CNBC Tech - Gaming

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  1. Google issued its first-ever dividend of 20 cents and authorized a $70 billion share repurchase program alongside its first-quarter earnings.
  2. Microsoft saw a pickup in the segment containing video games after buying publisher Activision Blizzard in October.
  3. Intel's report was the first since the company revealed that it had restructured its financial reports to make Intel Foundry a separate line item.
  4. Snap reported first-quarter results that beat analysts' estimates
  5. Drew Baglino, who announced he'd be leaving Tesla on April 15, is selling 1.14 million shares of the electric car company, according to a filing on April 25.
  6. Microsoft has more demand than supply for running artificial intelligence models in the cloud.
  7. Alphabet's revenue jumped 15% in the first quarter and profit in the company's cloud business more than quadrupled.
  8. Meta shares plunged on Thursday, bringing down Mark Zuckerberg's net worth, after the CEO told Wall Street about the many ways his company is losing money.
  9. InnerPlant's technology uses fluorescents in the plants, so the leaves emit a signal when they are in distress.
  10. Rubrik's shares appeared to be attractive to investors that have been starved for new business software names for years.