GameStop's $125-per-share unsolicited bid for eBay puts $56 billion in play. Ryan Cohen has TD Bank lined up for $20 billion in debt and is ready to go hostile. The market is skeptical, and the gap between offer price and trading price tells the whole story.
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Meta beat Q1 earnings, missed on user growth, and detonated a $145 billion AI…
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Cursor is raising more than $2 billion at north of $50 billion, doubling its…
TSMC reported a 58% year-over-year profit increase in Q1 2026, with AI and high-performance…
Kevin Weil, Bill Peebles, and Srinivas Narayanan all exited OpenAI on the same day.…
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The S&P 500 punched through to a new all-time intraday high Thursday on the back of blowout earnings from Alphabet and Caterpillar, even as Meta and Microsoft sagged…
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The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index hit its longest winning streak in 32 years of data, surging 39% over 16 days. April is tracking for the biggest monthly gain since February 2000.…
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GE Vernova surged 12% to an all-time high as Q1 orders jumped 71% to…
Meta expanded its CoreWeave partnership by $21 billion to a total of $35 billion…
The tech industry just had its worst quarter for jobs since the dot-com crash.…
Oracle has begun cutting up to 30,000 employees, roughly 18.5% of its global workforce,…
French AI startup Mistral just completed its first major debt raise, $830 million backed…
Jensen Huang takes the stage at GTC 2026 with 30,000 attendees watching. The Vera…
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