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Zygna CEO on the Quarter, Apple’s Delicate Dance with Privacy & Confluent CEO on First Earnings Report Since Going Public

TechCheck

CNBC

Disruptors, Tech, Technology, Cnbc, Management, Business, Faang, Investing

4.566 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Our anchors kick off this Friday morning with cloud names like Datadog, Asana and Cloudflare hitting record highs yesterday. Then, we hit gaming with Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau on the company’s latest earnings report and M&A plans. We also cover Apple’s announcement of a new program to scan devices for child abuse imagery. Next, we speak with Dropbox CEO Drew Houston after the company reported strong quarterly results and raised its full-year guidance. Later, CNBC’s Kate Rooney joins to cover the latest moves in $HOOD following the stock’s wild ride this week. We also speak with Confluent CEO Jay Kreps after the company released its first earnings report since going public. Plus, we bring you this morning’s headlines out of China with Meituan facing a $1 billion fine and Duolingo being removed from some Chinese app stores.

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0:00.0

I'm Deerreboza, and you're listening to CNBC's Tech Check.

0:03.5

Our show is live weekdays at 11 a.m. Welcome to Tech Check. I'm Carl Kintanio with John Ford and Dear

0:29.0

Drubosa. Today, cloud names have been taking tech higher, but are those valuations now overstretched?

0:35.2

A breakdown as tech aims for some more all-time highs.

0:38.1

Then Apple, walking this privacy tightrope, the latest details on why the company's new plans are fueling an old debate.

0:45.1

And a lot more on Robin Hood's Wild Ride.

0:47.5

The stock rallies again today to close out the week, John.

0:50.9

Yeah, and also ahead this hour interviews with the CEOs of Zinga, Dropbox,

0:54.8

and Confluent as all three report numbers for the quarter deep.

0:59.6

Well, John, we start with record closes for the S&P NASDAQ and S&P tech sector amid an earnings

1:05.0

frenzy. Yes, that continues. All of Fang is higher for the week, but it's cloud and software

1:10.2

names that have really roared recently, the CLOU cloud index, up 2% on the week.

1:16.7

And it's actually being led higher by the names that are the most expensive of the nine stocks that trade at 30 times forward sales, Datadog, and four other cloud names closed at all-time highs on Thursday. Now, this is partly

1:28.7

an earnings story. Datadog raising its full year guidance and beating estimates, other stocks that

1:34.1

have made sharp moves higher Adobe, as well as drop blocks and confluent. As John mentioned, both

1:40.1

of those CEOs are going to be joining us later this hour. Meanwhile, though, consumer names.

1:44.4

We've been talking a lot about those this week.

1:45.9

They have taken a hit as usage wanes across e-commerce, streaming, gaming.

1:51.1

Zenga is the latest, lowering its full year outlook as user activity fell amid a summer outdoors.

1:56.7

And that really mirrors what we have seen from Roku, Facebook, and Netflix.

2:01.3

Zenghisio will also join us in just a few minutes.

2:04.6

John, I was going to say, some of the cloud names, the enterprise cloud names that are also the most

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