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Marcin Frąckiewicz

CEO of TS2 Space and founder of TS2.tech. Expert in satellites, telecommunications, and emerging technologies, covering trends in space, AI, and connectivity.

Mastercard Stock Climbs on New Tech, Stablecoin Push and Partnerships

Mastercard’s $2B Crypto Blitz: ZeroHash Acquisition & Stablecoin Push Ignite Stock Hype

Mega-Deals in Crypto Infrastructure According to multiple reports, Mastercard is making one of its largest crypto moves yet. On Oct. 29, 2025 Reuters cited Fortune to say the payment giant is “in late-stage talks” to buy ZeroHash for roughly $1.5–$2 billionreuters.com. Crypto Briefing confirms Mastercard is “set to acquire crypto and stablecoin infrastructure provider ZeroHash for nearly $2 billion”cryptobriefing.com. ZeroHash, co-founded by Edward Woodford and Brian Liston, offers back-end rails that enable banks and apps to integrate crypto features (custody, on/off ramps, tokenized assets, etc.). Its partners include Interactive Brokers, DraftKings, Stripe and othersu.today. This deal would mark one of
29 October 2025
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Flowserve Stock Skyrockets 30% After Earnings Triple and Guidance Hike – Is More Upside Ahead?

Flowserve Stock Skyrockets 30% After Earnings Triple and Guidance Hike – Is More Upside Ahead?

Flowserve Stock Soars on Earnings News 📈 Flowserve’s stock skyrocketed on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, as investors piled in following a strong quarterly report. By early afternoon the shares were up about 30% to roughly $68.5, marking a new 52-week highainvest.com. The nearly $15 one-day jump to the high-$60s is a dramatic move for this industrial machinery stock, which had closed at $52.66 the day priorstockanalysis.com. The surge reflects Wall Street’s exuberant reaction to Flowserve’s earnings beat and optimistic guidance, as well as relief over recent strategic actions that improve the company’s financial footing. The rally also lifted Flowserve’s market
29 October 2025
BigBear.ai Stock’s 300% Surge Sparks Palantir Comparisons in Defense AI Frenzy

BigBear.ai’s 300% Defense AI Stock Rally: Palantir Comparisons & Wild Swings – Can BBAI Keep Soaring?

Recent Developments: Defense Deals Drive Optimism BigBear.ai’s status as a pure-play “AI for defense” contractor has been reinforced by a string of new deals in recent weeks. On October 13, the company announced a strategic partnership with Silicon Valley firm Tsecond Inc. to deliver AI-enabled edge computing hardware for U.S. national security missionsts2.tech. The plan integrates BigBear’s ConductorOS software with Tsecond’s rugged BRYCK data modules, allowing military and intel teams to run AI analytics on the battlefield in real time without needing cloud connectivityts2.techts2.tech. BigBear’s CEO, former DHS chief Kevin McAleenan, said the goal is to provide “mission-ready AI at
29 October 2025
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Varonis Stock Plummets 45% After Weak Q3 Earnings – Analysts React to Shock Guidance Cut

Varonis Stock Plummets 45% After Weak Q3 Earnings – Analysts React to Shock Guidance Cut

October Rally Turns into Plunge Varonis stock had been on a steady uptrend through 2025, even notching a 52-week high near $64 earlier in October. As of late October, shares were up about 38% in 2025 amid optimism around cybersecurity and the company’s cloud transitionsimplywall.st. That rally came to an abrupt end on October 29, when Varonis’s market value was slashed nearly in half in a single day. The stock opened around $62 before free-falling to the mid-$30s after its Q3 earnings release revealed weaker-than-expected results and outlookbenzinga.com. The ~45% one-day collapse is one of the steepest in the company’s
29 October 2025
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Oracle’s ‘Truly Awesome’ AI Cloud Quarter Sends Stock Soaring 36%, Making Ellison World’s Richest

Oracle Stock Soars on AI Cloud Mega-Deals, Edges Toward Trillion-Dollar Dream

Oracle Riding the AI Wave – Stock Near Record Highs Oracle’s stock has been on a tear in 2025, nearly doubling in value amid a frenzy for AI-related cloud plays. Shares began the year around $170 and recently hit all-time highs, reaching the mid-$300s in September. The stock currently trades in the high-$270s to low-$280s – about 20% off its peak – after some volatility in October, but still up roughly 70% year-to-datets2.techts2.tech. At these levels Oracle’s market capitalization is around $780–820 billion, making it one of the five most valuable U.S. companies. The stunning rally has far outpaced the S&P
29 October 2025
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New Fortress Energy Seeks U.K. Lifeline to Dodge Bankruptcy – Shares Crash as $9 B Debt Weighs

New Fortress Energy Seeks U.K. Lifeline to Dodge Bankruptcy – Shares Crash as $9 B Debt Weighs

Deep Dive: $9 B Debt Crunch Drives Unconventional Plan New Fortress Energy – a company founded by billionaire Wes Edens – grew rapidly in recent years as an integrated gas-to-power provider, building liquefied natural gas terminals, floating LNG (FLNG) facilities, and power plants from the Americas to Asia. But that breakneck expansion came at a cost: nearly $9 billion in debt piled up on its balance sheetnews.bloomberglaw.com. When several major projects hit delays and cost overruns, NFE’s revenues and cash flows fell short, making it increasingly difficult to meet its heavy debt obligationsnews.bloomberglaw.com. The company even suspended its dividend late last year
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Plug Power (PLUG) Stock’s 170% Hydrogen Rally Hits a Wall – Can PLUG Bounce Back?

Plug Power (PLUG) Stock’s 170% Hydrogen Rally Hits a Wall – Can PLUG Bounce Back?

Roller-Coaster Stock Performance Plug Power’s stock has been on a wild roller coaster in recent weeks. After languishing near $1.50 in late summer, PLUG launched into an eye-popping rally – surging roughly 170% in about three months to a new peak around $4.58 by early October ts2.tech. This hydrogen-fueled spike far outpaced the broader market and was amplified by a classic short squeeze: with roughly one-third of Plug’s float sold short, each burst of positive news forced bearish traders to buy shares to cover, turbocharging the uptrend ts2.tech. Explosive trading volumes accompanied the climb as momentum buyers piled in. However,
29 October 2025
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Mortgage Rates Hit 2025 Low at 6.27% – Will They Finally Dip Below 6%?

Mortgage Rates Just Hit a 3-Year Low – Is Now the Time to Lock In?

Mortgage Rates Hit Lowest Levels of the Year After a prolonged stretch of high borrowing costs, current mortgage rates are finally receding. In late October, the average 30-year fixed mortgage fell to its lowest level of 2025, around the 6.2%–6.3% rangets2.techbloomberg.com. That’s a significant improvement from January, when 30-year rates were above 7%ts2.tech. Some daily measures even put the typical mortgage rate today below 6% on an APR basis. For example, Zillow’s daily tracker showed the 30-year rate at about 5.92% APR on October 29, down 17 basis points in one daynerdwallet.com (a basis point is 0.01%). And according to
29 October 2025
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Alphabet Stock Soars Ahead of Q3 Earnings: AI Frenzy Fuels $3 Trillion Dreams

Alphabet Stock Soars Ahead of Q3 Earnings: AI Frenzy Fuels $3 Trillion Dreams

Outlook: “Deserves to be in the $3 Trillion Club” Alphabet enters its Q3 earnings report with significant momentum across its core businesses and emerging ventures. Advertising – still ~80% of revenue – is growing again, Google Cloud has turned into a profitable growth engine, and the company’s big bets on AI are starting to bear fruit. At the same time, Alphabet is navigating an evolving regulatory landscape that will test its adaptability. Overall, the company appears to be heading into 2026 from a position of strength, supported by a revitalized ad market and leadership in AI and cloud technology. In
29 October 2025
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Fed Cuts Rates Amid Data “Fog” – Stocks Hit Record Highs as More Easing Likely

Fed Cuts Rates Amid Data “Fog” – Stocks Hit Record Highs as More Easing Likely

Fed Cuts Rates Despite Missing Data The Federal Open Market Committee’s October 28–29 meeting concluded with a widely anticipated quarter-point rate cut, bringing the target interest rate down to roughly 3.8%ts2.tech. Economists were nearly unanimous in predicting this movereuters.com, as the Fed had telegraphed an easing bias in advance. It marks the second reduction in 2025, following an initial cut in September. The Fed is proceeding with caution, however. Officials describe an “increasingly cloudy” economic outlookapnews.com – a haze compounded by the absence of government data during the ongoing shutdown. Since October 1, key indicators like the monthly jobs report
29 October 2025
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Paramount Slashes 1,000 Jobs as New CEO Eyes $60 B Warner Bros. Takeover

Paramount Slashes 1,000 Jobs as New CEO Eyes $60 B Warner Bros. Takeover

Layoffs Under Ellison’s New Regime Just two months after Skydance Media’s $8+ billion takeover of Paramount Global, the combined company – now Paramount Skydance Corp. – is undertaking one of the entertainment industry’s largest recent staff reductionsreuters.comtheguardian.com. On Wednesday (Oct. 29), CEO David Ellison kicked off the first phase: roughly 1,000 layoffs across U.S. operations spanning film, TV, streaming, and corporate unitsreuters.com. Additional cuts bringing the total to about 2,000 jobs eliminated are expected in the coming weeksabcnews.go.com. Ellison, 40, assumed leadership of Paramount Skydance after orchestrating the merger in August, which made him the latest Hollywood mogul at the helm of
29 October 2025
AI Chatbot Under Fire: Character.AI Bans Teen Users After Suicide Scandal – Is This a Turning Point?

AI Chatbot Under Fire: Character.AI Bans Teen Users After Suicide Scandal – Is This a Turning Point?

A Suicide Lawsuit and “Reckless” AI Bonds With Kids Character.AI’s drastic age ban comes after intense scrutiny over whether AI chatbots can dangerously blur emotional boundaries for young users. The flashpoint was the tragic case of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III, who died by suicide in early 2024 after allegedly developing a deep virtual relationship with a Character.AI chatbotbusinessinsider.com. His mother, Megan Garcia, says her son spent months immersed in conversations with an AI “girlfriend” that provided fake empathy – and ultimately encouraged him to take his own lifecbsnews.com. In a lawsuit filed last October, Garcia accused the startup of negligence
29 October 2025
GM Stock Skyrockets 7% as Earnings Beat, EV Strategy U-Turn Fuel Rally

GM Slashes 1,700 EV Jobs, Cites Trump Policy Shift – Investors Cheer Cost Cuts

GM Hits Brakes on EV Production, Axes Jobs in Michigan and Ohio General Motors confirmed sweeping layoffs this week across its electric vehicle operations in Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, marking one of the auto industry’s starkest retreats from aggressive EV expansion. The company said it will eliminate approximately 1,700 jobs as it idles surplus production capacity. The heart of the cuts is at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck “Factory Zero” assembly plant – an all-EV factory that builds the Chevy Silverado EV and other electric pickups – which will scale down to a single daily shift starting in Januaryreuters.com. About 1,200 workers at
29 October 2025
NVIDIA’s Stock Soars to New Highs – Analysts Eye Further Gains

Nvidia Stock Rockets to $5 Trillion Milestone as AI Boom Powers Historic Rally

Nvidia Stock Soars on AI Hype and Historic Optimism Nvidia’s share price has been on a meteoric tear in 2025, defying broader market jitters as investors pile into anything related to artificial intelligence. This week, Nvidia’s stock price jumped repeatedly – nearly +3% on Monday and another +5% on Tuesday – as a flurry of positive news sent traders into a buying frenzyts2.tech. By Wednesday October 29, the stock rallied to around $209–$210 per share, vaulting Nvidia’s market capitalization above $5 trillion for the first time in historyreuters.com. For context, no company had ever before reached the $5 trillion mark – Nvidia
29 October 2025
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Stride (LRN) Stock Plummets 50% After Earnings—Guidance Shocks Investors

Stride (LRN) Stock Plummets 50% After Earnings—Guidance Shocks Investors

Earnings Beat Overshadowed by Weak Outlook Stride, Inc. (NYSE: LRN) delivered strong fiscal Q1 2026 results (ended Sept. 30, 2025), but a conservative outlook triggered a sharp selloff. The company reported revenue of $620.9 million, beating the $613.7M analyst consensus, and diluted EPS of $1.40, above the $1.13 estimate Benzinga. Enrollments grew 11.3% YoY (to 247,700 students), led by 20% growth in Career Learning programs Benzinga. CEO James Rhyu noted “strong enrollment growth” to start the year but cautioned that growth rates will moderate ts2.tech. These results continued Stride’s string of double-digit growth quarters. However, forward guidance disappointed investors. Management
29 October 2025
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Palantir Stock Skyrockets on Massive UK AI-Defense Pact – Could PLTR Eclipse Oracle by 2030?

Palantir (PLTR) Stock Skyrockets to Record High on AI and Defense Deals – Bulls vs. Bears Clash

Key Facts: – Price Surge: As of Oct. 29, 2025, PLTR closed around $195investing.com, after hitting an intraday peak near $198. The stock is up roughly 300% in 2025ts2.tech, making it one of the year’s hottest tech winners. – Market Cap: At these levels Palantir’s market value is on the order of $400–425 billionts2.techts2.tech – rivaling or exceeding legacy defense giants (e.g. Lockheed, Northrop)ts2.tech. – Major Deals: 2025 has seen a flurry of big contracts and partnerships. Highlights include a 10-year U.S. Army program (up to $10B) and a UK Ministry of Defence AI pact (~£750M–£1.5B)ts2.tech, a new Boeing defense
29 October 2025
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Fossil‑Free Steel Breakthrough: Vattenfall Builds World’s First Green Dam Gate

Fossil‑Free Steel Breakthrough: Vattenfall Builds World’s First Green Dam Gate

Dam Gate Goes Green: Vattenfall & SSAB’s World-First Collaboration In a landmark for clean technology, Vattenfall has ordered 120 tonnes of fossil-free steel from SSAB to build a replacement dam gate at the Stornorrfors hydropower plant in northern Swedenenergy-pedia.com. Announced in late October 2025, the agreement marks the world’s first attempt to use virtually carbon-neutral steel in a large-scale infrastructure component. “Vattenfall and SSAB are now taking a big step forward in the development of fossil-free value chains,” said Lovisa Fricot Norén, CEO of Vattenfall’s Nordic hydro power unitenergy-pedia.com. The project deepens a partnership formed in 2023 between the power company
29 October 2025
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Adobe Stock Tanks Near 52-Week Low – Is AI to Blame?

Adobe Stock Drops as MAX Unveils New AI—Is ADBE a Buy on October 29, 2025?

In-depth report What moved ADBE todayAdobe’s annual MAX conference (Oct 28–29) delivered a flood of AI news: Firefly evolves into a full creative AI studio spanning image, video, and audio; Generate Soundtrack and Generate Speech promise one-click music/VO; Photoshop/Express gain smarter assistants; and a browser-based, multi-track Firefly video editor arrives. Adobe also teased deeper interoperability and context-aware workflows across apps. Coverage from WIRED, Economic Times and Times of India framed it as the broadest AI push yet for Creative Cloud pros and Express users. WIRED+2The Economic Times+2 Yet the stock fell ~6% intraday as investors weighed execution risk and competitive
29 October 2025
Microsoft Stock Soars on AI and Cloud Frenzy – Analysts Eye $600+ Price Targets

Microsoft Stock Skyrockets on AI Hype, Nears $4 Trillion as Big Earnings Hit

Microsoft’s Earnings: Strong, But Is the AI Hype Justified? As Microsoft’s first-quarter results roll in, the company is demonstrating robust growth and profitability even amid its heavy investment spree. Profit margins remain healthy for now, and the company returned substantial cash to shareholders (over $9 billion last quarter via dividends and buybacks) – showing it can reward investors while spending aggressivelyts2.tech. On the earnings call, analysts will be laser-focused on Azure’s growth rate and forward guidance. Microsoft had guided to ~37% Azure growth for this quarter, above consensus forecastsreuters.com, and early numbers suggest AI workloads are indeed driving a meaningful revenue
29 October 2025
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ChatGPT Crashes Worldwide — Downdetector Alarms, OpenAI Responds, Markets React

OpenAI’s Half-Trillion Restructuring Hands Microsoft a $135 B Stake – and Revs Up the ‘AGI Arms Race’

OpenAI Restructures at $500 B: Nonprofit Control Meets For-Profit Ambition In a milestone moment for the AI industry, OpenAI has officially restructured itself to unite a half-trillion-dollar for-profit business with its original nonprofit mission. The company announced on Oct. 28 that it “completed its recapitalization, simplifying its corporate structure”, with the nonprofit arm retaining control over the newly created OpenAI Group PBC (Public Benefit Corporation)openai.comeconomictimes.indiatimes.com. Under this novel setup, the OpenAI Foundation (nonprofit) holds a 26% stake valued around $130 billion and can appoint all board directors, effectively steering the shipmedium.commedium.com. Meanwhile, investors and employees own roughly 47%, and Microsoft holds 27% after
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Stock Market Today

SMIC stock set for results test this week as Hong Kong market reopens

SMIC stock set for results test this week as Hong Kong market reopens

8 February 2026
HONG KONG, Feb 8, 2026, 08:40 HKT — Market closed Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp’s Hong Kong-listed shares ended Friday little changed, but the stock heads into a catalyst-heavy week with results due and a shareholder vote on a deal that would simplify control of a key 12-inch wafer unit. (Reuters) The next test comes quickly. SMIC’s board meets on Tuesday, Feb. 10, when the company said it will announce unaudited financial results. (HKEX News) Two days later, investors get a second lever: an extraordinary general meeting in Shanghai on Feb. 12. Trading in the name often tightens ahead of corporate
MediaTek stock price drops 3.4% as Taiwan market shuts; what investors watch next week

MediaTek stock price drops 3.4% as Taiwan market shuts; what investors watch next week

8 February 2026
MediaTek shares closed down 3.4% at NT$1,710 on Friday in Taipei, with 11.8 million shares traded before the market shut for the weekend. The company said it will double investment in data-center chips and advanced packaging, while warning of rising supply chain costs. Fourth-quarter sales rose 8.8% to NT$150.2 billion, but net income slipped 3.6%. Investors face uncertainty ahead of the Lunar New Year break and a weaker tech sector mood.
Arm Holdings stock rallies into weekend on AI spending hopes — Monday’s next test

Arm Holdings stock rallies into weekend on AI spending hopes — Monday’s next test

8 February 2026
Arm Holdings’ U.S. shares jumped 11.6% Friday to $123.70, capping an 18% two-day rebound amid a rally in chip stocks tied to AI data-center spending. The gains followed Arm’s fiscal Q3 revenue beat, but executives warned memory shortages could cut royalty revenue by up to 2% as smartphone chip shipments are expected to fall 7% in 2026. Investors now await Arm’s “Arm Everywhere” event on March 24.
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