Microsoft Corp, which has largely evaded Washington's scrutiny of Big Tech companies and scored a lucrative $10 billion government contract under the Trump administration, has emerged as a significant backer of the Biden campaign.
U.S. stock index futures weakened on Monday, as surging coronavirus cases and a stalemate in Washington over the next fiscal aid bill darkened the economic outlook in the run up to Nov. 3 presidential elections.
Microsoft Corp, which has largely evaded Washington's scrutiny of Big Tech companies and scored a lucrative $10 billion government contract under the Trump administration, has emerged as a significant backer of the Biden campaign.
Apple's top iPhone assembler, Taiwan-based Foxconn, has set up a task force to fend off the growing clout of Chinese electronics manufacturer Luxshare, which it believes poses a serious threat to its dominance, three sources with knowledge of the matter said.
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is set to report fiscal fourth-quarter earnings results on Thursday, but investors should temper their expectations. The company will face tough comparisons in several categories, most notably in the core iPhone business. The COVID-19 crisis impacted Apple's
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HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Lee Kun-hee leaves behind an impressive, albeit deeply flawed, empire. The Samsung chairman, who transformed his father's noodle-trading business into a $355 billion smartphone and chipmaking colossus,
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Stocks dropped last week as investors digested a flood of earnings reports and reacted to the shifting outlook for new economic stimulus support for the U.S. economy. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 shed less than 1%. The S&P is in solidly positive t
Lee Kun-hee, who built Samsung Electronics into a global powerhouse in smartphones, semiconductors and televisions, died on Sunday after spending more than six years in hospital following a heart attack, the company said.
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A U.S. judge in San Francisco on Friday rejected a Justice Department request to reverse a decision that allowed Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google to continue to offer Chinese-owned WeChat for download in U.S. app stores.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed modestly higher on Friday in choppy trading, with investors keeping a close eye on negotiations on a U.S. stimulus package that would ease the economic shock caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) managed to finish the week on a positive note on Friday. The index rose almost 0.4%, which was roughly in line with the gains for the S&P 500. That still left it down more than 1% for the week.The Nasdaq has gotten a lot of attention