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Submissions for the eighth annual Forbes Cloud 100 list are now open through May 12. With tech’s IPO window still largely slammed shut, the world’s strongest cloud computing companies find themselves in holding patterns. Every single company on last year’s Forbes Cloud 100 remains eligible — even No. 5 Figma, which announced a $20 billion…

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Cathie Wood, chief executive of Ark Investment Management, traded some of her top stocks Tuesday. All the valuations below are as of Wednesday’s close. DON’T MISS: Elon Musk Reacts After Cathie Wood Criticizes a Major American Institution Ark funds bought 190,976 shares of electric vehicle titan Tesla  (TSLA) – Get Free Report valued at $29.4 million.…

Amazon omitted India updates in Thursday’s earnings call and release, a notable change for the e-commerce giant that has consistently highlighted rapid growth in the South Asian market. The absence of India in the quarterly earnings, the first since early 2014, follows Amazon’s shutdown of multiple services, including food delivery and wholesale distribution, in the…

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. The microfinancing platform connects investors with small businesses using mudarabah, a shariah-compliant profit-sharing agreement. But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinMark Ralls is the CEO of ActivTrak, the leader in workforce analytics and productivity management. getty The unprecedented rise of AI-powered chat tools like ChatGPT and Bing is astonishing and set to upend many aspects of our lives. None other than Bill Gates hailed generative AI (GenAI) tools as…

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Meta shared some updated engagement info around its platforms on its Q1 2023 quarterly earnings call on Wednesday, with Meta CFO Susan Li joining CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg to field questions from analysts about its results. Zuckerberg shared that time spent on Instagram has grown more than 24% since the company launched Reels on…

Meet Bastion, a French startup that was created in October 2022 to help small companies tackle cybersecurity risks without too many complexities. Created by former Palantir employees, the company has already raised $2.8 million. What makes Bastion different from other cybersecurity startups is that it wants to be your first and last cybersecurity subscription. It…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk might be ordered to testify under oath in a lawsuit that blames Autopilot, Tesla’s advanced driver assistance system, for a fatal crash in 2018. The tentative ruling, issued by a California judge Wednesday and first reported by Reuters, came in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Walter Huang…