Technology & Communications

October started with a sharp drop in the stock markets as the Federal Reserve increased interest rates by 25 basis points to 2.25%.

Facebook decided not to proceed with its plan to bring ads to WhatsApp. The company disbanded WhatsApp’s advertising team and discarded its work.

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

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.

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

Facebook and Alphabet (GOOGL), the parent of Google, generate more than 50% of their revenues abroad.

In September 2018, the new S&P 500 Communication Services Sector index was launched.

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

The sequential binding of applications through the use of middleware is known as enterprise application integration (or EAI).

NVIDIA (NVDA) has been benefitting from the growing popularity of gaming.

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.

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.

Without admitting wrongdoing, Facebook (FB) agreed to pay $35 million to settle claims that it had misled investors in the run-up to its IPO (initial public offering) in 2012.

Media players Viacom (VIAB) and CBS (CBS) are again talking about a merger.

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

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.

Business intelligence firm eMarketer estimates that CPG brands spent more than $7.0 billion on digital advertising in 2017, compared with $6.0 billion in 2016.

In a well-strategized move, Apple (AAPL) is relocating its production base to India. Apple’s investment in India will be around $1 billion.

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.

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.

While REITs started trading in 1951 and MLPs started off in 1981, the first yieldco was floated in 2005 by Seaspan Corporation, a shipping company.

There had been a lot of speculation about Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) unveiling its most awaited next-generation 7-nm (nanometer) Navi GPU (graphics processing unit) at Computex 2019.