Databricks valued at $62 billion from $10 billion financing

Databricks valued at  billion from  billion financing

Databricks, one of the most valuable privately held companies, announced a $10 billion financing on Tuesday that values the software maker at $62 billion.  With the money, Databricks will be able to provide liquidity to current and former employees, make acquisitions, and expand overseas, according to a statement. The company’s new valuation is up from … Read more

Snowflake shares slip after AT&T says hackers accessed data

Snowflake shares slip after AT&T says hackers accessed data

Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake and formerly co-founder and CEO of startup Neeva, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 21, 2022. Eóin Noonan | Sportsfile | Collision | Getty Images Snowflake has spent the past seven weeks dealing with the fallout of a major cyberattack that compromised sensitive customer data at several … Read more

Software stocks got pummeled this week on troubling earnings reports

Software stocks got pummeled this week on troubling earnings reports

Salesforce executives told investors that deals are shrinking or getting delayed. Dell said its margin is getting smaller. Okta highlighted macroeconomic challenges. And Veeva’s CEO said on his company’s earnings call that generative artificial intelligence has been “a competing priority” for customers. Add it all up and it was a brutal week for software and … Read more

Snowflake’s Slootman not worried about exodus: ‘Not a personal cult’

Snowflake’s Slootman not worried about exodus: ‘Not a personal cult’

Snowflake Chairman Frank Slootman attends the Snowflake Summit 2022 in Las Vegas on June 14, 2022. Snowflake | Via Reuters News of Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman’s retirement sparked an 18% plunge in the company’s stock price on Thursday, its steepest selloff since the data analytics software vendor debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in … Read more

Ford, Disney, Costco and more — Jim Cramer provides his updated views on each

Ford, Disney, Costco and more — Jim Cramer provides his updated views on each

Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. (We’re no longer recording the audio, so we can get this new written feature to members as quickly as possible.) As we gear up for the … Read more