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Fintech Focus For November 27, 2020
Thursday, November 26, 2020 - 8:02pm | 1695Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet. Source: James Mattis One Big Thing In Fintech: Robinhood, creator of the popular stock-trading app of the same name, announced on Friday that Vlad Tenev will be the company's sole chief executive,...
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Fintech Focus For November 23, 2020
Sunday, November 22, 2020 - 6:01pm | 1864Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. Source: Charles Dickens One Big Thing In Fintech: The pandemic has seen incumbent financial services providers fight against disruption by individuals and startups thinking about new ways to innovate. Nasdaq is...
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Microsoft Analysts: Q1 Shows Payoff From Cloud Shift, Azure Narrowing The Gap With AWS
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 3:24pm | 617Read More...Microsoft reported first-quarter revenue and earnings per share that came in ahead of consensus estimates Tuesday. Azure and the gaming sector were highlights for the Street analysts who cover the tech giant. Azure A Q1 Highlight: Raymond James analyst Robert Majek reiterated a Strong...
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Fintech Focus For August 20, 2020
Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - 6:37pm | 2239Read More...Quote Of The Day: Whoever is happy will make others happy too. - Anne Frank Fintech Movers: There is a large opportunity for Google to leverage its massive direct consumer relationships to attract [banks] to sign up for co-branded checking accounts. For many of the bank and credit union partners,...
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Amazon, Toyota Expand Collaboration For Data-Driven Mobility Services In Cloud-Connected Vehicles
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - 1:04pm | 361Read More...Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Toyota Motor Corp (NYSE: TM) late Monday announced an expanded collaboration agreement for cloud-based data services. What Happened: Toyota said it's expanding its collaboration with Amazon's AWS to help develop, deploy and manage the next-...
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Fintech Focus For August 6, 2020
Thursday, August 6, 2020 - 10:37am | 1812Read More...Daily Perspective: I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein Fintech Movers: PayPal executives said society has reached an "inflection point" when it comes to the "death of cash," and noted that 70% of consumers now fear for their health when...
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Why This Analyst Says It's Not Too Late To Buy Tech Stocks
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 - 5:14pm | 403Read More...The Nasdaq index closed Monday at a record high and is up around 20% since the start of 2020. Despite the strong rally, investors should "absolutely" still be buyers of tech stocks, according to D.A. Davidson's Tom Forte. What Happened: The global COVID-19 pandemic marks the beginning...
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Needham's Martin Praises Amazon's Twitch Business, Talks Lesser-Known Revenue
Thursday, June 18, 2020 - 3:35pm | 429Read More...Shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) could double in value over the long-term as the company continues to focus on growing services revenue, Needham analyst Laura Martin said on CNBC's "Worldwide Exchange." Media Power: Investors tend to mischaracterize Amazon as an e-commerce...
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Amazon And Slack Deepen Partnership In A Bid To Compete With Microsoft
Friday, June 5, 2020 - 3:17am | 426Read More...Amazon Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Slack Technologies Inc. (NYSE: WORK) are forming a strategic partnership that will help the two companies take on Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) whose Teams video-calling software is also gaining popularity. What Happened Amazon has licensed Slack, a work-...
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Amazon Emerges As The Winner Of The COVID-19 Outbreak
Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 10:56am | 684Read More...The coronavirus pandemic has brought historic levels of disruption to every area of business. But the pandemic has actually been good for a small number of companies, such as eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) and Etsy (NASDAQ: ETSY), but Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) has emerged as of biggest winner of...
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How Amazon Web Services Stacked Up Against Microsoft's Azure
Saturday, May 2, 2020 - 9:15am | 783Read More...Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) reported strong fiscal third-quarter results and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) beat on the top-line in its first quarter, but the e-commerce platform's earnings took a hit from higher fulfillment costs. A common theme that ran through the quarterly results...
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Software Analyst Says Datadog, Splunk, Zscaler Are Exceptions To Looming Spending Headwinds
Friday, March 27, 2020 - 11:48am | 718Read More...The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted companies, their financials and spending plans, and the software sector is no exception. An analyst at Rosenblatt Securities singled out a few companies that could weather the adversity better than others. The Datadog, Splunk, Zscaler Analyst Analyst Yun Kim has...
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5 Reasons Why Amazon Is Morgan Stanley's Top Pick
Monday, March 16, 2020 - 11:41am | 543Read More...E-commerce giant Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has won Morgan Stanley's seal of approval in the face of a coronavirus pandemic threatening the economy. The Amazon Analyst Analyst Brian Nowak maintained an Overweight rating on Amazon with a $2,400 price target. The Amazon...
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Pro: Investors Overlooking Amazon's Treasure Trove Of Data
Friday, January 31, 2020 - 10:16am | 413Read More...Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) doesn't get enough credit for leveraging its treasure trove of data to gain a major advantage over its rivals, according to Hilding Anderson, head of retail strategy for North America at Publicis Sapient. What Happened Amazon's retail portion of its earnings...
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8 Cloud Stocks To Own In 2020
Monday, January 27, 2020 - 10:00am | 1222Read More...One of the highest-growth secular tech trends of the 2020s will be cloud computing. Gartner projects global public cloud revenue will grow 17% in 2020 to $266.4 billion. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is the largest segment, which Gartman projects will account for $116 billion in spending this year....












