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guard your card.com. Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, July 31st. I'm

Arianna Aspuru for the Wall Street Journal.

In its stock market debut, software company Figma soared more than 200% in one of the

splashiest initial public offerings in years. The stock opened at $85 a share, which is more than

twice its IPO price and the best first day showing in recent memory

for a major offering. The IPO valued Figma above $19 billion, raising $1.2 billion, making it the

largest venture-backed tech IPO since 2021. Next up, some earnings news. Amazon.com reported sharp increases in sales and profit,

partly fueled by the growth of its cloud computing business. The tech giant said that revenue

rose by 13% during the second quarter to $168 billion, and profit grew 35%. The sales figure was broadly in line with Wall Street

projections. Apple also reported earnings. iPhone sales blew past Wall Street's expectations

in the June quarter, as some U.S. consumers rushed to buy their devices before potential

price increases from tariffs. Robust sales growth for the company's signature product

was the highest increase in years, exceeding 13%. Overall sales came in at $66.6 billion,

which is about 10% higher from the same period a year ago. And finally, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung have been revising or retracting

certain claims about their newest, hottest AI products. In response to a probe by an ad industry's

self-regulatory group into whether marketers are overstating the capabilities or availability of

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