A home is shown for sale in The Heights in Houston, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. Kirk Sides | Houston Chronicle | Getty Images Home prices have finally come down compared with last year, though just fractionally, according to daily reads from Parcl Labs, which looks at high-frequency listing data on single-family homes, condos and townhomes,…
Rob Walton, left, Walmart retired chairman of the board, and Walmart board member Steuart Walton listen at the Walmart annual formal business and shareholders meeting in Rogers, Arkansas, on May 30, 2018. Walmart shareholders from around the world can attend meetings throughout the week. Rick T. Wilking | Getty Images A version of this article…
Disney CEO Bob Iger attends late US actor Chadwick Boseman’s posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame Star ceremony in Los Angeles, California, on Nov. 20, 2025. Unique Nicole | AFP | Getty Images The Walt Disney Company on Thursday announced it will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI and will allow users to make…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks onstage during The New York Times DealBook Summit 2025 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 03, 2025 in New York City. David Dee Delgado | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is proposing a major change in the approach to how the government approaches…
Jyoti Bansal, co-founder and CEO of Harness, speaks at the company’s Unscripted conference in London on Sept. 25, 2025. Harness Almost nine years ago, Jyoti Bansal sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion just as the software startup was set to go public. Bansal’s latest venture, Harness, is now worth substantially more than that, after…
Oracle shares plummeted 11% in premarket trading on Thursday, extending yesterday’s losses after the firm reported disappointing results. The cloud computing and database software maker reported lower-than-expected quarterly revenue on Wednesday, despite booming demand for its artificial intelligence infrastructure. Its revenue came in at $16.06 billion, compared with $16.21 billion expected by analysts, according to data compiled by…
Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Nvidia is developing software that could provide location verification for its AI graphics processing units (GPUs), a move that comes as Washington ramps up efforts to prevent restricted chips from being used in countries like China. The opt-in service uses a client software agent that Nvidia chip customers…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a press conference following the Federal Open Markets Committee meeting at the Federal Reserve on December 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images The Federal Reserve on Wednesday approved a much-anticipated quarter percentage point interest rate cut at a meeting that was packed with intrigue…
Chuck Robbins, chief executive officer of Cisco, participates in a Bloomberg interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 17, 2024. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images Few companies were as hot in early 2000 as Cisco, whose networking equipment served as the backbone of the internet boom. On Wednesday, Cisco’s…
The U.K. and Germany are emerging as key hubs for a new wave of AI defense startups, as Europe scrambles to rearm amid rising geopolitical tensions. Private funding for defense startups across the region has ramped up in recent years, with investors looking to tap into increasing government military budgets, driven by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine…
