Business News 1 August 2025 - 18 October 2025

ChampionsGate Stock Little Changed as SPAC Deal Timeline Gets Attention
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ChampionsGate Stock Little Changed as SPAC Deal Timeline Gets Attention

ChampionsGate Acquisition Corporation stock was flat in premarket trading Wednesday. The Nasdaq-listed SPAC stayed near the level investors could redeem for cash if the company doesn’t seal a merger. The stock last changed hands at $10.35, off 0.07% in the past 24 hours. TradingView data showed the market shut with no fresh trades on the tape at the time. It had a market cap near $103.4 million.
June 3, 2026
AppLovin Under Fire: Shuts Down “Array” After Allegations of Secret App Installs
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AppLovin Under Fire: Shuts Down “Array” After Allegations of Secret App Installs

AppLovin, a fast-growing adtech firm known for marketing mobile games, quietly pulled the plug on Array, its on-device app distribution tool. According to PocketGamer and Bloomberg, an AppLovin spokesperson confirmed that Array was discontinued “last quarter” because the product simply wasn’t economically viable pocketgamer.biz bloomberg.com. In practice, Array had been used by partners such as Samsung and T-Mobile to recommend apps to users and let them install with a single tap adweek.com pocketgamer.biz. The service worked by pre-loading app suggestions on new phones or in ads, so users could skip going through the Play Store. AppLovin’s executives even called Array a significant revenue driver in prior months. But by mid-2025 the company declared the feature a flop and “shut down”
October 18, 2025
AI Stock Frenzy: Microsoft Tops $4 Trillion, Meta Soars 11%, and Palantir Lands $10B Army Deal – July 31/Aug 1 Roundup
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AI Stock Frenzy: Microsoft Tops $4 Trillion, Meta Soars 11%, and Palantir Lands $10B Army Deal – July 31/Aug 1 Roundup

A flurry of blockbuster earnings from tech giants sent AI-linked stocks swinging. Microsoft reported strong results and briefly surpassed a $4 trillion market cap on July 31, becoming only the second public company ever to hit that milestone reuters.com. Microsoft’s shares jumped about 3.5% as its Azure cloud growth and upbeat guidance “quickly silenced any doubts about cloud or AI demand,” according to one market analyst reuters.com. The company revealed Azure pulled in $75 billion last year and touted over 100 million users for its new AI Copilot tools reuters.com – evidence that its massive AI investments are paying off. In fact, Microsoft plans to spend a record $30 billion on data centers this quarter to meet surging AI service
August 1, 2025
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