Corporate travel and expense software firm Navan shares sink by double-digits in first trade after $6 billion Nasdaq IPO

Corporate travel and expense management platform Navan fell by as much as 15% in its first trading day on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “NAVN” after its successful initial public offering. The Navan IPO, which priced on Wednesday night, valued the business-to-business software vendor at $6.2 billion, raising $923 million and with shares settling […]

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Alphabet stock jumps 4% after posting strong results, boosting AI spend

Alphabet stock jumped 4% Thursday after the company reported third-quarter financial results that beat across the board and increased its capital expenditures for the year. The Google parent company bumped its spending expectations on artificial intelligence infrastructure to $91-$93 billion from $85 billion the prior quarter, noting continued strong cloud demand. CEO Sundar Pichai said the […]

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Meta stock drops 10% as heightened AI spending overshadows strong third-quarter results

Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online child sexual exploitation at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, U.S., January 31, 2024.  Nathan Howard | Reuters Meta Platforms‘ stock dropped more than 10% on Thursday as skepticism about the payoff from its aggressive artificial intelligence spending plans overshadowed strong results. The social […]

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Samsung’s third-quarter profit more than doubles, beating estimates as chip recovery gathers pace

Headquarters of Samsung in Mountain View, California, on October 28, 2018. Smith Collection/gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images Samsung Electronics reported a rebound in earnings on Thursday, with operating profit more than doubling from the previous quarter on strength from its chip business.  Here are Samsung’s third-quarter results compared with LSEG SmartEstimate, which is […]

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ServiceNow CEO denies AI companies are threatening enterprise software: ‘They don’t do what we do’

ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott pushed back against the idea that artificial intelligence technology will make enterprise software redundant in a Wednesday interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer. “We realize the world needs access to the great hyperscalers, and so we integrated with all three of them. So that’s a cooperative,” McDermott said. “The world’s going to […]

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Ray Dalio, JPMorgan back billion-dollar berry startup Fruitist in new $150 million funding round

Fruitist, the healthy snacking company known for its jumbo blueberries, has raised $150 million in an equity funding round led by new investor J.P. Morgan Asset Management, with billionaire Ray Dalio‘s family office doubling down on its existing investment in the farming startup. The company, valued at over $1 billion, is growing distribution rapidly in […]

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