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Circle Internet Group shares surged more than 13% in premarket trading after the fintech company received approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to launch a crypto-focused bank, with CEO Jeremy Allaire calling it a key moment for blockchain in mainstream finance.
Sara Montes de Oca · 14 HR AGO
Micron Technology announced up to $3 billion in new domestic semiconductor investments, including $500 million for supplier GlobalWafers, and raised its total planned U.S. spending to $250 billion through 2035, as AI-driven memory demand continues to reshape the chipmaker's capital plans.
Sara Montes de Oca · YESTERDAY
Prediction market traders on Kalshi now place a 75% chance that U.S. gas prices will remain above $3.50 per gallon on Election Day, November 3, as renewed U.S.-Iran strikes raise doubts about Strait of Hormuz shipping flows.
Sara Montes de Oca · 2 DAYS AGO
KeyBanc downgraded Salesforce to a hold-equivalent rating on Thursday and removed its $290 price target, citing weak Agentforce customer feedback and unclear financial trends, sending shares down more than 2% to around $162.50.
TechEchelon Staff · 2 DAYS AGO
SpaceX closed at $148 on Wednesday, below its $150 debut price for a second straight session, even as analysts initiated coverage with bullish targets and pointed to orbital data centers as a key long-term growth driver.
Marc Sabatini · 2 DAYS AGO
Apple has committed more than $30 billion to Broadcom in a multi-year chipmaking deal, its largest U.S. manufacturing agreement to date, targeting the production of more than 15 billion domestically made chips through 2031.
Jay Goldberg · 3 DAYS AGO
Netflix, Disney, and Alphabet's YouTube are each preparing to bid for U.S. broadcast rights to the 2030 and 2034 FIFA World Cup, with media executives budgeting between $1.5 billion and $2 billion per tournament as FIFA considers bundling English- and Spanish-language rights into a single package.
Jay Goldberg · 3 DAYS AGO
Arya Bolurfrushan, founder and CEO of Abu Dhabi-based AppliedAI and a former Goldman Sachs banker, pleaded guilty in June 2025 to conspiring to commit securities fraud as part of a wide-ranging insider trading scheme tied to confidential merger tips from law firm attorneys.
Marc Sabatini · 4 DAYS AGO
Samsung Electronics reported a record preliminary second-quarter operating profit of 89.4 trillion won ($58.4 billion), up from 4.7 trillion won a year earlier, though shares fell nearly 5% at Tuesday's open amid concerns over one-off bonus-related expenses.
Marc Sabatini · 4 DAYS AGO
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell pledged to donate SpaceX stock to roughly 2 million Trump Accounts, while bitcoin rebounded 1.8% after President Trump called himself "a big crypto guy" at a Monday press conference.
TechEchelon Staff · 5 DAYS AGO
Bitcoin recovered to $63,853.85 on Monday after President Trump declared himself "a big crypto guy," reversing an earlier 2% decline triggered by Strategy's disclosure that it had sold $216 million worth of bitcoin.
Sara Montes de Oca · 5 DAYS AGO
Broadcom will extend its chip partnership with Apple through 2031, anchoring a broad semiconductor rebound Monday after the iShares Semiconductor ETF shed more than 12% across two sessions last week. Nvidia largely sat out the recovery amid reports of delays in its next-generation Kyber server system.
TechEchelon Staff · 5 DAYS AGO
Macquarie initiated coverage on five Chinese AI chip stocks in a late June report, naming Shanghai-listed Cambricon its top pick with a price target implying more than 50% upside, citing shifting government policy and a broadening domestic customer base.
TechEchelon Staff · 6 DAYS AGO
The 2026 FIFA World Cup pushed prediction market trading to record levels in June, with Kalshi topping $31 billion in notional volume and Polymarket's international platform setting an all-time monthly high of $10.8 billion.
TechEchelon Staff · 7 DAYS AGO
Amazon's Leo satellite internet network has surpassed 390 satellites in orbit, which the company says is enough to support initial commercial service across select geographies later this year, as it works to close the gap with SpaceX's Starlink.
Jay Goldberg · 9 DAYS AGO
The House approved the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act of 2025 by a 414-2 margin, allowing mutual funds and most ETFs to temporarily freeze withdrawal requests when financial exploitation of older or disabled account holders is suspected. The bill now heads to the Senate, where an earlier version stalled in 2023.
Jay Goldberg · 9 DAYS AGO
Bending Spoons, the Milan-based acquirer of stagnant software brands including Evernote and Vimeo, closed its IPO debut at $40.50 — nearly 40% above its $29 offering price — valuing the company at $25.7 billion.
Jay Goldberg · 9 DAYS AGO
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