Technology & Communications

Junk bonds are high yield bonds issued by below–investment grade corporations. Due to the low ratings and high risk of default attached to these bonds, they’re popularly called “junk bonds.”

PayPal (PYPL) has continued to make more investments in India since it launched domestic operations in the country last year.

Shares of US-based online advertising company The Trade Desk (TTD) are down 4.0% in after-hours trading today after the company’s earnings results.

The combined company expects more than $6.0 billion in annual run-rate synergies.

NVIDIA supports open-source AI frameworks like Facebook’s Caffe and Google’s TensorFlow.

Micron’s solid-state storage business ranges from hard disk drive (or HDD) replacements with solid-state drives (or SSDs) for clients to enterprise-class storage solutions.

Few economic releases elicit as much reaction from both the stock (IVV) and bond (BND) markets as the employment reports issued by Automatic Data Processing (ADP) and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (the BLS).

Overall, in 2018, the most significant contributors to Greenlight Capital’s gains included Micron Technology (MU) and Twitter (TWTR).

In the past two weeks since Disney+ launched, Netflix stock has recovered from the early shock. The stock has risen 7.0% from where it closed on November 12.

In this series, we’ll discuss the main drivers behind AT&T’s wireline business. AT&T’s wireline business is as important for the company as its wireless business.

The year 2017 was an important one for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Let’s take a look at why—and how far the company has come since then.

On Monday, Facebook announced that people in Brazil will be able to use WhatsApp to send money to one another or pay for purchases from local businesses.

The General Court of the European Union handed Apple a win in the long-running Irish tax dispute. The tax dispute started four years ago.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a small competitor in the CPU (central processing unit) and GPU (graphics processing units) space but a market leader in the game console market.

If Qualcomm (QCOM) loses its chance to acquire NXP Semiconductors, its strategy to grow beyond smartphones into embedded and automotive could take the back seat, and it may be pressured to settle its licensing disputes with Apple.

The guidance from Apple (AAPL) and its foundry partner TSMC (TSM) show that smartphone demand should pick up in the second half of 2018.

In 2018, AMD decided to divide the production of its 7nm products between TSMC and GlobalFoundries.

Micron, a pure-play memory chipmaker, has one of the semiconductor industry’s most cyclical stocks.

In the manufacturing sector, gross margin is an important fundamental, as it significantly impacts a company’s earnings per share.

Among semiconductor stocks, Qualcomm (QCOM) may have been hit the hardest by US-China trade tension.

Flows into investment-grade bond funds were positive last week. Investment-grade bond funds saw net inflows of $907.1 million during the week ending July 6.

NVIDIA’s (NVDA) Data Center segment reported its first sequential revenue decline in more than three years in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019.

The rising cost of manufacturing chips caused a decline in IBM’s (IBM) volume base. It forced the company to divest the business.

Twitter stock surged by about 73% in the first trading day after its IPO to $44.90.

During 2012, Expedia introduced the Expedia Traveler Preference (ETP) program in the U.S. that offers travelers the choice to either pay Expedia at the time of booking or pay the hotel at the time of stay.

Here is how Steve Jobs strategy to price and differentiate the products that Apple offers has taken shape over time

A smaller node improves transistor density, thereby improving performance and power efficiency.

Once customers adopt specific operating systems, it would be very difficult for them to even consider changing it.

Despite recent declines, the SMH ETF has risen over 41% in the last 12 months. Meanwhile, NVIDIA has risen a whopping 186.7% in the same period, while AMD has returned 15.5% in that period.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has cut ties with the company and its parent Alphabet. He served as Google’s CEO from 2001 to 2011.

According to Jon Peddie Research, NVIDIA’s new RTX 2080 AIB would cost gamers $800 in September, $880 in the fourth quarter, and $1,000 in the first quarter of 2019.

In the first quarter, Intel had an ROE of 16.19%, which was lower than AMD’s 27.94% and NVIDIA’s 54.65%.

An important factor driving iPhone revenues was the increase in iPhone’s ASP. iPhone’s ASP of $603 in fiscal 4Q14 increased by $42 sequentially and $26 on a YoY basis.

Facebook invests in advertising to attract more marketers to work with the company, to create more value for its marketers, and to enhance marketers’ advertising relevance.

Analysts have projected AMC Entertainment’s (AMC) revenue in 1Q18 (ended March 31) to increase 5.2% to $1.4 billion, boosted by acquisitions.

Intel’s (INTC) profit margins started to fall in the fourth quarter of 2018 after reaching a peak in the third quarter of 2018.

Apple spots a decent upside potential. At $303.74 per share at the closing on Thursday, the stock trades at a 7.4% discount to its 52-week peak of $328.

The trade war between the United States and China revolves around the supremacy of 5G technology, which is expected to form the basis for the data economy.

Cisco Sytems, Inc.’s stock is up 13% since 2013, and it has underperformed the S&P 500 Index.

Nike (NKE) faces some challenges in its target markets. In the US, economic growth rates have tapered down, and the trade war could affect its China market.