Amazon Fires on All Cylinders

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has reported its seventh straight quarter of profit and beat earnings estimates. All this, thanks to its hugely profitable cloud segment, Amazon Web Services (AWS). >>>

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Facebook Diversifies Beyond Advertising

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) is the undisputed king of social media. But it had a rough end to the year due to the uproar about fake news. The company was accused of spreading hoax news that was a big catalyst in getting Donald Trump elected as the US President despite all odds. Facebook may still not have figured out how to stop the fake news, but it definitely knows how to run a successful business and literally mint money!

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A Look At Apple Beyond The iPhone

For the past few quarters, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) was struggling because of the saturated smart phone market. iPhone sales were lagging and the market wasn’t too happy with the growth on its other initiatives. But the recently reported quarter seems to prove that things may have turned around. This was a big quarter for Apple. Not only was it the holiday quarter, but it was also the first full quarter for iPhone 7 sales.

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ServiceNow Looks Robust

ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) recently reported results that surpassed all market expectations. The company attributes the growth to a successful platform strategy, and rightly so.

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Alphabet Betting Outside Search

Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOG) recently announced its fourth quarter results. While revenues surpassed market expectations, the earnings were a miss due to accounting policy changes. But the market has been forgiving to Alphabet given the huge strides it is making in non-search areas.

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Watch Microsoft in 2017

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) recently announced its first quarter results that surpassed market expectations and proved to the world its agility. Like I said earlier, it maybe the dark horse in the race, but it is certainly taking the right strides.

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eBay Delivers Better than Promised Results

eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) finally appears to be taking a turn for the better. Not only did eBay deliver better than expected results during the holiday quarter, it also improved some of its operational metrics. But its outlook still continued to disappoint the market.

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Kabam Struggles to Stay Alive

According to a Newzoo report, the total gaming market worldwide was estimated to grow 8.5% over the year to $99.6 billion in revenues in 2016. This is also the first year when mobile gaming will account for a bigger share than PC games. Mobile gaming was estimated to bring in $36.9 billion in revenues, growing 21.3% over the year. The global gaming market is expected to grow 6.6% annually over the next three years to be worth $118.6 billion in 2019 with mobile gaming accounting for $52.5 billion of these revenues.

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Death by Overfunding: One Kings Lane

Flash sales sites were part of the cool startups once. Venture capitalists put in money in these sites because they thought the sites would be strong competition to online and store-based retailers. The sites also started to carve out their own niches, with focus on fashion, shoes, and even home décor products. Initially, the businesses did well. Most flash sites were set up in 2008-2009 when the economy was in trouble and retailers were looking to offload merchandise. But as the economy picked up, the flash sites lost their glitz.

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Pinterest, an Unlikely 2017 IPO Prospect

After the dry spell for tech IPOs in 2016, 2017 is expected to be a busy year. Billion Dollar Unicorns Snapchat and AppDynamics have already filed to go public and another unicorn that has long been on the IPO prospects list is social media content discovery app Pinterest, which has low revenue but a ridiculously high valuation. >>>