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With all the attention in the last year going to artificial intelligence (AI), investors understandably might have forgotten about the metaverse. However, keeping tabs on what's going on in the

Kyndryl Holdings (NYSE: KD), the old managed infrastructure segment that IBM spun off as a stand-alone company in late 2021, rallied in 2023. The stock is up 65% in 2023 with just a couple weeks to

Analysts might differ on whether we are in a bull market, but the recent increases in stock prices reduced the pool of cheap tech stocks. This probably means the low-hanging fruit found at the

Fool.com contributor Parkev Tatevosian reviews PayPal's (NASDAQ: PYPL) prospects for 2024 and lets you know if the stock is a buy right now.

*Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of Dec. 15

International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) has a knack for using acquisitions to bolster its growth businesses. The tech giant occasionally goes big, as it did with the $34 billion acquisition of

This year looks set to end with a bang, and plenty of stocks will finish as big winners. Led by big tech stocks known as the "Magnificent Seven," the S&P 500 is now up 23% for the year, while the

When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), much of the attention has focused on larger companies like Nvidia or Microsoft. One can understand that, given their technical capabilities and

Although a successful industry-leading company, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) hasn't been the best to its shareholders. The stock has lost 28% of its value in the last five years, while the Nasdaq Composite

Playing video games has become a mainstream form of entertainment for millions of Americans. Players in the U.S. spent $56 billion on games in 2022, according to the NPD Group, and the figure is

Many investors consider Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) the quintessential artificial intelligence (AI) stock because the chipmaker dominates the market for machine learning processors. Other investors might

At my age, I'm still 25 to 30 years away from retirement. Therefore, readers need to understand that at this stage of life, I'm primarily concerned with growing the value of my portfolio. My

After performing poorly in 2022, growth stocks have largely rebounded this year, and some have far outshone the broader market's solid performance. That was the case with e-commerce giant Shopify

The case for not owning a stake in China's e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA) has been strong enough since late 2020. That's when the rapid growth of online shopping spurred by the

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) may not be among the esteemed ranks of the "Magnificent Seven" tech stocks, but the database software kingpin has a long track record of delivering superior returns to investors.

When it comes to talking about artificial intelligence (AI), Microsoft often dominates the conversation, and rightly so. Early on, the company partnered up with OpenAI, a start-up that's capturing

Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) and Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) are two of the world's largest cloud software companies. Adobe transformed its desktop-based media software into cloud-based services over the past

If asked to name an e-commerce company, most investors will resort to names like Amazon, Shopify, Alibaba, and MercadoLibre. These are good answers, since all these companies have become successful

Investors seem to be focused on Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) attractive qualities as 2023 draws to a close. The software giant's stock price is up over 50% through mid-December, easily beating the 38%

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) was once one of the best-performing stocks out there. From its spinoff from eBay in July 2015 to its peak price in July 2021, shares rose about 740%, a monster gain.

But it's

A new top-down economic stimulus program from the Chinese government was stimulating interest in the country's stocks on Friday. One of the nation's big corporate champions, e-commerce giant Alibaba

In 2015, eBay spun off PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) into its own publicly traded company. As an investing novice at the time, I didn't fully understand how it worked. So I bought shares of eBay beforehand

Cathie Wood and her team at Ark Invest see advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) propelling a $14 trillion industry in enterprise software by 2030. AI has the potential to improve

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are the No. 1 and No. 2 companies, respectively, in the cloud infrastructure space. While Amazon pioneered the industry, Microsoft drove its

The last couple of years have been brutal for social media giant Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META). After spending billions on its metaverse ambitions, Meta lost sight of its core advertising business