Samsung may be preparing to challenge Apple (AAPL) in a corner of the premium-device market it has largely ignored for more than a decade. The company is reportedly developing a pair of over-ear wireless headphones that could be sold as Galaxy Studio, according to SamMobile and Android Authority. The name remains unconfirmed, but evidence of
Yum! Brands (YUM), the parent company of KFC, announced on Oct. 15 that it will end its beverage deal with PepsiCo (PEP) across its U.S. restaurants and replace it with Coca-Cola (KO). The change will take effect in January 2027, and KFC expects all its American locations to be serving Coca-Cola products by spring 2027,
A private equity investment can make someone wealthy on paper without putting much cash in their hands. An investor might own a valuable stake in a private company or have a share of a fund’s future profits, yet be unable to sell that interest whenever money is needed. The investment may be worth millions, but
Warren Buffett has spent decades building one of the most complex investment portfolios in the world. Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) owns railroads, insurance companies, fast-food chains and consumer brands. Its operating earnings topped $44.5 billion in fiscal year 2025. His advice to ordinary investors looks nothing like that portfolio. Buffett has repeated the same recommendation for
Mass layoffs at large companies arrive without much warning for the people inside them. Executives send memos. Managers schedule calls. Employees who built careers over years find out in a single conversation that their role no longer exists. What happens after that moment matters just as much as the announcement itself. The severance terms, the
If there’s a Roku stick behind your TV, Fox Corp. is about to own a piece of your living room. Roku sits in roughly half of all U.S. broadband households, according to Bank of America. That reach is exactly what Fox has been missing. The company has thrived on live football and cable news, but
One thing I’ve learned from watching the stock market is that a great company doesn’t always make a great investment at every price. I’ve seen investors fall in love with a stock’s potential, only to watch those big expectations collide with reality. And when the excitement fades, the drop can be brutal. I think investors
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) finished buying real-time data company Confluent in March, and the deal is doing its job of adding software growth. The trouble is that it now adds nearly all of it. Strip out acquisitions, and IBM’s own software sales were flat last quarter. Chief Financial Officer Jim Kavanaugh told analysts as
Falling bond yields are supposed to be good news for tech stocks. Lately, they haven’t been, and Michael Burry thinks that odd pattern could stick around longer than most investors expect. Burry is the investor who bet against the U.S. housing market before the 2008 financial crisis and reportedly made nearly $800 million doing so,
Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas doesn’t usually pitch a stock with a biology lesson. In his latest SpaceX note, though, he pointed to the human brain, which runs on about 20 watts, and to ant colonies that act as one intelligent swarm, to explain where he sees the company’s next big growth coming from. The timing