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According to the data compiled by Thomson Reuters, early-stage companies make up ~53.8% of Bezos Expeditions’ total investments.

One of Facebook’s key strategies is prioritizing product development investments to create engaging interactions between its users, developers, and advertisers.

Mobile use has been critical to Facebook’s user growth and engagement over the long term, and accordingly, it’s prioritizing mobile product development.

While Google’s (GOOG) YouTube is already leading the online video advertising space, Facebook (FB) last year announced it’s foraying into video advertising.

The departure of Twitter’s COO signals that the company is taking active steps to drive growth, and investors should be looking at other announcements from TWTR over its growth as one of the primary drivers of stock price.

Technology has revamped inventory management for companies in a big way. More and more companies are carrying less and less physical assets.

Technology (XLK) is advancing by leaps and bounds. The diffusion and adoption rates for new technologies have risen over the years as the population has become more tech-savvy.

In this series, we’ll analyze how different asset classes like bonds (BND) and global equities (VTI) reacted to last week’s central bank events.

Although the valuation multiples for the tech sector are higher than its historical averages, the prices are supported by robust earnings growth.

Jeff Bezos’s primary focus remains his role as the CEO of Amazon, but he’s made investments in many other industries and companies.

Twitter stock as appreciated rapidly since its recent IPO, but is it worth the price? The stock could continue to increase, based on hype, which is in fancy terms “irrational exuberance.”

US crude oil futures contracts for February delivery also rose 0.6% to $62.01 per barrel on January 4, 2018—the highest settlement since December 2014.

The ADP February jobs report was published on March 7, 2018. It offered a deeper insight into the employment trends across different US sectors.

The Conference Board uses the average weekly unemployment claims as a key constituent of its LEI (Leading Economic Index).

The ADP January jobs report, which offers insight into employment trends, was published on January 31.

In DLT (distributed ledger technology), details of the transactions are recorded in multiple places called blocks. These blocks are then chained together on a shared network.

According to the employment report, job growth was robust across all the sectors except for the information (VGT) sector, which saw 4,000 job losses in December and over 50,000 job losses in 2017.

The S&P 500 index (SPY) managed to close with minimal losses last week, closing at 2,431.77 compared to 2,433.79 the week before.

So let’s move on to the AlphaDEX suite of products. Walk us through the construction of these products.

Homegrown Facebook (FB) Messenger is an instant messaging application that enables people to connect, and also enables businesses to engage with customers seamlessly and securely.

Pinterest is expanding its self-serve advertising feature to allow advertisers to place ads without any help from advertising sales representatives.

One of the most prominent effects of technology is on the asset side of the balance sheet. Many technologies drive companies to employ fewer assets in order to generate higher returns.

But though millennials may have been born into unlucky economic circumstances, they seem to also be transforming their luck.

Pandora’s (P) stock rose 10% on February 17, 2016, following an upgrade by FBR Capital. FBR Capital upgraded the stock to “outperform” from “market perform” and maintained its target price of $16.

Labor productivity is an important tool to measure the strength of a country’s economy. Policymakers often use this indicator to compare output efficiency during a particular period.

The mystery of waning labor productivity in various developed economies is still unsettled. However, various economic literature offers plausible explanations.

In recent years, labor productivity growth has slowed down significantly in most of the OECD countries. This decline is broadly spread across sectors.

Although Apple (AAPL) has continued to post record-breaking earnings in 2015, it still fell 3.8% for the year. The negative calendar year returns were the first since 2008.

With 900 million users, Facebook’s product WhatsApp is dominating other mobile messing apps. It’s followed by Facebook Messenger and Tencent’s WeChat.

In 3Q15, the selling, general, and administrative expenses for Accenture rose to $1.41 billion from $1.38 billion in 3Q14 and $1.36 billion in 3Q13.

With the new Apple-Cisco deal, companies that run on Cisco’s Internet networks will be able to transfer content securely and quickly to iPhones and iPads.

Accenture is one of the world’s largest multinational technology services, management consulting, and outsourcing companies and is headquartered in Dublin.

AQR Capital commenced a position in Flextronics International (FLEX). FLEX represented 0.3% of the fund’s 4Q14 portfolio.

With annual revenues of $5.3 billion, Alliance Data Systems is a leading provider of customized marketing and loyalty solutions.

Aggressive acquisitions and a focus on systems enabled Cadence to grow its revenues at a faster pace than its competition in the last five years.

Semiconductor companies utilize the services of chip designers such as Cadence in order to tackle time-to-market pressures.

Looking at its EDA products through the Virtuoso platform, Cadence provides support for laying out transistors, wires, and chips for a variety of designs.

About 90% of Cadence’s revenues come from contracts over multiple periods, allowing the company to generate a steady, predictable stream of revenues.

In the FOMC meeting held on June 17–18, the FOMC decided to make a further deduction to the pace of its asset purchase program by another $10 billion.

One of the reason’s that Twitter’s stock price has fallen sharply over the past few months is user growth that hasn’t met the market’s expectations.

Ali Rowghani, Twitter’s (TWTR) chief operating officer, or COO, resigned from his post. A filing from Twitter states that Rowghani will remain a Twitter employee and serve as a strategic advisor to the CEO, Dick Costolo.

Despite approximately 1/3rd of Twitter stockholders pledging not to sell the stock upon expiry, the stock took an unexpected sharp drop on the day.

The expiration of Twitter’s lockup period caused shares to drop sharply on the day.

The expiration of Twitter’s lockup period caused shares to drop sharply on May 6, 2014.

Despite posting earnings above guidance and Wall Street consensus, the stock dropped sharply lower, at $37.66 per share compared to the prior day’s close of $42.62 per share.

Investors relieved Monday, March 31 saw an important development relating to the jury selection of the Apple–Samsung patent law suit. It was also the day that the current Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen spoke at a community reinvestment conference in Chicago. The markets had been eagerly waiting for Yellen to explain her recent comment that […]

Many investors balked at the $19 billion price tag for WhatsApp. However, our back-of-the-envelope valuation gets us roughly in that ballpark.

WhatsApp competes with apps such as Line and WeChat in the mobile messaging industry, but it’s the global leader and is quite popular—especially in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

On February 19, Facebook (FB) announced its purchase of the mobile messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock.

There were a few points that may have struck investors as disappointing about Twitter’s 4Q13 earnings report. Firstly, Twitter reported average monthly active users of 241 million as of year end 2013.

Facebook offers products and tools that enable advertisers to leverage the company’s unique combination of reach, relevance, social context, and engagement.

Facebook held its initial public offering (IPO) on May 18, 2012. This was seen as one of the biggest IPOs in technology and Internet history.

Twitter stock as appreciated rapidly since its recent IPO, but is it worth the price? Has hype inflated market prices beyond intrinsic values?

Twitter stock as appreciated rapidly since its recent IPO, but is it worth the price? With so many eyeballs, there could be a lot of value in the advertising potential of Twitter.

Twitter stock as appreciated rapidly since its recent IPO, but is it worth the price? Find out why we think Twitter is a bad deal.