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  1. Earnings reports this week from Meta, Alphabet and Snap showed a solid recovery in the online ad market.
  2. Snap shares soared on Friday after the company provided uplifting results, suggesting its online ad business is getting back on track.
  3. Federal authorities say a "critical safety gap" in Tesla's Autopilot system contributed to at least 467 collisions, 13 resulting in fatalities.
  4. Intel has missed most of the significant technology transitions over the past 15-plus years, losing its standing in the chip industry along the way.
  5. Alphabet shares shot up Friday after the company posted better-than-expected first-quarter results and greenlit its first-ever dividend along with a buyback.
  6. Drew Baglino, who announced he'd be leaving Tesla on April 15, is selling 1.14 million shares of the electric car company, according to a filing on April 25.
  7. Microsoft has more demand than supply for running artificial intelligence models in the cloud.
  8. Alphabet's revenue jumped 15% in the first quarter and profit in the company's cloud business more than quadrupled.
  9. Google issued its first-ever dividend of 20 cents and authorized a $70 billion share repurchase program alongside its first-quarter earnings.
  10. Microsoft saw a pickup in the segment containing video games after buying publisher Activision Blizzard in October.