Technology & Communications

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. 

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.

Advanced Micro Devices’ (AMD) 2018 earnings are largely being driven by its CG (Computing and Graphics) segment due to the growing adoption of Radeon and Ryzen.

Cisco Systems’ (CSCO) VNI (Visual Networking Index) projects that video could comprise ~77.0% of mobile data traffic in the United States by the end of 2020.

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.

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

Yahoo’s trailing P/E is almost in line with its peers but it’s below Google (GOOG), Facebook (FB), and Chinese Internet giant Baidu (BIDU).

NVIDIA has a three-stage strategy to deliver its end-to-end self-driving system.

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.

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

Applied Materials, the world’s largest chip manufacturing equipment vendor, reported strong fiscal Q3 2018 earnings but lowered its fiscal Q4 2018 guidance.

Tesla (TSLA) has been on a rising spree since its earnings. In October, Tesla stock surged by 31%. The stock rose on the back of third-quarter profits.

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%.

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

Most semiconductor companies’ first-quarter earnings hit two-year lows as weak economic demand impacted their revenue and profit margins.

Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) has averted a major showdown with hedge fund Elliott Management. However, we don’t know much about the company’s stock repurchase plan.

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.

In 2017, Softbank (SFTBY) created a pool of $100 billion to promote new business ventures. The company provided seed funding to entrepreneurs worldwide.

As game consoles have six-to-seven-year product lifecycles, AMD’s semi-custom revenue growth has diminished YoY (year-over-year).

The tech sector was the only S&P 500 sector that had more cash than debt per share in 2015, but the majority of cash was held by Microsoft, IBM, and Google.

According to a PCGamer article, NVIDIA might disable Tensor Cores but retain RT cores in its GeForce variant of Turing.

Texas Instruments (TXN) has been reducing its exposure in the declining smartphone market and increasing its exposure in the growing automotive and industrial markets to reduce its seasonality.