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Father’s Day Spending Expected to Hit Record $27.9 Billion This Year
Dads will be well taken care of this year. The National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics are projecting that spending…
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‘White Lotus’ Generated $36.5 Million in Thailand Spending and 300% Tourism Surge, Trade Chief Says
Thailand‘s government arrived at this year’s Cannes Film Market with “The White Lotus” as its flagship example of how the kingdom’s…
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AI-native enterprise spending surges 94% as SaaS stagnates at 8% and the SaaSpocalypse reprices per-seat software
TL;DR AI-native enterprise spending surged 94 per cent year on year as traditional SaaS growth cooled to eight per cent. The SaaSpocalypse…
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TikTok is spending €1B on a second Finnish data centre
The new facility in Lahti is part of TikTok’s €12 billion Project Clover data sovereignty push for European users. Finland’s defence…
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7 ways “just one more month” spending quietly traps early-stage founders
Every founder has had this conversation with themselves: Let’s keep the tool for one more month. Let’s extend the contractor for another…
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Amazon’s shares fall after announcing plan to increase capital spending by 60%
Amazon sales surged 14% during the fourth quarter, helped by strong holiday spending and a better-than-expected growth in its prominent…
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AI race sends Big Tech’s capital spending to stratospheric high
Each tech giant has laid out a slightly different route to recouping their investments Four of the biggest US technology companies…
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Google parent Alphabet says it could double capital spending in 2026
The big cloud companies are expected to collectively shell out more than US$500 billion on AI this year Alphabet said on Wednesday (Feb 4)…
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Google parent Alphabet predicts a sharp surge in 2026 capital spending on AI
Alphabet said on Wednesday it was targeting capital expenditure of $175 billion to $185 billion this year, in yet another aggressive…
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Jeremy Jacquet: Why are Liverpool spending £60m on Rennes centre-back?
Given the unforgiving nature of his position, it's no surprise there have been some mistakes. Jacquet has made three errors leading to…
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House opposition mounts to spending package needed to end partial shutdown
The government is in a partial shutdown, and the House may struggle this week to pass a second iteration of a funding package needed to…
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Senate passes '26 spending package, except for Homeland Security funding
The Senate on Friday passed an amended spending package that replaces a full-year Department of Homeland Security funding bill with a…
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Sen. Graham holds up spending deal to secure votes on sanctuary cities, Arctic Frost
Sen. Lindsey Graham is preventing the Senate from quickly advancing a spending package needed to keep the government funded, in an effort…
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Amex projects upbeat 2026 profit on steady spending by affluent customers
It expects revenue to grow in the range of 9 to 10% – versus expectations of about 9% American Express (Amex) forecast annual profit…
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From Meta to Samsung, global tech unleashes spending to chase AI
Memory manufacturers are reallocating production lines towards lucrative HBM to satisfy the needs of AI data centres The world’s largest…
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Meta leans on improved ad business to fuel massive AI spending
Investors have historically been anxious about whether the company’s businesses will benefit meaningfully from its hefty AI investments…
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Meta stock price soars on strong Q4 ad sales. Spending on AI is way up, too
Meta’s fourth-quarter results jumped past Wall Street’s expectations thanks to solid advertising revenue, sending shares sharply higher in…
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Freedom Caucus says it will block any spending bill without DHS funding from a House vote
House Freedom Caucus leaders said they will take any necessary steps to make sure that funding for ICE stays within the Department of…
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Five ways weight-loss jabs are changing spending habits
Esyllt CarrBusiness reporter They're the injections helping some people shed pounds, but weight-loss drugs are also transforming the way…
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Trump housing finance chief OKs more mortgage spending and adds risk for government-backed lenders
President Trump's federal housing finance director, Bill Pulte, quietly granted government-backed lenders the authority to nearly double a…
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House passes final fiscal '26 spending bills, leaving Senate to act before Jan. 30 deadline
The House passed the final four of the 12 annual spending bills on Thursday, leaving only the Senate left to act to prevent another…
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Netflix Tops 325 Million Subscribers, Plans to Boost Content Spending 10% to $20 Billion in 2026
Netflix said it had more than 325 million subscribers worldwide as of the end of 2025 — up from 301.2 million a year prior — as it looks…
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How lawmakers salvaged the spending process after a record government shutdown
Congress is on track to pass full-year funding for at least 11 of the 12 annual spending bills nearly a third of the way into the fiscal…
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Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach explains the future of global spending
What did the latest holiday shopping season reveal about consumer confidence going into 2026? Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach unpacks the…