Technology & Communications

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.

Mattel (MAT) has a market cap of $11.2 billion. It rose by 1.4% to close at $32.83 per share on July 20, 2016.

Apple’s business strategy leverages its unique ability to design and develop its own operating systems, hardware, application software, and services to provide its customers new products.

In 2019, Tesla (TSLA) rose 29.3%. The S&P 500 Index gained 29.2%. The top institutional investors were bullish on the electric car manufacturer in Q3 2019.

Applied Materials’ (AMAT) performance is an indicator of the overall semiconductor industry’s outlook.

Facebook (FB) fell 3.1% in February but has surged 27.7% on a year-to-date basis as of March 4.

The S&P 500 Index, represented by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), rose 0.3% on October 23, nearing the all-time high it saw in July.

Of all the Fortune 500 companies, only 5% have women CEOs. We rounded up five of the biggest names investors should know. Here’s why. 

There was a sell-off in Disney (NYSE:DIS) stock amid the COVID-19 pandemic. So far, the pandemic has mainly paralyzed the company’s operations.

Last month, Apple (AAPL) announced that its music streaming service, Apple Music, now has over 30 million subscribers—up from 27 million in June 2017.

In the cloud computing industry, Google is behind market leaders Amazon (AMZN) and Microsoft (MSFT) and it is trying many strategies to bolster its position.

Applied Materials (AMAT) earned 21% of its 2016 revenues and 19% of its 2017 revenues from China. Any major shift in this market could hurt AMAT.

Fiserv (FISV) and First Data (FDC) have agreed to join forces in a $22 billion merger that is set to create a stronger competitor for Square (SQ) in payment processing.

AMD has been using its cash flow to increase and maintain its cash reserve above $1 billion.

LiteLink Technologies Inc. (CSE:LLT) (OTC:LLNKF) has created quite possibly the fastest, most secure & most cost-effective digital payment platform ever!

In 2019, several high-profile tech IPOs made their debut in public markets. Let’s look at what’s in store for them as we head towards 2020.

In this six-part series, we will go through each one of the larger positions DE Shaw traded this past quarter DE Shaw is a New York–based $30 billion-plus quantitative hedge fund founded in 1988 by David E. Shaw, a former Columbia faculty member. The firm’s primary trading method is systematic and computer-driven. DE Shaw has […]

Tencent (OTCMKTS:TCEHY) wants to make a huge investment in iQiyi (NASDAQ:IQ) stock. The company wants to become iQiyi’s largest shareholder.

Nokia (NOK) intends to repurchase up to 500 million shares of its own stock in the coming months.

Maverick Capital is a $9 billion long-short equity hedge-fund firm, founded in 1990 by Lee S. Ainslie and Sam Wyly. In 2005, Maverick launched a long-only fund and two market-neutral funds with longer than usual investment lockups. The firm is headquartered in Dallas and has an additional office in New York. The fund bought new […]

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a product domain-focused software solution that manages and integrates all facets of business.

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

Within 30 minutes of the preorder opening on September 15, the iPhone XS Max—priced between $1,099 and $1,499—was sold out.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel (INTC) operate in an oligopoly server CPU (central processing unit) market where one’s gain is the other’s loss.

Trade war jitters between the US and China sent Applied Materials stock to $55.40 on March 23 from its 52-week high of $62.40 on March 12.

Last year saw the cryptocurrency boom, in which many miners purchased Advanced Micro Devices’ (AMD) and NVIDIA’s (NVDA) GPUs to mine currency.

Bezos invested about $37 million in the American ride-hailing service provider Uber in 2011.

Affirm Holdings is a payment option that lets you pay off a large online purchase over a period of time. Is Affirm a safe and legit payment method?

NVIDIA launched the beta version of GeForce NOW, which allows gamers to play graphics-intensive games on the cloud at an hourly rate.

When Krzanich took over as Intel’s CEO, it was already a leader in the microprocessor technology and had strong profits and cash flows.

Nokia (NOK) has picked up more business from Telenor (TELNY), a Norwegian multinational telecommunications operator.

Sony fell by 1.6% to close at $32.64 per share during the fifth week of August, with weekly, monthly, and YTD price movements of -1.6%, 0.12%, and 32.6%.

Xilinx (XLNX) has started realizing the benefits of 5G (fifth generation) and AI (artificial intelligence) opportunities.

At the end of fiscal 2018, Broadcom’s cash reserves stood at $4.3 billion, and long-term debt stood at $17.5 billion.

Groupon (GRPN), eBay (EBAY), Baidu (BIDU), Square (SQ), and Twitter (TWTR) have the highest debt-to-equity ratios among industry players.

Zynga (ZNGA) funneled $69.2 million into R&D (research and development) in 1Q17. It turns out the company is tweaking how it spends its R&D budget.

NVIDIA (NVDA) has grown exponentially in the last three years.

In 1986, Intel (INTC) adopted an integration model in which it invested in x86 chip designs and manufacturing nodes to attain technology leadership in the microprocessor market.