Tae Kim

Roblox Investors Could Be Playing a Dangerous Game

A few weeks of improving trends is giving hope to Roblox Corp.’s investors that the worst of the gaming platform’s post-pandemic slowdown is now behind it. They might want to hit pause on that notion. Roblox — known by parents everywhere as the cultural phenomenon whose virtual playgrounds have…

Square Might Have a Bitcoin Problem

The easy money days for Square Inc. may be behind it. On Thursday, the fintech company — known for its merchant checkout system and its digital wallet Cash App that enables person-to-person payments, stock investing and Bitcoin trading — reported lower-than-expected revenue for the quarter ended…

Chipmakers Are Sending a Warning About the Economy

It’s transitory. That seems to be the message investors are sending as they push market indexes to new highs daily right after several technology companies warned supply-chain bottlenecks, labor shortages and delivery problems would crimp their holiday results. But investors might be missing…

Apple and Amazon Come Down to Earth

The supply-chain crisis is driving a wedge through big tech. Earlier this week, Microsoft Corp. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc. posted robust earnings results, as their software and internet-focused business models allowed them to avoid much of the supply-chain headwinds affecting other…

Facebook Calms Investors Despite Onslaught of Bad News

Amid all the scandals and controversy, Facebook Inc. watchers were on pins and needles going into the company’s most hotly anticipated quarterly report in years. In the end, it fell a bit short. But with many expecting far worse, sometimes avoiding disaster is good enough. Late Monday, the…

Microsoft Could Again Unseat Apple as Most Valuable Company

Microsoft Corp. is in the technology sweet spot. With another stellar quarter fueled by growth of the cloud computing business, the software giant is showing that it could have the best fundamental outlook among its tech giant peers. The company said revenue totaled $45.3 billion in its fiscal…

Intel Faces Double Trouble From Apple and AMD

Intel Corp.’s future is looking a bit grim. Late Thursday, the chipmaker posted worse-than-expected sales results with adjusted revenue of $18.1 billion in the quarter ended in September, up 5% compared with the prior year, and below the $18.24 billion median estimate of analysts surveyed by…

Can Google’s New Smartphone Beat the IPhone?

Google has long been an also-ran in the smartphone world. But as of this week, the Alphabet Inc. unit may have finally figured out how to compete with its iPhone-making rival: custom silicon. On Tuesday, Google unveiled the Pixel 6 and the Pixel 6 Pro, both featuring a new Google-designed main…

The Fragile Internet Is a Threat to the Economy

It has been a rough few months for the internet. In June, Fastly Inc.’s content-delivery network failure forced some of the world’s biggest e-commerce and media websites offline. Later, there were massive data breaches at T-Mobile US Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.’s Twitch streaming service. And last…

Electronic Arts Needed FIFA in 1993. Not Anymore.

Electronic Arts Inc. is considering the unimaginable: dumping the FIFA name from the company’s billion-dollar soccer video-game franchise. Given the excessive demands from the global soccer governing body, ending the partnership might be prudent. On Wednesday, the New York Times said FIFA was…