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Technology News 30 December 2025 - 31 December 2025

IBM stock slips in thin year-end trade as tech rotation bites; eyes turn to Jan. 28 earnings

IBM stock slips in thin year-end trade as tech rotation bites; eyes turn to Jan. 28 earnings

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 21:44 ET — Market closed International Business Machines fell 1.2% on Tuesday, ending at $302.05 as the stock eased back from recent highs in the final stretch of the year. Yahoo Finance The timing mattered. Liquidity tends to thin late in December, and that can amplify moves when investors rebalance portfolios heading into year-end. IBM has still gained about 37% so far in 2025, and Tuesday’s drop pushed it below key near-term trend levels that chart-focused traders track. A 50-day moving average — a simple trend gauge that smooths prices over 50 sessions — stood
31 December 2025
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Rigetti (RGTI) stock ends higher as quantum names stay volatile into year-end

Rigetti (RGTI) stock ends higher as quantum names stay volatile into year-end

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 21:48 ET — Market closed Rigetti Computing, Inc. shares closed up 0.7% at $22.41 on Tuesday. About 24.9 million shares changed hands, a level traders flagged as elevated for the stock. The move mattered because quantum-computing “pure plays” have been a fast-money trade in late December, with sharp rallies followed by quick pullbacks as liquidity thins. Investors.com said the group saw a brief surge on Dec. 22 before a three-day sell-off tied to profit-taking and lighter institutional activity during the holidays. Investors Fresh coverage has kept the sector on traders’ screens even as questions linger
31 December 2025
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Applied Materials stock snaps 7-day rally as China pushes “50% domestic tools” rule

Applied Materials stock snaps 7-day rally as China pushes “50% domestic tools” rule

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 21:50 ET — Market closed Applied Materials, Inc. shares ended Tuesday down 1.17% at $259.97, snapping a seven-day winning streak for the chip-equipment maker. MarketWatch The move matters as investors head into the final trading day of 2025 with China policy and U.S. export controls back in focus for semiconductor tool suppliers. Applied makes chipmaking equipment — the high-precision tools used to deposit and remove materials on silicon wafers — a market where China remains a key buyer even as restrictions tighten. Reuters+1 After the close, Reuters reported that Chinese authorities are requiring chipmakers to
31 December 2025
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Reddit stock (RDDT) slips after CTO share-sale filing; traders weigh AI-citation thesis

Reddit stock (RDDT) slips after CTO share-sale filing; traders weigh AI-citation thesis

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 21:26 ET — Market closed. Reddit, Inc. (RDDT) shares slipped 0.55% on Tuesday to close at $233.36 after a regulatory filing showed its chief technology officer sold shares. The pullback landed in a holiday-thin stretch of trading, when fresh headlines can move growth stocks more than usual. Investors are also trying to pin down whether Reddit can turn its growing role in AI-powered search and chatbots into steadier advertising and data-licensing revenue. Needham reiterated a Buy rating and a $300 price target on Monday, pointing to what it described as Reddit’s “AI citation dominance” —
31 December 2025
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Qualcomm stock edges higher in thin year-end trade as Fed minutes land — what to watch next

Qualcomm stock edges higher in thin year-end trade as Fed minutes land — what to watch next

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 21:28 ET — Market closed Qualcomm Incorporated shares finished modestly higher on Tuesday, closing up 0.22 points, or 0.13%, at $173.65. The small gain came as Wall Street ended slightly lower in choppy, holiday-thinned trading. The Dow fell 0.20%, the S&P 500 slipped 0.14% and the Nasdaq lost 0.23%, while Apple fell 0.3% and Nvidia dropped 0.4%, according to Reuters. Mark Hackett, chief market strategist at Nationwide, said: “It’s just a healthy rebalancing of allocations more so than an emotionally driven sell-off.” Reuters Why this matters now: late-December positioning can move chip stocks even when
31 December 2025
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Disney stock barely budges after-hours as DOJ cites $10 mln YouTube kids-privacy settlement

Disney stock barely budges after-hours as DOJ cites $10 mln YouTube kids-privacy settlement

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 19:19 ET — After-hours Walt Disney (DIS) shares were little changed in after-hours trading on Tuesday after the U.S. Justice Department said the company agreed to pay a $10 million civil penalty to settle allegations it violated children’s online privacy laws in some videos uploaded to YouTube. Reuters The settlement matters because it targets how content makers label kid-directed videos online — a designation that can determine whether platforms collect data and serve targeted ads. Privacy enforcement has become a recurring headline risk for media groups as more viewing and marketing shifts to digital platforms.
31 December 2025
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Adobe stock slips after hours as year-end tech rotation caps trading — what to watch next

Adobe stock slips after hours as year-end tech rotation caps trading — what to watch next

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 7:22 PM ET — After-hours Adobe Inc. shares dipped in after-hours trading on Tuesday, down 0.2% at $352.51, after moving between $350.10 and $355.24 during the session. The move matters now because U.S. trading is entering the final, thinly traded stretch of the year, when small shifts in positioning can push single stocks around more than usual. It also comes as investors have been rotating within megacap and software names after a strong run into year-end, with some money shifting away from crowded technology trades. On Wall Street, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq finished slightly
31 December 2025
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Cisco stock slips in year-end trade as Fed minutes keep CSCO investors cautious

Cisco stock slips in year-end trade as Fed minutes keep CSCO investors cautious

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 17:34 ET — After-hours Cisco Systems’ shares closed down 0.49% on Tuesday and edged up slightly in after-hours trading, tracking a muted late-December tape for U.S. technology stocks. The timing matters. With only a handful of sessions left in 2025, thin liquidity can amplify moves in large-cap names, and investors are rebalancing portfolios ahead of early-January data and policy events. Cisco sits near the center of that recalibration because investors treat it as a read-through on enterprise IT budgets and the networking buildout tied to artificial intelligence workloads. Cisco closed at $77.41 and traded as
30 December 2025
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Sandisk stock today: SNDK slips after-hours as company sets Jan. 29 earnings date

Sandisk stock today: SNDK slips after-hours as company sets Jan. 29 earnings date

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 17:33 ET — After-hours Sandisk Corp (SNDK) slipped in after-hours trading on Tuesday after the company set Jan. 29 for its next earnings report. Shares were last down 1.6% at $240.22. Business Wire The calendar update lands as Sandisk heads into the final two sessions of the year with a stock that has been among 2025’s biggest S&P 500 gainers. That has kept traders on alert for outsized swings around even routine company updates. Kiplinger Investors use Sandisk’s results as a read on demand and pricing for NAND flash — the memory used in storage
30 December 2025
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Ekso Bionics stock nearly doubles as Applied Digital cloud deal points to ChronoScale pivot

Ekso Bionics stock nearly doubles as Applied Digital cloud deal points to ChronoScale pivot

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 17:27 ET — After-hours Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc shares nearly doubled on Tuesday, ending up about 94% at $10.58 after the company outlined a deal that would combine Applied Digital’s cloud computing business with the Nasdaq-listed EKSO. The stock was flat in after-hours trading after swinging between $7.80 and $12.70 during the session, giving the company a market value of roughly $36 million. Google The move matters because it recasts a small medical-device maker as a potential vehicle for an artificial-intelligence infrastructure business, one of the market’s hottest themes going into year-end. It also highlights
30 December 2025
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AMD stock today: After-hours dip tracks year-end chip rotation after Fed minutes

AMD stock today: After-hours dip tracks year-end chip rotation after Fed minutes

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 16:28 ET — After-hours Advanced Micro Devices shares nudged lower in after-hours trading on Tuesday, keeping the chipmaker close to its regular-session range as investors digested fresh Federal Reserve signals and year-end positioning. The timing matters because liquidity is thin in the final days of the year, which can magnify moves in high-volatility technology stocks. Semiconductors often swing with shifts in rate expectations, since much of their value depends on future earnings. U.S. stocks closed little changed, with the S&P 500 down 0.14% and the Nasdaq off 0.23%, as gains in communication services were offset
30 December 2025
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Microsoft stock ticks up as Nadella reshuffles top ranks for post-OpenAI AI push

Microsoft stock ticks up as Nadella reshuffles top ranks for post-OpenAI AI push

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 16:04 ET — After-hours Microsoft shares closed slightly higher on Tuesday after a report said Chief Executive Satya Nadella has reshuffled parts of the company’s senior leadership as it tries to sharpen its artificial intelligence push beyond OpenAI. Financial Times+1 The moves matter now because Microsoft’s AI strategy is increasingly judged on execution — turning data-center spending and developer tools into sustained cloud growth — while rivals step up their own offerings. The Financial Times said Nadella’s changes were aimed at speeding progress on Microsoft’s own models and product rollouts. Financial Times Macro added another
30 December 2025
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Micron stock pulls back from record close as Fed minutes, AI memory crunch stay in focus

Micron stock pulls back from record close as Fed minutes, AI memory crunch stay in focus

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 4:12 PM ET — After-hours Micron Technology, Inc. shares ended down 0.6% on Tuesday at $292.74, a day after the memory-chip maker finished at a record $294.37. The stock traded between $298.53 and $292.03 during the session. The dip matters because Micron has become a key gauge for the industry’s newest bottleneck: high-bandwidth memory, a fast type of DRAM used in AI systems. The iShares Semiconductor ETF was little changed on the day. A shifting mix of demand is driving the debate. Research firm IDC said major suppliers have redirected capacity toward AI data-center parts
30 December 2025
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MongoDB stock today: MDB slips as “MongoBleed” vulnerability and patch push stay in focus

MongoDB stock today: MDB slips as “MongoBleed” vulnerability and patch push stay in focus

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 15:47 ET — Regular session. MongoDB, Inc. shares were down about 0.3% at $422.06 in late-afternoon trade on Tuesday, after swinging between $421.85 and $428.22 as investors digested fresh security disclosures around the database maker’s software. The issue matters now because it affects core infrastructure. “MongoBleed” is tied to CVE-2025-14847 — a standard vulnerability identifier — and involves an “unauthenticated” attack path, meaning an attacker may not need a username or password to try to pull sensitive data from a vulnerable server. The U.S. National Vulnerability Database said the flaw was added on Dec. 29
30 December 2025
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Qualcomm stock edges up as Fed minutes hit; QCOM eyes Feb. 4 earnings call

Qualcomm stock edges up as Fed minutes hit; QCOM eyes Feb. 4 earnings call

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 15:14 ET — Regular session Qualcomm (QCOM.O) shares were up about 0.2% at $173.75 in afternoon trading on Tuesday, hovering near Monday’s close as markets digested new details on the U.S. interest-rate outlook. That matters for Qualcomm and other semiconductor names because investors often value them like “growth” stocks, whose prices can swing when bond yields move. In year-end trading, the rate narrative can outweigh company-specific headlines. Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s Dec. 9-10 meeting — the detailed account of policymakers’ debate — showed officials split even after approving a quarter-point, or 0.25 percentage point,
30 December 2025
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Why Western Digital stock is down today: WDC slides as year-end rotation cools AI-hardware trades

Why Western Digital stock is down today: WDC slides as year-end rotation cools AI-hardware trades

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 3:00 PM ET — Regular session Western Digital Corp shares fell 1.7% to $176.55 on Tuesday, after opening higher and sliding through the afternoon. The stock touched $181.34 earlier in the session before dipping as low as $176.31. The pullback lands after a standout year for the data-storage maker, whose shares have surged about 303% in 2025, making it one of the S&P 500’s biggest gainers. That steep run has made the stock a frequent target for late-December portfolio reshuffling. Barron’s Broader U.S. indexes were little changed in choppy, light-volume trading, with investors repositioning inside
30 December 2025
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Rigetti stock today: RGTI steadies as Fed minutes and year-end flows keep quantum names jumpy

Rigetti stock today: RGTI steadies as Fed minutes and year-end flows keep quantum names jumpy

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 14:34 ET — Regular session Rigetti Computing shares edged up 0.3% to $22.34 on Tuesday afternoon, after swinging about 3% between the day’s high and low. IonQ rose 1.2% and D-Wave Quantum gained 1.6%. The muted move matters because quantum-computing stocks have become a high-beta pocket of the market, prone to sudden swings when liquidity thins and rate expectations shift. With the calendar turning, traders are re-pricing how much room the Federal Reserve has to ease in 2026. U.S. stocks were subdued in holiday-thin trading, with investors rotating within technology after a late-year run-up, Reuters
30 December 2025
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KLA stock dips as China’s 50% domestic chip-tool rule rattles semiconductor equipment names

KLA stock dips as China’s 50% domestic chip-tool rule rattles semiconductor equipment names

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 14:00 ET — Regular session Shares of KLA Corp fell about 0.8% to $1,250.43 on Tuesday, after a Reuters report said China is requiring chipmakers seeking approval for new or expanded plants to show at least half their equipment will be sourced domestically. The stock traded between $1,249.69 and $1,273.20. Reuters The China headline matters for KLA because chipmaking tools are a long-cycle business: policy shifts can change where fabs (chip factories) buy equipment and how quickly foreign suppliers lose share. For investors, the risk is less about one quarter and more about visibility into
30 December 2025
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AI stocks today: Nvidia AI21 buyout talk hits tape as Meta climbs on Manus deal

AI stocks today: Nvidia AI21 buyout talk hits tape as Meta climbs on Manus deal

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 13:31 ET — Regular session Nvidia shares were nearly flat on Tuesday after an Israeli report said the AI-chip leader is in advanced talks to buy startup AI21 Labs for as much as $3 billion. Nvidia was down about 0.02% at $188.18 in early afternoon trade. Reuters The M&A chatter is landing in a holiday-thin week when investors are reassessing crowded AI trades after a late-2025 tech rally stalled on Monday. Strategists say the rotation has looked more like year-end rebalancing than panic selling. Reuters Traders are also bracing for macro headlines that can swing
30 December 2025
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Reddit stock price today barely moves as CTO share-sale filing and AI-search thesis collide

Reddit stock price today barely moves as CTO share-sale filing and AI-search thesis collide

NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 12:33 ET — Regular session Reddit shares were little changed on Tuesday, holding near $234.60 in midday trading, as investors digested an insider sale disclosed in a regulatory filing and a fresh round of bullish talk on the company’s role in AI-driven search. The muted move matters because Reddit has been one of the market’s standout winners since its March 2024 debut, and attention is shifting from momentum to whether the platform can keep turning AI-driven attention into ad dollars. A year-end tape that has been broadly calm leaves company-specific signals — even routine ones
30 December 2025
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Stock Market Today

Saudi Aramco share price set for Sunday test after Tadawul ends market-making deal

Saudi Aramco share price set for Sunday test after Tadawul ends market-making deal

7 February 2026
Saudi Exchange approved Merrill Lynch KSA’s exit as market maker for Saudi Aramco, effective Feb. 8. Aramco shares closed at 25.60 riyals Thursday, down 0.06, with 22.1 million traded. The Tadawul index fell 1.3% as Brent crude dropped to $67.93. Aramco set March official selling prices at $2.10 above Argus for North America and $0.65 above ICE Brent for Western Europe.
Meta stock ends week down about 6% as Wall Street fixates on $135 billion AI capex

Meta stock ends week down about 6% as Wall Street fixates on $135 billion AI capex

7 February 2026
Meta closed down 1.3% Friday at $661.46, capping a 6.4% weekly drop as investors questioned heavy AI spending. Amazon and Alphabet also fell after outlining major capital outlays. Meta’s Instagram suffered a brief outage this week. Legal risks persist, with trials involving Meta set for next week in Los Angeles and New Mexico.
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