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...In January, TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew insisted US user data had been moved “out of reach” from China to a firewalled cloud structure built in a $1.5bn partnership with Oracle, known as “Project...
...Instagram’s total number of app downloads grew 20 per cent in 2023 to 768mn compared with a year earlier, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, making it the most downloaded app in the world...
...Worth highlighting also is that the recognition of deferred FSD revenues may have helped the EPS number, and unsustainably so....
...Around $1.2tn of fresh global private capital was raised in 2023, according to Preqin. Sure, this is less than the $1.5tn in 2022 or the $1.7tn of 2021. But still, 1.2 TRILLION DOLLARS!...
...When AbbVie’s record-breaking immunology drug Humira came off-patent early last year after generating more than $200bn in sales for the drugmaker over two decades, a number of cheaper copycat products, known...
...Tesla drivers also have to put up with a growing number of no-go zones for their vehicles....
...Last year, Tesla reported record deliveries, topping 1.8mn vehicles. The real problem is slowing rates of EV adoption. The stock is priced for nonstop growth....
...Note also that Lyft guided for the current-quarter adjusted margin to be “approximately 1.4 per cent to 1.5 per cent”, so something very dramatic would have to happen after March....
...Total numbers are still a tad below pre-Covid 2019 at 4,460 in the private sector, according to fitness market data specialist Leisure DB, with 7mn members....
...After a period of divestments, GE conducted a reverse 1-8 split. Ditto, in the UK, Melrose’s 1-3 share consolidation last year. Then again, plenty of US companies also spurn splits....
...She vowed to buy just five new items of clothing and shoes all year long....
...The group’s bumper profits last year compare with $700mn of net income for 2022 and $1.1bn in 2021....
...The retailer reported record sales of £171mn in the six months to the end of August and underlying profits of £6.7mn as customers flocked back to physical shops, compared with an underlying loss of £1.5mn...
...The closely watched financial metric fell to 17.4 per cent, down from a peak of 29.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2022....
...That is almost double the number from last year, when nine companies said they needed extra time....
...The sale, representing about 1.1 per cent of Berkshire’s holding in the technology company, was notable as Buffett had said as recently as 2021 that an earlier decision to cut its Apple stake was “probably...
...Volumes rose in all areas except clothing stores, with some retailers reporting improvements driven by January sales, the ONS said....
...But today there are more physical sets than there have ever been with a dizzying number of bricks and Minifigures....
...“Pain could be analogous to another GLP-1 scenario,” says Hartaj Singh, a biotech analyst at equity research company Oppenheimer — referring to the hormone targeted by the weight-loss drugs....
...While the share price recovered 13 per cent after the presentation, it is still down 35 per cent this year and trading at less than half its late-2021 peak valuation of $1.2tn....
...Even as the number of bookings for rides and food delivery have increased, admin costs have fallen....
...Haba was granted insolvency by a court in December and expects to emerge in March after it has shed about a third of its 1,500 employees, shut its online clothing arm and sold a school furniture factory....
...The deal helped Sistani and her team increase full-year subscriber numbers for the first time in three years to 3.8mn, up 7 per cent from 2022....
...The table below shows deviations from the company’s initial projections in red: FT Alphaville put it well in a recent note to clients on TMTG stock: “To some commentators, a valuation of 1,000 times trailing...
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