Jeff Bezos sold nearly 12 million Amazon shares, his first sale of the company’s stock since 2021, for a total of more than $2 billion, according to a regulatory filing.… Read More
Amazon at less than $130 a share? No, the market hasn’t completely cratered — today is the first day of trading after the company’s 20-for-1 stock split, approved by shareholders… Read More
An Amazon stock split has long been on shareholders’ wish list, promising to make the company’s shares more affordable for individual investors. But it took Amazon more than two decades… Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sold half of his stake in the company in a series of transactions last week, divesting about 840,000 shares for a sum of more than $285… Read More
Adaptive Biotechnologies‘ stock rose 6 percent to $30 per share in after-hours trading on Tuesday after the company reported higher revenues and narrower losses than expected for its third-quarter earnings.… Read More
Apple delivered higher-than-expected earnings and revenues for the second quarter, sending the company’s stock up more than 5 percent in after-hours trading. As expected, the company’s services segment posted strong… Read More
Seattle Genetics on Thursday reported higher-than-expected losses for the fourth quarter, sending shares down 8 percent in after-hours trading. Quarterly revenues came in at $175 million, above Wall Street expectations… Read More
As the closing bell rang Monday, Amazon had surpassed fellow Seattle-area tech giant Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable company. The jostling came after Amazon’s stock rose 8.5 percent in the… Read More
Today’s featured stories Amazon criticized for ending warehouse bonuses and stock awards in shift to $15/hour wage Nintendo plans new Switch hardware for 2019 release, report says Silicon Valley VC… Read More
Today’s featured stories Amazon stock hits $2,000, and why one analyst thinks it is on the road to a $2.5 trillion valuation Microsoft contractors to get 12 weeks of paid… Read More
Satya Nadella sold $36 million in Microsoft stock, his biggest sell off since becoming CEO in 2014. Nadella sold 328,000 shares of Microsoft stock at an average price of $109.44,… Read More
Bumped wants kill two birds with one stone, helping companies build 1-to-1 relationships with customers while giving people an easier way to own shares of said companies. The Portland startup… Read More
Amazon’s market value surged to more than $702 billion on Wednesday, making the Seattle-based company the third-largest U.S. public company by that measure — surpassing its regional neighbor Microsoft for… Read More
Update: The Senate removed the provision that would have taxed stock options at vesting, rather than exercising, in a revised version of the tax plan released Tuesday. A section of the… Read More
Amazon stock is soaring Friday morning after crushing earnings expectations and disclosing that it now employs more than 540,000 people worldwide. Amazon stock spiked in after-hours trading following the earnings… Read More
Amazon’s stock is down again today, after the online retail giant reported its biggest profit miss in years. Amazon posted a 25 percent increase in net sales for the second quarter, to… Read More
Amazon stock briefly topped $1,000 per share for the first time early this morning, putting its market value at $478 billion or so. It has since dropped back below $1,000/share,… Read More
Despite reporting a staggering $481.3 billion in net sales last year, Walmart’s value still doesn’t even come close to Seattle e-commerce giant Amazon. Amazon’s stock exceeded $900 per share for… Read More
Amazon made even more news than usual this week — acquiring Middle East e-commerce company Souq.com, unveiling a new brick-and-mortar retail concept, shuttering one of its unprofitable acquisitions, and making a plunge into… Read More
Another strong earnings report has pushed Microsoft to a new milestone, lifting the company’s market value past $500 billion for the first time since the height of the dot-com boom nearly 17… Read More
By her own admission, Brianna Wettlaufer is “not particularly great at balance.” And yet, the Stocksy co-founder still manages to curate every image on the stock photo site she founded and… Read More
Microsoft has been trending toward a record-high stock price for a while now, and it got a major push in that direction when it beat analyst expectations with a strong earnings report… Read More
Anyone counting on a Monday morning rebound for technology stocks woke up disappointed today, as last week’s struggles continued with only a few glimmers of hope. The tech industry is just one sector… Read More
Microsoft, Amazon, and Starbucks all reported quarterly earnings Thursday afternoon, and investors are clearly happy with the financial performance of the Seattle-based corporations. Shares of all three companies were up on… Read More
Amazon turned an unexpected profit during its holiday quarter, and Wall Street has responded by driving the company’s stock up more than 14 percent in the day following the news.… Read More
This past week, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel at the big Rotary Club of Seattle, talking about the Pacific Northwest tech economy with a group of leading investors… Read More
Microsoft is boosting its quarterly dividend to 28 cents a share, a 5 cent increase — slightly more than Wall Street analysts had been expecting. The company also says its… Read More
[Update, Monday morning: It’s official: Google passed Microsoft’s market value for the first time in its history this morning, although it’s going back and forth as their share prices fluctuate… Read More
It’s become depressingly trendy to be a startup. Even the United States Federal Government is out stumping the benefits of the startup economy. Just like being an investment banker in… Read More
Nasdaq this morning sent a wave through the stock market with the announcement that that it will “rebalance” its closely followed and largely tech-oriented Nasdaq 100 Index to reduce the… Read More