Neowin News Feed for: Investors

After making job offers worth millions of dollars, Meta stops AI hiring

Usama Jawad — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:42:01 +0000

Meta has triggered an AI hiring freeze, likely because of investor concerns over the multi-million dollar expenditure involved in building the Superintelligence team. Read more...

OpenAI employees to sell $6 billion in shares to investors

Hamid Ganji — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 08:22:01 +0000

Current and former OpenAI employees are in talks with a group of investors to sell $6 billion worth of their shares. Read more...

Chinese groups caution investors not to be blinded by ChatGPT hype

Usama Jawad — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 10:24:01 +0000

Multiple analysts, news outlets, and tech executives have been warning investors in China not to blindly invest money into AI companies just because of the recent hype generated by ChatGPT. Read more...

Tesla confirms DoJ request for Autopilot documents in criminal investigation

Usama Jawad — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 06:08:01 +0000

Tesla has confirmed that it has been required by the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over documents regarding its Auotpilot system. The company is under a criminal investigation right now. Read more...

Meta falls out of top 20 U.S. companies after its stock price declines 23%

Paul Hill — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:00:01 +0000

Meta has fallen out of the top 20 U.S. companies after its stock price crashed by 23%. It comes as investors cast doubts on Meta's metaverse investments while the company reports lower earnings. Read more...

Microsoft announces a 10% dividend increase for shareholders

Paul Hill — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 07:56:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it will be increasing dividend payments to shareholders later this year. Those who want the higher dividends must already hold the company's stock on November 17. Read more...

Nvidia fined $5.5 million for misleading investors about crypto market

Usama Jawad — Fri, 06 May 2022 16:04:01 +0000

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has fined Nvidia for not telling investors that their rise in revenue in 2018 was due to cryptomining interest rather than its gaming business. Read more...

Microsoft and MSCI join forces to offer Investment Solutions as a Service

Usama Jawad — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 14:52:01 +0000

Microsoft is partnering with US-based investment firm MSCI to offer Investment Solutions as a Service. Throughout 2021, four new services will launch built on top of Azure and Power BI. Read more...

Netflix membership passed 200 million in 2020

Paul Hill — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 23:24:01 +0000

Netflix has revealed that it gained 8.5 million new subscribers in 4Q20 and a record 37 million new users over the whole year. It also expects six million new sign-up in the first quarter of 2021. Read more...

Investor sues Cyberpunk 2077 maker over false claims

Paul Hill — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 03:26:01 +0000

A Cyberpunk 2077 investor has filed a lawsuit against CD Projekt to pay damages because he believes the firm got people to invest in the project based on false and misleading statements. Read more...

Ola Cabs, Uber reportedly in talks of merger, with deal mediated by SoftBank

Sharath Ravishankar — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 23:18:02 +0000

According to some sources, talks are in progress between Uber's Indian branch and its local competitor Ola Cabs, after a merger was called for by SoftBank, an investor common to both companies. Read more...

Netflix is now valued at more than $100 billion USD

Paul Hill — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 06:48:01 +0000

The streaming company, Netflix, has announced that it gained 8.3 million users in the last quarter of 2017. The new flood of users has helped the company increase its market cap to over $100 billion. Read more...

Microsoft's stock hits new all-time high after latest financial results

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 07:48:01 +0000

Microsoft's share price jumped in after-hours trading, following what is considered to be a positive financial report. The share price is now higher than the previous record, set back in 1999. Read more...

LinkedIn just lost more than $8 billion in value as shares plunged 30%

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 11:26:01 +0000

Despite reporting seemingly positive earnings results for the last quarter of 2015, LinkedIn shares fell off a cliff with investors worried about the company's future earnings. Read more...

Business and Technology: a Love-Hate Relationship

Cyril Paciullo — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 19:10:01 +0000

We need to close the gap that separates geeks from corporations, to find a way for both sides to rely on one another. CEOs and IT professionals: resistance is futile, it's time to cooperate. Read more...

David Einhorn refers to Microsoft as sinking ship, dumps stake

Michael Allison — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:32:42 +0000

David Einhorn blasts Microsoft this week by comparing them to a sinking ship. He claims that "decades of mismanagement" will eventually do the company in and withdraws his stake from them. Read more...

Angry Birds raises $42m from investors

Piers Hausjell — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:42:36 +0000

The developers behind Angry Birds, Rovio, had been searching for investors for a while and today, the Finland-based company announced that it has managed to secure over $40m from a collection of investment companies, one... Read more...

Goldman Sachs: US investors won't be able to buy Facebook shares

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:36:39 +0000

Goldman Sachs, after negotiating a deal with Facebook to assist in its first stock offering, has announced that it will no longer be offering the opportunity to buy stock to its US clientele. Citing regulatory... Read more...

Potential Facebook IPO keeps investors speculating

Michael Stanclift — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:14:24 +0000

Will it, won't it? If so, when? If not, why not? An entire cottage industry of speculation has built up around the public debut of Facebook, arguably Silicon Valley's hottest Internet company. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's... Read more...

Analysts and Investors Cheer as Apple Momentum Grows

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:32:09 +0000

Analysts and investors so far have responded positively to Apple's fourth quarter financial results, announced last night. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told CNN: "Apple changed paths tonight from being forever a niche player... Read more...

Microsoft to share its wealth with investors

Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:00:27 +0000

Today Microsoft announced that it will buy back shares as part of a plan to return up to $75 billion dollars to its shareholders. This four year plan comes with great applause from analysts... Read more...

No foreign investors for google

Sat, 01 May 2004 19:43:35 +0000

Uk investors are in effect being barred from taking part in the $2.7bn (Â£1.5bn) initial public offering from Google. The company said yesterday that its flotation would be limited to American investors only. ... Read more...

Investors plug Linux for phone work

Thu, 06 Feb 2003 20:40:55 +0000

An international trio of venture capital firms has banded together to try to spark businesses that use IBM and Linux technology for telecommunications purposes. The three venture capital firms--3i, Mayfield and Worldview Technology... Read more...