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Higher for longer interest rates and surging treasury bond yields have made investors, of all sectors, nervous. However, with increasing interest and innovations in AI and the cloud from tech giants - like Microsoft (MSFT) and Amazon (AMZN) - some investors are looking towards the tech sector for potential future profits. Wedbush Managing Director Scott Devitt joins Yahoo Finance to discuss what he thinks about opportunities in the tech sector despite worries of a recession. Devitt defends his bullish outlook, saying "these companies have proven themselves in terms of continuing to be secular growth stories. We have another cycle that we're in the first inning of in AI, and so we're very optimistic on the group overall." When it comes to companies that best stand to benefit from generative AI, Devitt points to Amazon and Alphabet (GOOGL, GOOG) are the clearest beneficiaries, but also companies like Booking Holdings (BKNG) which could benefit from how AI can enhance the company's offerings. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Yahoo Finance Live...

A former executive at Samsung Electronics' venture capital arm who proposed that mobile app developer Branch Metrics' software be installed in Samsung smartphones faced pushback due to pressure from Google, he said on Thursday in a landmark antitrust trial against the Alphabet unit. Patrick Chang, who worked at Samsung Next to invest in innovative companies, had urged the parent company to add Branch, which can search within apps, to its Android smartphones...

(Bloomberg) -- Wireless carriers balked at allowing Samsung Electronics Co. to load its Galaxy S10 device with an app search capability that Google lacked, due to potential conflicts over their contracts with Google, a former Samsung investment adviser said at the search giant’s antitrust trial Thursday.Most Read from BloombergAlmost Anyone Can Become the House Speaker, Except Donald TrumpOzempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart SaysOnly an Equities Crash Can Rescue the Bond Market, Barcl...

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Every antitrust trial needs a supply of incriminating internal emails or direct witness testimony to bring the claims of illicit business behaviour to life. This is a far cry from the far more overt strong-arming that Microsoft used to force PC makers to carry its internet browser in the 1990s — the basis of the antitrust case it faced a quarter of a century ago...

If market standouts like Google stock seem attractive, but a rickety economic outlook is holding you back, consider your options, says Harold Morris, MarketSmith senior product coach. While Fed Chair Jay Powell signaled rate hikes were unlikely in November, he reaffirmed the Fed's focus on tamping down stubbornly high inflation...

The CEO of privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo said its talks with Apple about a potential contract failed because of Google's multibillion dollar deals with the smartphone maker, transcripts of a landmark antitrust trial of the Alphabet unit showed. Gabriel Weinberg, who also founded the company, testified on Sept. 21 on the effect on DuckDuckGo of Google's $10 billion in annual payments to smartphone makers and others to keep its search engine as the default on computers or mobile devices. A redacted transcript unsealed late on Wednesday showed DuckDuckGo had struck a deal with Apple in 2014 to be shown as an option on Apple devices...

Germany's Bundeskartellamt has forced Google to stop sharing user data between services without consent...