2025 has more or less been a wash for technology stocks. The Nasdaq 100 index, which tracks the 100 largest non-financial companies on the Nasdaq exchange, is up 3% year to date. Nevertheless, some technology stocks have proven resilient through the ups and downs of 2025. Shares of streaming and entertainment juggernaut Netflix (NFLX 1.83%) are up 37%, and they should have more to climb. Let's dig into what's driving Netflix's market-beating returns and explore why the stock could soar to new highs. Why did ...

About this content About Emily Jarvie Emily began her career as a political journalist for Australian Community Media in Hobart, Tasmania. After she relocated to Toronto, Canada, she reported on business, legal, and scientific developments in the emerging psychedelics sector before joining Proactive in 2022. She brings a strong journalism background with her work featured in newspapers, magazines, and digital publications across Australia, Europe, and North America, including The Examiner, The Advocate, ...

About this content About Emily Jarvie Emily began her career as a political journalist for Australian Community Media in Hobart, Tasmania. After she relocated to Toronto, Canada, she reported on business, legal, and scientific developments in the emerging psychedelics sector before joining Proactive in 2022. She brings a strong journalism background with her work featured in newspapers, magazines, and digital publications across Australia, Europe, and North America, including The Examiner, The Advocate, ...

A new report of the most-viewed television series in the 2024-2025 season shows Netflix Inc NFLX and Paramount Global PARAPARAA as winners across broadcast television and the streaming sector.What Happened: Data from Nielsen that tracks 35 days of viewership across traditional television, cable and streaming — without including sports — shows Netflix the streaming leader and Paramount the broadcast leader.Here are the top 10 most-viewed shows during the time period, as reported by Variety, with their averag ...

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Netflix Chairman Reed Hastings is joining the board of San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company Anthropic. Anthropic, valued at $61.5 billion after its most recent funding round in March, is known for its AI chatbot model Claude."Anthropic is very optimistic about the AI benefits f ...

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic said Netflix Chairman Reed Hastings is joining its board of directors.Hastings, who co-founded Netflix in 1997 and served as CEO (and eventually co-CEO) of the streaming giant until 2023, was appointed to the board by Anthropic's Long Term Benefit Trust, an independent body of five financially disinterested members, according to a press release on Wednesday.Hastings, 64, has held other high-profile board positions in the tech sector, including at Microsoft, Bloomber ...

Nielsen’s latest report serves as another wake-up call that YouTube is rapidly gaining ground in the TV landscape.On Tuesday, Nielsen released its April 2025 “Media Distributor Gauge” report, which showed that YouTube has achieved a significant milestone: it has maintained the largest share of TV viewing for three consecutive months, now accounting for 12.4% of total audience time spent watching television.  This marks a significant uptick from 12% the previous month and an even more notable increase from ...

Netflix (NFLX) has already delivered impressive returns to investors in 2025, with shares climbing 33% year to date, significantly outpacing other streaming competitors like Apple (AAPL) , Amazon (AMZN) , and Disney (DIS) , as well as the broader Zacks Consumer Discretionary sector and the S&P 500. Shares of Apple, Disney and Amazon have lost 22%, 1.5% and 8.4%, respectively, in the same time frame.However, savvy investors shouldn't let this stellar performance deter them from considering the streaming gian ...

Management has a big goal and a solid plan to get there.The $1 trillion club has invited quite a few new members through its doors since Apple first broke through its threshold in 2018. Ten companies traded on U.S. stock exchanges have qualified for membership since, and that number should continue to grow over time as the world economy expands.But predicting the next member of the club isn't easy. For example, few saw Nvidia growing beyond a $1 trillion valuation by 2023, fueled by the recent breakthroughs ...

As of this writing, there are 11 companies that carry a market capitalization of at least $1 trillion. Investors who got in on these businesses early on certainly benefited from huge portfolio gains. This might push you to try and identify potential new entrants to the 13-figure club in the future.There's one industry-leading enterprise known for its innovative culture and success at disrupting an entire industry -- and it's currently worth about $500 billion. Its shares have been a monster winner, rising 1 ...