Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) recently agreed to buy Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) in a $68.7 billion all-cash deal. It marks Microsoft's biggest acquisition ever and would presumably widen its moat against Sony (NYSE: SONY) in the console gaming market.
Investors saw several highly speculative investments go to the moon in early 2021, only to crash back to earth over the past several months. Some of these players were pre-revenue and unprofitable companies going public via special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).
Emerging market shares fell sharply for a third straight session on Tuesday as the threat of Russia-Ukraine military conflict and wariness over U.S. monetary policy weighed on sentiment.
Rivian Automotive (NASDAQ: RIVN) shares fall in the wake of Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) new partnership with automaker Stellantis. Motley Fool analyst Bill Mann analyzes some topics in the news, shares what he considers to be the most interesting businesses to watch in the EV industr
Meta Platforms (FB) closed the most recent trading day at $308.71, moving +1.83% from the previous trading session. This move outpaced the S&P 500's daily gain of 0.28%. At the same time, the Dow added 0.29%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 0.19%.
Technology stocks rebounded somewhat this afternoon, with the SPDR Technology Select Sector ETF (XLK) Monday slipping 1.6% while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index was falling less than 0.1% in late trade.
Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Tesla Inc (Symbol: TSLA), where a total of 834,679 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 83.5 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 322.3%
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc said on Monday that its research team has built a new artificial intelligence supercomputer that it thinks will be the fastest in the world when completed in mid-2022.
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Shares of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: FB) were all sliding today as investors continue to dump technology stocks in anticipation that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates throughout 2022.
We are in the peak earnings season and tech giants are in the spotlight this week, with some of five biggest giants reporting this week. Investors should note that technology has been the hardest hit sector since the start of 2022 thanks to rising yields.This is because t
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM) posted record profits in the fourth quarter, but that's not why Motley Fool analyst John Rotonti believes the company is so important. In this podcast, he analyzes the company's commitment to invest more than $40 billion this year to
Today's video focuses on Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: FB), formerly known as Facebook, and the steps it's taking to drive more content creators and users to its platform. One of those is increasing the potential salary for content creators. Here are some highlights from the video.
Look for Matterport (NASDAQ: MTTR) to be waist-deep in the metaverse come this time in 2025. This tech stock has staked out some prime real estate in this just-emerging concept, and assuming it actually comes to fruition, Matterport could be the big dealmaker in the space.
AT&T Inc. T is scheduled to report fourth-quarter 2021 results, before the opening bell, on Jan 26. In the fourth quarter, the company is likely to have recorded higher revenues year over year from the WarnerMedia segment due to significant traction from the streaming
AT&T Inc. T is scheduled to report fourth-quarter 2021 results, before the opening bell, on Jan 26. In the fourth quarter, the Communications segment is likely to have recorded year-over-year lower revenues owing to continued infrastructure investments for 5G deployme
Investing in an IPO is never a sure thing. This year will mark a decade that Meta Platforms (previously known as Facebook) has been public. Its 720% returns since its IPO likely have many cautious investors wishing they could have a do-over. However, being conservative would have
You might think the metaverse is sort of like the movie Field of Dreams. In the movie, Kevin Costner's character hears a voice that says, "If you build it, he will come." Costner's character then proceeds to construct a baseball field on his Iowa corn farm to the consternation of
FAANG stocks -- essentially the top five stocks of the tech sector -- as a group cooled off in 2021. Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) led the group of growth stocks with a 65% return for the year, followed by Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) near-34% return. The rest of the group --
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: FB), the tech giant formerly known as Facebook, is often considered a top play on the growing metaverse, which could eventually blur the lines between our physical and digital worlds with virtual reality and augmented reality platforms.
Shares of the crypto bank Silvergate Capital (NYSE: SI) plummeted nearly 23% on Jan. 18 after the company reported fourth-quarter and full-year earnings results for 2021 that missed analysts' estimates for the first time since the company went public. Silvergate reported diluted