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The 2025 Google Cloud AI Revolution: New Services, Strengths, and Surprising Developments

Google’s 27th Birthday: The Surprising Truth Behind Its Date, Iconic Logo & Legacy

Early Days: From BackRub to Google Google began as a Stanford PhD project in 1996 called BackRub, a search engine that ranked pages by links ndtv.com. Co‑founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated the company on Sept 4, 1998 and soon rented a Menlo Park garage (from future YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki) as their first office ndtv.com. Crucially, in August 1998 Sun Microsystems co‑founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a $100,000 cheque payable to “Google Inc.” – effectively turning the fledgling project into a real company ndtv.com ndtv.com. (Google’s own anniversary page notes it was “founded in 1998 to organize the world’s
27 September 2025
Canada Goose (GOOS) Stock Skyrockets: Luxury Parka Maker’s Bold Moves, Price Hikes & Buyout Buzz

Canada Goose (GOOS) Stock Skyrockets: Luxury Parka Maker’s Bold Moves, Price Hikes & Buyout Buzz

Company Overview Canada Goose is a Toronto‑based premium outerwear maker. Founded in 1957 by Sam Tick, it grew from wool vests and snowsuits to a global luxury apparel brand en.wikipedia.org. Under CEO Dani Reiss (family-run since 1985), CG doubled down on “Made in Canada” quality and fashion appeal investor.canadagoose.com. Today it designs “high-performance outerwear, apparel, footwear, and accessories” inspired by Arctic conditions investor.canadagoose.com. Signature products are down‑filled parkas and cold-weather jackets, but CG has expanded into rainwear, knitwear and even summer‑ready lines reuters.com investor.canadagoose.com. Collaborations (notably with French designer Haider Ackermann) and new collections have refreshed the brand’s image reuters.com.
27 September 2025
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Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) – $50 Billion Buyout Buzz Sends Stock Soaring (Sept 2025)

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA) – $50 Billion Buyout Buzz Sends Stock Soaring (Sept 2025)

Key Facts (as of Sept 27, 2025): Stock price ~$193.35 (last close Sept 26) investing.com; market cap ≈$48.4 B reuters.com. Trailing P/E ~48× (P/E excluding extra items 48.5× reuters.com), forward P/E ~20× reuters.com. EA pays a $0.19 quarterly dividend ($0.76/yr, ~0.39% yield) reuters.com ea.com. FY2025 net bookings ~$7.36 B and revenue $7.463 B ir.ea.com; Q1 FY26 bookings $1.298 B (above guidance) ir.ea.com, revenue $1.671 B ir.ea.com. The stock has rallied sharply this year (market cap +~27% YoY stockanalysis.com), including a recent 15% jump on buyout rumors reuters.com. EA repurchased 17.8 M shares ($2.5 B) in trailing 12 months ir.ea.com (under a $5 B program) and returns ~80% of FCF via
27 September 2025
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Coinbase (COIN) Stock Crashes in Crypto Sell-Off – Can It Bounce Back?

Coinbase (COIN) Stock Crashes in Crypto Sell-Off – Can It Bounce Back?

Key Facts: – Coinbase’s share price was about $312.6 at close on Sept. 26, 2025 stockanalysis.com, down roughly 6% from ~$332.0 five trading days earlier stockanalysis.com. The 52-week range is about $142.6–$444.6 marketbeat.com. Market cap is ~$80.3B with P/E ~30 marketbeat.com. Over the past year COIN has been volatile – at one point up ~50% YTD crypto.news – but in mid-Sep. it plunged on a broader crypto sell-off. In Q2’25 Coinbase reported $1.51B revenue (–26% Q/Q) ainvest.com reuters.com and only $33M profit (vs. $294M year-ago) reuters.com. Subscription/Services revenue was ~$656M crypto.news, up 9% YoY but below forecasts crypto.news. For Q3,
27 September 2025
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Dalal Street in Turmoil: Sensex Plunges 2,500 Points in a Week – Should You Buy the Dip or Brace for More?

Dalal Street in Turmoil: Sensex Plunges 2,500 Points in a Week – Should You Buy the Dip or Brace for More?

Key Facts: Indian equity benchmarks slumped sharply last week. The BSE Sensex gave up roughly 2,587 points (3.2%) and the Nifty 50 fell about 672 points (2.7%) over six trading days upstox.com livemint.com. This was the worst weekly decline in nearly six months, erasing about 90% of the recent rally from early September upstox.com livemint.com. Markets were roiled by external shocks: U.S. President Trump announced 100% tariffs on imported branded/pharma products and hiked H-1B visa fees to $100,000 per worker. These policy moves hit India’s tech and pharma stocks hard. Sectorally, IT was the biggest laggard (down ~8% on the
27 September 2025
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Accenture Stock 2025: AI-Fueled Earnings Beat Meets Cautious Outlook – What’s Next for ACN?

Accenture’s AI Purge: CEO Julie Sweet Orders 11,000+ Employees to “Reskill or Exit”

Accenture’s AI-Driven Restructuring Accenture (NYSE: ACN), a leading IT consulting giant, confirmed in late September 2025 that it has “reduced its global workforce by more than 11,000 in the past three months” financialexpress.com. Company statements and SEC filings tie these cuts to a strategic pivot: a six-month, $865 million restructuring to better align its talent with AI, cloud and digital services timesofindia.indiatimes.com reuters.com. CEO Julie Sweet explained on the earnings call that as “advanced AI becomes core to the company’s strategy,” Accenture is demanding an industry-wide scale of retraining. Sweet bluntly warned that staff unable to be reskilled will be phased
27 September 2025
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Tata Stock Split Frenzy: Tata Investment Shares Soar 25% in Two Days, Record Date Set – What Investors Should Know

Tata Capital’s $2 Billion IPO: Dates, Valuation, Risks – What Everyone’s Talking About

IPO Details: Structure and Timeline Tata Capital’s draft prospectus (filed Sep 26, 2025) confirms the offer opens Oct 6 and closes Oct 8, with anchor bids on Oct 3 timesofindia.indiatimes.com moneycontrol.com. The issue is being managed by a consortium of banks (including Kotak Mahindra, Axis, HDFC Bank, etc.) bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com. Per regulatory filings, the fresh issue is up to 210 million shares and the OFS up to 265,824,280 shares moneycontrol.com (equivalently 21.0 cr and 26.58 cr). Tata Sons is divesting 23.0 cr, IFC 3.58 cr in the OFS bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com. The combined IPO size (fresh + OFS) is about $1.85–1.9 billion (₹16,400–17,200
27 September 2025
Oklo (OKLO) Nuclear Stock Skyrockets 500% on AI Data Center Hype – Bubble or Breakthrough?

Oklo (OKLO) Nuclear Stock Skyrockets 500% on AI Data Center Hype – Bubble or Breakthrough?

Stock Performance & Financial Metrics Oklo’s stock has been wildly volatile. It was trading under $10 in mid-2024, but surged over 1,400% in one year through Sept 2025 carboncredits.com – driven by AI/data-center hype and policy tailwinds. In 2025 alone OKLO is up roughly 550% YTD marketbeat.com. Trading volume is heavy and retail interest intense. At $110 (Sept. 26, 2025), OKLO hit multi-year highs (52‑week: $7.90–$144.49) marketbeat.com. Financially, Oklo remains pre-revenue and cash-intensive. In Q1 2025 the company reported an adjusted loss of $0.07/sh (no revenue) coincentral.com. Full-year 2025 losses are expected in the tens of millions of dollars. Oklo
27 September 2025
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Thai Airways (TAWNF) Stock Takes Off: Turnaround Fuels 2025 Rally and Bullish Forecast

Thai Airways (TAWNF) Stock Takes Off: Turnaround Fuels 2025 Rally and Bullish Forecast

Key facts: Thai Airways (OTC: TAWNF) officially resumed trading in August 2025 after five years of suspension, sparking a massive share rally Reuters. On its first day back (Aug 4), the stock jumped ~216% intraday (from ~THB3 to THB10.50) Reuters, and continued to climb (closing ~THB13.40 by Aug 7, giving a ~THB379 bn market cap) Nationthailand. The airline emerged from court-supervised restructuring in mid-2025 with about THB190 bn of remaining debt (nearly THB94 bn repaid) Reuters. Importantly, Thai has reported operating profits every quarter since 2023 Reuters. In Q2 2025, net profit (including one-off items) was THB12.13 bn, versus THB0.31 bn a year earlier Nationthailand
27 September 2025
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SpaceX’s Spectacular Launch Weekend: 50 Satellites Launched, But Troubles Loom

SpaceX’s Spectacular Launch Weekend: 50 Satellites Launched, But Troubles Loom

Weekend Launches and Starlink Expansion On Sept. 25 and 27, 2025, SpaceX sent two Falcon 9 rockets aloft from Vandenberg SFB in California, each deploying a batch of Starlink internet satellites. The Sept. 25 mission (Starlink 17-11) lifted off at 9:26 p.m. local time with 24 Starlink V2 Mini satellites Edhat Space. A first-stage booster landed on the droneship OCISLY about 8½ minutes later Space. Two days later, on Sept. 27 at 7:20 a.m. Pacific Time, Falcon 9 carried 26 more Starlink satellites into orbit Ksby. KSBY News reports that after stage separation the booster again returned to OCISLY for a precision
27 September 2025
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Georgia Power’s 500MW Battery Bombshell – What You Need to Know

Georgia Power’s 500MW Battery Bombshell – What You Need to Know

RFP Details and Requirements Georgia Power’s Energy Storage System RFP (announced Sept. 23, 2025) calls for 500 MW of utility-scale battery energy storage prnewswire.com pv-magazine-usa.com. Per the RFP, each project must be capable of discharging at least two hours (so each has ≥1 GWh of capacity per 500 MW) prnewswire.com. Bidders can propose standalone batteries with grid charging, or batteries co-located with solar or other renewables (new or existing) prnewswire.com renewablesnow.com. All sites must interconnect to Southern Company’s transmission grid (Georgia Power’s parent system) utilitydive.com powersystems.technology. The draft RFP (via independent evaluator Ascend Analytics) targets projects online between 2028 and 2031, with
27 September 2025
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No, You Won’t Get a Surprise $2,000 Stimulus Check in Late 2025 – Experts Debunk Viral Rumors

No, You Won’t Get a Surprise $2,000 Stimulus Check in Late 2025 – Experts Debunk Viral Rumors

Viral Rumors vs. Reality In September 2025, a flurry of social-media posts claimed that American taxpayers were about to receive another round of cash payments – sometimes called a “fourth stimulus check”. Many versions of these rumors named specific amounts (commonly $1,390, $1,702 or $2,000 per person) and linked them to President Trump’s talk of tariffs or a proposed “DOGE dividend.” But none of these claims are true. News fact-checkers emphasize that “all such claims are false” hindustantimes.com. The IRS has not announced any new payments, and Congress has approved no new stimulus legislation for 2025. Multiple outlets quote IRS
27 September 2025
AMD’s Explosive DDR5 Patent Could Double Your RAM Speed – But Don’t Hold Your Breath

AMD’s Explosive DDR5 Patent Could Double Your RAM Speed – But Don’t Hold Your Breath

In-Depth Report: Double DDR5 Bandwidth on the Horizon? 1. The patent and how it works. Late September 2025, AMD was spotted filing a patent for what it calls a “High-Bandwidth DIMM” for DDR5 memory pcgamer.com tech4gamers.com. According to the filing, each HB-DIMM has extra buffer chips plus a smart controller (an RCD) on the DIMM. The RCD decodes addresses and commands, and uses a chip-identifier bit to steer signals into two separate pseudo-channels of DRAM on the same module tech4gamers.com pcgamer.com. Because of this, the module can transmit data at twice the normal per-pin rate. In practice, AMD’s example shows
27 September 2025
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Trump’s Tariff Tsunami: 100% Drug Tax and New Import Levies Rock Global Trade

Trump DEMANDS Microsoft FIRE Ex-Biden DOJ Star as “National Security Menace” – All the Facts

In sum, Trump’s public demand to oust Lisa Monaco is part of a broader pattern of his second term: insisting that Fortune 500 companies demonstrate loyalty to his administration. It adds tension to Microsoft’s efforts to balance relationships with the White House while also pushing its global security and AI agenda. As Axios commented, under Trump “everything has a cost” for businesses axios.com. Microsoft’s likely response – quietly ignoring the demand while maintaining bipartisan outreach – will be watched closely. Sources: Detailed reporting by Reuters reuters.com reuters.com reuters.com, Axios axios.com axios.com, The Guardian theguardian.com theguardian.com, Business Insider businessinsider.com, Economic Times
27 September 2025
Markets Shaken, AI Valuations Soar, Oil Slumps: What You Missed in Business This Weekend

Virginia Tax Rebate Alert: Gov. Youngkin Announces Up to $400 Checks This Fall – Are You Eligible?

With these key facts in mind, here’s an in-depth look at Virginia’s tax rebate and what it means: How the Rebate Works In late September 2025, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced a one-time income tax rebate for eligible Virginians governor.virginia.gov. Under the plan, anyone who had a tax liability on their 2024 Virginia return and files by Nov. 3, 2025 will get a rebate check. Individual filers receive $200 and married/joint filers $400 governor.virginia.gov. (However, the rebate is capped by your actual tax liability – e.g. if you only owed $150 in tax, that’s all you’d get back kiplinger.com.) To get
27 September 2025
GPU Wars 2025: NVIDIA vs AMD vs Intel – The Ultimate Graphics Showdown

Nvidia’s AI Throne Under Siege? The 2030 Battle Plan From Broadcom, AMD—and a Surprise Challenger

Key facts (as of Sep 27, 2025) The in-depth report 1) The setup: AI compute demand keeps compounding Nvidia still commands the AI-accelerator market, but the demand curve (frontier model training, inference scale-out, and AI-enabled enterprise software) is so steep that second-source and custom solutions are economically inevitable. Even Nvidia is leaning in with customers: the company plans up to $100B in OpenAI, delivering systems beginning in late 2026 to help build ≥10 GW of capacity. Reuters framed it as a tie-up that “intensifies the AI datacenter race.” Reuters On the flip side, analysts note unanswered questions about the structure
27 September 2025
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Vanguard’s Crypto U-Turn: $10T Giant Opens Doors to Bitcoin ETFs

Vanguard’s Crypto U-Turn: $10T Giant Opens Doors to Bitcoin ETFs

Background: Vanguard’s Historic Crypto Caution For years Vanguard famously shunned cryptocurrencies. Its founder, John Bogle, viewed Bitcoin as “speculative” and not fitting Vanguard’s long-term, value-focused philosophy cryptoslate.com coinlaw.io. Even after the first US spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in Jan 2024, Vanguard refused to list them on its brokerage platform coinlaw.io cryptoslate.com. By early 2024 it had removed even Bitcoin futures products from its offerings. In short, Vanguard had been a crypto outlier among big asset managers cryptoslate.com cryptoinamerica.com. That stance began to shift with the arrival of CEO Salim Ramji (formerly a top BlackRock ETF executive) in mid-2024. Ramji’s background
27 September 2025
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You Won’t Believe What Google Did This Month: July 2025’s Biggest Stories

Google Turns 27: The Shocking Rise of a Garage Project into a Tech Titan

Origins: Stanford Project to Garage Startup In the mid-1990s, PhD students Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University built a search engine called “BackRub” that ranked web pages by link analysis. In Sept. 1997 they registered the name google.com (a play on “googol,” meaning a huge number) to reflect their mission of organizing vast information youm7.com. In 1998 they received a $100,000 seed investment and formally incorporated Google on September 4, 1998 in a modest garage in Menlo Park, California youm7.com sawtksa.com. (Curiously, Google later chose Sept. 27 as its official birthday, coinciding with its first doodle logo celebration.)
27 September 2025
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Vietnam’s Crypto Gold Rush: Binance, Bybit & Korean Custodian BDACS Supercharge Da Nang’s Digital Finance Hub

Vietnam’s Crypto Gold Rush: Binance, Bybit & Korean Custodian BDACS Supercharge Da Nang’s Digital Finance Hub

With these bold moves, Vietnam is positioning itself as a regional crypto hub – but success will hinge on balancing innovation with investor safeguards. Vietnam’s Digital Asset Strategy and Financial Hub Ambitions Vietnam is aggressively pushing blockchain and crypto into its official financial system. In mid-2025 the government approved Resolution 5/2025 and new laws to pilot a domestic crypto market for five years vietnamnet.vn livebitcoinnews.com. This framework mandates that any traded “crypto assets” be backed by real underlying assets (no securities or fiat), issued by Vietnamese entities, and settled in Vietnamese dong theinvestor.vn vietnamnet.vn. It also sets a staggeringly high
27 September 2025
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Stock Market Today

Energy stocks set for a geopolitical week after Iran warning and oil rebound

Energy stocks set for a geopolitical week after Iran warning and oil rebound

7 February 2026
U.S. energy stocks rose Friday, with the S&P 500 energy sector up 1.88% and Exxon Mobil gaining 2.03%. Brent crude settled at $68.05 a barrel after Iran threatened U.S. bases if attacked. Saudi Aramco cut March Arab Light crude prices to a five-year low for Asia. Kazakhstan’s CPC Blend exports may drop 35% this month due to Tengiz oilfield disruptions.
Financial services stocks rally as XLF jumps, Dow hits 50,000 — what to watch next week

Financial services stocks rally as XLF jumps, Dow hits 50,000 — what to watch next week

7 February 2026
U.S. financial stocks rose Friday, with the XLF fund up 1.8% and the Dow closing above 50,000 for the first time, gaining 2.47%. Goldman Sachs jumped 4.3%, JPMorgan 3.9%, and Citigroup 6.0%. The Federal Reserve held rates steady, and San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly signaled possible cuts this year. Investors await January jobs and inflation data next week.
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