"Cisco Systems announced plans to lay off 5% of its global workforce, translating to over 4,000 employees. This decision is part of the company's strategic realignment to concentrate on burgeoning sectors like AI, amid a challenging economic landscape that has seen many tech giants reevaluate their workforce and investment priorities.
Lyft, the renowned ride-sharing company, faced an extraordinary situation due to a typographical error in its earnings report. This incident not only led to a dramatic fluctuation in the company's stock prices but also spotlighted the critical nature of financial communications and the repercussions of inaccuracies, however minor they may seem.
"JetBlue Airways saw its shares surge by over 15% following the revelation that corporate titan Carl Icahn had acquired a nearly 10% stake in the airline, branding it as undervalued. The disclosure of Icahn's significant investment has stirred the market, coming at a crucial juncture for JetBlue as it endeavors to navigate post-pandemic recovery and the fallout from a thwarted merger with Spirit Airlines.
Paramount Global said Tuesday it will lay off 3.5% of its U.S. workforce-amounting to several hundred employees-as the company accelerates cost-cutting efforts amid ongoing declines in the linear television market and delays in its proposed merger with Skydance Media.
Meta Platforms is forming a new artificial intelligence lab with the help of Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally accelerates efforts to build "superintelligence"-an AI system capable of surpassing human cognition, according to reports from The New York Times and Bloomberg.
Amazon will invest $20 billion in two data center campuses in Pennsylvania, including one next to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant, in what Gov. Josh Shapiro called the largest private-sector investment in the state's history. The announcement on Monday highlights the tech giant's growing appetite for energy-intensive infrastructure to support its artificial intelligence and cloud computing operations.
Robinhood Markets Inc. shares fell more than 3% in premarket trading Monday after the online brokerage failed to secure a spot in the S&P 500, disappointing investors who had fueled a surge in the stock ahead of the widely anticipated index rebalance. The S&P Dow Jones Indices announced late Friday that it would make no changes to the S&P 500 in its latest quarterly update.
Shares of Lululemon Athletica fell more than 20% in premarket trading Friday, after the company warned that new tariffs and declining U.S. store traffic would erode profits, triggering one of the steepest selloffs in the company's history.
Walmart has begun terminating employees at select Florida stores following a Supreme Court ruling that permits the Trump administration to revoke Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of migrants, according to people familiar with the matter. The move comes as companies across the state respond to shifting legal requirements tied to federal work authorization.
Wells Fargo received regulatory clearance Tuesday to grow its balance sheet for the first time in seven years, after the Federal Reserve lifted a punitive $1.95 trillion cap on the bank's assets. The decision, which follows years of compliance efforts and leadership changes, marks a turning point in the San Francisco-based bank's recovery from its fake accounts scandal and broader risk-management failures.
Dollar General raised its full-year forecast on Tuesday after posting stronger-than-expected earnings and revenue in the first quarter, as tariff uncertainty and economic pressures drove budget- and middle-income consumers to its stores. Shares surged more than 13%, buoyed by growing transaction sizes and gains across merchandise categories.
Toyota Motor will take its key affiliate Toyota Industries private in a $33 billion deal, a landmark transaction that unwinds decades of cross-shareholding and strengthens the founding Toyoda family's grip on Japan's most powerful corporate group. The buyout, announced Tuesday, includes a tender offer of ¥16,300 per share, representing an 11% discount to Toyota Industries' closing price before the deal was made public.
Meta Platforms has signed a 20-year agreement to purchase the full output of the Clinton Clean Energy Center, a nuclear plant in Illinois operated by Constellation Energy, marking the tech giant's first direct deal with a nuclear facility. The announcement sent Constellation shares soaring more than 15% on Tuesday.