Samsung has just unveiled its new Galaxy S20 phone family. Now the company is on a course to snatch the mobile market from competitors through attractive partnerships with Netflix and Xbox.Samsung Electronics Co., for many years now, has been in heavy competition with Apple in the mobile phone market. Both companies seem to go head-to-head with their products every year and are also being constantly pitched against each other by consumers. Now, it would seem that more than ever, Samsung is...
Read More »Forbes Names the Highest Paid Hollywood Actors and Actresses in 2019
Forbes has revealed the names of the highest-paid actors and actresses in the fiscal year 2018/2019. Dwayne Johnson and Scarlett Johansson are in the first lines in their categories.Forbes has listed Dwayne Johnson, alias the Rock, as the highest-paid Hollywood actor while Scarlett Johansson held the highest-paid position for the actresses. The report which compiled the Hollywood participant’s earning between the fiscal year 2018 and 2019, listed the top ten earners in both the male and...
Read More »YouTube Earnings Revealed by Google for the First Time, It Cashes $15B in Ad Revenue
Google‘s parent company Alphabet released its Q4 2019 earnings report on Monday. February 3. With 2019’s total revenue standing at $162 billion, Alphabet also registered an 18% YoY growth.Surprisingly, Alphabet also unveiled the earnings of its popular video content distribution platform YouTube for the very first time. Youtube saw its quarterly Q4 earnings standing at $5 billion and its annual earnings standing at $15 billion. Youtube’s earnings saw a 36% jump in 2019 compared to its $11.2...
Read More »Bill Gates Talks about Coronavirus-Like Epidemic in 2019 Netflix Documentary
When last year in November, a documentary series episode from Netflix called “The Next Pandemic” came out – nobody actually didn’t give it too much importance. However, only a month after – boy, how it started to be popular. The episode describes the ways how viruses are spreading and evolving into epidemic situations.The story starts with traveling across India, Egypt, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United States and explains historical cases of pandemics like it was the Spanish flu...
Read More »Apple, Amazon and Tesla: Which Stock Attracts Millennials More Than Others?
As per reports on January 28, 2020, CEO of Apex Clearing, Bill Capuzzi, stated that it is interesting to witness how the investing habits of millennials have shifted over the past year, claiming that millennials have proven to be unique and differed from their generational counterparts.Apex Clearing has disclosed the fourth-quarter Millenial 100 report that analyzed over 734,000 portfolios possessed by U.S.-based investors with an average age in the region of just 31 years. The result was...
Read More »2 Red-Hot FAANG Stocks Are to Report Earnings This Week
As January draws to a close, the market is seriously anticipating the release of earnings reports from Apple and Facebook. Both companies, two of the world’s largest tech companies that make up the popular FAANG stocks, had a really great year in 2019. Before Wednesday when the last of these reports will be published, let’s take a look at their journey so far and what is expected.FAANG Stocks to AnticipateWhile the name comprises 5 different companies including Facebook, Apple, Amazon,...
Read More »As Alphabet Enters $1 Trillion Club, Let’s Have a Look at Top 10 Companies by Market Cap
Last week on Friday, January 17, Google‘s parent company Alphabet hit the trillion-dollar milestone. Alphabet became the fourth public listed tech company to achieve this feat.Despite staying in controversy with the regulators over the issues of privacy concerns, Alphabet had a good show in 2019 in the stock market. The Alphabet stock surged nearly 50% in a single year thereby pushing the company’s growth.Apple Inc. was the first company to achieve the trillion-dollar milestone in 2018,...
Read More »Is FAANG to Become FAAMGT in 2020s?
Recently, the new fintech terms came to town. We are already used to certain terms such as FAANG, FANG and even FAAMNG. When it comes to stocks, and especially technology-related ones, the times are certainly “a-changing”.2020 began already as a pretty turbulent one. With great geopolitical tensions, an unsure trade deal between the U.S. and China, Donald Trump’s impeachment (moreover, Meghan and Harry are leaving the Crown) – it seems that there is going to be a pretty tough year for big...
Read More »Could 2020 be the Year of FAAMNG Stocks?
2020 could quite easily be a great year for FAAMNG stocks if things continue the way they currently are. FAAMNG comprises Facebook (FB), Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), Netflix (NFLX), and Google’s parent company Alphabet (GOOG and GOOGL). These are the biggest tech and internet stocks in the world.FAAMNG Stocks in 2020A publication from The Arora Report shows the current money flow into these companies via their stocks. Dividing each stock into several data points, the table...
Read More »Gold and Oil Jump amid Ongoing Geopolitical Tensions in Iran: Will Others Follow?
The geopolitical tensions are high as Iran said that it will no longer abide by uranium enrichment limits and Donald Trump has claimed to attack them like “they’ve never been before”.While this is happening, WTI oil prices increased by as much as 2% overnight (and it is quite impressive, right?) as Brent Crude topped $70 per barrel. Since September this is the first time that such a situation has happened. Also, it’s worth mentioning that gold managed to almost reach $1,600/ounce which is the...
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