On Friday, Deutsche Bank analysts led by Lloyd Walmsley raised their price target on shares of Amazon from $3,333 to $4,000, just one day after the e-commerce giant reported a blowout second quarter, which would the value it at $2 trillion. The firm said “it’s tough to see anything this quarter that was not positive”, although it did cite key risks to its call including higher competition and regulation. The Final Round panel discusses the bullish call.

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Head of Research at Manhattan Venture Partners Santosh Rao joins Yahoo Finance’s Akiko Fujita to discuss the latest quarterly results from Apple, Amazon, Google parent company Alphabet, and Facebook.

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“It is time to return to our roots and break up” big tech to “oxygenate the marketplace,” says NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway.

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Donald Trump is gearing up to issue an order requiring ByteDance to sell its ownership interest in TikTok, according to multiple reports — otherwise, he's threatened to ban the short-form video app in the U.S. over security concerns related to its ties to China. At the same time, Microsoft is currently in talks to buy […]

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According to the New York Times, Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok. This comes after President Trump and the White House administration have been looking into shutting down the company in the United States. The Final Round panel discusses the details.

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Suzanne Judd, Ph.D., an Epidemiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, joins Yahoo Finance’s Akiko Fujita to discuss the latest coronavirus developments, as Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before the House Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis.

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(Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. is exploring an acquisition of TikTok’s operations in the U.S., according to a person familiar with the matter.TikTok, a video-sharing app, is owned by China-based ByteDance Ltd., which has been evaluating changes to its business structure because of the U.S. government’s national security concerns.President Donald Trump plans to announce a decision ordering Bytedance to divest its U.S. ownership of TikTok, according to people familiar with the matter. The U.S. has been investigating potential national security risks due to the Chinese company’s control of the app. Trump’sdecision could be announced as soon as Friday, said the people.Microsoft is in talks to purchase TikTok’s U.S. operations, according to the person who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. A spokesman for Microsoft declined to comment.Read more: Trump to Order China’s ByteDance to Sell TikTok U.S. OperationsByteDance bought Musical.ly Inc. in 2017 and merged it with TikTok, creating a social-media hit in the U.S — the first Chinese app to make such inroads.As TikTok became more popular, U.S. officials grew concerned about the potential for the Chinese government to use the app to gain data on U.S. citizens. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., which investigates overseas acquisition of U.S. businesses, began a review of the purchase in the fall of 2019.Read more: TikTok Mulls Changes to Business to Distance Itself From ChinaFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.

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Apple announced July 30 that it would split its stock 4 to 1. But why would a company want to divide its shares up and what does it mean for shareholders?

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