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The company’s A and B Class shares were both up more than 10% on Friday.

Spotify shares were up more than 6.8% in pre-market trading Monday morning after news broke that it would lay off roughly 1,500 of its workforce in an effort for the audio streaming service to cut costs amid slowing growth.

Meta is suing the Federal Trade Commission, claiming the agency’s in-house courts are unconstitutional and violate due process protections, a bid that also aims to stop the FTC from making blanket changes to a 2020 privacy violation settlement that would further restrictions on Meta’s data monetization practices.

If Curtis Priem, Nvidia’s first CTO, had held onto all his stock, he’d be the 16th richest person in America. Instead, he sold out years ago and gave most of his fortune to his alma mater Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Pfizer shares tumbled again Monday, continuing the pharmaceutical giant’s struggles tied to declining demand for its Covid-19 products and essentially wiping out the entirety of the firm’s peak pandemic gains.

Ron Baron, who reportedly owns a $1.7 billion stake in SpaceX, also expects the company to be worth $250 billion to $300 billion by that time.

Bumble cofounder Whitney Wolfe Herd will step down as the dating app company’s chief executive, the firm announced Monday morning, as the former billionaire Wolfe Herd slides into a new role while Bumble’s growing pains as a public company continue.

WeWork, a company once valued at $47 billion, now sells for around $1.12 per share at a market capitalization of $59 million.

Alphabet brought in a robust $59.6 billion in ad revenue last quarter but Wall Street soured on weaker than anticipated profits in the company’s cloud business.

General Motors shares tanked again Thursday as a possible issue with its airbags added to negative concerns over the auto workers strike for the limping legacy American automaker.