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Company & Industry Overviews A Look at Twitter’s Data Business
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.Company & Industry Overviews 3 Things Elon Musk Said Today That You Might Have Missed
Early this morning, before the market opened, Musk revealed that TSLA is reducing its full-time workforce by 7%.Company & Industry Overviews A Closer Look at Twitter’s Capex Priorities
Twitter expects its capex to be in the range of $60 million–$85 million in the fourth quarter of 2018.Company & Industry Overviews How Spotify Aims to Compete in Podcast Market
Spotify (SPOT) wants to focus more of its attention this year on developing its podcast business.Company & Industry Overviews Alphabet’s Loon Enters Commercialization Year
Alphabet’s partnership with Telkom Kenya is expected to start generating revenue for Loon this year.Company & Industry Overviews Bezos Invested in Twitter about Ten Years Ago: Should You Now?
Jeff Bezos invested about $15 million in Twitter (TWTR) just over a decade ago.Company & Industry Overviews Jeff Bezos Owns These Five Key Public Stocks
Amazon (AMZN) became the world’s most valuable public company on January 7.Company & Industry Overviews A Closer Look at Facebook’s Profitability Ratio
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.Company & Industry Overviews How Much Is Netflix Spending on Original Content in Europe?
Netflix plans to invest around $1 billion on original and co-produced content in Europe.Company & Industry Overviews How Baidu Is Leading Alphabet in Business Diversification
Baidu (BIDU) and Alphabet (GOOGL) are working to create new revenue streams outside their core advertising businesses.Company & Industry Overviews How Are Google and Facebook Planning to Fight Fake News?
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.Company & Industry Overviews Apple Is on Track to Hit Its 2020 Services Revenue Goal
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.Company & Industry Overviews Comparing the Valuations of the FAANG Stocks
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.Company & Industry Overviews The Gap between Alphabet’s Gross and Other Profit Margins
Alphabet’s EPS grew at a three-year CAGR of 8.0% to $32.30 in 2017.Company & Industry Overviews What Caused the Gap in Netflix’s Gross and Other Profit Margins?
Netflix’s income from operations totaled $0.9 billion in the first half of 2018.Company & Industry Overviews The Major Factors Driving Netflix’s Cost of Revenues
Netflix’s (NFLX) revenues grew at a three-year CAGR of 29.0% to $11.7 billion in 2017.Company & Industry Overviews How Shazam Makes Money
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.Company & Industry Overviews How Have Apple’s Profit Margins Improved since 2015?
Apple’s operating expenses increased at a three-year CAGR of 14.0% to $26.8 billion in 2017.Company & Industry Overviews What Made Instagram More Popular than Facebook?
Facebook (FB) acquired Instagram in 2012, and since then, the company has been keen on expanding its user base.Company & Industry Overviews A Look at Facebook’s Profit Margin Growth since 2015
Apple’s (AAPL) operating expenses totaled $26.8 billion in 2017, and Amazon’s (AMZN) operating expenses totaled $61.8 billion in 2017.Company & Industry Overviews What’s Driving Facebook’s Revenue Growth?
In this series, we’ll compare the stock performance and margins of the FAANG stocks—Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.Company & Industry Overviews Is Amazon’s Alexa Losing Popularity to Google Assistant?
Amazon’s (AMZN) Alexa-powered Echo has been competing with Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google Home devices.Company & Industry Overviews European Union Wants Facebook to Spell Out Its Terms Better
The European Commission is putting more pressure on Facebook (FB) to make additional changes to its terms of service.Company & Industry Overviews Amazon’s US Ad Revenue Is Eating Up Facebook and Google
According to the latest research by eMarketer, Amazon is taking a larger share of US digital ad space.Company & Industry Overviews Facebook Stops Taking 30% of Instant Games Revenue
After Instant Games exited the beta phase in April, Facebook (FB) began monetizing the digital games platform through in-app purchases in May.Company & Industry Overviews Square’s Investment in Cash App Beginning to Bear Fruit
Square’s (SQ) peer-to-peer payment service Cash app is now more popular than PayPal’s (PYPL) competing service Venmo.Company & Industry Overviews A Look at Apple’s Shareholder Returns
Apple (AAPL) returned close to $300 billion to its shareholders between fiscal 2012 and the fiscal third quarter.Company & Industry Overviews IBM Lawsuit against Groupon Leads to $83 Million Fine
Groupon disagreed with a jury verdict that it willfully infringed on several patents owned by IBM. Groupon’s options include an appeal.Company & Industry Overviews PayPal Invests in Adyen Rival
PayPal (PYPL) recently invested in PPRO, a Britain-based startup specializing in cross-border payments for merchants.Technology & Communications Why the Worst May Not Be Over for Snap
Snap (SNAP) stock has rallied 27.0% since the sharp decline it saw after it announced disappointing first-quarter 2018 results in May.Company & Industry Overviews Why Is Facebook Investing in Original Shows?
Facebook (FB) is reportedly in discussions to bring global soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo into a reality show.Company & Industry Overviews Users Are Spending 53 Minutes per Day on Instagram in June
Instagram users spent as much as 53 minutes per day in June compared to Facebook’s 58.5 minutes per day.Company & Industry Overviews Here’s How AT&T Will Be Taking on Google and Facebook
AT&T (T) said on June 25 that it had agreed to acquire AppNexus, an ad tech company, for an undisclosed amount.Company & Industry Overviews What Microsoft’s GitHub Acquisition Could Mean
Recently, Microsoft (MSFT) decided to acquire open-source software development company GitHub for $7.5 billion.Company & Industry Overviews GoPro Is Focusing on Social Media to Leverage Customer Engagement
As the world continues to become more social, GoPro is looking at a significant opportunity to build its core camera application and cloud business.Company & Industry Overviews Instagram’s Popularity Keeps Rising
Instagram is rapidly growing and has an active advertiser base of around 2 million, which doubled in just five months.Company & Industry Overviews How Hyperscalers Impact Growth in the Server Market
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 […]Earnings Report A Look at Ericsson’s Business Strategy
Ericsson’s (ERIC) CEO, Börje Ekholm, stated that the company’s top strategy includes a focus on customers and service providers.Company & Industry Overviews How Fake News and Crypto Scams Are Hurting Twitter’s Audience
Although Twitter’s MAU was 4.0% higher than in 4Q16, there were no additional users in 4Q17 from 3Q17.Consumer What to Know about eBay’s Research and Development Spending
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.Earnings Report Why BlackBerry Filed a Lawsuit against Facebook
On March 6, BlackBerry (BB) sued Facebook (FB) on allegations that Facebook has infringed on seven technology patents.Company & Industry Overviews How Is GoPro Improving Social Media Engagement?
GoPro’s (GPRO) App Store rating has improved significantly from 2.7 stars in September 2017 to 4.7 stars in December 2017.Macroeconomic Analysis What’s the Correlation between S&P 500 and the Technology Sector?
The Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK), which tracks the performance of the US technology sector, fell marginally by 0.4% in February 2018.Consumer Inside Alphabet’s Capital Allocation Strategy
In 4Q17, Alphabet set aside $9.9 billion to cover taxes on its accumulated foreign profits in relation to the recent US tax reforms.Company & Industry Overviews How Microsoft Contributed to the S&P 500’s High in 2017
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.Company & Industry Overviews Facebook’s Innovation and Product Development Avalanche
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.Company & Industry Overviews What’s Amazon’s Role in ODM Growth in the Global Server Market?
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.Earnings Report Viacom’s Nickelodeon Remains Driving Force for Media Segment
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 […]Consumer What Are the Dividend Yields of the Top 10 Mega-Cap Stocks?
Donald Trump’s promises of financial deregulation, infrastructure spending, and tax cuts played a major role in the stock market rally this year.Earnings Report What Does It Cost to Run Twitter?
In 3Q17, Twitter (TWTR) reported $582.4 million in operating expenses, including its cost of revenues.