Prediction markets put Paramount’s successful acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery at 74% by July 2027, with 22% odds the deal fails by that date.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
CNBC
Duquesne Family Office boosted its Amazon stake over 1,000% in Q2, while David Tepper’s Appaloosa Management made Amazon its single largest position at $1.19 billion (+33%), and Peter Thiel’s Thiel Macro listed Amazon as its largest holding at $118 million (28%) in Q2 13F filings.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Berkshire added $17 billion of Alphabet (GOOG/GOOGL) shares in Q2 2026, bringing its Alphabet stake to $36.6 billion—its third-largest holding after Apple and American Express and larger than its long-time Coca-Cola position.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
SpaceX shares jumped above 225 per share shortly after its June IPO, then fell below 105 before recovering to trade around 148—just above the $135 IPO offer price.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
More than 4,000 Oracle (ORCL) 2-year call options expiring Sept. 15, 2028 were bought at a $280 strike—about 88% out of the money versus a $148.88 share price—implying a payback breakeven around $306.05 (about $307.55 using the bid-ask midpoint).
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
USDA forecasts grocery prices may jump 12.3% as fertilizer shortages and higher input costs ripple through food production, with JPMorgan warning the inflation impact could show up with a considerable delay.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Rental arbitrage lets entrepreneurs sign long-term leases and legally sublet the same properties on short-term-rental platforms like Airbnb, earning money from the “spread” between fixed rent and guest revenue (minus operating costs, platform fees, and cleaning).
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Ultra HD Blu-ray can support maximum video rates of 108 Mbps on 66GB discs and 128 Mbps on 100GB discs, giving it more picture data than mainstream 4K streaming when bitrates are constrained by network stability and compression limits.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
Engadget
Keeper’s 50% off deal cuts its Personal plan from $4.30 to $2.15 a month and its Family plan (up to five users) from $9.20 to $4.60 a month.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
CNET
North Carolina’s DMV plans to deploy mobile IDs in December via the NC Wallet app and expand support to Apple Wallet, Google Wallet, and Samsung Wallet early next year for drivers and state ID holders at no extra cost.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Engadget
Natasha Griffin was appointed chief executive of CMA CGM North America, leading ocean shipping, logistics, intermodal, and supply chain activities across the region.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Rothschild Redburn upgraded Apple (AAPL) from Neutral to “Buy” and raised its price target to $400 from $260, citing premium foldables (iPhone Ultra) and a strategic reset to the Apple Intelligence platform as catalysts.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Power semiconductor stocks jumped Monday—Wolfspeed gained 5.74% to $33.61, STMicroelectronics rose 4.17% to $56.56, and ON Semiconductor climbed 2.96% to $85.11—after Mizuho flagged a faster NVIDIA Vera Rubin ramp in Q4 2026 led by xAI and Meta.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Carrier Global (NYSE:CARR) is trading around $62.73, after pulling back from a June 25 nearly 52-week high of $76.76, with analysts pointing to $62.50 as a key support/resistance level and the stock nearing a trendline with historically bullish implications.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Walmart discounts include an HP OmniBook 5 laptop for $749 (down from $1,469), with battery life lasting more than 28 hours in CNET tests.
Aug 17, 2026 ·CNET
YouTube will count a view as soon as a video starts playing starting August 24, aligning view counts with the system used for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
The Verge
Linux kernel 7.2 adds Cache Aware Scheduling to aggregate tasks sharing data to the same LLC cache domain, reducing cache bouncing and cache misses and improving data access efficiency.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
ZDNet
You can run Debian on an old Android handset by installing Termux plus proot-distro, then using `proot-distro login debian` after `proot-distro install debian`.
Aug 17, 2026 ·ZDNet
Feedly attributed a weeklong slowdown and related problems in its web app to a bug tied to using “Mark as Read” on accounts with many folders, and said a fix was released Friday but was still being confirmed for all users.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Google pitched “HiLight” for Pixel 11 Pro models as a way to reduce phone distraction by glowing on the camera bar when an important contact calls, with text-message notifications planned next.
Aug 17, 2026 ·ZDNet
