdaq 100 plans special rebalance to curb dominance of Apple, select others
The Nasdaq 100 index is set to adjust the weighting of its 100 components, with the “magnificent seven” stocks Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia…
Microsoft should join Apple in the exclusive $3 trillion club by early 2024 – analyst
Apple hit a new all-time high on June 30 of $192 per share, enough of a boost for the company to once again breach a $3 trillion market cap…
Google set to hire former Apple executive as India policy head
Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Google is set to appoint manufacturing and policy veteran Sreenivasa Reddy in India to tackle legal challenges…
Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft say they meet EU gatekeeper threshold
Seven tech giants, including Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, have said they meet the EU’s new criteria for “gatekeepers”…
Now regretting his life’s work, ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ leaves Google and warns of dangers ahead
Dr. Geoffrey Hinton’s journey from A.I. groundbreaker to doomsayer marks a remarkable moment for the technology industry at…
Microsoft follow Apple yet again, assembles ‘Microsoft Silicon’ to make custom ARM chips
Yet again, Microsoft is trying to follow Apple’s lead and is assembling an in-house “Microsoft Silicon” team to build new custom ARM chips…
Apple and Microsoft make the S&P 500 top-heavy
Apple and Microsoft have never occupied this much of the S&P 500 Index, leaving some investors worried about the gauge’s increasingly…
Elon Musk threatens to sue Microsoft for stealing
Twitter CEO Elon Musk threatened Microsoft with a potential lawsuit on Wednesday, claiming the software giant used his company’s data…
Gene Munster: Apple’s opportunities to integrate AI are endless
Deepwater Asset Management’s Gene Munster, a longtime Apple analyst, says that Apple’s opportunities to integrate AI are endless…
Apple generates an amazing $2.4 million in annual revenue per employee
Apple has consistently been the most efficient of the major U.S. technology companies when measured on revenue generated per…
