Amazon Inc. stock is getting battered following a downbeat earnings report.The company announced on Thursday its third-quarter net income fell to $2.1 billion on earnings per share of $4.23, which represents a pretty big fall of around 26% year over year and worse than analysts had expected.During the quarter that ended September 30, the company’s revenue rose to $70 billion, up 24% YoY but it also wasn’t enough to meet the previous estimates. At the same time, Amazon reported its cloud...
Read More »CNN Makes Its Own Aggregation Service to Compete with Apple News+
The AT&T-backed CNN is allegedly working to found its own news aggregation service that allegedly would be something similar as is Apple News and Apple News+.The project dubbed “NewsCo” will compete with the already existing Facebook‘s and Apple’s domination by offering its consumers one more venue where they can get all possible information both local and global, together with its existing web and broadcast operations.For now, twelve engineers and other executives are working on this...
Read More »Amazon Acquires Health Navigator to Increase Its Share on Health Care Market
American retail giant Amazon has made a new acquisition: the company purchased Health Navigator, a company focused on developing APIs for online health services and providing evidence-based digital health information content. The sum of the deal is not yet clear.According to Amazon, Health Navigator will join the membership of the Amazon Care group, a pilot healthcare service program for Amazon employees launched in September that delivers prescriptions with remotely communicated treatment...
Read More »U.S. Technology Stocks FANMAG Identified as Heavy Hitters in a Bubble by Rob Arnott
Veteran United States investor, writer, and Entrepreneur Rob Arnott has come out in favor of the American major technology stocks again as being in a bubble even as he lashes out at Bitcoin. He made his thoughts known to the Financial Times in an exclusive while defending the position of including Microsoft in the popular acronym FANMAG which he says is the new direction of technology stocks rather than FAANG.FAANG which is a play on technology companies Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and...
Read More »Moon Allows You Pay for Amazon Goods with Crypto
Do you shop on Amazon? Would it be easier to pay with crypto than it would be to pay with fiat? If so, you should check out a new startup called “Moon.”Moon: The New Way to PayMoon is a company that began through the hands of three individuals. The venture allows you to use cryptocurrency to pay for items on Amazon through the Lightning Network, a highly praised if somewhat controversial platform that is alleged to boost the transactions speeds of the bitcoin blockchain.Bitcoin is the oldest...
Read More »Charles Schwab Brokerage Firm will Allow Investors to Trade Fractions of Stocks
Charles Schwab, a San Francisco-based bank and stock brokerage company, has announced they will allow their clients to buy and sell fractions of stocks. The initiative aims at attracting the interest of young investors to Charles Schwab and makes it the first online brokerage that offers its customers such an opportunity.The announcement follows the company’s decision to eliminate trading commissions for U.S. stocks, ETFs and options trades earlier this month, which led to other brokerage...
Read More »Netflix Stock Price Shoots Northwards as Q3 Earnings Beat Estimates
The online-streaming media powerhouse Netflix has given strong Q3 earnings numbers resulting in its stock price (309,25 USD, +8.02%) shooting northwards on Wednesday, October 16. Beating street expectations, Netflix reported a 31% jump in its year-over-year revenue which is currently at 45.24 billion.Another impressive thing is its GAAP earning stands at $1.47 per share instead of analysts’ expectations of $1.05 per share. When it comes to growth in the subscriber-base, the U.S. figures are...
Read More »Is Microsoft (MSFT) Stock a Better Investment Choice Than FAANG?
For a long time now, FAANG stocks have been the unofficial standard by which the S&P 500 is measured. FAANG which is an acronym for five of the biggest tech and internet companies – including Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet Inc., – were regarded by investors, traders and even analysts alike, as the stocks that account for a large percentage of the general returns gotten from the index.For the better part of 2018, FAANG pulled in amazing returns for investors...
Read More »Apple (AAPL) Stock On The Verge Of A Crash As iPhone 11 Defect Appears
As far as the stock market is concerned, Apple (AAPL) has had a pretty great 2019 so far. Already Apple’s stock has surged more than 43% this year alone, easily crowning it as the best performing stock in the Dow Jones Industrial average. Consequently, even though the Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) has a larger market cap, Apple has so far performed better and also beat out other FAANG stocks including Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, and Google’s parent Alphabet.One of the major reasons ascribed to...
Read More »Here’s How Much You’d Make If You Invested $1,000 in Google 10 Years Ago
Even though there might be more than a few worthy contenders, Google (GOOGL) is one of the world’s most popular companies and has been that way for many years. However, If we decide to narrow down the “qualifiers” to just tech or internet companies, then the number of contenders drastically drops, leaving Google somewhere in the first few. The tech giant with its hands in several cookie jars is also one of the world’s most successful companies.Google is currently into software and hardware...
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