Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is going full throttle in engaging buyers on Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR). The company recently launched a new hashtag through which customers can add an item to their Amazon wish list by just including that hashtag in their tweets. CNET published an article recently, which elaborated on how Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is using Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) to provide better services to existing customers and attract new customers. Earlier this year Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) had launched #AmazonCart hashtag by using which customers can directly add products in their Amazon Shopping cart. On Wednesday, the company launched #AmazonWishlist hashtag by…
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Ritesh Anan is a full-time derivatives trader. Though he firmly believes in the power of Technical Analysis, he is also a lifelong student of macroeconomics. In his free time, he reads anything and everything that comes from Robert J. Shiller, George Soros and Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
The whole street is speculating how Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) will be spending the cash from the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA)’s IPO and everyone has a different take on that. Estimize CEO Leigh Drogen was on Fox Business recently to discuss the future course of action for Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), now that the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA)’s IPO is over. “So, on our predictions, mergers and acquisitions prediction site Mergerize, we have got 30 predictions on Yahoo now and they range from AOL to Reddit to Yelp and then possibly staying private or getting bought themselves,” Drogen said. According to…
Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA) proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable Inc (NYSE:TWC) for $45 billion is receiving a lot of flak from Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX). The two companies, Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA) and Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) entered a major verbal war recently when the former accused the latter of seeking “extortionate” demands as a result of the proposed acquisition. Variety Magazine recently did an article in which it elaborated the kind of accusations these two companies have been leveling on each other. Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA) leveled those accusations against Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) in comments that it filed with the Federal Communications Commission…
Silicon Valley behemoths like Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) are always competing against each other, to attract the right kind of talent. However, these same companies have come together to support a program that seeks to increase the diversity in engineering by attracting more women and people of different ethnicities towards it. Bloomberg Businessweek recently came up with an article describing how these tech are supporting the program named, Building Recruiting and Inclusion for Diversity (BRAID). Hillary Clinton made an announcement about BRAID at the recently concluded Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York. It’s…
SolarCity Corp (NASDAQ:SCTY)’s customers mostly lease the equipments rather than buying it, which can be a big cause of concern for the company if interest rates go higher. Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA)’s margins will be substantially lower if its model 3 would be priced in the range that the company wants it to be. The man who is the public face of both SolarCity Corp (NASDAQ:SCTY) and Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) is Elon Musk and the recent declines in both these stocks have shaved off almost $1.5 billion from Musk’s net worth. FMHR traders recently discussed on CNBC the problems…
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, advisor to Larry Page co-authored a book ‘How Google Works’, which releases this week. Today they were on CNBC to discuss about the book and different aspects of Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s businesses. “I am not sure if there is ever a too much as long as the products are good. I think it’s too much when the products are not good. When we wrote the book, we sat down and we evaluated what we really thought about the new things that Google and others has invented and we decided that…
BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) under John Chen’s leadership has made it clear that now it is a software services and mobile security company. Then why is it launching new devices? A lot of people are asking that question. Bloomberg Intelligence’s John Butler answered that question and also discussed about BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY)’s new square screen smartphone. “They are not going to come out with an iPhone killer. The one thing to remember about Blackberry and John Chen has really instilled this in the company itself is, he told the employees, look we are a company full of assets. I mean they…
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) generates so much data from its billion plus users that the company gets valuable insights into how people behave, which means it is an invaluable asset to the company . The company’s data scientists faced a lot of flak recently when it was revealed that they had experimented with users’ timeline without their consent, but it seems not all their research is so controversial. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) publishes the findings that its scientists uncover, on a regular basis. Forbes recently came up with an article on some of these rather wild findings. According to the article, 1…
Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), SolarCity Corp (NASDAQ:SCTY) and SpaceX are companies that operate in three different industries. Still, it’s rare that someone talks about any one of them and doesn’t mention the man behind these companies, Elon Musk. While SpaceX is private, Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) and SolarCity Corp (NASDAQ:SCTY) are publicly traded companies and every move that these companies make, is attributed to Musk. When shares of Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) and SolarCity Corp (NASDAQ:SCTY) tanked recently, Business Insider came up with an article describing how this affects Musk. Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) made its all time high of…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) is perceived as a late starter in the mobile processor space, but it seems the companyis now making up for starting late. It has now got products for every age group and the company is not shying away from letting it know. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) recently released a video/b-roll featuring a range of Intel-based mobile devices that caters to the need of every member of the family. The company also issued a press release notifying user of the same. The video/b-roll released by Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) features almost all Intel-based 2 in 1 devices, portable all-in-one PCs and tablets. If…
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) I now out of the shadows of the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA)’s IPO, the valuation of its core business is subject of close scrutiny by investors and analysts alike. Doug MacMillan, reporter for the Wall Street Journal recently gave his views on what Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO)’s core business is worth on Fox Business. “Essentially the clock is now ticking on Marissa Mayers, she became the CEO little more than two years ago and in that time investors have essentially given her kind of a free pass because they have been so focused about the growing value…
When one is in the business of delivering video content to viewers like Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) even things like spoilers can’t be taken lightly. The company recently conducted a survey on spoilers and also got an expert for gaining insights into how spoilers affect viewership. Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) announced the findings of the survey by issuing a press release on its website recently. The major finding of the online survey conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) was that 21% of American citizens don’t find anything wrong in sharing plot twists with others right after they see…