In this article LOW Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Lowe’s store in Concord, California, US, on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Lowe’s topped Wall Street’s quarterly revenue and earnings expectations and posted more than 10% sales growth year over year on Wednesday even as the home…
Most Big Tech companies have reported this earnings season — with market jitters abounding — but the world’s most valuable company is still to come. Nvidia , whose powerful chips power much of the AI boom, will report financial results after the bell on Wednesday. European tech companies will be among those watching the results…
It’s an incredibly challenging time for ultra low cost carriers in the United States, and in particular, for Spirit Airlines. The Florida-based company has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy twice within the past year, and the carrier’s prospects seem grim. Several times now, there have been suggestions that the airline is on the verge of…
WBD Will Continue to Engage with PSKY; Netflix Merger Agreement Remains in Place NEW YORK, Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (“Warner Bros. Discovery” or “WBD”) (NASDAQ: WBD) today announced that its Board of Directors (the “Board”), consistent with its fiduciary duties and following consultation with its independent financial and legal advisors,…
Google announced Tuesday that it will build a data center in Minnesota that’s backed by 1.9 gigawatts of clean power, including a massive 300-megawatt battery made by startup Form Energy. The new data center, Google’s first in Minnesota, will be located in Pine Island, about an hour southeast of Minneapolis. The tech company is working…
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose Tuesday after getting a reminder that the artificial-intelligence boom may also have an upside. The S&P 500 climbed 0.8% and recovered nearly three-quarters of its sharp drop from the day before. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 370 points, or 0.8%, and the Nasdaq composite gained 1%. Advanced…
Nvidia’s comments could act as a catalyst for its stock — and tech stocks in general. One of the most-watched events of the quarter is happening in just a few hours: Nvidia (NVDA +1.44%) is set to report fourth-quarter and fiscal 2026 earnings. The report is scheduled for Feb. 25 after the market closes. Why…
Breeze Airways will give flyers in Birmingham, Alabama, and Tallahassee, Florida, a new option come July. The Utah-based airline will land at Tallahassee International Airport (TLH) on July 2 and Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM) the next day. Breeze will offer two nonstops from each of the airports to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) and Raleigh-Durham…
DJI, the most popular consumer drone maker, is suing over the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s import ban against new, foreign-made drones, which has been in effect since December 23, 2025. On Tuesday, the Shenzhen-headquartered company filed a petition [PDF] with the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that seeks to overturn the FCC’s…
Stripe is considering a deal to buy some or all of PayPal Holdings, sources told Bloomberg, though talks are still in their very early stages and the deal may not happen. The news comes the same day Stripe released its annual letter, giving updates on the business. The big news was that Stripe is making…
NEW YORK (AP) — Warner Bros. Discovery said that Paramount has raised the price of its takeover offer to $31 per share, potentially setting the stage for a fresh bidding war with Netflix over the future of the Hollywood giant. Paramount’s offer had previously stood at $30 per share since December — when the Skydance…
Part of the explanation for why so few users will need to verify their age is that Discord already uses an internal “age determination” system that looks at “how long your account has existed, whether you have a payment method on file, what types of servers you’re in, and general patterns of account activity.”
Novo Nordisk is planning a major markdown on two of the hottest drugs in medicine, though not for another year. The Danish drugmaker says it will cut the US list prices of its weight-loss shot Wegovy and diabetes drug Ozempic by up to 50%, bringing both to $675 a month starting Jan. 1, 2027, per…
AI for the office suite isn’t the most interesting thing, but it’s where the money is. AI for the office suite isn’t the most interesting thing, but it’s where the money is. Feb 24, 2026, 4:43 PM UTC Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag…
Waymo has started driverless robotaxi operation in 4 more US cities today: Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando. This brings the running total to 10 cities, while Waymo’s highest-profile competitor in the space, Tesla, currently operates driverless robotaxis in zero cities, despite big claims to the contrary. Waymo is continuing its expansion of its level…
A 20,000-square-foot facility in Houston will be home to Mac mini production. The city is already producing advanced AI servers for Apple. HOUSTON — Apple is making Houston a centerpiece of its U.S. manufacturing plans. The tech giant announced it will begin producing its popular Mac mini at a new factory on its Houston campus…
Earlier this month, OpenAI launched a new platform called OpenAI Frontier for enterprises to build and manage agents, but OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said that businesses haven’t yet seen AI adoption at scale. “One of the interesting things and some of the inspiration for the work we’ve been doing lately around OpenAI Frontier is we…
Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know
Now it will hold off on expansion until it adds more verification options, vendor transparency, and other changes. Now it will hold off on expansion until it adds more verification options, vendor transparency, and other changes. Feb 24, 2026, 7:17 PM UTC Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started…
Paramount has upped its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery to $31 a share, above its previous offer of $30 per share. Warner Bros. Discovery said the board has not yet made a determination as to whether the offer is superior to Netflix’s but says it could “reasonably be expected” to lead to a “company superior…
The S&P 500 lost 1.04% yesterday as the VIX “fear index” for volatility spiked 10%, but futures were up 0.16% this morning, suggesting traders may be putting a temporary pause on the panic selling that has gripped markets over the past 24 hours. The real source was the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that President Trump’s…
Paramount Skydance has filed what is believed to be a sweetened bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, opening a new round of haggling in efforts to snare the company’s HBO Max streaming service and Warner Bros. studios to help fuel economics amid a frenetic battle to stay afloat in the entertainment sector as more consumers turn…
Lamborghini is slamming the brakes on its first totally electric car before it ever leaves the assembly line. CEO Stephan Winkelmann says the long-teased Lanzador EV is dead, calling a big bet on battery-only models “an expensive hobby” in a market where demand from the brand’s wealthy buyers is “close to zero,” per the London…
In parts of the UK, a $3.50 Cadbury chocolate bar now comes with a clear plastic force field around it. Sainsbury’s, Tesco, and Co-op are among the chains putting chocolate candy in anti-theft boxes as retailers and police say sweets are increasingly being stolen to be resold through illicit markets, reports the BBC. The Association…
MINNEAPOLIS (Feb. 24, 2026) — Xcel Energy (NASDAQ: XEL) announced today it will power a new Google data center in Pine Island, Minnesota. The data center and associated Electric Service Agreement will provide a significant contribution to the state’s economy, including a large buildout of new clean energy projects that will contribute to Minnesota’s clean…
A new hobbyist developed app warns if people nearby may be wearing smart glasses, such as Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, which stalkers and harassers have repeatedly used to film people without their knowledge or consent. The app scans for smart glasses’ distinctive Bluetooth signatures and sends a push alert if it detects a potential pair of…
New Yorkers were met with sardine-packed subways, hours of delays and even a smoke-filled train on Tuesday as schools and offices reopened following a snowstorm that buried the city in snow from Sunday into Monday. Eric Fries said he and his wife were on their way to JFK Airport for a trip to run in…
Both Reddit and Discord have got themselves into trouble over the use of a controversial third-party age verification service. Reddit has been fined £14.5 ($19.5M) million for the unlawful use of children’s personal information, while Discord has experienced a user backlash … The UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) requires online platforms to verify the age…
Stripe said its focus was on the ‘inflection point’ driven by AI and the growth of stablecoins rather than from a stock market listing © SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images Stripe’s valuation has soared by more than 70 per cent to $159bn in the past year as the payments company agreed its latest employee share sale in…
Warner Bros. Discovery says that it is officially reviewing a sweetened bid for the company from David Ellison’s Paramount. The details of Paramount’s revised bid were not immediately known. The company had offered $30 per share, with a “ticker” that would raise the price for every quarter the deal had not closed past the end…
On Tuesday, Anthropic unveiled its new enterprise agents program, its most aggressive push yet to integrate agentic AI into everyday workplaces. In an official briefing, Anthropic’s head of Americas, Kate Jensen, told reporters that the new system would finally deliver on the promise of agentic AI. “2025 was meant to be the year agents transformed…
Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Investors have been ditching software stocks for months on fears of disruption from artificial intelligence, and upcoming earnings from the group aren’t expected to settle any nerves. A number of software companies report earnings this week, including Workday Inc., Salesforce Inc., Intuit Inc., Autodesk Inc. and Snowflake Inc. But worries about AI’s…
Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly told officials that he slept “with one eye open” after he attended a classified CIA briefing on Taiwan, home to the company’s chipmaker TSMC. US intelligence agencies have been worried for years that China may plan to invade the island, and the briefing warned that this could happen as early…