Wells Fargo ( NYSE:WFC ), one of the largest U.S. banks, has invested in Grayscale's spot Bitcoin ETF offering. The company owns 37 ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF shares, 2,245 shares of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust converted into an ETF, and 52 Bitcoin Depot shares on its balance sheet. The total cost of the Bitcoin investment was over $143,000. The SEC...
Sweetgreen shares ( NYSE:SG ) surged by 35% on Friday after the company reported better-than-expected revenue results for its fiscal first quarter. The salad chain also raised its revenue and adjusted EBITDA guidance for fiscal year 2024. The company announced earlier this week that it is adding steak to its menu in an expansion of its protein...
Novavax shares ( NASDAQ:NVAX ) surged over 130% after a $1.4 billion deal with Sanofi was announced to commercialize its Covid vaccine and develop a new combination shot for protecting against the flu and Covid. The biotech firm announced a licensing agreement with Sanofi to sell Novavax’s Covid vaccine worldwide, with Sanofi paying Novavax $500 million upfront...
SoundHound ( NASDAQ:SOUN ) AI shares surged over 14% in late trading on Thursday after the company surpassed analysts' first-quarter revenue estimates and raised its full-year sales outlook amid growing demand for artificial intelligence (AI) speech recognition software. The Silicon Valley-based tech company reported revenue of $11.6 million for the three-month...
Taiwanese chip giant BCBA:TSMC reported a 60% increase in April revenue, driven by a surge in demand for advanced semiconductors used in AI hardware. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company controls over half the world's chip output and supplies them for various products, including Apple's iPhones and Nvidia's artificial intelligence hardware. The...
T-Mobile and Verizon Communications ( NYSE:VZ ) are in talks to buy parts of United States Cellular for over $2 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Shares of the regional wireless carrier jumped 8.6% to $39.08. T-Mobile is close on a deal to buy a chunk of U.S. Cellular for more than $2 billion, taking over some operations and wireless spectrum...
Marathon Digital Holdings ( NASDAQ:MARA ), a global leader in leveraging digital asset compute to support energy transformation, reported its financial and operational results for the first quarter that ended March 31, 2024. The company saw an increase in energized hash rate by 142% to 27.8 EH/s in Q1 2024 from 11.5 EH/s in Q1 2023. The company produced 2,811 ...
Dropbox ( NASDAQ:DBX ), a cloud storage and e-signature company, reported Q1 earnings results in line with analysts' expectations, with revenue up 3.3% year on year to $631.3 million. The company made a non-GAAP profit of $0.58 per share, improving from its $0.42 per share in the same quarter last year. Dropbox's gross margin (GAAP) was 83.2%, up from 80.9% in the...
GameStop ( NYSE:GME ) stock has risen 13.1% to its highest close since December, marking a resurgence for the videogame retailer and original meme stock. The stock closed at $18.01, its highest since December 28, when it ended at $18.07. GameStop ( NYSE:GME ) shares also recorded their biggest single daily percentage gain since May 3, when they climbed 29.1%....
A financial executive, Bruce Garelick, has been convicted of enabling his boss and others to make over $22 million illegally by trading off his tips ahead of the public announcement that an acquisition firm was taking former President Donald Trump's media company public. Garelick was convicted of tipping others in 2021 to news that the special purpose acquisition...
EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: NYSE:EPAM ), a leading digital transformation services and product engineering company, announced its results for the first quarter of 2024, which were down 3.8% year-over-year. The company's CEO and President, Arkadiy Dobkin, stated that the company's solid performance in the first quarter reflects its adaptability to a challenging...
Amazon ( NASDAQ:AMZN ) has announced its intention to launch a dedicated online store in Ireland in 2025. This move, according to the company, will provide Irish customers with a wide selection of great value products with fast delivery, while also offering opportunities for small- and medium-sized Irish businesses to reach a bigger audience at home and abroad....
Ripple and XRPL Labs have joined Hedera developer Swirlds Labs and the Algorand Foundation as founding members of the Decentralized Recovery (DeRec) Alliance. The alliance aims to standardize and expedite digital asset recovery in the web3 industry, particularly for crypto non-experts. The DeRec Alliance was founded by Hedera co-founder Leemon Baird to provide an...
After a deeper corrective decline, Bitcoin ( CRYPTOCAP:BTC ) bounces strongly, suggesting that the correction may be over at the ideal 38,2% Fibonacci retracement near 56k support. A bullish continuation within wave could send the price back to all-time highs towards 75k-80k area, but short-term pullbacks should be noted. Bitcoin ( CRYPTOCAP:BTC ) price has been...
YETI (NYSE: NYSE:YETI ) reported better-than-expected Q1 CY2024 results, with revenue up 12.7% YoY to $341.4 million. The company made a non-GAAP profit of $0.34 per share, improving from its $0.18 per share in the same quarter last year. YETI's Q1 CY2024 highlights included a balanced, double-digit growth across both wholesale and direct-to-consumer channels, as...
Robinhood shares ( NASDAQ:HOOD ) rose after the retail brokerage reported stronger-than-expected first-quarter results, with net income of $157 million, or 18 cents per share, and record revenue of $618 million. Cryptocurrency transactions accounted for $126 million in revenue in the quarter. The company's earnings per share and revenue numbers were both records...
Airbnb shares ( NASDAQ:ABNB ) fell more than 8% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company issued a weaker-than-expected current-quarter outlook, overshadowing its strong Q1 results that topped Wall Street expectations. The company said its current-quarter results face "a significant sequential headwind" from the timing of Easter, an added leap-year day in...
Roblox ( NYSE:RBLX ), an online gaming platform and game creation system, missed analysts' expectations in Q1 CY2024, with revenue up 22.3% year on year to $801.3 million. The company's next quarter's revenue guidance of $867.5 million also underwhelmed, coming in 7.6% below analysts' estimates. Roblox ( NYSE:RBLX ) made a GAAP loss of $0.43 per share, improving...