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Boycott Twitter? That Is What Some Want If Elon Musk Does THIS

Twitter Inc.’s top advertisers are being urged by dozens of advocacy groups to boycott the platform. Twitter Inc.'s top advertisers are being urged by dozens of advocacy groups to boycott the platform if its new billionaire owner Elon Musk lowers safety standards for content.The groups pressed companies including Apple Inc., Best Buy Co., Coca-Cola Co. and Verizon Communications Inc. in a letter to their chief executive officers Tuesday to commit to stop advertising on Twitter if Musk allows hate speech, misinformation

Count Substrings having at least one occurrence of all first K characters of English alphabet

Given a string S of size N and a positive integer K. The given string only consists of the first K English lowercase alphabets. The… Read More The post Count Substrings having at least one occurrence of all first K characters of English alphabet appeared first on GeeksforGeeks. Given a string S of size N and a positive integer K. The given string only consists of the first K English lowercase alphabets. The… Read More The post Count Substrings having at least one occurrence of all first K characters of English alphabet…

Rate Squeeze Punishes Once-Triumphant Tech Stocks

Shares of the largest U.S. technology firms have fallen out of favor in the most pronounced way since the 2000 tech bubble, victims of a shift in investors’ tastes inspired by rising interest rates. For years, portfolio managers were willing to overlook the occasional blemish in the tech giants’ quarterly results, reasoning that there were few alternatives at a time of generally slow economic expansion. That sort of patience has evaporated this year, as investors in Meta in particular can attest following the past week’s…

Google Case Before High Court Could Reshape Internet Economy

WASHINGTON—The liability shield and other legal protections that fueled the fortunes of Google, Facebook META 1.29% and other internet giants are facing a long-anticipated day of reckoning—but it is the Supreme Court, and not Congress, that will be calling the shots.  That has the tech industry worried that an unfavorable ruling by the high court could shake the foundations of the internet economy by imposing a new set of ground rules.  The federal shield law, known as…

Apple’s High Note Clears a Low Tech Bar

Apple Inc. AAPL 7.56% should probably consider sending a thank-you card to Microsoft, Amazon, AMZN -6.80% Google and Facebook. META 1.29% In what has been a brutal earnings season for big tech, the biggest of them all had the best report. Apple’s revenue and operating earnings for the September quarter that was…

Apple Is the Only Big Tech Consolation in Wild $477 Bn Rout

In a week that has seen hundreds of billions in market value wiped out at the biggest technology firms, Apple is bucking the trend. In a week that has seen hundreds of billions in market value wiped out at the biggest technology firms, Apple Inc. is bucking the trend with another set of resilient results. Apple jumped 7.6% on Friday and added more than $150 billion in market value after the iPhone maker's revenue and profit both topped analysts' estimates. In contrast, fellow megacaps Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc.,

Why the Future of the Computer Is Everywhere, All the Time

Imagine this scenario in the not-too-distant future. You’re awakened at 6:11 a.m. by the gentle sounds of tinkling bells and birdsong, even though you live in a 12th-floor apartment. Your alarm clock uses radar to track your breathing, and wakes you gently, with sound and light, when it detects you’re in a lighter phase of sleep. Your transition to wakefulness triggers a cascade of changes in your apartment. Your window shades open automatically. In the kitchen, coffee starts brewing. As you pad into the bathroom to brush…

Google Play in EU antitrust sights as Android fine appeal pending

Alphabet unit Google's Google Play Store is the target of an EU antitrust investigation, the company said in a regulatory filing, a move that could expose the U.S. tech giant to another billion-euro fine. Over the last decade, Google has incurred 8.25 billion euros ($8.24 billion) in EU antitrust fines following three investigations into its business practices. "In May 2022, the EC (European Commission) and the CMA (Britain's Competition and Markets Authority) each opened a formal investigation into Google Play's business…

Tech Boom Ends as Companies From Amazon to Meta Adjust to Turbulent Times

A week of earnings by big technology companies has been a rout for investors, as recession fears and the strong dollar hit businesses that were thought to be more resilient.And these industry giants warn more pain is ahead. “It’s just hard to see any points of good news on the horizon,” Intel Corp. INTC 7.46% Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger said. Inflation in the U.S., Europe’s economy rattled by high energy costs and the war in Ukraine, and…

Intel Earnings Expected to Slump on PC Rout, Economic Weakness

Intel Corp. INTC -3.11% is expected to report a sharp drop in quarterly earnings, hurt by a rapidly shrinking market for personal computers that its chips go into. The company after the closing bell Thursday is projected to post sales of about $15 billion during the quarter ended in September, a retreat of more than 21% from the year-earlier period, according to a FactSet survey of analysts. Net income likely fell by around 93% to $494…