Technology 10 July 2026

Snap trails Nasdaq—3% ad growth in focus for next move

Snap Inc. isn’t getting much traction from its new subscriptions yet, with shares finishing the week at $4.68, down 3.3%. That lagged the Nasdaq Composite, which rose 1.7% over the same stretch. Snap still faces sluggish ad sales in North America. U.S. markets are shut for the weekend and will reopen Monday. Snap’s next big date is its second-quarter results set for Aug. 3.

12 July 2026

NYSE:SNAP·Stock Market·Technology

Palantir Loses $29 Billion in Market Value in Three Days as Software Valuation Faces CPI Data

Palantir Technologies Inc. closed Friday at $126.79, down 8.7% from Tuesday’s intraday high of $138.90. The stock is also 1.9% lower than where it finished on July 2 before the holiday. PLTR slid for three sessions in a row, giving up an early-week rally that at one point put shares up 7.4% compared to the level before the break.

12 July 2026

NASDAQ:MDB·NASDAQ:PLTR·NASDAQ:RXT·NYSE:SNOW·Stock Market·Technology

Micron Stock Barely Moved Last Week. Its 16% Swing Tells a Different Story

With U.S. markets shut for the weekend, Micron Technology, Inc. ended Friday at $979.30, just 0.4% above its previous weekly close. That calm finish hid a rough five sessions: the shares traded from $891.66 on Tuesday to $1,035.50 on Thursday, a low-to-high swing of 16.1%.

12 July 2026

NASDAQ:MU·Technology

TeraWulf’s (NASDAQ:WULF) $19B Anthropic Deal Announced, but $3.5B Payment Raises Questions

TeraWulf Inc. finished Friday at $21.97, only a 3.7% gain from its July 2 close, after announcing a $19 billion, 20-year data-center lease with Anthropic. The stock fell 5.3% Friday. Traders are now less focused on the contract size and more concerned about build-out costs.

12 July 2026

Artificial Intelligence·NASDAQ:WULF·NYSE:MS·Stock Market·Technology

Alphabet Stock (GOOG, GOOGL) Faces Split Fund Bets Ahead of Earnings After Fresh 13F Reports

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Could Jump 25%, But Must Spend $55B a Quarter First

Alphabet got a new $445 price target from KeyBanc heading into the last full trading week before its Q2 results. That's 24.6% above where shares closed on Friday at $357.18. The stock slipped 0.8% for the week, even as the Nasdaq rose 1.7%. Results are due July 22 and stand as the next major event for the stock.

12 July 2026

NASDAQ:GOOGL·Stock Market·Technology

Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) Stock Fell 5.5%—The $6 Million Forecast Gap Raising the Stakes

U.S. markets were closed on Sunday. Netflix Inc. finished Friday at $73.37, down 2.8% on the day and 5.5% for the week. The S&P 500 gained 1.2%, leaving Netflix 6.7 percentage points behind the benchmark over five sessions.

12 July 2026

Breaking·NASDAQ:CMCSA·NASDAQ:NFLX·Stock Market·Technology

Nokia shares jumped on €5.5B defense-AI news—Ericsson moves in focus

Nokia Oyj heads into Monday with the Helsinki market closed for the weekend, after big swings last week. Shares soared 9.64% on Thursday as the company showed off its first operational results from the NestAI defence partnership. Nokia finished Friday at €10.90. Thursday's rally pushed up market value by about €5.5 billion, using the 5.6 billion shares not owned by the company, or 55 times the €100 million joint investment from Nokia and Tesi tied to the partnership.

12 July 2026

Artificial Intelligence·Breaking·HEL:NOKIA·STO:ERIC-B·Stock Market·Technology

Ondas Stock’s $58 Million DZYNE Gap Puts 85 Million New Shares in Focus

Ondas Inc. closed at $7.26 on Friday, putting the market value of the 84,999,996 shares committed in its DZYNE Technologies acquisition at about $617.1 million. That is $58.4 million below the $675.48 million value disclosed in a Form D filed on Friday. It is a market mark, not a change to the agreed purchase price.

12 July 2026

Breaking·NASDAQ:ONDS·Stock Market·Technology

Intel’s Altera IPO Plans Face $53 Billion Market Test

Intel Corporation lost about $52.9 billion in market cap between the July 2 close and Friday based on its current share count. U.S. exchanges were shut Sunday; shares finished at $109.84, off 2.4% Friday and down 8.7% over those days—a drop far larger than the implied value of Intel's Altera stake.

12 July 2026

Breaking·IPO News·NASDAQ:INTC·Stock Market·Technology

Broadcom’s Market Value Jumps $188 Billion in Apple Week—Six Times the Deal’s Worth

Broadcom Inc. closed Friday at $399.97, up 11% from July 2. Apple Inc. revealed a five-year U.S. chip deal with Broadcom that is expected to top $30 billion. Broadcom’s market cap increased by about $188 billion this holiday-shortened week, based on the company’s latest share count.

12 July 2026

NASDAQ:AVGO·Stock Market·Technology

The FCC Just Approved a Space Mirror. The Math Points to a $5 Million Lighting Bet

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission last week authorized Reflect Orbital’s first space-mirror test, but a public price cited by its chief executive points to a premium lighting business before it points to a new source of power. Ben Nowack has said one mirror would cost about $5,000 an hour under an annual contract of at least 1,000 hours, implying a roughly $5 million yearly bill at those terms.

12 July 2026

Innovation·Space·Technology

Arista Networks Added $34B in Value This Week—But There’s a Twist in the Numbers

Arista Networks, Inc. ended Friday at $186.96, up 16.9% from July 2. That price lifts its market cap to $238.1 billion, an increase of about $34.4 billion, assuming no change in share count. That gain is nearly three times Arista’s forecast for 2026 revenue, which stands at $11.5 billion. U.S. markets did not open Saturday.

11 July 2026

NASDAQ:CSCO·NYSE:ANET·Stock Market·Technology

Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) adds $3 billion in market cap as software savings target holds

U.S. markets were closed Saturday. Starbucks Corporation ended Friday at $106.01, off 0.38% for the day but up 1.7% compared to its last U.S. close on July 2. Shares jumped 2.45% Thursday to $106.41 after a report on its in-house AI software efforts, which boosted its market value by an estimated $2.9 billion based on outstanding shares.

11 July 2026

NASDAQ:SBUX·Stock Market·Technology

Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) drops $4.32 in short week, dividend in focus

Cisco Stock Rallies 8%, Adds 51 Dow Points But Trails Arista

Cisco Systems, Inc. closed Friday at $121.31, up 2.5%. The stock climbed 7.6% since July 2, adding $8.62 and about 51 points to the Dow. That helped limit the Dow’s 263-point drop for the week, a decline of 0.5%. U.S. markets stayed shut Saturday.

11 July 2026

NASDAQ:CSCO·NYSE:ANET·Stock Market·Technology

Apple Stock Rose 2%, but Broadcom’s Market-Value Gain Was Nearly Twice Apple’s After $30 Billion Pact

Apple Inc. ended Friday at $315.32, up 2.2% from the July 2 close, after a week dominated by a chip-supply pact worth more than $30 billion with Broadcom Inc.. Broadcom rose 11.0%; applying each company’s latest disclosed share count, that implies roughly $188 billion of added equity value for Broadcom, against about $98 billion for Apple. U.S. cash markets were closed Saturday.

11 July 2026

NASDAQ:AAPL·NASDAQ:AVGO·Stock Market·Technology

S&P 500 picks up 1.2% this week; tech sector sees 39% jump in cash inflows

S&P 500 added 1.2% for the week, but gains masked a split tape. Nasdaq Composite moved up 1.7%. Dow fell 0.5% and the small-cap Russell 2000 dropped 0.6%. S&P 500 ended just under its record as U.S. cash trading closed for the weekend.

11 July 2026

NASDAQ:META·Stock Market·Technology

SK Hynix Pops 13% on First Nasdaq Trade—Attention Turns to 15.5% Seoul Premium Next Week

SK hynix Inc. wrapped up its U.S. debut at $168.01, up 12.8% from the $149 offer price. What stands out for Monday is that’s a 15.5% premium to what the chipmaker’s Seoul shares and Friday’s FX rate would suggest.

11 July 2026

NASDAQ:SKHYV·Stock Market·Technology

Indian Railways okays ₹381 crore for rail tech but just over half to Kavach

Indian Railways’ ₹381 crore headline from Friday is for two separate projects, not only a Kavach rollout. Of that, ₹206 crore—about 54.1%—goes to Kavach, the train-protection tech that can brake a train if a driver skips a stop signal. The balance ₹175 crore will fund more loco maintenance space at Raipur.

11 July 2026

Technology

SWIFT Blockchain Goes Live With 17 Banks—But the Pilot Math Tells a Cautious Story

SWIFT said its blockchain ledger was ready for initial use this week with 17 banks across six continents, including Citigroup and HSBC Holdings, opening a controlled test of round-the-clock cross-border transfers using bank-issued digital deposits. The investor question is no longer whether SWIFT can build the layer, but whether its distribution network can produce meaningful payment traffic.

11 July 2026

Blockchain·LSE:HSBA·NYSE:C·Technology

AMD holds steady after UBS sets $1.1T target, AI rivalry grows

AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) Up Again, But Price Targets Showing Less Room

Advanced Micro Devices gained 1.3% to $553.71 late Friday, doing better than the PHLX Semiconductor Index but still lagging Nvidia Corp. The stock bounced back 3.1% off the session low after swinging through a $23.29 range, putting AMD’s market cap near $914 billion.

10 July 2026

NASDAQ:AMD·Stock Market·Technology

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