Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff participates in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, 2026. Chris J. Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Over 1,400 Salesforce employees have signed a letter calling on CEO Marc Benioff to drop potential business with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, two people…
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet’s debt sale keeps getting bigger. The company is close to finalizing a global bond issuance in excess of $30 billion, according to two…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, on May 20, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images As Alphabet returns to the debt market to fund its artificial intelligence buildout, the company is acknowledging new risks tied to the rise of AI…
Workday co-founder Aneel Bhusri at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2020, when he was CEO of the company. Bhusri will once again take on the role, with Carl Eschenbach stepping down. Adam Galica | CNBC Workday on Monday announced that CEO Carl Eschenbach is stepping down from his role and…
Big Tech stocks were treading water in premarket trading on Monday, after a bruising week that saw more than $1 trillion wiped from their market caps. As of 6:12 a.m. ET, Oracle was up 1.5% and Microsoft had edged 0.8% higher. Meta was down 0.3% and Amazon was down 0.1%. Alphabet fell 0.6% and Nvidia…
Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) speaks to the media at the LDP headquarters on general election day in Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 8, 2026. Kim Kyung-Hoon | Anadolu | Getty Images Japan’s Sanae Takaichi and her ruling Liberal Democratic Party secured an overwhelming mandate in Sunday’s election, sweeping…
You sometimes have to leave the world of business to understand business. Right now, many of the biggest players in the hyper-competitive battle for AI dominance — including Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic — are forcing us to question everything we know about how to value a stock. It’s turning us upside down….
A massive market snapback on Friday couldn’t erase all of the week’s damage. After several days of selling, the tech sector roared back, with the Nasdaq gaining over 2% on Friday. Chipmakers Nvidia and Broadcom led the way, with gains of 7.8% and 7.2%, respectively. The broad-based S & P 500 rose nearly 2% in…
Megan Lieu is an influencer who makes content about tech and gives career advice on social media. Tech companies like Microsoft and Google are going after new users for their AI services the way any marketer tries to make their products look cool: through social media influencers. Other artificial intelligence players, including OpenAI, Anthropic and…
The Google Midlothian Data Center in Texas, Nov. 14, 2025. Ron Jenkins | Getty Images Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon are expected to spend nearly $700 billion combined this year to fuel their AI build-outs. For investors who love cash above all else, some warning signs may be flashing. With the heart of tech earnings…
