Business headlines from the Apex backend, organized by sectors and major public companies for faster market scanning.
A new Street valuation call ties Amazon’s back-half 2026 outlook to Prime Day performance, pointing to a specific Wall Street target that implies sizable upside for the shares.
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A recent market analysis frames Mastercard’s growth push as a “multi-rail” strategy, while the company has also been reorganizing and reshaping regional operations to deepen capabilities in priority markets.
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Caterpillar said it is acquiring Skycatch, positioning the heavy-equipment maker to expand digital, AI-driven tools for mines. The announcement sent CAT shares down about 5% and pulled the Dow lower.
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The investment bank rated the newly public space and connectivity company a Buy, citing its spread across launch services, satellite connectivity and AI-related infrastructure.
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A venture capitalist says he spent 53 weeks emailing Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff before getting a response, using the episode as a case study in persistence and “super learnable” relationship-building.
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Erste Group cut Broadcom to Hold, saying valuation leaves limited upside, despite expectations for a sharply higher quarterly revenue figure that includes a large AI semiconductors contribution.
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The e-commerce and cloud giant is arranging a multi-part debt offering, according to reports, using strong investor demand to keep financing costs low while it continues to spend aggressively on artificial intelligence infrastructure.
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A Federal Communications Commission review tied to ABC broadcast licenses, along with scrutiny of political coverage on The View, has brought Walt Disney’s media assets under sharper regulatory attention and complicated the debate over how resilient the company’s “bull case” remains.
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A Reuters report says Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is developing its own semiconductor for AI computing, a bid to gain more control over hardware supply as US and other restrictions tighten cross-border technology access.
