Carvana Share Price Jumps Up To 68% Following Positive Second-Quarter Outlook

With used-car reseller Carvana Co forecasting second-quarter adjusted earnings above Wall Street estimates as a result of cost-cutting initiatives, shares of the firm closed up 56.0% on Thursday, with some assistance from traders covering their bearish bets. Carvana shares reached a more than eight-month high during the session, rising as much as 68% to $26.09.…

Some Brands Are Annoyed By Microsoft And Google’s Plan To Test AI Search Ads

Ad buyers told Reuters that Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft are injecting advertising into AI tests without giving users the chance to opt out of participation, a move that has already infuriated several brands and runs the danger of drawing further criticism from the industry. The two digital behemoths are competing to upgrade their search engines…

TikTok’s Owner ByteDance Accused Of Helping China Spy On Hong Kong Activists

ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, has been charged with enabling members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) access to the information of Hong Kong human rights activists and demonstrators. Former ByteDance executive Yintao Yu claims in a US court filing that users who submitted “protest-related content” were also recognised and monitored. According to Yu,…

Inditex, Owner Of Zara, Has A Successful Start To The Summer

Inditex, the company that owns Zara, reported on Wednesday that sales of the spring/summer collection accelerated to increase 16% in May as the retailer offsets increasing labour expenses and retains customers amid a crisis in the cost of living. The largest fast-fashion retailer in the world announced a better-than-anticipated 54% increase in net profit of…

UBS CEO Forewarns Of Difficult Job Decisions Following Credit Suisse Acquisition

Sergio Ermotti, chief executive officer of UBS, cautioned on Friday of difficult decisions regarding layoffs following the acquisition of Credit Suisse, which he said he hoped would be finalised in the coming days. “We won’t be able to create, short term, job opportunities for everybody. Synergies is part of the story,” Ermotti said at an…

Researchers Claim Hackers Leverage A Weakness In A Widely Used File Transfer Service To Steal Data

One day after the creator of the software reported that a security issue had been detected, U.S. security researchers claimed that hackers had stolen data from the systems of a number of users of the well-known file transfer tool MOVEit Transfer. After revealing the flaw on Wednesday, software developer Progress Software Corp warned that it…

Japanese Privacy Watchdog Alerts ChatGPT Maker OpenAI On User Data

The privacy authority in Japan said on Friday that it had cautioned OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed business that created the ChatGPT chatbot, not to gather private information without people’s consent. The Personal Information Protection Commission stated in a statement that OpenAI should limit the sensitive data it gathers for machine learning, adding that it may take…

Concerns Related To Chinese Narrowbody Aircraft Does Not Worry Boeing CEO Too Much

Boeing Co. CEO Dave Calhoun brushed down rumours that the duopoly now maintained by the American aircraft manufacturer and its European rival Airbus SE may expire after China’s first commercial flight of its homegrown C919 narrowbody jet. A C919 carrying passengers from Shanghai to Beijing on Sunday by China Eastern Airlines 600115.SS marked a significant…