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Toronto , Canada – 20 June 2024; Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 20, 2024. Ramsey Cardy | Sportsfile | Collision | Getty Images Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman said his hope is to take his company public in 2025 now that the chipmaker has…
Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi. Databricks Data analytics startup Databricks said Wednesday that it’s buying Neon, a cloud-based database software vendor, for about $1 billion. It’s the latest big deal for Databricks, which bought artificial intelligence model training startup MosaicML for $1.3 billion in 2023 and paid over $1 billion last year for data…
Vincent Feuray | Afp | Getty Images The digital advertising market was sunny enough for investors this past quarter, providing what could be a last hurrah before a looming economic storm from President Donald Trump‘s tariff onslaught. Wall Street cheered the first-quarter results from tech giants like Meta and Alphabet, which both saw shares rise…
Bill Ready, CEO of Pinterest, rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on May 15, 2024. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Pinterest shares rose 15% in extended trading Thursday after the company reported first-quarter earnings and provided better-than-expected guidance. Here’s how the company did, compared to analysts’ consensus estimates from LSEG: Revenue: $855…
Fidji Simo, chief executive officer of Instacart Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Studio 1.0 interview in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, March 3, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI said late Wednesday that it’s tapped Instacart CEO Fidji Simo as the head of its applications business, reporting to CEO Sam…
The expansion of the loophole for tariff-free shipments of goods nearly a decade ago gave rise to Temu, Shein and other low-cost online retailers offering items straight from Chinese factories at unfathomable discounts. It also unleashed something else — a cascade of billions of dollars of digital advertising that provided a windfall for Meta, Alphabet…
Michael Intrator, co-founder and CEO of CoreWeave, speaks at the Semafor World Economy Summit during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Spring meetings in Washington on April 25, 2025. The International Monetary Fund sharply lowered its forecasts for world growth for this year and next, warning the outlook could deteriorate further as US…
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta is set to report its first-quarter earnings on Wednesday, and investors will be looking for any signs that President Donald Trump’s tough China tariffs are affecting the…
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) speaks with Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella after posing for a family picture with guests who attend the “Tech for Good” Summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on May 23, 2018. Charles Platiau | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday said that as much as 30%…
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel speaks during the Semafor World Economy Summit 2025 at Conrad Washington in Washington, D.C., on April 23, 2025. Kayla Bartkowski | Getty Images Snap reported better-than-expected first-quarter revenue Tuesday but declined to provide guidance, citing macroeconomic uncertainties that could weigh on advertising demand. Shares dropped 15% in after-hours trading. Here is…