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Amazon Web Services ended 2025 with its highest quarterly growth rate in more than three years. The company reported Thursday that its cloud services business posted revenue of $35.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025. This was a 24% increase over the previous year, marking the division’s largest growth rate in 13 quarters. According to Amazon, this business unit has an annual revenue run rate of $142 billion. Cloud services operating income also increased from $12.5 billion in the fourth quarter and $10.6 billion in the same period in 2024. “Achieving 24% year-over-year growth at an annualized run rate…
Kim Kardashian’s hairstylist Chris Appleton reveals the shocking cost of his servicesChris Appleton’s number one job is to eliminate bad hair days. So while his job as a celebrity stylist may come with some perks (after all, his client list includes names like Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez, and Ariana Grande), he always has his eye on the prize. “At the end of the day, I’m there to do a job, so I always remember that,” he told Hot Goth’s Ale Booker and Ronnie Mertz, though he admitted that his relationship sometimes goes beyond professional boundaries. “I think it intersects organically.…
Let’s check out the companies that are becoming a hot topic for after-hours trading. Amazon — Shares fell 9% after the e-commerce giant reported fourth-quarter earnings of $1.95 per share, narrowly missing the consensus estimate of $1.97 per share from analysts surveyed by LSEG. Amazon also said it expects capital spending to be $200 billion in 2026. Reddit — The social network’s stock soared 4% after its fourth-quarter profit beat expectations. Reddit also gave a positive outlook for 2026, announcing a $1 billion share buyback program. Amtech Systems — Shares of the semiconductor components maker soared 28%. Amtek reported first…
Reddit hinted Thursday that its AI-powered search engine could be the next big opportunity for its business — not just as a product, but as a revenue driver that impacts its bottom line. On Thursday’s fourth-quarter earnings call, the company provided an update on its plans to integrate traditional search with AI search, hinting that search, while not yet monetized, “is a huge market and opportunity.” In particular, the company believes that generative AI search is “suitable for most queries.” “There’s a type of query that we’re particularly good at, and I would argue is the best on the internet.…
The main concerns on Wall Street this week can be summarized as follows: Are the software sales going too far, or do they signal the AI bubble is about to burst? Software stocks continued to fall on Thursday, with the iShares Expanded Technology Software Sector ETF (IGV) down more than 9% since the start of the week. Anthropic’s latest updates to Claude raise concerns that agent AI poses an existential threat to an industry that relies on selling enterprise software packages to as many individual users as possible. Software stocks entered a bear market last week and are now down…
Nancy Guthrie’s health condition revealed, requires medication to survive As the search continues for Nancy, authorities have stressed that she needs to take daily medication to survive, something she likely doesn’t have. “This woman is an 84-year-old woman who suffers from several physical illnesses, has physical problems, and requires medication,” Nanos said at a press conference on February 2. “Medications can be fatal if not taken within 24 hours.” “So we implore anyone who knows anything about this, anyone who has seen anything, anyone who has heard anything, to contact us,” he continued. “Call 911. We don’t need another tragic…
Roblox Corp. Headquarters in San Mateo, California, February 3, 2026.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Imagesroblox Shares rose as much as 20% in after-hours trading Thursday after the company reported fourth-quarter results that beat consensus estimates.Here’s how gaming companies performed compared to the forecasts of analysts surveyed by LSEG.Loss per share: 45 cents vs. analyst estimate of 48 cents Book: $2.22 billion vs. analyst estimate of $2.05 billionThe company said it expects first-quarter bookings to be between $1.69 billion and $1.74 billion, higher than Wall Street’s estimate of $1.68 billion.Roblox’s fourth-quarter bookings were up 63% year-over-year, but the company…
Even people with no coding experience are discovering that they can use Vibe Coding to build their own custom apps. This is a Lovable-like solution that turns plain language descriptions into actionable code. These prompt code tools can help you create great prototypes, but (as this reporter recently discovered) putting them into production can be difficult unless you find a way to connect your application to external technical services, such as services that can send text messages via SMS or email or process Stripe payments. Ilan Zerbib, who served as Director of Payments Engineering at Shopify for five years, builds…
Every weekday, Jim Cramer’s CNBC Investment Club releases the Homestretch, a practical afternoon update to coincide with the last hour of trading on Wall Street. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell for the third consecutive session as the rotation from tech markets to less flashy areas of the market continued. Thursday’s 1% decline in the S&P 500 index pushed it into the red for the year. The Nasdaq’s 1.4% decline pushed the index further into negative territory in 2026. Bitcoin and silver crashed, with little effect as investors bought bonds for safety. For the club, consumer and healthcare-related stocks worked…
tel aviv — The brother of an Israeli security chief has been arrested along with 14 others in a major police raid on a smuggling ring suspected of transporting crates of illegal goods to the Gaza Strip. Bezalel Zini, the younger brother of Shin Bet leader David Zini, was arrested as part of what Israeli authorities say is a “systematic and sophisticated” operation to smuggle illegal cigarettes into Gaza for profit. According to the indictment, Bezalel Zini allegedly smuggled 14 packs of cigarettes into Gaza and received approximately 365,000 shekels (approximately $117,000) in payment. Prosecutors said in the indictment that…