( July 2, 2026, 10:06 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of investors’ securities fraud class action against a digital advertising and services technology company and certain of its directors and officers alleging that the defendants committed securities fraud by making material misrepresentations about the company’s search advertising business that caused the company’s stock price to drop, agreeing with the lower court that the investors did not plead actionable misstatements or facts supporting a strong inference of scienter....