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By: Martin Peers
Snap reported 19% higher revenue of $1.599 billion for the June quarter, along with higher profits as measured before deductions for interest, depreciation, amortization and stock compensation. Snap stock, which has been trading near its historic lows, rose 9% in after-hours trading to $5.50.The growth reflected 9% higher ad revenues, a still-anemic growth rate compared to other big ad-based
Shares of Microsoft closed 0.8% higher than where it finished 2025, the first time all year it closed up for the year so far, Koyfin data shows. The stock has rallied 25% since last Wednesday, when Microsoft reported its June quarter earnings showing accelerating growth in both its cloud business and sales of AI-powered chatbot services.Meanwhile, Amazon closed Monday with a market
Spotify reported 14% higher revenue, driven by 9% growth in the number of paying subscribers, while the music streaming service’s ad business continued to lag.Spotify said ad revenue rose just 1% in the quarter, which is an improvement on the past three quarters where ad revenue fell as much as 6%. Spotify co-CEO Alex Norstrom told analysts on a conference call that the results of Spotify’s
Question: How is the 24-year-old SpaceX like a young startup? It’s burning twice as much cash as it brings in as revenue! That’s one takeaway from SpaceX’s first earnings report as a public company, in which the company revealed it burned $16 billion in the second quarter, on $7.8 billion in ...
By: Martin Peers
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company expects to invest $10 billion in “the coming years” to bringing self-driving cars onto its service, both through investments in autonomous vehicle firms and expanding infrastructure for autonomous vehicles such as managing fleets of cars.Uber has partnered with a very wide range of autonomous vehicle developers, making their cars available on its
Walt Disney Co.‘s entertainment streaming service grew 11% in the June quarter, the company reported Wednesday, just a couple of percentage points behind industry leader Netflix. But Disney’s results showed that growth is coming almost entirely from the subscription side, rather than advertising.That highlights the extremely competitive nature of the streaming ad market, which is crowded with
Warner Bros. Discovery, whose future ownership is up in the air following a legal challenge to its acquisition by Paramount Skydance, reported an 11% drop in revenues for the second quarter and lower profits.While WBD’s streaming operation, which includes HBO Max, increased revenues 10% to $3.08 billion, and also boosted profits, that couldn’t offset a sharp drop in revenue and profits at
SoftBank said it borrowed $10 billion against its OpenAI shareholding on Wednesday, a month after it put another $10 billion more into OpenAI, the latest sign of the financial high-wire that the Japanese investment giant is walking with its OpenAI foray.SoftBank has invested $20 billion of a planned $30 billion second investment in OpenAI following an earlier $34 billion investment. It is due
By: Martin Peers
If you’re one of those executives at Alphabet, Meta Platforms or Amazon who deals with investors, here’s an idea: Put a large photo of SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son on the wall of your office. Next time a visiting investor complains about your AI spending, point to the photo. That should end the ...
