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☆ Daruwala: HSBC's Senior leadership bitter about restructuring
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-30 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailDaruwala: HSBC's Senior leadership bitter about restructuringCyrus Daruwala of IDC Financial Insights talks about HSBC's restructuring plans and the outlook for the Asian-focused British bank.

Persons: Cyrus Daruwala Organizations: IDC

☆ Apple returns to top 5 smartphone ranking in China with iPhone 16 as Huawei battle ramps up
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-25 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Huawei trailed Apple in third place with 15.3% market share, IDC data showed. However, the company's smartphone shipments in China grew by 42% year-on-year, as it continues to stage a revival in the world's largest smartphone market. Apple stood at second position by market share in the third quarter, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). In the second quarter, Apple was knocked out of the top five ranking in China by market share. Canalys said Apple was fifth place by market share in China.

Persons: Apple, Tim Cook, Vivo, Xiaomi, Canalys Organizations: Apple, Huawei, IDC, International Data Corporation, Apple Intelligence, Oppo, CNBC Locations: Chongqing, China, Cupertino, U.S

☆ Interview: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff bashes Microsoft as generative AI threatens his company's CRM lead
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In a Business Insider interview this week, he let loose again, blasting Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant, while touting the Salesforce AI agents that are rolling out soon. In the interview with BI, Benioff focused on Salesforce's continued lead in the CRM market, rather than Microsoft's creeping gains. Generative AI may change CRMGenerative artificial intelligence may be a new challenge to Salesforce and especially its lead in CRM software. He cited CRM software, which replaced the physical Rolodex and helped salespeople keep in better touch with their contacts. It helps companies create their own AI agents to assist with tasks such as customer service and sales.

Persons: —, Marc Benioff isn't, Benioff, Copilot, Salesforce's, Rishi Jaluria, salespeople, Salesforce, Jaluria, It's, Morgan Stanley, Einstein, Agentforce Organizations: Microsoft, Salesforce's, Service, IDC, RBC Capital Markets

☆ Jim Cramer says Apple stock can 'blow through' records on real iPhone data out of China
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-18 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Apple stock was on track to close at a record high Friday after positive new data about iPhone demand in China. Apple stock was more than 3% this week. As a result, he predicted Apple stock will "blow through a lot of levels here." As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. THE ABOVE INVESTING CLUB INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY , TOGETHER WITH OUR DISCLAIMER .

Persons: Pro Max, Jim, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer Organizations: Research, Pro, Huawei, Apple, IDC, Apple Intelligence, iPhone, CNBC, Getty Locations: China, Shanghai, Nanjing

☆ Tim Cook is having a great week as Apple stock hovers within reach of record high
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-17 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Analysts are optimistic about Apple's iPhone 16 sales going into the holiday season. Apple shares hit a record intraday high earlier this week. AdvertisementFall is shaping up to be good for Tim Cook as Apple rounds the corner into the holiday quarter. Analysts expect the rollout of Apple's AI features to drive iPhone demand into the holiday season. Apple Intelligence is expected to officially launch by the end of the month, and new Macs are reportedly on the way.

Persons: —, Tim Cook, Nabila Popal, Morgan Stanley, Bernstein, Cook, Jacob Bourne, Bourne, Erik Woodring, William Kerwin, Kerwin, TSMC Organizations: IDC, Apple, Service, Apple Intelligence, Wall Street, ISI, Forbes, Business, Morningstar Locations: China, Xiaomi, Indonesia

☆ We're bending our investment rules and starting positions in 2 of our Bullpen stocks
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-16 | by ( Jeff Marks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

We're initiating positions for Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust in BlackRock and CrowdStrike . BlackRock is the world's largest asset management manager and leading provider of investment, advisor, and risk management solutions. There's a good whitepaper on CrowdStrike's website published by IDC that explains the value of the CrowdStrike Falcon XDR platform. It was a major blow for a cybersecurity company, especially one with a pristine reputation. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

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☆ Apple hits an all-time high as new smartphone data sides with the bulls in a sea of negativity
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Shares hit an all-time high Tuesday despite a chorus of recent concerns from Wall Street analysts about demand for the new artificial intelligence-enabled iPhone 16. Apple Intelligence is the company's new suite of generative artificial intelligence tools due out later this month. Available for preorder now, the tablet has a processor capable of supporting Apple Intelligence. Big picture The IDC data comes as many on Wall Street express skepticism around sales for the new iPhone 16 lineup. Apple CEO Tim Cook inspects the new iPhone 16 during an Apple special event at Apple headquarters on September 09, 2024 in Cupertino, California.

Persons: Morgan Stanley, Apple's, Popal, swoon, Jim Cramer, Jim, Jim Cramer's, Tim Cook, Justin Sullivan Organizations: Apple, Wall Street, International Data Corporation, IDC, Samsung, Apple Intelligence, JPMorgan, Barclays, Bank of America, Club, Nvidia, U.S, CNBC Locations: U.S, Cupertino , California

☆ Why Gen Z Loves Expensive Groceries, Treats, and Snack Foods
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-14 | by ( Eve Upton-Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

In a McKinsey survey in February, groceries represented the top category that Gen Z and millennial respondents said they planned to splurge on, outpacing restaurants, travel, and fitness; in 2017, Gen Xers were the top spenders on groceries, followed by boomers. In June, Bank of America reported that its Gen Z customers spent more at premium grocery stores than any other generation. The trend picked up steam with Gen Z. Millennials and Gen Zers are driving demand for vegetarian and vegan food. In a recent YouGov survey for Whole Foods, 70% of Gen Z respondents indicated they were willing to pay more for high-quality foods. Related storiesTo be sure, Gen Z isn't the first generation to serve up food as a status symbol.

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☆ We prefer China and India banks over others: Expert
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWe prefer China and India banks over others: ExpertCyrus Daruwala from IDC Financial Insights talks about the health of China's banking sector.

Persons: Cyrus Daruwala Organizations: IDC Locations: China, India

Zuckerberg's reveal of Orion late last month has triggered a level of enthusiasm that's unfamiliar in the metaverse. He showed off the gadget — a pair of black, thick-framed AR glasses — to the live audience before placing it on his face. In the meantime, Meta is looking to build on the success of its second-generation Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The smart glasses went viral on TikTok during the holiday shopping season, and sales exceeded both companies' expectations. Meta is also opening a pop-up shop to showcase the smart glasses and to get them in front of more consumers.

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☆ Harvard students made Meta Ray-Bans do facial recognition. Meta execs once thought this was a good idea.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Harvard students rigged their Meta Ray-Bans to do facial recognition, 404 Media reports. Nguyen told Business Insider that the experiment wasn't meant to show that popular Meta Ray-Bans are a problem. Another goal of the experiment, he said, was to help spread awareness on how to protect yourself digitally against facial recognition software. Meta's glasses can't recognize faces by defaultA spokesperson for Meta told Business Insider, "To be clear, Ray-Ban Meta glasses do not have facial recognition technology. Facial recognition.

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☆ Harvard students used Meta Ray-Bans to do facial recognition. Meta execs once thought this was a good idea.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

☆ Everyone wants to know what AI is worth. One investor looked to the past for the $20 trillion answer.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Miller's team compared AI's growth with past tech waves, finding consistent growth rates. In fact, the generative-AI wave looks a lot more like past tech waves than its revolutionary capabilities would suggest. That "rule of three" theory puts the value of the AI wave at about $20 trillion. Miller likened the AI wave to the mobile wave in about 2009, when there were few applications for the iPhone. "So the question is if compute is the primary underlying driver of economic activity, economic growth, economic opportunity, then there's an argument that it's actually bigger."

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to be remembered for this
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg knows how he wants to be remembered. Zuckerberg hopes Meta will be a "technology" company decades from now — not just an "app company." Zuckerberg wants people to say Meta took "really big swings" that changed the industry and the world. Right, we're not like — we're not an app company," Zuckerberg said of Meta. Zuckerberg said as well that he just wants Meta to be a company that "builds awesome things."

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☆ Oura, beloved by techies and athletes alike, is launching a new smart ring this month: Bloomberg
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Lian Kit Wee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Oura Health Oy is releasing a new smart ring this month, Bloomberg reported. CEO Tom Hale told Bloomberg that he expects the company's annual sales to double this year, to around $500 million. In July, Samsung entered the smart ring space with the $400 Galaxy Ring, which tracks health metrics and features built-in AI capabilities. AdvertisementIn May, Samsung filed a preemptive lawsuit against Oura, declaring that its Galaxy Ring does not violate Oura's patents. Last month, analysts from research firm IDC said that the smart ring market could retain its "premium status as a select few brands still lead the category."

Persons: Tom Hale, —, Oura, Harry, Apple's, Oura's Hale, Avi Greengart, Greengart, Hale Organizations: Oura Health, Bloomberg, Service, Oura, WNBA, NASCAR, Sun Valley Conference, Samsung, Apple, CNBC, IDC, Global, —, Business Insider Locations: Finnish

☆ Meta's new Ray-Ban glasses are pulling a bait and switch
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Amanda Hoover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Now, despite a rocky start three years ago, Meta's smart glasses are doing better than expected. Meta's Ray-Bans have a camera and speaker and are packed with AI. Meta's loftier goal, the Orion glasses , aren't quite there. Yet getting people into the Orion glasses may depend on getting people comfortable with smart glasses generally, and that's where the Ray-Bans could come in. And the Meta Ray-Bans make it even easier to use AI as you move through the world — no hands (and awkward air-pinching ) required.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Ray, Zuckerberg, Meta's Ray, Meta's, They're, they're, George Jijiashvili, Peter Kafka, it's, Bob Dylan, Lady Gaga, Amanda Hoover Organizations: Orion, International Data Corporation, Apple, Microsoft, Google, IDC, Research, VR, Business

Li-Chen Miller, the vice president of product in charge of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, told CNBC that when she travels, she uses the glasses to take photos of her hotel room door, and later, she asks Meta AI to recall the number. AI that speaksZuckerberg also introduced improvements to its Meta AI chatbot that will allow people to interact with it using their voice instead of written text. Users will now be able to have natural voice conversations with Meta AI, which is accessed through Meta apps like Messenger and Instagram. Users will be able to perform actions using their voice, such as telling Meta AI to take a photo by talking to their smartphone. The new Siri-like Meta AI voice feature will be available over the next month for U.S., Canadian, Australian and New Zealand users of WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger.

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In addition to the Quest 3S, Meta on Wednesday also showcased its latest prototype of augmented-reality smart glasses and announced a flurry of new features for its Meta AI chatbot. What it doesMetaA Meta representative said the "S" in Quest 3S stands for "start" — as in getting started with VR. Orion is Meta's first "fully-functioning" prototype AR glasses, Zuckerberg said, and the device is tethered wirelessly to a small "puck." The Orion glasses are an improvement on Project Nazare, prototype smart glasses that Zuckerberg announced in 2021, when the company changed its name from Facebook. As part of Wednesday's event, Meta announced new Meta AI features for its Ray-Ban smart glasses.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, David Paul Morris, Meta, Apple hasn't, Zuckerberg, Meta's, Cristiano Amon, Nurphoto, EssilorLuxottica, Ban, Ray, Chen Miller, Judi Dench, John Cena, Keegan, Michael Key, Kristen Bell, Siri, OpenAI, ChatGPT Organizations: Meta, Inc, Chase Center, Bloomberg, Getty, Labs, Apple, VR, Amazon Music, Amazon, Quest Pro, Orion, Facebook, Qualcomm, Samsung, Google, Nurphoto, CNBC, IDC, Wednesday Locations: San Francisco , California, Menlo Park , California, Oculus, New Zealand

☆ We should be concerned about U.S. banks and a capital adequacy of 9% is 'dramatically low': IDC
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWe should be concerned about U.S. banks and a capital adequacy of 9% is 'dramatically low': IDCCyrus Daruwala of IDC Financial Insights says the arguments used by institutions that are pushing against the Bank for International Settlements' Basel III capital requirements framework could amount to "funny money".

Persons: IDC Cyrus Daruwala Organizations: IDC, Bank for International Settlements, Basel III Locations: Basel

☆ AI-powered search startup Glean doubles valuation in new funding round led by Altimeter
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Riley De León | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

AI-powered search startup Glean said Tuesday it has raised $260 million in a funding round that values the tech company at $4.6 billion — more than double its last reported valuation. Glean competes with a herd of well-financed generative AI startups and tech giants, attempting to compete with Microsoft Copilot and chatbot Amazon Q. Glean's Series E round, led by Altimeter and DST Global, includes Craft Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, all new investors in the company. Founder and CEO Arvind Jain started Glean in 2019 with other former Google engineers as an enterprise search engine. The company soon transitioned to generative AI.

Persons: Arvind Jain, Glean, Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, Jain Organizations: CNBC, Glean, Microsoft, DST Global, Craft Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Latitude, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, IDC Locations: Lisbon, Portugal, Palo Alto , California

☆ IDC: Huawei needs an AI story to compete with Apple
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailIDC: Huawei needs an AI story to compete with AppleNavkendar Singh IDC discusses the dueling new product releases by tech giants Apple and Huawei.

Organizations: IDC, Huawei, Apple Navkendar Singh IDC, Apple

☆ Huawei's new trifold phone got more than 2 million preorders in a few hours, just before Apple is set to announce new iPhones
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Shubhangi Goel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewOne of China's top smartphone makers raked in 2.8 million preorders for its latest phone just one day after reservations began — even before people learned its price. Huawei's Mate XT, a trifold smartphone, is set to be unveiled during an event on Tuesday in China. On Huawei's online sales platform, which is selling the device in two colors, nearly 3 million people had registered interest at publication time. While pricing for the latest phone, which folds twice, is not known, Huawei has recently been competing with Apple in the same price territory. According to data compiled by third parties, Apple has recently fallen off the list of the top five best-selling smartphone makers in China.

Persons: —, Xiaomi Organizations: Service, Business, Apple, Huawei, IDC Locations: China, Shenzhen

☆ AI gadgets have been a bust so far. Apple aims to change that
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Steve Kovach | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

The system is called Apple Intelligence, and it'll be rolling out over the coming months. Apple plans to roll out Apple Intelligence in stages. Plus, app developers will be able tap into Apple intelligence, so you can use it everywhere on your phone. In the PC market, Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs launched this summer, but without their marquee AI feature, Recall. Without Recall, there's not much AI in this batch of AI PCs.

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☆ Google's live demo of Gemini ramps up pressure on Apple as AI reaches smartphone users
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-14 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

During Google's Pixel phone launch on Tuesday, a product director named David Citron took the stage to show off the mobile capabilities of the company's new AI assistant, Gemini. Rivals are preparing consumers for a future of AI, but Google's Gemini features are real and are shipping — at least for testing purposes — now. Google's kickoff on Tuesday could put renewed pressure on Apple, as the two smartphone market leaders race to integrate AI into their operating systems. Google's most important presentation on Tuesday was Gemini Live, its next-generation assistant. The company said Apple's approach is less private than Google's, because Gemini "doesn't require hand-off to a third-party AI provider you may not know or trust."

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☆ Apple set to report fiscal third-quarter earnings after the bell
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Apple CEO Tim Cook attends the annual developer conference event at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California, U.S., June 10, 2024. Apple's third quarter, which ends in June, is traditionally the company's slowest quarter of the year by sales. This year, the "main event" won't be Apple's earnings, wrote Barclays analyst Tim Long, it's what the company says about the September quarter, which is nearly one-third over. Apple revealed Apple Intelligence in June, and the first preview version of some features was released earlier this week. JPMorgan analyst Samik Chatterjee expects Apple to reassure investors that the coming iPhone replacement cycle will include better-than-expected revenue, thanks to AI.

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