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CE 100 Index Slips 2% as Bank Earnings Spark Decline
Connected Economy // April 15, 2024

Earnings season has begun, and at least initially, investors seemed nonplussed. Despite resilient consumer spending, inflation’s sticky too — and pressures are evident in the CE 100 Index, especially on lower-income households. Banking names led the headlines, as the group was down by 4.1% through...

Closing the Awareness-Action Gap Key to Strengthening API Security 
API // April 03, 2024

Application programming interfaces (APIs) have become the cornerstone of the digital ecosystem, handling a significant share of internet traffic and enabling seamless interactions among various software systems and platforms. In the banking sector, for instance, the use of APIs is on the rise, with a...

Fastly Rolls Out Tool to Help Battle Bot Attacks
Fraud Prevention // April 02, 2024

Edge cloud platform Fastly has launched a tool to help companies combat bot attacks. Fastly Bot Management is designed to help clients prevent fraud, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, account takeovers and other online abuse, according to a Tuesday (April 2) news release. “Every day, bad...

CE 100 Index Slips 0.5% as Porch’s 33% Rally Is Offset by Fastly’s Slide
Connected Economy // February 19, 2024

The end of earning season is in sight — the last slew of reports will appear through the next few weeks. And headed into the long President’s Day weekend, the CE 100 Index’s fortunes were dictated by dramatic swings in individual names, in most cases...

Interviews & Exclusives
CE 100 Index Rises 0.7% as Earnings Drive Lifestyle Categories

May 06, 2024
The CE 100 Index gained 0.7%, buoyed by continued earnings reports that boosted the fortunes of the Shop and Live pillars. Shares of Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Philips) were 27.6% higher, as the Live segment of the CE 100 Index was 4.2% higher. The company said comparable sales were 2% higher year over year, to 4.1 […]

CE 100 Index Slips 2% as Bank Earnings Spark Decline

April 15, 2024
Earnings season has begun, and at least initially, investors seemed nonplussed. Despite resilient consumer spending, inflation’s sticky too — and pressures are evident in the CE 100 Index, especially on...

CE 100 Index Slips 0.5% as Porch’s 33% Rally Is Offset by Fastly’s Slide

February 19, 2024
The end of earning season is in sight — the last slew of reports will appear through the next few weeks. And headed into the long President’s Day weekend, the...

CE 100 Index Slips 2.6% as Block and PayPal Drop Double Digits 

August 07, 2023
Earnings were everywhere this past week. And for the CE 100 Index, earnings-related headlines were the sole drivers of stocks to the upside — and overwhelmingly, to the downside. To...

Quick Reads
Fastly Rolls Out Tool to Help Battle Bot Attacks

April 02, 2024
Edge cloud platform Fastly has launched a tool to help companies combat bot attacks. Fastly Bot Management is designed to help clients prevent fraud, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, account takeovers and other online abuse, according to a Tuesday (April 2) news release. “Every day, bad actors, including bot operators, are looking to disrupt and fraudulently […]

Edge Cloud Network Firm Fastly Acquires Fanout

March 30, 2022
Edge cloud network provider Fastly has acquired push platform Fanout for an undisclosed sum, the company announced on its website Wednesday (March 30). Fanout’s platform makes it easy to build...

Fastly Implements Fix For Software Bug That Caused Outage

June 09, 2021
Fastly Inc., which operates a content delivery network, announced that it quickly detected a software bug that caused an outage on Tuesday (June 8), and that most of its network...

Google And Apple Absent From Cybersecurity Tech Accord That Facebook And Microsoft Signed

April 18, 2018
Technology companies are making the pledge to protect customers from cyberattacks, as well as making sure they don’t help governments advance their cyber warfare efforts. The Cybersecurity Tech Accord is...