Category: Startups

It takes more than social media to make a social movement

People chant slogans at the Indianapolis International Airport, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, during a protest against President Trump’s executive order temporarily suspending all immigration for citizens of seven majority Muslim countries for 90 days. President Trump may have used the power of social media to make his way into the White House, but now social media networks are showing that muscle can work for his opposition, too.

Futures, Asia Lower As Trump Uncertainty Weighs Ahead of Earnings

Futures for U.S. markets pointed toward a lower open Tuesday as investors remain concerned about the turmoil caused by President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration. The S&P 500 pared 0.25%, the Dow Jones Industrials 0.25% and Nasdaq 0.24% at 11:08 p.m. EST, ahead of Tuesday when a host of companies are set to report earnings.

Why Intel Corporation Is Expecting Another Slow Year for Its Data-Center Group

In the past, the company had set a long-term revenue compounded annual growth rate in this business of 15%, although the company has clearly been unable to hit that target over the past couple of years, recording around 11% growth in 2015 and 8% growth in 2016. Heading into 2017, Intel is now expecting revenue growth in the “high single digits” for DCG — well below its previous 15% target, and even lower than the more relaxed “double-digit growth” goal that management has referred to in the past and now appears to aspire to for the future.

Alphabet, Inc. Is Making an Important Change to Non-GAAP Reporting

But there’s one other item in the company’s most recent quarterly report investors may want to take the time to consider: A key change in the way Alphabet will be calculating its non-GAAP results. In a surprising move, Alphabet explained in its fourth-quarter earnings call that it will no longer exclude stock-based compensation from its non-GAAP results.

1 Key Reason NVIDIA Corporation Stock Could Fall

Large-cap stocks simply don’t increase 280% in a single year without a clear and meaningful catalyst. That’s exactly the case with graphics semiconductor giant NVIDIA As you’ll see, NVIDIA’s central role in several of the fastest-growing markets in technology should fuel its continued revenue and profit growth for years to come.

AMD’s Last Report Before Ryzen: What to Expect

Ryzen, its upcoming high-end CPU, will launch sometime during the first quarter, and Vega, its new high-end GPU, is set for some time during the first half. AMD is expected to grow revenue during the fourth quarter compared to the prior-year period, but a steep decline compared to the third quarter is also expected.

Intel Corporation’s Capital Returns Strategy

Put simply, Intel has guided for significantly higher capital expenditures for the year, something that’s likely going to reduce the free cash flow that the chipmaker will generate during the year. During the company’s most recent earnings call, new Intel CFO Robert Swan described the chipmaker’s capital returns strategy in a reasonable amount of detail.

2 Uber CEO challenged for Trump connection after immigrant ban

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is facing criticism online for his relationship with President Donald Trump after the administration imposed a temporary ban on travel to the United States from seven majority Muslim countries. Kalanick said in a Facebook post that the 90-day ban could hurt “thousands” of Uber drivers and he will raise his concerns directly with the president during a Friday business advisory group meeting in Washington.

George Soros’ Best-Performing Stocks of 2017 So Far

Love him or hate him — casual interest or indifference will also do — there’s no denying hedge-fund billionaire George Soros’ considerable skill predicting and profiting from the movements of financial markets. In a career spanning over six decades, Soros has amassed an estimated $25 billion fortune entirely through trading and investing stocks, bonds, currencies, and the like.

Apple Stock Has a Lot to Prove on Tuesday

Apple stock hit a fresh 52-week high on Thursday, and with the shares trading 36% off their springtime lows, it’s easy to see how proving mortal can trigger a sell-off. The silver lining here is that just a sliver of its gains have come in the past three months.

More And More Tech Leaders Are Denouncing Trump’s Muslim Ban

Apple’s Tim Cook and Google’s Sundar Pichai are just some of those expressing concerns about the order banning refugees from 7 countries. A growing number of tech leaders, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, are denouncing President Trump’s executive order that bans refugees from 7 Muslim-majority countries: Syria, Iran, Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, and Sudan.

More And More Tech Leaders Are Denouncing Trump’s Muslim Ban

Apple’s Tim Cook and Google’s Sundar Pichai are just some of those expressing concerns about the order banning refugees from 7 countries. A growing number of tech leaders, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, are denouncing President Trump’s executive order that bans refugees from 7 Muslim-majority countries: Syria, Iran, Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, and Sudan.

This is what Elon Musk’s mysterious digging tweets are about

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has broken ground on an underground tunnel he plans to burrow beneath the city of Los Angeles to spare himself from having to sit in traffic. He’s also about to purchase a large earth drilling machine to continue the tunnel, which was started on his companies’ properties in Hawthorne, CA, according to a person familiar with his thinking.

Here’s Why Intel Corporation Didn’t Raise Its Dividend

In a previous column , I went over several potential reasons why the company may have opted not to boost its dividend. Now that the company has announced its full-year earnings results for 2016 and, more importantly, issued its financial guidance for 2017, it’s quite clear why the chip-maker held off on giving its shareholders raises.

Google recalls staff to the U.S. after Trumpa s immigration order

Alphabet’s Google delivered a sharp message to staff traveling overseas who may be impacted by a new executive order on immigration from President Donald Trump: Get back to the U.S. now. Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai slammed Trump’s move in a note to employees Friday, telling them that more than 100 company staff are affected by the order.

Google recalls staff to the U.S. after Trumpa s immigration order

Alphabet’s Google delivered a sharp message to staff traveling overseas who may be impacted by a new executive order on immigration from President Donald Trump: Get back to the U.S. now. Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai slammed Trump’s move in a note to employees Friday, telling them that more than 100 company staff are affected by the order.

Google Recalls Staff to U.S. After Trump Immigration Order

Alphabet Inc.’s Google delivered a sharp message to staff traveling overseas who may be impacted by a new executive order on immigration from President Donald Trump: Get back to the U.S. now. Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai slammed Trump’s move in a note to employees Friday, telling them that more than 100 company staff are affected by the order.

Google Not Planning to Be Silenced by Amazon’s Echo

Amazon’s Echo may have the early edge, but Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the race to have the dominant voice assistant is at a ‘very early’ stage. The blowout success of the Amazon Echo has raised the stakes in the voice assistant space, but Google CEO Sundar Pichai doesn’t seem to be all that worried.

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The company has had its fair share of missteps for the Surface, but it’s safe to say at this point that Microsoft has exceeded most early expectations for its first-party devices. Microsoft has adapted quickly to flops like Surface RT, which resulted in a $900 million writedown back in 2013, and pushed forward with expanding the portfolio, most recently with Surface Studio.

Better Buy: Baidu, Inc. vs. Facebook

The divergent fortunes of Facebook and Baidu shares over the past year only reinforce their apparent differences. However, though their core businesses today touch different areas of the global technology market, Facebook and Baidu are united in their ongoing efforts to shape some of technology’s most important future growth markets.

‘The explosion in data is so great that it’s almost like, if you have storage space, we’ll take it!’

If you didn’t know any better, we were back in 1999 when Intel and Microsoft and Western Digital and Seagate were hot as freshly shot cannonballs, because we figured out how to get some “high speed” lines to connect personal computers to the world wide web. Of course, those companies are, with the exception of Intel, really very different beasts now.

Elon Musk Floated the Idea of a Carbon Tax to Trump, an Official Says

President Donald Trump meets with business leaders including Elon Musk, left, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington on Jan. 23, 2017. Tesla Motors Inc. founder Elon Musk is pressing the Trump administration to adopt a tax on carbon emissions, raising the issue directly with President Donald Trump and U.S. business leaders at a White House meeting Monday regarding manufacturing.

Why This Analyst Raised General Motors’ Price Target

There hasn’t been a long list of analysts posting bullish notes on major automakers over the past year, due to the inevitable peaking of the U.S. new-vehicle cycle after the industry set sales records each of the past seven years. That’s why yesterday’s upgrade from Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas, a highly respected analyst and longtime Tesla Motors bull, was a pleasant surprise for investors.