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Tech Stocks That Move The Market
29.70k followers • 19 symbols Watchlist by Yahoo Finance
This basket lists stocks that investors interested in tech should have in their portfolios — including FANG stocks and rising stars that just had IPOs.
19 symbols
MSFT165.140.01%
Microsoft Corporation
AAPL267.991.92%
Apple Inc.
AMZN2,042.76-0.24%
Amazon.com, Inc.
GOOG1,211.451.17%
Alphabet Inc.
BABA196.370.39%
Alibaba Group Holding Limited
FB175.190.91%
Facebook, Inc.
INTC57.14-1.84%
Intel Corporation
NVDA262.95-4.00%
NVIDIA Corporation
CRM154.553.43%
salesforce.com, inc.
PYPL105.840.78%
PayPal Holdings, Inc.
TSLA573.0024.16%
Tesla, Inc.
AMD48.38-0.41%
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
ATVI60.46-0.61%
Activision Blizzard, Inc.
EA105.80-1.00%
Electronic Arts Inc.
MTCH68.11-1.10%
Match Group, Inc.
TTD213.766.41%
The Trade Desk, Inc.
ZG40.071.42%
Zillow Group, Inc.
YELP19.69-1.95%
Yelp Inc.
TIVO6.82-
TiVo Corporation
- TechCrunch
Facebook's new 'Quiet Mode' option lets you turn off the app's push notifications
Facebook today is launching a new feature called "Quiet Mode" that will allow you to minimize distractions by muting the app's push notifications for a time frame you specify. The company announced the change as an update on its COVID Newsroom post, describing it as a way for users to set boundaries around how they spend their time on Facebook as they adjust to new routines and to working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Facebook, you can either turn on or off Quiet Mode as needed or you can schedule to it run automatically at designated times.
- TechCrunch
Walmart Grocery app sees record downloads amid COVID-19, surpasses Amazon by 20%
Record demand for online grocery shopping amid the COVID-19 pandemic has sent the apps for grocery pickup and delivery services up the charts. Walmart Grocery, as a result, has now hit an all-time high in downloads -- grabbing the No. 1 ranking position across all Shopping apps in the U.S. on April 5, 2020, and surpassing Amazon by 20%, according to a new analysis from app intelligence firm App Annie. The Walmart Grocery application retained that No. 1 position for at least two days, the firm said, citing data from both the Google Play store and the Apple App Store, combined.
- TechCrunch
Yelp lays off 1,000 employees and furloughs 1,100 more
Yelp co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman announced in an internal email that the company is going through difficult times. Yelp has to cut expenses, which means a large round of layoffs and some additional measures -- 1,000 employees have been laid off. According to an SEC filing, Yelp had 5,950 employees as of December 31, 2019.
- Reuters
Nintendo game pulled from Chinese platforms after Hong Kong protest
A Nintendo Switch video game has been pulled off China's grey market e-commerce platforms, Reuters' checks show, after Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong used the game to protest against Beijing’s rule of the Chinese territory. The game, "Animal Crossing: New Horizons", is a colourful social simulator in which players can decorate their own island and invite others to visit. It became an instant hit after its launch last month and has been used by many players to interact and simulate real-life scenarios while they are stuck at home because of measures to curb the coronavirus outbreak.
- Reuters
U.S. agencies back revoking ability of China Telecom to operate in U.S.
The U.S. Justice Department and other federal agencies on Thursday called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to revoke China Telecom (Americas) Corp's authorization to provide international telecommunications services to and from the United States. China Telecom is the U.S. subsidiary of a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-owned telecommunications company.
- Reuters
Facebook must face renewed privacy lawsuit over user tracking
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said Facebook users could pursue several claims under federal and California privacy and wiretapping laws. A spokeswoman for Facebook said the proposed class action was without merit, and the Menlo Park, California-based company will continue defending itself. Facebook users had accused the company of quietly storing cookies on their browsers that tracked when they visited outside websites containing "like" buttons, and then selling personal profiles based on their browsing histories to advertisers.
- Zacks
Paypal (PYPL) Gains But Lags Market: What You Should Know
Paypal (PYPL) closed at $105.84 in the latest trading session, marking a +0.74% move from the prior day.
- Zacks
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Stock Sinks As Market Gains: What You Should Know
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) closed at $48.38 in the latest trading session, marking a -0.84% move from the prior day.
- Zacks
Apple (AAPL) Gains But Lags Market: What You Should Know
Apple (AAPL) closed at $267.99 in the latest trading session, marking a +0.72% move from the prior day.
- Zacks
Nvidia (NVDA) Stock Sinks As Market Gains: What You Should Know
Nvidia (NVDA) closed the most recent trading day at $262.86, moving -1.53% from the previous trading session.
- Reuters
Facebook sues Bangkok resident for selling fraudulent ad tools
Basant Gajjar used "cloaking", a technique that hides the true content of ads and presents something different on the surface for users on the platform, which prevented Facebook's review process from identifying improper ads, the company said. Advertisers were able to promote links for deceptive diet pills, cryptocurrency scams, and even misinformation about the coronavirus outbreak through the technique, Facebook added. Gajjar's unregistered business in California, LeadCloak, has been offering cloaking services since 2016, targeting firms including Alphabet Inc's <GOOGL.O> Google, Oath, Wordpress and Shopify Inc <SHOP.TO>, Facebook said.
- Zacks
3 Cloud-Focused Tech Stocks to Buy as Market Rallies on Coronavirus Optimism
The Dow, the S&P 500, and Nasdaq all jumped again through early afternoon trading Thursday, as part of a larger two week-plus market rally. So let's dive into three cloud-focused tech stocks that look like solid longer-term buys...
- Business Wire
EA and FIFA Announce the EA SPORTS FIFA 20 Stay and Play Cup to Bring the Football Community Together Through "Stay Home, Play Together."
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) and FIFA announced today the EA SPORTS™ FIFA 20 Stay and Play Cup, as part of EA’s "Stay Home, Play Together." initiative, that brings together and encourages the sharing of creative content, livestreams and other ways to bring the gaming community together while staying safe by staying home.
- Zacks
Top Stock Reports for Facebook, JPMorgan & UnitedHealth
Top Stock Reports for Facebook, JPMorgan & UnitedHealth
- Reuters
A day in the life of an Amazon courier on the frontlines of the U.S. pandemic
Excelso Sabulao delivers groceries for Amazon.com Inc <AMZN.O> in California so he can help provide his parents an income. Sabulao, 35, is one of countless Amazon contractors shuttling food and staples that consumers depend on to their doorsteps, with nearly all of the U.S. population under government stay-at-home orders. On Monday morning, Sabulao commuted about an hour to Dublin, a city in the San Francisco Bay Area, to pick up grocery orders from Amazon-owned Whole Foods.
- Zacks
Cyber Security ETFs to Thrive in the Virus-Hit Economy
Cyber security ETFs have been pretty resilient amid the coronavirus-led market selloffs.
- AFP
French regulator orders Google pay copyright fees to media groups
France's competition regulator said Thursday that Google must start paying media groups for displaying their content, ordering it to begin negotiations after refusing for months to comply with Europe's new digital copyright law. The agency said it "requires Google, within three months, to conduct negotiations in good faith with publishers and news agencies on the remuneration for the re-use of their protected contents". "This injunction requires that the negotiations effectively result in a proposal for remuneration from Google" that must be applied retroactively to October 2019, when France became the first country to ratify the EU law.
- Business Wire
Intel Joins Georgia Tech in DARPA Program to Mitigate Machine Learning Deception Attacks
Intel and Georgia Tech announced that they will lead a Guaranteeing Artificial Intelligence Robustness against Deception program for DARPA.
- Zacks
The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Tesla, Zoetis, Target, Boston Scientific and Moody's
The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Tesla, Zoetis, Target, Boston Scientific and Moody's
- Zacks
The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: AeroVironment, Cadence Design Systems, PTC, NVIDIA and TransEnterix
The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: AeroVironment, Cadence Design Systems, PTC, NVIDIA and TransEnterix
- Zacks
Zacks Investment Ideas feature highlights: Alibaba, Disney, TSMC, Adobe and Sea Limited
Zacks Investment Ideas feature highlights: Alibaba, Disney, TSMC, Adobe and Sea Limited
AFP RelaxGoogle's AI-powered Duplex technology expands to the UK, Australia, and Canada
This week Google expanded its Duplex phone-calling technology to three new countries: the UK, Australia, and Canada. While Google Duplex, the company's AI-powered and Google Assistant-backed technology that can book reservations and make appointments over the phone, has only been available in the United States and New Zealand since last year, Venture Beat this week spotted a support page indicating that the tool is rolling out to the UK, Australia and Canada. Back in March, company CEO Sundar Pichai stated in a blog post that Google would be using Duplex "where possible to contact businesses to confirm their updated business hours, so [the company] can reflect them accurately when people are looking on Search and Maps."
- Financial Times
Amazon developing in-house Covid-19 testing lab
Amazon is building its own Covid-19 testing capabilities so it can monitor the health of its employees, as it contends with ongoing criticism surrounding its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The company on Thursday said it had begun assembling the equipment to build its first lab, and hoped to start testing on small numbers of its frontline workers, with a view to scaling it across the company. In recent days, it has started taking the temperature of its employees on their arrival at work, and spraying disinfectant on work stations.
- Investor's Business Daily
Nvidia, AMD, ASML Lead 5 Stocks Near Points In Coronavirus Stock Market Rally
Chip stocks Nvidia, AMD, ASML, Inphi and Monolithic Power are nearing buy points from bullish bases amid a coronavirus stock market rally.
- TheStreet.com
Amazon Is Well Positioned and Very Attractively Priced
Amazon presents investors with a highly rewarding opportunity, as it's priced at just 26x times trailing cash flows. Amazon is well-positioned to benefit from our work-from-home environment and has gained further mindshare with consumers as a reliable and efficient brand. The company's retail operations are going to benefit, whereas its AWS business is going to slow down near-term before springing back.
