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Volkswagen cut its annual operating return on sales forecast to 1% on Monday — down from a prior range of 4% to 5.5% — and was simultaneously removed from the Euro Stoxx 50 blue-chip index, replaced by Nokia as the German automaker's shares approach their lowest level since 2010.
Sara Montes de Oca · 43 DAYS AGO
Nscale, an AI cloud infrastructure provider that counts OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft among its customers, filed for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "NSCL," reporting 1,252% revenue growth in the first half of 2026.
Jay Goldberg · 46 DAYS AGO
Wells Fargo downgraded Netflix to underweight and slashed its price target to $57 from $80, citing a 1.6-hour-per-day drop in viewership per subscriber and a weak content pipeline for the rest of 2026.
Marc Sabatini · 46 DAYS AGO
CoreWeave said Thursday it plans to raise $3 billion through a convertible debt offering, with initial buyers eligible to purchase up to an additional $500 million, as the Nvidia-backed neocloud seeks to fund its AI infrastructure expansion.
Sara Montes de Oca · 47 DAYS AGO
Amazon received warrants to buy up to $340 million in Generac stock as part of a backup power supply agreement for its data centers, sending Generac shares up more than 40% in after-hours trading.
Jay Goldberg · 48 DAYS AGO
SK Hynix is in early talks with Intel to manufacture memory chips at Intel's Ohio facility for the first time, a move that would mark a major win for Intel's foundry business and support U.S. efforts to onshore semiconductor production.
TechEchelon Staff · 48 DAYS AGO
The Senate voted 50–49 on Tuesday to block the Clarity Act from advancing, falling short of the 60-vote threshold needed and leaving the crypto industry without a comprehensive regulatory framework heading into midterm season.
Sara Montes de Oca · 49 DAYS AGO
UBS raised its Palantir price target to $250 from $220 on Tuesday, reiterating a buy rating and arguing the data analytics company trades at an unjustified discount to AI software peers despite leading growth and margin profiles.
Marc Sabatini · 49 DAYS AGO
Amazon said Sunday it is pausing all operations with Miami-based cargo carrier 21 Air after a Boeing 767-300 freighter operated on behalf of Amazon Air overran a runway at Miami International Airport last weekend, killing five people.
Marc Sabatini · 50 DAYS AGO
Hyperscale data centers are creating concentrated physical assets worth tens of billions of dollars each, pushing the insurance industry toward catastrophe bonds as a potential solution — though the first dedicated deal is still 12 to 18 months away, experts say.
Marc Sabatini · 51 DAYS AGO
RBC Capital Markets initiated Dell Technologies with an outperform rating and a $640 price target on Friday, sending shares up 12% and extending a year-to-date gain of nearly 350% driven by surging AI server demand.
TechEchelon Staff · 53 DAYS AGO
Oracle reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $19.35 billion, a 30% year-over-year increase fueled by a 121% surge in cloud infrastructure revenue, sending shares up 6.2% in premarket trading.
Marc Sabatini · 53 DAYS AGO
Apple CEO John Ternus debuted the iPhone Duo foldable and iPhone 18 Pro at a fall event, skipping the standard iPhone model for the first time in seven years and signaling a new split-launch strategy that would push lower-priced devices to a spring event.
Marc Sabatini · 54 DAYS AGO
Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard have agreed to develop a shared "know your agent" framework for AI-driven payments, citing McKinsey projections that autonomous agents will handle $3 trillion to $5 trillion in global consumer commerce by 2030.
Marc Sabatini · 55 DAYS AGO
Silver Lake plans to merge French software firms Cegid and Silae in a deal valued at more than 10 billion euros ($11.6 billion), creating a combined entity with annual revenue of 1.6 billion euros and a 1,400-person AI development team.
Jay Goldberg · 55 DAYS AGO
Jaguar Land Rover has opened a voluntary redundancy programme and is planning to cut up to 4,000 jobs over two years, targeting £1.7 billion in savings as it faces Chinese competition, U.S. tariffs, and fallout from a cyberattack.
Marc Sabatini · 57 DAYS AGO
LeBron James posted a 14-second teaser video on X signaling an upcoming commercial partnership with prediction market platform Polymarket, with a larger football-focused campaign expected in the week ahead.
Jay Goldberg · 59 DAYS AGO
Walmart announced a delivery partnership with Dunkin' through its new Walmart Restaurant Delivery service, expanding a program that began with Subway and putting the retailer in direct competition with DoorDash and Uber Eats.
TechEchelon Staff · 59 DAYS AGO
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