Google’s strong earnings boosted by cloud computing gains

Parent company Alphabet’s shares rise 5% as results show lift from AI demand

Business - Financial Times - 9 hours ago

Bangladesh’s leader says ‘no place’ for Sheikh Hasina’s ‘fascist’ party

Muhammad Yunus says will not seek exiled leader’s extradition from India before domestic tribunal’s verdict

World - Financial Times - 5 hours ago

Hospitals in firing line of forgotten war

Sudan’s brutal civil war is taking a devastating toll on the country’s health facilities

World - Financial Times - 4 hours ago

Why EU defence and security policy will stay in the hands of capitals

Also in this newsletter: wading into France’s budget mess

World - Financial Times - 3 hours ago

Alphabet shares rise on earnings beats boosted by cloud revenue

Google parent Alphabet reported third-quarter earnings that beat on top and bottom lines.

Business - CNBC - 7 minutes ago

Google's Cloud Business Powers Accelerating Revenue Growth

Google reported a 15% jump in year-over-year revenue driven by strong results in its cloud-computing division, boosting the company’s fortunes during a costly push into artificial intelligence.

Business - The Wall Street Journal - 10 hours ago

Sequence launches on Google Cloud Marketplace for Web3 gaming tech

Sequence, the all-in-one platform for building Web3 games, has partnered with Google Cloud Marketplace to widen its reach to game developers.

Tech - VentureBeat - 5 days ago

Retail sales post solid gain in September, showing a continued strong economy

Retail sales increased 0.4% in September, with strength in a broad range of categories that overcame weak gas and auto spending, the U.S. Commerce Department said Wednesday.

Business - MarketWatch - October 17

Citigroup earnings top estimates, but stock falls as bank boosts loan loss reserves

The bank's third-quarter report was stronger than Wall Street expected but still showed a year-over-year decline in earnings.

Business - CNBC - October 15

Kuehne + Nagel Earnings Boosted by Volume Growth and Efficiencies

Kuehne + Nagel reported a forecast-beating rise in third-quarter profitability as efficiency measures and higher volumes helped boost the performance of its sea and air logistics businesses.

Business - The Wall Street Journal - October 23

Sanofi Earnings Boosted by Early Vaccine Sales

The pharmaceutical company reported third-quarter earnings and sales that beat analysts’ expectations, boosted by earlier-than-anticipated deliveries of flu and respiratory syncytial virus vaccines ...

Business - The Wall Street Journal - 4 days ago

Hong Kong bars services like WhatsApp and Google Drive from government computers

The Hong Kong government is barring most civil servants from using popular apps like WhatsApp, WeChat and Google Drive on their work computers due to potential security risks

Tech - ABC News - 6 days ago

Tesla shares leap 22% after Musk predicts sales rebound

EV maker adds more than $150bn in market value after billionaire says sales may increase as much as 30% next year

Business - Financial Times - 5 days ago

Tesla’s Shares Surge 20% After Strong Earnings and Outlook

The company said profits climbed 17 percent in the third quarter. It expects car sales to rise up to 30 percent next year when it plans to begin selling new models.

Business - The New York Times - 5 days ago

PayPal beat big on a profit metric, but here’s why its stock is falling

PayPal’s fourth-quarter revenue view came in below expectations. The company said it’s focusing on “profitable growth.”

Business - MarketWatch - 19 hours ago

We're downgrading Honeywell shares, plus Starbucks makes a menu change

Every weekday, the Investing Club releases the Homestretch; an actionable afternoon update just in time for the last hour of trading.

Business - CNBC - 14 hours ago

Google's new CFO makes earnings call debut, says company can 'push a little further' on cost cuts

In her first earnings call as Alphabet CFO, Anat Ashkenazi said more streamlining will be needed so the company can invest in AI.

Business - CNBC - 9 hours ago

Anthropic’s agentic Computer Use is giving people ‘superpowers’

Claude uses a computer essentially as a human does. People are using it for coding, researching, 'drudge work' and even to hail Uber rides.

Tech - VentureBeat - 5 days ago

Astronomers Find Evidence of an Exomoon Spewing a Volcanic Cloud

Astronomers have yet to confirm the existence of exomoons, but a molecular signal around a far away star offers some of the best evidence yet.

Science - The New York Times - October 15

LVMH Results Cast Cloud on Luxury Stocks

European luxury stocks fell after third-quarter results from industry bellwether LVMH dashed hopes that a sector recovery is under way and renewed concerns over the Chinese market.

Business - The Wall Street Journal - October 16

Capital gains tax: a short history

Since its beginnings in 1965, many UK chancellors have sought to reform the levy as a means of spurring economic growth

World - Financial Times - October 19

Xbox Cloud Gaming Is Planning For Direct-To-Cloud Controllers And Higher-Quality Streams - Report

Microsoft launched Xbox Cloud Gaming in 2020 with great fanfare, but the company's stated goal to push cloud gaming even further has run into some technological setbacks as well as ongoing ...

Tech - GameSpot - October 18

Is Google’s NotebookLM a secret CRM killer?

Even if a few hundred or thousand use NotebookLM in place of a CRM, it could spell trouble for the companies offering them.

Tech - VentureBeat - 16 hours ago

Biden gives geothermal a boost

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Biden administration gives geothermal energy a boost The administration proposed this week to speed up approvals for geothermal ...

Politics - The Hill - October 18

Lillian Schwartz, Pioneer in Computer-Generated Art, Dies at 97

Early in the digital era, she worked at Bell Labs on the intersection of art and technology, making films and at one point arriving at a novel theory about the “Mona Lisa.”

Tech - The New York Times - October 16

13 Best Tested Computer Monitors (2024): Budget, OLED, 4K

The Gear team spends countless hours in front of displays while writing for you. So we reviewed those too (including a few portable screens).

Tech - Wired - October 18

Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer

Claude is the first major AI model to be able to take control of a computer to do useful work.

Tech - Wired - October 22

Anthropic says latest AI model can control users’ computers

Start-up backed by Google and Amazon says tool can act like a ‘human collaborator’

Business - Financial Times - October 22

How one engineer beat the ban on home computers in socialist Yugoslavia

In Lewis Packwood’s book Curious Video Game Machines, Voja Antonić explains how he built a console and published instructions for anyone to make their own. Very few Yugoslavians had access to ...

World - The Guardian - 5 days ago

China Tightens Its Hold on Minerals Needed to Make Computer Chips

Already the dominant producer of rare minerals, Beijing is using export restrictions and its power over state-owned companies to further control access.

Business - The New York Times - Yesterday

CoD: Black Ops 6, MW3, And Warzone Coming To Xbox Cloud Gaming

Microsoft has announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be available on Xbox Cloud Gaming for Game Pass Ultimate members at launch. Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare 3 will also ...

Tech - GameSpot - October 15

Startup Make Sunsets Wants to Fight Global Warming by Making Aerosol Clouds

Scientific critics are skeptical, but venture funders steered $1.5 million to a California company creating high-altitude particle clouds to slow global warming. Call it a moonshot for the Earth.

Business - Inc. - October 15

Hurricane victims push for donations as right-wing falsehoods cloud recovery efforts

Residents are launching GoFundMe to finance repairs but worry that scams and falsehoods, including right-wing disinformation, will hamper their appeals for help.

Rising food inflation clouds the good news on headline rates

Let them eat CPI

World - Financial Times - October 18

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