Daniel Howley

    Technology Editor

    Daniel Howley is the tech editor at Yahoo Finance. He began covering the tech industry since 2011 as a writer for Laptop Magazine where he reviewed laptops and smartphones. He now reports on the business of Big Tech ranging from product announcements and earnings to deeply reported trend pieces and interviews.

  • CHIPS Act money is starting to move, but it’ll take years to see results

    CHIPS Act money is starting to move, but it's going to take years to get results.

  • Tech earnings season is coming, and AI is top of mind

    Big Tech earnings are coming up, and Wall Street wants to know how companies are making money on their massive AI investments.

  • Global iPhone shipments drop nearly 10% as Apple's 2024 woes continue

    Global iPhone shipments fell nearly 10% in Q1 as the company deals with rising rivals from China.

  • Google seeks to monetize AI investments with AI security add-on for Workspace

    Google's is adding more AI security features to its offerings as it seeks to better monetize its investments.

  • Apple’s Services business is a bright spot in the company’s rough 2024: BofA

    Apple's Services business is set to grow by double digits next quarter, providing a bright spot in an otherwise rough 2024.

  • Microsoft history: Beyond the Ticker

    From Windows and Azure to Word and Xbox, Microsoft’s (MSFT) products have made it a household name and tech powerhouse. In 2023 alone, the company generated over $211 billion in revenue, and currently boasts a market cap of more than $3 trillion, making it the wealthiest publicly traded company in the world. What led to that success? Beyond the Ticker takes a closer look at the company's biggest moments. 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in 1975 to develop software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer. 1980 Microsoft signed a contract with IBM (IBM) to bundle Microsoft's operating system, an early version of its MS-DOS, with IBM computers. 1985 Microsoft announced the first version of Windows, an operating system composed of a graphical user interface running on top of MS-DOS. 1986 On March 13, 1986, Microsoft kicked off its IPO, raising $61 million at $21 per share. 1995 On August 24, 1995, Microsoft launched Windows 95. The software would go on to be wildly popular among PC consumers and enterprise customers. 2000 Steve Ballmer took the reins at Microsoft, succeeding Bill Gates as the company’s second CEO. 2001 The company jumped headlong into the console gaming wars with the debut of the first Xbox. 2008 Microsoft dove into the cloud computing space with its Azure service. 2014 Ballmer retired as Microsoft CEO, turning over the position to Satya Nadella. 2019 Microsoft’s market cap crossed the $1 trillion mark for the first time. 2023 Microsoft kicked off its push into generative AI with a $10 billion investment in ChatGPT developer OpenAI, and the debut of several generative AI products including its revamped Bing search engine and Copilot software. The company is now riding the AI hype train as far as it can, adding generative AI software to everything from Office to Windows and everything in between. From tech giants to retail titans, Beyond the Ticker is a historical series that takes a deep dive into some of Wall Street's trending companies and how they transformed into the financial icons they are today. Check out more of our Beyond the Ticker series, and be sure to tune in to Yahoo Finance. Editor's note: This video was produced by Zach Faulds.

  • Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the benefits of AI 'will astound us all'

    Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is going all in on generative AI.

  • AI will change work, for better and worse

    AI is going to impact jobs, but it won't all be bad.

  • Intel's latest AI chip is a direct shot at Nvidia's moneymaker

    Intel has debuted its Gaudi 3 chip to take on Nvidia's H100.

  • Apple is aiming the Vision Pro at enterprises

    Apple is showing off the Vision Pro's enterprise chops as it looks to attract business customers.

  • Amazon history: Beyond the Ticker

    From its start as an online bookstore to its rise in e-commerce and cloud computing, Amazon (AMZN) has become one of the world's most iconic brands. In 2023, the tech juggernaut generated over $575 billion in revenue, boasting more than 200 million Amazon Prime members worldwide. Beyond the Ticker takes a deep dive into some of the company's biggest moments. 1994 Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos from his garage in Bellevue, Washington. It was originally an online bookstore designed to compete with Barnes & Noble (BNED). 1997 On May 15, 1997, Amazon went public via IPO at $18 per share, giving it a valuation of $300 million. 1998 Amazon began selling CDs, marking the start of its effort to become a shopping Goliath. 2005 The company launched Amazon Prime, a $79 per year membership with free two-day shipping on eligible orders. 2006 Amazon launched Amazon Web Services (AWS). The platform would go on to become the top cloud computing platform, ahead of rivals Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG, GOOGL), and one of Amazon’s most successful businesses. 2011 The company rebranded its video service as Amazon Instant Video with access to 5,000 movies and TV shows for Prime members. 2014 Amazon acquired the video game streaming website Twitch for $970 million. 2017 Amazon acquired high-end supermarket chain Whole Foods in 2017 for $13.7 billion. It has since integrated the two companies, offering discounts to Prime members. 2018 On September 4, 2018, Amazon became just the second US company ever to reach a $1 trillion market cap, after Apple (AAPL) reached it earlier in the year. 2020 Amazon's sales and profits surged during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, as consumers turned to online shopping. Its total sales increased 38% year-over-year to $386.1 billion, and net income increased 83% to $21.3 billion. 2021 Founder Jeff Bezos announced that he would step down from his role as CEO and be succeeded by AWS CEO Andy Jassy. 2024 Amazon was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing drugstore giant Walgreens (WBA). The company continues to evolve, investing billions in AI startup Anthropic, developing more smart home products, and launching an AI shopping assistant named Rufus. It’s safe to say Amazon is a staple of the digital age. From tech giants to retail titans, Beyond the Ticker is a historical series that takes a deep dive into some of Wall Street's trending companies and how they transformed into the financial icons they are today. Check out more of our Beyond the Ticker series, and be sure to tune in to Yahoo Finance. Editor's note: This video was produced by Zach Faulds.

  • The good, bad, and ugly of Big Tech's first quarter

    We're only one quarter into 2024, but it's been a busy one for the tech industry.

  • Apple's antitrust fight could threaten its search for the next big thing

    Apple's antitrust battle with the DOJ could prove harmful to its future innovation.

  • Apple’s first quarter has felt more like an entire (bad) year

    Suffice it to say, Apple’s 2024 is not going well.

  • Justice Department files antitrust suit against Apple

    The Department of Justice has filed a new antitrust suit against Apple, setting up yet another confrontation between the US government and an icon of Silicon Valley.

  • Nvidia's GTC was CEO Jensen Huang's big moment

    Nvidia's GTC was an enormous moment for CEO Jensen Huang and the company's future.

  • Nvidia GTC AI conference: Everything investors need to know

    An AI explosion has made Nvidia (NVDA) the third most valuable company in the world. The company's stock is up more than 500 percent since the start of 2023, and, this week, it’s looking to keep the hype going, showing off its latest innovations at its GTC conference in San Jose, California. That includes the debut of its powerful Blackwell architecture and GB200 GPU, the successor to its popular H100 and H200 chips, as well as updates to its CUDA software platform. "No conference in the world is there a greater assembly of researchers from such diverse fields of science," Nvidia Founder, President and CEO Jensen Huang said during his keynote address. "From climate tech, to radio sciences trying to figure out how to use AI to robotically control MIMOS for next generation 6G radios, robotic self-driving cars, even artificial intelligence." But that’s not all the company is cooking up for the year ahead. Yahoo Finance's Daniel Howley spoke to top executives from Nvidia's various business segments including automotive, the enterprise, its Omniverse platform, and healthcare. Here is everything investors need to know. Automotive (00:01:03) On the automotive side where Nvidia works with automakers ranging from Mercedes-Benz (MBG.DE) and Hyundai (HYMTF) to Land Rover and BYD (BYDDY), the company is working generative AI technology into its self-driving car technology. "We're seeing that kind of technology helping transform what will go inside vehicles, whether it's cars, trucks, or robotaxis, being able to have a natural conversation with your vehicle, but also it's really helping the development of autonomous vehicles as well," Nvidia Automotive Vice President Danny Shapiro said. "So generative AI can be used to assist simulation for testing and validating autonomous vehicles." Enterprise (00:01:55) Nvidia's enterprise business, which includes AI capabilities for the cloud, is also getting big updates for the year ahead. "Of course, all our next generation of hardware will go to enterprise customers, either through our OEM partners like Dell (DELL), or Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), or will be available in the cloud where the enterprises do their work," Nvidia Enterprise Computing Vice President Manuvir Das explained. "But I think the other thing really is the announcement of software with NVIDIA NIM, which is a new way of putting together the AI models and software in such a way that it's really easy for enterprise companies to consume." Omniverse (00:02:25) The company's Omniverse division, which allows companies to build digital twins of real world locations and objects to do things like build factories and understand weather patterns, is similarly getting improvements. "The next level is really about robotics, and robots that are intelligent and can operate inside the world around us. Omniverse is kind of our operating system for building the simulations and the simulation platform, bringing all the 3D worlds together," Nvidia Omniverse and Simulation Technology Vice President Rev Lebaredian said. "And the OVX computers are the special computers for running these simulations. AI and world simulation are kind of interlinked this way. You can't really have advanced AI without simulation." Healthcare (00:03:09) Generative AI is also working its way into Nvidia's medical fields. "Just as you see the large language models being created, they're taking everything from video to image to text, and they're creating multimodal, very, very capable applications. We have a couple companies here and we're releasing some new technology that can do video language models," Nvidia Healthcare Vice President Kimberly Powell explained. "And so the aspect of doing multimodal is gonna be where we're headed after this first influx of amazing capability where we're kind of single modality. But being able to bring all these multimodal is going to unlock a ton of understanding." Expectations for Nvidia are exceedingly high, and the company will need to show Wall Street that its latest products have what it takes to keep that momentum going. Yahoo Finance will be there to see it all.

  • White House awards Intel $8.5 billion in CHIPS Act funding

    The White House announced on Wednesday that it is awarding Intel $8.5 billion in CHIPS Act funding.

  • Nvidia announces Project GR00T AI technology for human-like robots

    Nvidia on Monday announced its new Project GR00T AI software for powering human-like robots.

  • Nvidia bringing its Omniverse technology to Apple's Vision Pro headset

    Nvidia is bringing its Omniverse technology to Apple's Vision Pro AR/VR headset.