Figma signage appears at the New York Stock Exchange in New York as the company prepares for its shares to begin trading on July 31, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Figma shares jumped 7% on Monday after the design software vendor’s technology was promoted by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in an onstage…
Aerial view by drone of Tokyo Cityscape with Tokyo Sky Tree visible in Tokyo city, Japan on sunrise. pongnathee kluaythong | Moment | Getty Images Japan’s Nikkei 225 hit a record high Tuesday for the second straight session, lifted by a tech rally on Wall Street after a massive deal between OpenAI and AMD —…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday explained why he’s bullish on Take-Two Interactive, saying it’s set to dominate the video game space now that its top competitor is going private. “This was an industry with three major players, but now, with Activision gone and EA going private, Take-Two’s now the only major publicly-traded American video game…
Modelo beer is displayed on a shelf at a Safeway store on Oct. 6, 2025 in San Anselmo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Modelo owner Constellation Brands beat on the top and bottom lines in its fiscal second-quarter earnings report on Monday and reiterated its lowered full-year guidance due to macroeconomic headwinds. Shares of…
Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Founder and CEO, speaks at the Delivering Alpha conference in New York City on Sept. 28, 2023. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Investor Brad Gerstner cautioned Monday that OpenAI‘s deals with Nvidia and AMD are purely announcements, not deployments. “Now we will see what gets delivered,” the Altimeter Capital founder told CNBC. “Ultimately,…
The AppLovin logo arranged on a smartphone in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images AppLovin shares plummeted on Monday after Bloomberg reported that the SEC has been probing the mobile advertising company over its data-collection practices. The agency has been looking into whether the company violated…
Soldiers march during a military parade to commemorate the U.S. Army’s 250th Birthday in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 14, 2025. Nathan Howard | Reuters As the government shutdown drags on with little hope of a quick resolution, a situation involving the U.S. military could push the warring factions in Washington to come to an agreement….
Dan Schulman speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2020. Adam Galica | CNBC Verizon announced on Monday that the board of directors has appointed former PayPal CEO Dan Schulman as the company’s new CEO. Schulman replaces Hans Vestberg, who had led the company since 2018. Shares of the company…
US Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Republican from South Dakota, speaks to reporters outside of his office at the US Capitol, on the second day of the US government shutdown in Washington, DC, on October 2, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | Afp | Getty Images The Senate is set to vote again on Monday on a…
US President Donald Trump signs executive orders relating to higher education institutions, alongside US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon (R), in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 23, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images The Trump administration has resumed forgiving student debt for some borrowers enrolled in…
