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This Is What Makes Netflix Great
Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) just hit another milestone.In a press release touting the streamer's most-watched programming, Netflix shared this juicy nugget: Its members watched more than 1 billion....
Facebook Messenger Usage Is Soaring
Investors already knew that Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) Messenger had recently reached 1.3 billion monthly active users (MAUs), which the social network disclosed in September, but now we're getting....
Is IBM a Buy?
Has International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) officially turned the corner? In the recently reported third quarter, the company beat analyst estimates on revenue and earnings per share....
Twitter's New Threaded Feature Is the Latest Subtle Effort to Undermine the Character Limit
Brevity.That's been Twitter's (NYSE: TWTR) primary defense of its character limit over the years, even though the potential exists that removing the character limit could broaden the appeal of the....
Windows on ARM Is Back, and It Makes Sense This Time
Chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and perpetual runner-up Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) have benefited greatly from the fact that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows, the overwhelmingly dominant....
4 Must-See Quotes From Netflix's Chief Content Officer
Investors in Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) have been on a thrill ride. In its 2017 third quarter, the streaming pioneer boosted its total subscribers to 109 million, up 26% year over year, and grew....
Facebook Expands Augmented Reality Features in Messenger
It's now been a few months since Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) made a major push into augmented reality (AR) to complement its virtual reality (VR) efforts. At the social network's F8 developer conference....
Billionaire Bill Gates Predicted Netflix's Success 2 Decades Ago
Early in Netflix's (NASDAQ: NFLX) history, the biggest concern was the company's non-conventional business model. In what's become a cautionary tale for lack of vision and missed opportunity, in....
Facebook to Back Off "Double Irish" Tax Strategy
Like many tech giants before it, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) adopted the controversial (and popular) "double Irish" tax strategy back in 2012. The method is a common way to minimize tax liability,....
Better Buy: Microsoft vs. Oracle
With their respective transitions to the cloud, analytics, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) in full swing, both Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) have been powering a profitable....
1 Big Reason Netflix Will Be Fine Without Disney
Earlier this year, Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) announced it's pulling its films from Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) when its contract expires in 2019. And Disney isn't the only company pulling its....
15 Dividends That Have Grown for 10 Straight Years (or More)
Image source: Getty Images.One of the many benefits of owning stocks is the chance to receive small chunks of a company's profit in the form of regular checks. We're talking about dividends, of....
How Much Is Uber Worth Right Now?
Uber is the student who comes in late and goofs off, but still manages to get an A in the class. The ride-sharing company seemed to take off without much effort when it was founded in 2009 after....
Why Netflix Shareholders Have Nothing to Worry About
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) has built an impressive audience of 104.2 million subscribers around the world. That's a number that exceeds the size of the entire traditional pay-television audience in....
Messenger Kids: What Is Facebook Thinking?
In its quest to bring the entire world closer together, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has always had a small problem: small people. In many countries, children are not allowed to join the company's....
3 Growth Stocks Worth Buying
To be successful at investing over the long-term, it's crucial to stay focused on business performance and forget about the short-term zigs and zags of the market. There's no way to know where....
Why Symantec Stock Fell 10.9% in November
Shares of Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) dove nearly 11% last month, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence, after the cybersecurity company delivered earnings that fell short....
Why Netflix Isn't Interested in Sports
It seems like everyone in streaming is getting into sports. Amazon purchased the global streaming rights to Thursday Night Football and the British rights to the ATP Tennis World Tour this year.....
What Does Xbox Mean to Microsoft?
While the Xbox One is a top-tier gaming console and only second in sales to Sony's (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 4, it's actually not a big part of Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) overall business. That,....
The 5 Best Stocks in the S&P 500 in 2017
The stock market has performed well in 2017, with the S&P 500 up by nearly 18% and hovering near record highs. However, some stocks have performed much better than average. In fact, some of....
3 Top Augmented Reality Stocks You Should Consider Buying
When Niantic's Pokemon Go game launched in early 2016, it helped bring augmented reality (AR) to the forefront of many consumers' minds. And while the hype around catching virtual Pikachus in a....
Why 2017 Was a Year to Remember for Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) had a lot to write home about this past year. The company beat analysts' consensus earnings estimates four times in 2017, made huge strides toward its lofty cloud....
2 Tech Companies With Enormous Free Cash Flow
In investing, free cash flow is the good stuff. Defined as a company's cash from operations minus its capital expenditures, free cash flow is the cold, hard cash left over after regular operations....
Forget Bitcoin: IOTA Just Partnered With 5 Brand-Name Companies on a New Project
We're just three weeks from turning the calendar on 2017, but cryptocurrency price appreciation has shown absolutely no signs of slowing. While marijuana and cloud-computing stocks have impressed,....
These 3 Companies Grew at Least 40% in 2017, and They Aren't Slowing Down
2017 has been a great year for the market at large. The S&P 500 index has reached record levels and gained 18% year to date as of this writing, both the Nasdaq Composite and Dow Jones....