Disney Trying to Woo Fox

According to recent reports, the attendance for the world’s top 10 theme-park operators grew 8.6% last year, almost double the rate of 2016. Visitors to parks run by Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) rose 6.8% to 150 million worldwide, while Merlin Entertainments, the runner-up operator saw attendance to Lego Land climb 7.8% to 66 million.

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Uber and Lyft IPOs May Still be a While

The year 2017 was not a very friendly year for ride-sharing giant Uber. The company was embroiled in controversy surrounding its corporate culture and business practices, it let go of its founder, and continued to deal with legal cases relating to trade secret thefts. Uber continues to pay for its issues in the current year

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Cisco Delivers a Promising Turnaround

Networking giant Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) has had a remarkable year so far. Its stock has climbed nearly 18% since the start of the year as the company transforms itself to adapt to the newer technologies. Cisco has been moving away from its traditional business of supplying switches and routers into newer areas of cloud and

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Squarespace is Willing to Wait Patiently For an IPO

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course. Market reports suggest that there were more than two billion websites online as of December 2017. The growth in the websites is attributed to the increasing presence of Content Management Systems (CMS) that allow people and organizations to build websites easily without having to truly

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Fitbit Struggles to Stay Relevant

According to a research by P&S Market Research, the global wearable fitness tracker market is estimated to grow to $48.2 billion by 2023 driven by the increasing use of fitness tracking apps, demand for continuous health monitoring devices, and increasing disposable income. Billion Dollar Unicorn player Fitbit (NYSE:FIT) has been among the pioneers in the industry. But

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: How Will GitHub Reach Its Billion Dollar Revenue Target?

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course. Billion Dollar Unicorn player GitHub was founded in 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett to expand the open source operating system market that was developed by Linux.

Will Twilio Get Acquired by Salesforce?

Cloud computing software vendor Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) recently reported its first quarter financial results that shattered all expectations. The market is very pleased with Twilio, with some categorizing it as a “star in digitization”.

Twitter Delivers Second Consecutive Profitable Quarter

Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) appears to be making a slow turnaround this year. It recently reported its quarterly performance that outpaced market expectations and delivered its second consecutive profitable quarter. The market is also impressed with some of the content-related moves that the company is making.