News: Companies
In this section, we delve into the dynamic corporate world, bringing you the most recent updates from global companies. Our coverage spans a broad spectrum, encapsulating latest quarterly results, unveiling of new products, corporate amalgamations, and acquisitions. We also keep you informed on changes in analyst ratings, adjustments in price targets, submissions to regulatory bodies, and acquisition of new licenses, amidst a host of other significant business events.
Apple to Keep iPhone Production Flat as Market Grows Tougher
Additionally, Apple will strive to impress consumers with a more advanced model than last year's one. New screen sizes, including satellite-based text messaging, are expected to be offered in the upcoming iPhone 14 handsets. The iPhone 13 was viewed by consumers as a minor upgrade.
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GM’s Newest Weapon in the EV Wars Is a Factory
The facility is located in both Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan. The term Zero represents GM's goal for an automotive future with zero emissions, zero accidents, and zero traffic congestion. Accidents and congestion reductions are the results of GM's autonomous-driving initiatives. EVs contribute to emissions.
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Walmart Flashes a Warning Sign to the Entire Consumer Economy
There are other retailers as well who suffer from high prices. Even though Home Depot reported better-than-anticipated sales for its first quarter and saw the average amount consumers spent increase by 11%, the number of customer transactions declined by 8%.
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Twitter Is Stuck Between Musk and Snap. It Will Be an Anxious Annual Meeting
The hard place: Macroeconomic conditions for technology businesses have been less than ideal, and Twitter (TWTR) has felt the pinch. Snap's (SNAP) news on Monday that it was lowering its revenue estimate raised fears that the industry may be in for a lengthier period of suffering than anticipated.
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Nomura Creates Digital Asset Company
As for Nomura, it already has a foothold in the digital asset sector with Komainu, a cryptocurrency storage joint venture with CoinShares, and Ledger, which is expected to begin in June 2020. Komainu concluded a $25 million Series A financing round in March, when assets under control surpassed $3 billion.
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Here’s How CEOs from PayPal and Nasdaq, Plus a Senator, View the Risk of Recession
"I think the market will play an important role: the boost in yields, the strength of the dollar… we're already witnessing some demand destruction, and the margins of big retailers are already starting to compress," Toomey noted.
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Netflix Layoffs Just The Start as Streamer Stages Rebound: ‘It’s Time to Be a Real Company,’ Says Media Exec
"In our quarterly report, we indicated that slowing revenue growth forces the company to slow its cost growth. As a result, approximately 150 employees will be laid off today, mostly in the United States," the company stated in an announcement.
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Largest U.S. Pension Bought AMC, AMD, and Block Stock. It Sold Netflix
Calpers purchased 155,992 AMC shares in the first quarter, bringing its total to 775,392 shares. Calpers has purchased the shares for the third quarter in a row. It announced a 116,400-shareholding at the end of the third quarter of 2021, then more than doubled that investment in the fourth.
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Robinhood Launches New No-Transaction Fee Crypto Wallet
There is already a web-based custody wallet on Robinhood's website for users' assets. As with most cryptocurrency companies, the assets are not covered by any government guarantee, such as that provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
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Insider News: Samsung in Talks to Hike Chipmaking Prices by Up to 20%
At a recent earnings conference, Kang Moon-soo, vice president of Samsung's foundry division, stated that the company had already received orders for the next five years totaling eight times the previous year's sales. "We expect our order book to expand much further.
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PayPal Trims 2022 Outlook But Beats Revenue Forecast
Holdings said its first quarter was a "good start," but it lowered its full-year forecast, expecting payments volumes to fall. Its adjusted earnings per share expectation are now $3.81 to $3.93, down from a previous range of $4.60 to $4.75.
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