Elevate Credit Trying to Elevate

According to the 2017 Americas Alternative Finance Industry Report, the alternative finance market across the US, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean has grown 23% to $35.2 billion in 2016. The market has benefited from the wide options of crowdfunding, marketplace/peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, and other online alternative finance platforms that have emerged in the industry. One such player

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Tableau Fails to Deliver Growth

Gartner estimates the global business intelligence and analytics market to be worth $18.3 billion this year. The market is expected to grow 7.6% annually over the next two years to become a $22.8 billion industry by the end of 2020. Data analytics firm Tableau (NYSE: DATA) recently reported its quarterly results and its growth is

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BlackLine Industry Awards Fail to Generate Interest in New Products

Cloud finance and accounting firm BlackLine (Nasdaq: BL) went public just over a year ago. Since then, the company’s valuation, along with the accolades it has received, has grown steadily. Recently it was recognized as one of the country’s best Medium-Sized Workplaces by the Fortune magazine for the second consecutive year. Last month, its founder

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: FireEye Struggling To Keep Up

According to Gartner, the global spending on information security products and services will grow 7% this year to $86.4 billion and to $93 billion by 2018.

Apple Results Move Marketcap Closer to the Trillion Mark

The tech stocks continue to have a bullish run in the stock market. The latest one to join the race is Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), which announced a blowout quarter, yet again.

Russia Controversy Has no Impact on Facebook

If anyone expected the recent Russia scandal regarding the US election to hurt the profitability or revenue prospects for Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), they couldn’t have been more mistaken.  In the recently reported quarterly performance, Facebook continued to shatter all market expectations, yet again.

Twitter Remains in Hot Water

Social media stocks like Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) have been in the news recently as they went to court to present their side of the story regarding Russian involvement in the US elections. Twitter also made some news earlier last month when it delivered a quarterly performance that outpaced market expectations. But the worst is hardly

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Alphabet Wants to Monetize YouTube as the Next Big Thing

The recent quarterly results by tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOG) helped drive the Nasdaq to the best gains of the year. Post their result announcements, the Nasdaq climbed 2% in the day – its biggest climb this year – as the stocks themselves climbed to their record highs.