Cloud Stocks: Shopify Expands PaaS Integrations

Earlier last month, Ontario-based Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) announced its quarterly results that missed market expectations. Shopify continues to invest in product upgrades while benefiting from social partnerships with players like TikTok, and several partner integrations.

IPOs 2021: Analysis of Toast’s xtraCHEF Acquisition

There are 22 million restaurant locations globally generating more than $2.6 trillion in annual sales in 2021. Within the US, there are approximately 860,000 restaurant locations. US restaurants generated nearly $700 billion in sales last year and are expected to grow to $1.1 trillion by 2024. Recently listed Toast (NYSE: TOST) is helping adapt the

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IPOs 2021: SentinelOne Targets $40 Billion Market Opportunity

The global cyber security industry is expected to grow at 9.7% CAGR to reach $345.4 billion by 2026. Newly public Mountain View-based SentinelOne (NYSE:S) is expanding its partnerships and product offerings to grow its reach in the market.

IPOs 2021: Confluent Addresses $91B Market Opportunity

Mountain View-based Confluent (Nasdaq: CFLT) is a leading provider of Apache Kafka-based solutions addressing the $149B global application infrastructure & middleware, database management systems, data integration tools and data quality tools, and analytics and business intelligence markets.

IPOs 2021: Robinhood Makes it Easier for All to Invest

Palo Alto-based Robinhood (Nasdaq: HOOD) has been trying to make it easier for the average investor to invest in all financial markets – stocks, funds, and even cryptocurrency. The company went public earlier this year and recently reported its third-quarter results.

Cloud Stocks: Twilio Leverages Segment Platform for Product Expansion

Communications PaaS player Twilio (NYSE: TWLO) recently announced its third-quarter results that continued to surpass market expectations. Twilio released several new products in the quarter based on Segment, its Customer Data Platform.

Cloud Stocks: Amazon Addresses Margin Pressures Through Product Upgrades

Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) recently announced results highlight the pressures of higher labor costs impacting the global markets. Surprisingly, Amazon failed to meet the market’s expectations for the quarter and believes that these pressures will continue into the current holiday quarter as well.

IPOs 2021: Udemy Targets $223 Billion Market Opportunity

According to a recent HolonIQ study, the global online and offline education market was worth $2.6 trillion across K-12, higher education, corporate training, and online learning in 2019. Most of this instruction was conducted offline before the pandemic. However, the pandemic has accelerated the transition of corporate training, and in some cases, higher education, to

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