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As Twitter (TWTR) gears up to report its results for the fourth quarter of 2018, a lot of attention is being given to its data licensing business.

Early this morning, before the market opened, Musk revealed that TSLA is reducing its full-time workforce by 7%.

Twitter expects its capex to be in the range of $60 million–$85 million in the fourth quarter of 2018.

Spotify (SPOT) wants to focus more of its attention this year on developing its podcast business.

Alphabet’s partnership with Telkom Kenya is expected to start generating revenue for Loon this year.

Jeff Bezos invested about $15 million in Twitter (TWTR) just over a decade ago.

Amazon (AMZN) became the world’s most valuable public company on January 7.

Facebook’s (FB) TTM (trailing -12- months) gross margin stands at 84.26%, compared to the industry and sector averages of 40.63% and 43.56%, respectively.

Netflix plans to invest around $1 billion on original and co-produced content in Europe.

Baidu (BIDU) and Alphabet (GOOGL) are working to create new revenue streams outside their core advertising businesses.

Internet giants such as Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR), and Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google have been facing pressure from lawmakers in the US and Europe since last January.

Apple is working toward its goal of doubling its 2016 Services revenue by 2020. The company generated Services revenue of $24.3 billion in 2016.

Amazon has gained 68.5.0% YTD in stock value. Amazon last traded at a discount of 4.0% to its 52-week high price.

Alphabet’s EPS grew at a three-year CAGR of 8.0% to $32.30 in 2017.

Netflix’s income from operations totaled $0.9 billion in the first half of 2018.

Netflix’s (NFLX) revenues grew at a three-year CAGR of 29.0% to $11.7 billion in 2017.

The money that Shazam generates would go a long way towards boosting Apple’s services business, where revenue rose 31% year-over-year to $9.5 billion in the fiscal third quarter ended in June.

Apple’s operating expenses increased at a three-year CAGR of 14.0% to $26.8 billion in 2017.

Facebook (FB) acquired Instagram in 2012, and since then, the company has been keen on expanding its user base.

Apple’s (AAPL) operating expenses totaled $26.8 billion in 2017, and Amazon’s (AMZN) operating expenses totaled $61.8 billion in 2017.

In this series, we’ll compare the stock performance and margins of the FAANG stocks—Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.

Amazon’s (AMZN) Alexa-powered Echo has been competing with Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google Home devices.

The European Commission is putting more pressure on Facebook (FB) to make additional changes to its terms of service.

According to the latest research by eMarketer, Amazon is taking a larger share of US digital ad space.

After Instant Games exited the beta phase in April, Facebook (FB) began monetizing the digital games platform through in-app purchases in May.

Square’s (SQ) peer-to-peer payment service Cash app is now more popular than PayPal’s (PYPL) competing service Venmo.

Apple (AAPL) returned close to $300 billion to its shareholders between fiscal 2012 and the fiscal third quarter.

Groupon disagreed with a jury verdict that it willfully infringed on several patents owned by IBM. Groupon’s options include an appeal.

PayPal (PYPL) recently invested in PPRO, a Britain-based startup specializing in cross-border payments for merchants.

Snap (SNAP) stock has rallied 27.0% since the sharp decline it saw after it announced disappointing first-quarter 2018 results in May.

Facebook (FB) is reportedly in discussions to bring global soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo into a reality show.

Instagram users spent as much as 53 minutes per day in June compared to Facebook’s 58.5 minutes per day.

AT&T (T) said on June 25 that it had agreed to acquire AppNexus, an ad tech company, for an undisclosed amount.

Recently, Microsoft (MSFT) decided to acquire open-source software development company GitHub for $7.5 billion.

As the world continues to become more social, GoPro is looking at a significant opportunity to build its core camera application and cloud business.

Instagram is rapidly growing and has an active advertiser base of around 2 million, which doubled in just five months.

Hyperscalers drove volume demand in the server market Earlier, we discussed growth in the server market, wherein the high-end segment benefited from the launch of IBM’s (IBM) z14 mainframe. According to Sanjay Medvitz, a senior research analyst at IDC, “ODMs [original device manufacturer] continue to be the primary beneficiaries from hyperscale server demand. Some OEMs […]

Ericsson’s (ERIC) CEO, Börje Ekholm, stated that the company’s top strategy includes a focus on customers and service providers.

Although Twitter’s MAU was 4.0% higher than in 4Q16, there were no additional users in 4Q17 from 3Q17.

eBay (EBAY) continued boosting its R&D (research and development) budget throughout 2017, leading to a 9.9% increase in its R&D costs overall in the year.

On March 6, BlackBerry (BB) sued Facebook (FB) on allegations that Facebook has infringed on seven technology patents.

GoPro’s (GPRO) App Store rating has improved significantly from 2.7 stars in September 2017 to 4.7 stars in December 2017.

The Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK), which tracks the performance of the US technology sector, fell marginally by 0.4% in February 2018.

In 4Q17, Alphabet set aside $9.9 billion to cover taxes on its accumulated foreign profits in relation to the recent US tax reforms.

On January 16, 2018, MSFT stock rose 1.3% to an all-time intraday high of $90.79, which made the company’s market cap briefly cross the $700 billion mark.

In 3Q17, Facebook (FB) spent roughly $2.1 billion on product development, compared with ~$1.9 billion in 2Q17 and ~$1.5 billion in 3Q16.

Among hyperscale cloud providers that drove growth in the server space, the majority of the share was taken by ODMs, which are also known as white box manufacturers.

Nickelodeon’s growing user base Viacom’s (VIAB) Media Networks segment continues to gain, thanks to the popularity of its Nickelodeon channel and its growing number of followers. The network, which targets kids aged two to 17, witnessed television subscriber growth of 22% to 602 million in fiscal 2017, buoyed by the success of strong content such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, School of […]

Donald Trump’s promises of financial deregulation, infrastructure spending, and tax cuts played a major role in the stock market rally this year.

In 3Q17, Twitter (TWTR) reported $582.4 million in operating expenses, including its cost of revenues.