SouthState Bank Corp trimmed its position in Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN - Free Report) by 2.7% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 194,655 shares of the e-commerce giant's stock after selling 5,303 shares during the quarter. Amazon.com makes up approximately 2.0% of SouthState Bank Corp...
SouthState Bank Corp trimmed its position in Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN - Free Report) by 2.7% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 194,655 shares of the e-commerce giant's stock after selling 5,303 shares during the quarter. Amazon.com makes up approximately 2.0% of SouthState Bank Corp's portfolio, making the stock its 11th largest position. SouthState Bank Corp's holdings in Amazon.com were worth $42,740,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period. Other large investors have also made changes to their positions in the company. Fairway Wealth LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Amazon.com by 113.2% in the third quarter. Fairway Wealth LLC now owns 113 shares of the e-commerce giant's stock valued at $25,000 after purchasing an additional 60 shares in the last quarter. Sellwood Investment Partners LLC purchased a new position in shares of Amazon.com during the third quarter valued at $27,000. Cooksen Wealth LLC raised its position in Amazon.com by 23.5% during the second quarter. Cooksen Wealth LLC now owns 247 shares of the e-commerce giant's stock valued at $54,000 after buying an additional 47 shares during the period. PayPay Securities Corp lifted its stake in Amazon.com by 62.3% in the 3rd quarter. PayPay Securities Corp now owns 250 shares of the e-commerce giant's stock worth $55,000 after acquiring an additional 96 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Access Investment Management LLC acquired a new stake in Amazon.com during the 2nd quarter worth about $74,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 72.20% of the company's stock. Get Amazon.com alerts: Sign Up Insider Activity at Amazon.com In related news, CEO Andrew R. Jassy sold 19,872 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction on Monday, February 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $205.18, for a total value of $4,077,336.96. Following the transaction, the chief exe...
Stock futures clung to the flatline early Thursday as traders assessed Nvidia's powerhouse Q4 earnings beat, highlighted by massive AI data center demand. Here are some of Thursday's biggest stock movers: Biggest stock gainers Nutanix ( NTNX ) +20% - Shares surged despite guiding
Stock futures clung to the flatline early Thursday as traders assessed Nvidia's powerhouse Q4 earnings beat, highlighted by massive AI data center demand. Here are some of Thursday's biggest stock movers: Biggest stock gainers Nutanix ( NTNX ) +20% - Shares surged despite guiding
Chinese AI tools have come under fire for allowing deepfake images that critics say are a form of “digital public shaming” targeting women. Free Nora, a grass-roots feminist media collective in China, reported last week that many internet users had been exploiting the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Doubao to generate non-consensual pornographic images of real women. “In the shadowy corners o...
Chinese AI tools have come under fire for allowing deepfake images that critics say are a form of “digital public shaming” targeting women. Free Nora, a grass-roots feminist media collective in China, reported last week that many internet users had been exploiting the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Doubao to generate non-consensual pornographic images of real women. “In the shadowy corners of social media, a large-scale ‘digital public shaming’ campaign targeting ordinary women has quietly...
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives There’s not much to love about big tech these days. So many ills can be laid at its door: social media harms , misinformation, polarisation, mining and misuse of personal data, environmental negligence, tax avoidance, the list goes on. ...
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives There’s not much to love about big tech these days. So many ills can be laid at its door: social media harms , misinformation, polarisation, mining and misuse of personal data, environmental negligence, tax avoidance, the list goes on. Added to which, Silicon Valley’s leaders seem all too keen to cosy up to the Trump administration, to shower the president with bribes – sorry, gifts – and remain silent about his worsening political overreach. And that’s before we get to the rampant “ enshittification ”, as the tech writer Cory Doctorow describes it, which means that by design many big tech products have become less useful and more extractive than they were when we originally signed up to them. We’ve entered into a Faustian pact with these companies: “While it’s brilliant to have access to high-quality products and software, very often for ‘free’, it’s important to remember that there is a trade-off involved – often of our personal data and privacy,” says Lisa Barber, tech editor at Which? We give these companies our attention and our information, which they then turn into big bucks and apparently unassailable monopolies. Continue reading...
Theatre says it will harness art ‘to inspire societal shifts towards restorative relationship with nature’ From “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” to “one touch of nature made the whole world kin”, some of the most famous lines in William Shakespeare ’s works are about the relationship between humans and the environment. It is this connection with the bard’s work that has inspired Shakespear...
Theatre says it will harness art ‘to inspire societal shifts towards restorative relationship with nature’ From “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” to “one touch of nature made the whole world kin”, some of the most famous lines in William Shakespeare ’s works are about the relationship between humans and the environment. It is this connection with the bard’s work that has inspired Shakespeare’s Globe to launch its first climate playwriting prize for 2026, which it says will harness the skills of storytellers and artists to “inspire societal shifts towards a restorative relationship with nature”. Continue reading...
Some say the technology is devaluing their work, while others reckon it is not yet – and might never be – good enough to replace them entirely Workers grappling with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence have said they feel “devalued” by the technology and warned of a downward trajectory in the quality of work. Recent analysis by the International Monetary Fund found AI would affect about 40...
Some say the technology is devaluing their work, while others reckon it is not yet – and might never be – good enough to replace them entirely Workers grappling with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence have said they feel “devalued” by the technology and warned of a downward trajectory in the quality of work. Recent analysis by the International Monetary Fund found AI would affect about 40% of jobs around the world. Its head, Kristalina Georgieva, has said: “This is like a tsunami hitting the labour market .” Continue reading...
Murderous governments and armed groups always considered reporters like Marie Colvin a nuisance – now they see them as legitimate targets A friend wrote to me last week to tell me that my name appeared in the Epstein files. “But it’s for a good cause,” he wrote. “Nothing sinister.” In 2012, shortly after my friend and colleague Marie Colvin was killed in Homs, Syria, I met with the now-disgraced N...
Murderous governments and armed groups always considered reporters like Marie Colvin a nuisance – now they see them as legitimate targets A friend wrote to me last week to tell me that my name appeared in the Epstein files. “But it’s for a good cause,” he wrote. “Nothing sinister.” In 2012, shortly after my friend and colleague Marie Colvin was killed in Homs, Syria, I met with the now-disgraced Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen. Rød-Larsen was a renowned fixer who had negotiated the 1993 Oslo accords. Janine di Giovanni is a war correspondent and the executive director of The Reckoning Project, a war crimes unit in Ukraine, Sudan and Gaza. She is the author of The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria Continue reading...
Premier Li Qiang has called for deeper technological cooperation with Germany and highlighted opportunities under China’s latest five-year plan – a move that could help ease tensions with the EU over the war in Ukraine and years of trade disputes. “We support bilateral flows of innovation resources between enterprises and research institutions in both countries,” Li told a symposium attended by Ge...
Premier Li Qiang has called for deeper technological cooperation with Germany and highlighted opportunities under China’s latest five-year plan – a move that could help ease tensions with the EU over the war in Ukraine and years of trade disputes. “We support bilateral flows of innovation resources between enterprises and research institutions in both countries,” Li told a symposium attended by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and more than 60 business representatives from both sides. “We can...
Investing.com -- Baidu reported fourth-quarter results that broadly met revenue expectations while delivering a profit beat. The company’s shares slipped about 3% in U.S. premarket trading.
Investing.com -- Baidu reported fourth-quarter results that broadly met revenue expectations while delivering a profit beat. The company’s shares slipped about 3% in U.S. premarket trading.
In China, some young people are paying steep prices for wish candles sold by influencers, hoping to rekindle a romance. One such influencer, Li Zhuofan, built a following of more than 600,000 on mainland social media after appearing on the Russian reality show The Battle of Psychics, where she used a candle to “locate” a person hidden in a car boot and claimed she could sense that someone had once...
In China, some young people are paying steep prices for wish candles sold by influencers, hoping to rekindle a romance. One such influencer, Li Zhuofan, built a following of more than 600,000 on mainland social media after appearing on the Russian reality show The Battle of Psychics, where she used a candle to “locate” a person hidden in a car boot and claimed she could sense that someone had once died in another vehicle. After returning to China, Li began selling handmade wish candles online....
watch now VIDEO 22:42 22:42 The 'Great Wealth Transfer': A $3 trillion opportunity for Black business owners is on the horizon Entrepreneurs There is a $3 trillion opportunity for Black and other minority entrepreneurs to become business owners as part of the "Great Business Transfer," according to a new report from McKinsey . "This is the largest ownership transition in modern US history," said S...
watch now VIDEO 22:42 22:42 The 'Great Wealth Transfer': A $3 trillion opportunity for Black business owners is on the horizon Entrepreneurs There is a $3 trillion opportunity for Black and other minority entrepreneurs to become business owners as part of the "Great Business Transfer," according to a new report from McKinsey . "This is the largest ownership transition in modern US history," said Shelley Stewart, a co-author of the report, senior partner and Chair of the McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility. "This is a huge opportunity but there is also a challenge, the issue is many viable businesses may not successfully transfer because the market to connect buyers, sellers and capital is not built at scale." Researchers forecast 6 million small- and medium-sized businesses, or SMBs, will be available for acquisition by 2035. If Black, Latino and women entrepreneurs can increase ownership in these transitioning businesses, it has the potential to unlock $3 trillion in new household wealth, the report found. McKinsey said the contrast between the opportunity and the risk is especially stark for the Black community. Only 3% of U.S. business owners are Black compared to 13% of the population. If current trends hold, Black entrepreneurs are expected gain $87 billion of the transferring enterprise value. However, if they increase their participation in the Great Business Transfer, the number could jump to more than $369 billion. Conversely, without greater participation, disparities in wealth would only be increased according to the report. Stewart added, the ripple effect of the transfer goes far beyond underrepresented communities. "The thing that is going to make this successful is having the broadest pool of entrepreneurs to buy these businesses, so that means you have to be inclusive," said Stewart. "This is in the interest of all Americans. This has implications on employment, it has implications on local economic spend, it has implications on wealth creation....
Andrii Yalanskyi/iStock via Getty Images All Eyes Turn to Nvidia as AI Scare Fades The tech sector bounced back from a rout driven by Anthropic-fueled fears of AI disruption, along with elevated valuations and heavy capex spending, as investors turned their attention to digesting Nvidia (
Andrii Yalanskyi/iStock via Getty Images All Eyes Turn to Nvidia as AI Scare Fades The tech sector bounced back from a rout driven by Anthropic-fueled fears of AI disruption, along with elevated valuations and heavy capex spending, as investors turned their attention to digesting Nvidia (
Private equity firm Summit Partners is investing $122 million in Montreal’s Stay22 Technologies Inc. , a startup that offers technology to help publishers and creators earn money from online sales. Stay22, founded in 2016, allows social media influencers, bloggers and others to link their content to another company’s transactional website. When a consumer makes a purchase, Stay22 earns a fee, whic...
Private equity firm Summit Partners is investing $122 million in Montreal’s Stay22 Technologies Inc. , a startup that offers technology to help publishers and creators earn money from online sales. Stay22, founded in 2016, allows social media influencers, bloggers and others to link their content to another company’s transactional website. When a consumer makes a purchase, Stay22 earns a fee, which it redistributes in part to those creators. Travel has been the firm’s main revenue driver, with Expedia Group Inc. and Booking Holdings Inc. among its partners. Retail is now part of its strategy with brands such as Walmart Inc. and Best Buy Co. “We were looking for someone that can actually add a strategic value,” Stay22 founder Andrew Lockhead said in an interview. Summit Partners, which will become a minority investor, has several portfolio companies in the content-creator space that are likely to help with distribution, he said. Stay22 says it is profitable, processing over $1 billion in transactions last year. “As creators and publishers become more central to demand generation, the need for intelligent, scalable monetization tools has become critical,” Summit Partners’ Managing Director Colin Mistele said in a statement.
Most Venezuelans expect the economy and job market to improve within six months as the US eases sanctions and the government rolls out reforms to attract investment. A new AtlasIntel survey conducted for Bloomberg News found 58% of respondents expect to be able to purchase more goods in the next six months, even as more than half said their families are currently facing a difficult economic situat...
Most Venezuelans expect the economy and job market to improve within six months as the US eases sanctions and the government rolls out reforms to attract investment. A new AtlasIntel survey conducted for Bloomberg News found 58% of respondents expect to be able to purchase more goods in the next six months, even as more than half said their families are currently facing a difficult economic situation. The findings point to a rebound in sentiment tied to a partial easing of US sanctions and policy shifts by acting President Delcy Rodriguez aimed at drawing foreign capital into key sectors. The results come about two months after Donald Trump ’s military intervention in Venezuela, which ousted socialist Nicolás Maduro and pressured Rodriguez to introduce measures including more attractive terms for foreign companies in the nation’s energy industry. In addition, the US has issued licenses intended to facilitate oil trading and production. During a recent visit to Venezuela’s oil facilities, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said there was “ absolutely overwhelming ” interest from investors. Despite the improved outlook, Venezuelans continue to cite corruption, democratic backsliding, poverty and unemployment as the country’s most pressing problems. About 52% of respondents also said they perceive an increase in civil liberties. That sentiment coincided with a surge in peaceful protests in January, with a local NGO reporting that demonstrators appear less fearful as authorities have largely stopped persecuting protesters amid international scrutiny, particularly from the US. Despite their optimism, Venezuelans still held a negative view of Rodriguez, with 44% disapproving of her performance compared with 37% approval. Only 29% of respondents said they had a positive image of Rodriguez, while major opposition figures and even Trump himself fared better. The survey interviewed 2,336 people across Venezuela from Feb. 19 to Feb. 25 and had a margin of error of plus or minus ...
The approval rating of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dipped to 56% in February, down nearly seven points since January and marking a fresh low for the leftist leader. The poll from AtlasIntel conducted for Bloomberg showed Sheinbaum garnering more support from men and from less-educated Mexicans, and it put her disapproval rating at 36%, up almost six points from last month. Sheinbaum, now i...
The approval rating of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dipped to 56% in February, down nearly seven points since January and marking a fresh low for the leftist leader. The poll from AtlasIntel conducted for Bloomberg showed Sheinbaum garnering more support from men and from less-educated Mexicans, and it put her disapproval rating at 36%, up almost six points from last month. Sheinbaum, now in her second year as president, commanded more than two-thirds support as recently as last April in the same survey. Mexico’s first woman president has had a challenging start to the year, in large part due to a sluggish economy made worse by acute US trade tensions as well as growing political conflicts within her ruling coalition over a recently unveiled electoral reform . The digital poll sampled 2,023 Mexican adults from Feb. 19 to Feb. 24. The poll’s respondents weighed in both before and after Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera , was killed on Sunday following a military operation. The reclusive leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was located in part thanks to US intelligence sharing. Read More: Mexico’s Big Cartel Win Also Risks More Violence Ahead The AtlasIntel February poll showed that corruption remains the top concern for Mexicans; with crime, insecurity and drug-trafficking grouped together in second place. Nearly 50% of respondents described crime as either high or very high, with gang violence seen as the nation’s top criminal problem, ahead of corruption, robberies, drugs or murder. But that’s down from 65% in February 2025. The AtlasIntel poll’s margin of error is plus or minus two percentage points.