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Microsoft reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $76.44B, vs. $73.81B est., net income up 24% to $27.23B, forecasts Q1 above estimates; MSFT jumps 8%+ after hours — Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Fuels Fourth Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — July 30, 2025 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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| Reuters: |
Microsoft reports Q4 Azure and other cloud services revenue up 39% YoY, vs. 34.75% est., and full-year Azure revenue up 34% YoY to $75B, vs. $74.62B est. — Microsoft (MSFT.O) forecast on Wednesday a record $30 billion in capital spending for the current fiscal first quarter …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Q4: Windows OEM and Devices revenue up 3% YoY, gaming revenue up 10%, Xbox hardware revenue down 22%, and Xbox content and services revenue up 13% — Azure revenues grew 39 percent year-over-year, as Microsoft continues to grow its cloud business.
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| Mark Zuckerberg / Meta: |
Zuckerberg says superintelligence is in sight, and when personal superintelligence arrives, context-aware devices like glasses will become our primary computers — Over the last few months we have begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves. The improvement is slow for now, but undeniable.
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| Meta: |
Meta reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $47.5B, vs. $44.8B est., net income up 36% to $18.3B, family DAP up 6% to 3.48B for June 2025; META jumps 10%+ after hours — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2025.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Qualcomm reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $10.37B, vs. $10.35B est., and handset chip revenue up 7% YoY to $6.33B, vs. $6.44B est.; QCOM drops 4%+ after hours — Qualcomm reported fiscal third-quarter earnings on Wednesday that beat Wall Street expectations and provided a stronger-than-expected guide for the current quarter.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to start rolling out ML-powered age estimation in the US “over the next few weeks” to detect if users are under 18 and enable existing protections — In the US, Google is beginning to use an age estimation model to detect whether Account users are under or over 18.
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| Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg: |
In a report, Trump's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets urges regulators to clarify digital asset trading rules and ease adoption of new financial products — A group charged by President Donald Trump with recommending policies on crypto markets called on federal regulators to use …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Figma priced its US IPO at $33 per share, above its expected range of $30 to $32, raising $1.2B in the offering and valuing the company at $19.3B — Figma, the developer of design software that was supposed to get acquired by Adobe, priced its IPO on Wednesday at $33 per share, above its expected range.| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Arm reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $1.05B, royalty revenue up 25% YoY to $585M, vs. $595M est., and forecasts Q2 profit below est.; ARM drops 8%+ after hours — Arm Holdings Plc, which provides the most widely used technology in computing chips, gave a lower-than-expected profit forecast …
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| Bloomberg: |
Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire CyberArk Software in a cash-and-stock deal valuing the Israeli cybersecurity company at ~$25B, implying a 26% stock premium — Palo Alto Networks Inc. agreed to buy CyberArk Software Ltd. in a cash-and-stock deal valuing the Israeli cybersecurity company at about $25 billion.
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| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Oxide Computer, which provides on-premises cloud computers to businesses, raised a $100M Series B led by Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund — Cloud server builder Oxide Computer Company on Wednesday said it has raised $100 million in financing to help the company expand …
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| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Ramp raised a $500M Series E-2 led by Iconiq Growth at a $22.5B valuation, and says it has 40K+ businesses as clients, with $700M in annualized revenue in March — Startup raises $500 million to further develop AI-based agents, CEO says — Ramp, a startup that uses artificial intelligence …
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| Natalie Weger / Wall Street Journal: |
eBay reports Q2 revenue up 6% YoY to $2.73B, vs. $2.64B est., gross merchandise volume up 6% to $19.5B, net income up 64% to $368M; EBAY jumps 10%+ after hours — Adjusted earnings per share of $1.37 were ahead of analysts' estimates of $1.30 — EBay logged higher profit and revenue …
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| Lucia Moses / Business Insider: |
Amazon-backed AI streaming service Showrunner debuts on Thursday, charging users $10 to $40 per month to create their own animated shows or build on others' IP — - Fable Studio has gotten funding from Amazon for its AI streaming platform, Showrunner. — It shared a deck that explains …
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| Richard Speed / The Register: |
Dropbox says it will discontinue Dropbox Passwords, launched in 2020, on October 28 to focus on its core product, and recommends 1Password as a replacement — Dropbox has given users of its password manager until the end of October to extract their data before pulling the plug on the service.
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Robinhood reports Q2 revenue up 45% YoY to $989M, vs. $908M est., net income up 105% YoY to $386M, and funded customers up 10% YoY to 26.5M, vs. 26.1M est. — Robinhood beat Wall Street expectations for the second quarter Wednesday, extending a hot streak that has made it the best-performing large-cap U.S. tech stock this year.
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| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan Chase and Coinbase signed a deal to directly link customers' bank accounts to their cryptocurrency wallets, with the feature expected to launch in 2026 — JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Coinbase Global Inc. signed an agreement to directly link customers' bank accounts to their cryptocurrency wallets …
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LinkedIn: Mark Troianovski and Reilly Combs
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Source: data-labeling startup Surge AI is in talks with a16z, Warburg Pincus, and others to raise $1B in its first funding round at a valuation of at least $25B — Surge AI, a leading data-labeling startup, is in talks to raise about $1 billion in its first round of funding at a valuation … | Alice Hancock / Financial Times: |
Google says it will sign the EU's AI Code of Practice, in a boost to the EU's efforts to regulate AI in the face of Meta's refusal to sign and heavy US pressure — Move set to boost efforts to regulate artificial intelligence in face of opposition from Meta and pressure from US
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| Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg: |
Austin-based Ambiq Micro closed up ~61% in its NYSE debut, after raising $96M in an upsized IPO, giving the maker of ultra-low power chips a $680M market value — Ambiq Micro Inc. shares rose 61% in their first trading day, after the maker of ultra-low power semiconductors …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Revolut considers acquiring a US bank to get an American banking license and start lending in the US, a faster route than applying for its own permit — Acquisition would be faster route for fintech to start lending in US than applying for permit of its own
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