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One User Statistic Facebook Needs To Be Wary About
Friday, February 1, 2019 - 4:12pm | 530Read More...Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) delivered a blowout fourth-quarter earnings report this week that sent the stock soaring. But while Facebook is clearly doing plenty of things right, there are a couple of trends that could be troubling for Facebook investors in the long term. Facebook added 1 million...
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Gun Stocks: A Look Back And Ahead
Saturday, December 29, 2018 - 5:36pm | 897Read More...Gun stocks are not immune to the broader market meltdown driven by geopolitical and macroeconomic developments. And the sector has more reasons to fret beyond broader marketwide factors. Point-Blank Statistics Gun deaths are on the rise in the U.S., with the latest statistics from the Centers for...
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Most FAANG Stocks Are In Bear Territory — But Still A Good Bet For Long-Term Investors
Monday, December 10, 2018 - 5:13pm | 724Read More...The sell-off seen in the broader market since October is showing no signs of abatement. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index are in the red for the year, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index has lost over 11 percent from the year's closing high of 8,109.609...
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'Fortnite' Expands User Base Over 200% In 2018: How It Got There
Sunday, December 2, 2018 - 4:37pm | 752Read More...Epic Games' blockbuster online combat game "Fortnite" is showing no signs of a slowdown. Most recently, the closely held company confirmed it has 200 million registered users for the game, a 60-percent increase from 125 million in June and 40 million in January. This widely...
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A Perspective On The Recent Meltdown In FAANG Stocks
Wednesday, November 21, 2018 - 12:32pm | 747Read More...Tech stocks, which led the rally for much of the current stock market bull run, are also leading the market sell-off that's occurred since the start of October. The crème-la-crème of the tech space — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN),...
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Tablet Boom Fades As Smartphones, Sleek Laptops Take Over
Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 4:31pm | 703Read More...Technological obsolescence, which has swept many once much-sought after products into oblivion, could come to haunt tablets, according to data from market researcher IDC. Tablet PCs are wireless portable computers with a touchscreen interface and a form factor that's smaller than a notebook...
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Chinese E-Commerce Newbie Pinduoduo: What Makes It Tick?
Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 12:42pm | 731Read More...Pinduoduo Inc (NASDAQ: PDD) is the latest Chinese e-commerce sensation in the spotlight due to superlative growth in its three years of existence. Despite the highly consolidated nature of the Chinese e-commerce market, the startup has exhibited enough spine to not only thrive,...
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Spotify Closes In On 200M Monthly User Milestone, Despite Apple, Amazon Threats
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 12:08pm | 440Read More...Music streaming service Spotify Technology SA (NYSE: SPOT) is approaching a key milestone. The Stockholm, Sweden-based company was founded in 2006, and the music streaming service was first publicly released in Oct. 2008. In the U.S., the service was launched in July 2011. What...
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Reading Between The Lines Of Apple's Decision To Go Silent On iPhone Unit Sales
Monday, November 5, 2018 - 5:26pm | 802Read More...While weak iPhone unit shipments and sour December quarter guidance were partly responsible for negative sentiment toward Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s shares following its fourth-quarter results, much of the blame could be traced to Cupertino's decision to drop its practice of reporting...
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Chart: Top 12 Video Games For The Holiday Season
Monday, October 22, 2018 - 1:06pm | 460Read More...The video game industry is becoming one of the most lucrative in the entertainment space, reporting a market value in the U.S. alone exceeding $19 million in 2018. This value is up $5 million since 2012, and is expected to break the $20 million threshold by 2020, according to Statista. Video game...
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The First Robotics ETF Reaches 5-Year Anniversary, $2B Under Management
Thursday, October 18, 2018 - 10:00am | 461Read More...The ROBO Global Robotics and Automation Index ETF (NASDAQ: ROBO), the first exchange traded fund dedicated to the robotics investment theme, is celebrating another milestone. ROBO, which tracks the ROBO Global Robotics and Automation Index, will soon celebrate its fifth birthday and has more than $...
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Infographic: Google Diversifies With Growing Non-Ad Revenue
Thursday, October 11, 2018 - 1:39pm | 558Read More...Diversifying revenue as a risk mitigation strategy seems to be on the mind of Google parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG). The company is slowly and steadily growing revenue streams from sources other than its bread-and-butter search business, which primarily yields ad...
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Chart: 10 Most Stolen Cars In The United States
Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 9:39am | 251Read More...The National Insurance Crime Bureau recently released the 2017 Hot Wheels Report, the annual note outlining the top stolen vehicle models in the U.S. Based on the data, national vehicle theft is at its peak since 1967. “Enhancements in vehicle security and manufacturing are having a positive...
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10 Years Of Android: How The Operating System Reached 86% Market Share
Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 2:56pm | 566Read More...The ubiquitous Android mobile operating system that powers most non-Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) smartphones debuted on Sept. 23, 2008 — 10 years ago today. Although the platform was unveiled in 2007, the first commercial device armed with the Android OS — the T-...
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Infographic: PC Gamers Prefer Nvidia GPUs
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 - 4:14pm | 449Read More...Earlier this week, technology company NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) added three products to its graphics card lineup, and consumers have been analyzing the new cards' features ever since. Some observers were ecstatic, including Loup Ventures' Gene Munster, who described the GPUs as...
















