‘Magnificent Seven’ sell-off ahead of big week for big tech April 22, 2024 Big tech share prices have been dented by a sector-wide sell-off of risky assets ahead of four "Big six" firms reporting Q1 results.
Facebook gives teenagers more control over advert exposure January 11, 2023 Facebook and Instagram are to tighten restrictions around the data available to firms to target ads at teenage users, the platforms’ parent company Meta has said. From February, advertisers on Facebook will no longer be able see a user’s gender or the type of posts they have engaged with as a way of targeting adverts to them. [...]
TSB Bank demand Facebook and Whatsapp take responsibility for fraud on their platforms May 5, 2023 TSB Bank have demanded that Meta-owned companies, such as Facebook and Whatsapp, take greater responsibility for fraud carried out on their platforms as the government launches its new fraud crackdown. Launched earlier this week, the government’s fraud strategy laid out a series of proposals to stop online scammers, but it dropped plans to make tech [...]
How are AI hedgies finding the next Nvidia and what are they betting big on? February 16, 2024 As Nvidia becomes Wall Street’s third most valuable company, where else are hedgies looking to place their AI related bets?
Banks tell Sunak that big tech firms need to do more to tackle fraud June 18, 2023 A group of the UK’s largest banks have told Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that big tech firms should help contribute to the reimbursement of fraud victims. According to Sky News, the banks said the rising tide of fraud in the UK is having a “material impact on how attractive the wider UK financial sector is [...]
Analysis: Big tech beats forecasts – but they’re not out of the woods yet April 28, 2023 Meta, Microsoft, and Google’s parent, Alphabet, Amazon all showed signs of resilience this week after a bruising period for the tech sector. After many US tech firms laid off thousands of staff in response to low growth and inflationary pressures, each of these leading tech giants reported quarterly revenues and profits that beat analyst estimates, [...]
Global share buybacks drop despite dividend spike April 24, 2024 Global share buybacks dipped by 14 per cent last year to $1.1 trillion (£880bn) despite record dividend issuance from global companies.
FTSE 100 close: London ends week down after US jobs figures February 2, 2024 US tech stocks dominated overnight news, all eyes will turn to US non-farm payrolls report, which are out at 1.30pm.
Amazon, Dell, Google and Microsoft: Nearly 60,000 tech layoffs so far in 2024 and ‘more pain to come’ April 4, 2024 The tsunami of tech layoffs which plagued much of 2023 has continued to hit companies of all sizes this year.