Tag: Applications Software
Fourth-quarter earnings are near halfway done. Results have gotten better.
With the U.S. fourth-quarter earnings reporting season almost halfway through, the financial industry is fretting over souring consumer credit. Companies that make shoes and clothes [Read more about this post…]
Opinion: Salesforce, AMD, other non-Nvidia Big Tech stocks to watch as AI goes mainstream
In 2023, the AI winners and losers were largely defined by how they found ways to make money from the technology. Nvidia NVDA, +4.97% emerged [Read more about this post…]
Soccer game’s popularity scores for EA — and creates a higher bar to clear for growth
Videogame maker Electronic Arts Inc. saw a modest uptick in gaming demand during the holiday season, helped by gains in its “EA Sports FC” soccer [Read more about this post…]
Microsoft Teams suffers outage affecting thousands, sparking user frustration
Microsoft Corp.’s Teams suffered an outage Friday, prompting users to take to social media to voice their frustrations with the business-communications platform. “User reports indicate [Read more about this post…]
Expect more deals in the food sector as companies grapple with low-volume world
Investors can expect to see more deal activity in the U.S. food sector in 2024, as companies are still seeking to improve the growth profile [Read more about this post…]
Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft face FTC probe into AI ‘investments and partnerships’
The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it will look closely at the generative-artificial-intelligence investments and partnerships of Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +1.69% GOOG, +1.75%, Amazon.com, Inc. [Read more about this post…]
Russian hacking group accessed Microsoft executive emails, company says
Microsoft Corp. said Friday a Russian hacking group illegally gained access to some of its top executives’ email accounts. In a regulatory filing, the software giant [Read more about this post…]
Space stocks rally despite Virgin Galactic’s decline
Space stocks rallied Friday — except for Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc., which ended the session down 1%. The space-tourism company, which initially led a broader [Read more about this post…]
The 3 biggest myths about AI use in hiring, according to an expert
Even before the meteoric rise of artificial intelligence over the past 12 months, AI had been playing part in the hiring process for years. But [Read more about this post…]
Apple just ceded one crown to Microsoft, but it picked up a new one
Apple Inc. may have given back the title of largest U.S. public company to Microsoft Corp., but it has just picked up a different crown [Read more about this post…]
