Michael Cannon-Brookes, co-CEO of Atlassian. Scott Mlyn | CNBC The “SaaSpocalypse” was raging this week. Then it got a reprieve. The pennies-on-the-dollar acquisition of one-time highflyer Airtable, followed by plunges in HubSpot, Datadog and Figma on earnings reports, all served to underscore investor concerns that artificial intelligence models are eating away at the value of…
My top 10 things to watch Friday, Aug. 7 1. Futures rose after nonfarm payrolls unexpectedly fell 23,000 in July. Big miss from the projected 83,000 increase, according to Dow Jones. But the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1%. The market’s first take was that this bad news for the labor market was good news for…
Venture capital investor John Doerr during an interview on an episode of “Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein” in Stanford, California, July 22, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign…
The jobs market steps into the spotlight this week, while second-quarter earnings season continues apace. Here’s a closer look at what to expect in the coming days. We’ll start with the Club holdings set to report, before touching on the labor-market updates and their implications for Federal Reserve policy. 1. Earnings : The action kicks…
This photograph shows the logo of the logo of SentinelOne during the 18th edition of the “InCyber” Forum, an international cyber security event, at the Grand Palais in Lille, northern France on April 1, 2026. Sameer Al-doumy | Afp | Getty Images SentinelOne shares sank 8% as the cybersecurity company laid off 8% of its…
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, helps ring The Closing Bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 30, 2025. NYSE The “SaaSpocalypse” may not be over. But for now at least, fears of software’s demise have cooled. Software stocks soared this week, driven by strong results from Snowflake and Okta, signaling that some companies…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at a company event on artificial intelligence technologies in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Dimas Ardian | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft had all the pieces to win in vibe coding, thanks to the near ubiquity of GitHub, which the company bought for $7.5 billion in 2018. But repeated…
Atlassian shares jumped more than 29% on Friday after the software company topped Wall Street’s expectations for the fiscal third quarter, reporting strong cloud growth and data center revenue. Here’s how the company did compared with LSEG estimates: Earnings per share: $1.75 adjusted vs. $1.32 expected Revenue: $1.79 billion vs. $1.69 billion expected Atlassian’s stock…
Google, LinkedIn and Wikipedia are among hundreds of websites and apps where Meta plans to capture employee keystrokes and mouse clicks as part of a project to train its artificial intelligence models, according to internal messages viewed by CNBC. A new employee tracking tool, dubbed Model Capability Initiative (MCI), allows Meta to observe and collect…
Oracle Corporation rings the Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 3, 2026. NYSE Oracle‘s stock surged 11% as software shares, beaten down by artificial intelligence disruption fears, clawed back some year-to-date losses. Adobe jumped about 6%, while Salesforce rallied 5%. ServiceNow, HubSpot, and Workday rallied more than 7% each. Cybersecurity stocks…
