Technology News 27 October 2025 - 29 October 2025

Stock Price & Recent Performance As of October 28, 2025, Opendoor’s stock trades around $8 per share after a tumultuous few months. The price action has been nothing short of a rollercoaster. In mid-2025, OPEN was languishing under $1 – effectively a penny stock – before an explosive rally took it to a 52-week high of $10.87 by mid-Septemberts2.techts2.tech. That run-up represents roughly a +1,600% climb in just a few months. Even after retracing from the peak, Opendoor is still up around 400% for the year, vastly outperforming the broader marketts2.tech. By early autumn, Yahoo Finance noted OPEN as one

Q3 Results and 5G Deal Windfall Nokia’s Q3 2025 earnings (reported Oct 23) exceeded expectations and set off the recent rally. Revenue rose to €4.83 billion (up ~12% YoY) sa.marketscreener.com, driven by strength in its Optical Networks and Cloud & Network Services segments. Comparable operating profit hit €435 million sa.marketscreener.com, well above analysts’ €342 million estimate. Management raised its full-year operating profit guidance to €1.7–2.2 billion (from up to €2.1 B) sa.marketscreener.com. Investors cheered not just the beat, but the context of Nokia’s strategic moves. Major 5G network contracts announced in October bolstered confidence. For example, Nokia extended a 5G rollout partnership with Vodafone/Vodacom across Europe

Shares Soar on AI Buzz and “Rescue” Deals Intel’s stock price has rallied dramatically in 2025, recently reaching its highest level since early 2024 on the back of AI optimism and hefty strategic investments. Intel Corporation’s stock price has been on a tear, hitting levels not seen in over a year and a half. Shares of the Silicon Valley semiconductor icon jumped as much as 7–8% after its latest earnings report, briefly reaching an 18-month high (around $39–$40)reuters.com. The stock is now trading near a two-year peak, marking a dramatic turnaround from its struggles in 2022–2024. Year-to-date, INTC has nearly

Amazon’s Largest-Ever Job Cut: 30,000 Roles to Go In a startling cost-cutting move, Amazon is poised to eliminate up to 30,000 corporate jobs starting Tuesday (Oct. 28)reuters.com. That figure represents nearly 10% of Amazon’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees and marks the biggest layoff in the company’s historyreuters.com. For comparison, Amazon’s previous major downsizing in late 2022 and early 2023 totaled about 27,000 job cutsreuters.com. The latest cuts – reported by Reuters and confirmed by other outlets – underscore how dramatically Amazon is moving to streamline its business after years of rapid workforce expansion. Amazon has not officially commented on the reports of the layoffsreuters.com. However, three

Key Facts: Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) shares trade in the mid-$700s (≈$740 on Oct. 27, 2025), up roughly 25% year-to-datets2.techinvesting.com. Market cap is about $1.8 trillionts2.tech. Over 40 Wall Street analysts rate META a “Buy,” with 12‑month price targets in the $825–$900 range (roughly 10–20% above current prices)ts2.techbenzinga.com. Meta reports Q3 2025 earnings on Oct. 29 after market close, with consensus around $49–50 billion revenue (≈+22% YoY)ig.comts2.tech. Recent corporate moves include a $27 billion AI data-center joint venture with Blue Owl Capitalts2.tech, major AI hiring (and concurrent lab layoffs)ts2.tech, and new products (e.g. Ray-Ban AR glasses)ts2.tech. In Europe, regulators have flagged Meta

In summary, Microsoft’s stock is trading near all-time highs on an AI-and-cloud-fueled rally. Record-breaking financial results and massive new infrastructure projects have traders cheering, while top analysts say the upside could run to the mid-$600s. With tech indexes at new peaks and big data-center investments announced (including that $40B Aligned deal), the momentum remains strongreuters.comreuters.com. The key near-term catalyst will be next week’s earnings report: as one analyst put it, MSFT’s “multiple growth engines” mean Wall Street is mostly “buying on dips” and betting the uptrend will continuetipranks.comts2.tech. Sources: Company filings and news releases; Reuters, CNBC and other business pressreuters.comreuters.comreuters.comreuters.cominvesting.comtipranks.cominvesting.comreuters.com.

Tech Titans Power a 50% Surge in Vanguard’s Flagship Tech Fund Vanguard Information Technology ETF (VGT) – the investing giant’s tech sector index fund – has been on a remarkable tear, skyrocketing by about 50% in the past six months alone nasdaq.com. The ETF recently notched record highs around $774 per share investing.com, reflecting a dramatic rebound in market sentiment toward technology stocks this year. The “unstoppable, high-powered” rally in this fund is largely thanks to its heavy exposure to Big Tech’s brightest stars and AI winners. Despite holding hundreds of stocks, VGT’s fortunes are tied closely to a few