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...Alphabet shares extended their decline on Wednesday, ending the day down 9.5 per cent....
...After 13 years of ownership, 3G has realised $11.4bn so far and still owns 27 per cent of the company, worth $9.2bn....
...The split also left Michael Dell owning 40 per cent of VMware, while Silver Lake owned 9.8 per cent....
...their cloud spending....
...Silver Lake has bid €2.6bn to buy Germany’s Software AG, a pioneer of the European tech sector that stagnated on public markets until its nascent cloud computing business caught Wall Street’s eye....
...The so-called present situation index, published by the Conference Board, declined to 138.9, the weakest reading since April 2021....
...Growth in digital advertising, ecommerce and cloud computing — three of the main engines behind the secular growth of the digital economy — has slowed more than expected as economic conditions worsen....
...The secured bond, which was initially expected to yield between 8.5 per cent and 9 per cent, could now be priced with a yield as high as 9.5 per cent, one person added on Wednesday....
...Microsoft’s multiyear re-emergence as a cloud computing power, on the other hand, shows that it is perfectly at home among the four younger companies....
...In April, it paid about $800m for a stake in G42, an artificial intelligence and cloud computing group with links to Abu Dhabi’s ruling family....
...His family investment vehicle — Sutardja Family LLC — also owns 11.9 per cent of the business, according to the IPO prospectus....
...Alphabet shares rose as much as 9 per cent higher in after-market trading....
...Just two years later, US payments processor Vantiv swallowed it for £9.1bn....
...Meanwhile, the ecommerce and cloud computing booms touched off by the pandemic continued unabated, as digital activity soared....
...Lex says that the rationale for either of the companies, which compete in the enterprise software and cloud space, is “nebulous”....
...A 9 per cent return on equity is also lower than US counterparts like State Street or Northern Trust, although much of that is explained by differences in business mix....
...Even so, when spring arrives, clouds of somei-yoshino blossom dominate the landscape....
...Sellers sold for an average discount from the asking price of 9 per cent, according to Core data....
...The article states: . . . investigators ordered the company to produce detailed explanations and documents by October 9 . . ....
...Users will be able to upgrade to a higher quality service for $9.99 a month, with games streamed in 4K....
...Increased competition from cloud-gaming services such as Google’s Stadia loom....
...Qualtrics sells market research and survey software, a field known as experience management, to more than 9,000 customers, from Coca-Cola and BMW to the US Air Force and Walt Disney....
...Amazon’s earnings were buoyed by its robust cloud computing business, which helped it dramatically beat expectations on earnings per share for the second quarter in a row....
...The Google Cloud growth is also striking, as Microsoft's commercial cloud business grew 56 per cent in same quarter. Despite the to-da-moon!...
...Stripping out them out, earnings would have climbed to $9.97 a share, up from $7.73 the year before and above the $9.30 Wall Street had been expecting....
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