MarketWatch First Take: Tech-spending alarms are ringing amid Trump’s latest China-trade volley
Data storage developer NetApp Inc. has joined a small but growing chorus of companies crying that IT spending is slowing...
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MarketWatch First Take: Qualcomm is among biggest victims of Huawei fight
Qualcomm Inc. is getting hurt by the U.S.-China trade war, just as the world’s biggest economies move to the next genera...
MarketWatch First Take: Uber and Lyft IPOs mean the cheap rides are coming to an end
Uber Technologies Inc., like rival Lyft Inc., does not have a road to profitability unless it does one of two things: Ge...
The MarketWatch Q&A: ‘Top Chef’ host Padma Lakshmi: ‘It’s criminal’ how little VC funding goes to women
She is helping to give a total of $200,000 to five female founders in the food industry.
MarketWatch First Take: Lyft stops providing key data after IPO, then insults investors’ intelligence
Lyft Inc. began life as a public company by taking away crucial information for investors, and insultingly insisted that...
MarketWatch First Take: Apple deal doesn’t solve Qualcomm’s problems
Two weeks ago, investors cheered when Qualcomm Inc. and Apple Inc. settled their mega-patent and royalty feud just as a...
MarketWatch First Take: AMD is sticking with its story amid revenue decline
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is still looking like a second half story — and then some — as investors look for its new ch...
MarketWatch First Take: Apple is optimistic, and it isn’t because of the iPhone
As the iPhone goes, so goes Apple Inc., but maybe not for much longer.
MarketWatch First Take: Google sales growth is slowing, and it sure would be nice to know why
Alphabet Inc.’s revenue growth is slowing down, but the lack of any details about its business still doesn’t seem to be...
MarketWatch First Take: Washington Post’s 10,000 Trump untruths is about 25% fake news
The Washington Post’s count of what it calls “false and misleading statements” by President Trump is itself inflated.
MarketWatch First Take: New Intel CEO rips the band-aid off
Intel Corp.’s new chief executive officer Bob Swan pulled the band-aid off on some of chip giant’s issues this quarter,...
MarketWatch First Take: Biden’s focus on Trump, oddly, stands out
It might seem obvious that former Vice President Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign with a searing attack on P...
MarketWatch First Take: Mark Zuckerberg is begging for governments to regulate Facebook
For the second time in the past few months, Facebook Inc. co-founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg asked U.S. regu...
MarketWatch First Take: Elon Musk keeps moving Tesla’s finish line
When Tesla Inc. reported profit in consecutive quarters last year, it appeared to have finally reached a new stage in it...
MarketWatch First Take: Snap is struggling in one area where it needs to succeed
Snap Inc., the developer of the Snapchat mobile app, showed positive user growth in its most recent quarter, thanks to i...
MarketWatch First Take: Elon Musk is just another car salesman
Tesla Inc.’s autonomous driving day was riddled with so many pie-in-the-sky statements and inaccuracies that Chief Execu...
MarketWatch First Take: In a unicorn IPO race, Pinterest is run down at the wire by longshot Zoom
Two tech companies had different receptions from investors in their Wall Street debuts Thursday, as the much-anticipated...
MarketWatch First Take: Qualcomm gets big windfall in surprise settlement, but Apple may have saved the iPhone from 5G doom
Apple Inc. and Qualcomm Inc.’s surprise settlement agreement — in the midst of opening arguments of their much anticipat...
MarketWatch First Take: Salesforce.com buys Salesforce.org, and that’s the only straightforward part
In a deal announced Monday afternoon, Salesforce will acquire an independent entity that was created to sell Salesforce...
MarketWatch First Take: Uber, 2 years after getting spanked, acts like a grown-up in its IPO
Two years ago, Uber Technologies Inc. was the quintessential Silicon Valley problem child. Yet when the most highly valu...