Palantir stock dips after CEO tells short-term investors to consider other stocks
Palantir CEO Alex Karp appeared at an event hosted by The Executives' Club of Chicago and some of hiscomments alsoaired on CNBC.Karp did say he "likes so-called retail investors for lots of reasons" and said that Palantir's direct listing was a way to even the playing field between individual and institutional investors.Wall Street's short-term focus is "one of the most destructive, corrosive attributes of an otherwise interesting and largely functioning system," said Karp.
Alibaba plans to set up a version of its TaobaoDeals app that can operate on rival $Tencent$ 's WeChat socialnetwork in a concession to Chinese regulators cracking down on tech company overreach.Tencent will have to approve of the app before it appears on WeChat, which has more than one billion users and already offers online payment and ride-sharing services.Alibaba and Tencent are both in the crosshairs of Chinese regulators due to the former's ties to Jack Ma and his Ant Group fintech and the