Oracle Corp. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oracle‘s shares jumped in premarket trading on Friday after it reported 30% revenue growth in its fiscal first quarter, fueled by strong demand for its cloud…
Oracle shares jumped 7% in extended trading on Thursday after the software vendor issued stronger-than-expected quarterly results. Here’s how the company performed relative to LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $1.92 adjusted vs. $1.74 expected Revenue: $19.35 billion vs. $19.14 billion expected Oracle’s revenue grew almost 30% year over year in the fiscal first quarter, which…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft AI Tour in Sydney on April 23, 2026. George Chan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Microsoft will start disclosing quarterly revenue for its Azure cloud business for the first time, providing investors with a clearer picture of its business that competes with Amazon Web Services…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff appears at the 2023 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Sept. 12, 2023. Marlena Sloss | Bloomberg | Getty Images For the better part of a year, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has been hearing that his company could get wiped out by AI. He’s scoffed anytime someone has asked him about…
It’s Nvidia earnings week, which means investors will get their clearest read yet on the AI boom. Oh, and there’s also the not-so-small matter of the Fed’s influential confab at Jackson Hole and what it could signal about the future path of interest rates. Those are the biggest market-moving events of the week, but we’ll…
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…
Demis Hassabis, co-founder of DeepMind Technologies Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Depending on where you sit, Google either has the most enviable position in artificial intelligence or is bleeding top talent to leading AI labs and other startups on the frontline of innovation. It’s a contrast that’s…
For months, I have been after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to give us “line of sight” into something that can explain why they’re is spending so much money building out all of these data centers. I wanted to know if this is just some sort of rainbow without a pot of gold, or whether there…
Amazon reported better-than-expected revenue and cloud growth for the second quarter. The stock shot up more than 9% in extended trading. Here’s how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG: Earnings per share: $5.75 a share. That may not compare with the $1.82 per share expected by LSEG Revenue: $200.61 billion…
Andy Jassy, President and CEO of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta and Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. Noah Berger | Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters | Peerapon Boonyakiat | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Alphabet had long been Wall Street’s favorite hyperscaler due to its expertise in converting high capital expenditures into revenue….
