Fastly Plummets After Tension Over ByteDance Curbs Sales
- Preliminary third quarter sales trailed previous forecasts
- Shares sank 31% on less spending from No. 1 customer
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Fastly Inc. shares plunged as much as 31% Thursday morning after saying that Chinese internet giant ByteDance Ltd., its No. 1 customer, spent less than predicted in the third quarter on cloud computing services as a result of rising U.S.-China trade tension.
Shares of other cloud providers, including Akamai Technologies Inc., Datadog Inc. and Cloudflare Inc., also fell.