Snap's (NYSE: SNAP) stock more than tripled in 2020 as the social media company impressed investors with its robust growth in revenue and users. Concerns about competition from Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) Instagram and ByteDance's TikTok also faded as the company's bottom line improv
It's probably too much to say that any stock is "recession-proof," since virtually every stock plunged during the early stages of the pandemic, when the crisis rapidly pushed the country into a recession. Yet the speed at which some businesses rebounded does show that there are i
Investors were taken on the ride of their lives in 2020. After getting pummeled in the first quarter, the broader market proved unstoppable in the nine months to end the year. This was especially true of the technology-heavy and growth-focused Nasdaq 100.When the curtain closed,
The world of digital advertising is once again on the verge of a sea change, the result of the latest privacy move by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). With an upcoming update to iOS 14, iPhone users will be required to explicitly consent to allow app publishers to track them across the apps
Social media has been one of the most disruptive forces in the world over the past decade, and billions of people are now engaged on social platforms. Facebook (which includes Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram), Alphabet's YouTube, Tiktok, and even Microsoft's LinkedIn are engagi
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the SPDR— S&P 500— ETF Trust (Symbol: SPY) where we have detected an approximate $1.2 billion dollar inflow -- that's a 0.4% increase we
Martin Sorrell's S4 Capital said on Monday it had acquired two U.S.-based businesses for an undisclosed sum, as it moves faster to implement its revamped all-digital advertising strategy in Europe and elsewhere following Brexit.
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What happenedShares of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) climbed 33% last year, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The social media titan saw its user base and engagement levels rise during the coronavirus pandemic, as people sought ways to remain in contact wi
Facebook Inc's chief of advertising integrity, who handled the company's ad products around sensitive subjects such as politics and coronavirus misinformation, departed this week, according to an internal company post viewed by Reuters on Friday.
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) is often considered the 800-pound gorilla of the social networking market. Its family of apps -- which includes its main app, Instagram, and WhatsApp -- grew its monthly active users 14% year over year to 3.21 billion last quarter. Facebook also shares a nea
Artificial intelligence and related technology giving machines and systems the ability to make decisions is a fast-growing industry. Global spending on AI grew by a double-digit percentage in 2020, and the pace of expansion is only expected to continue in the years to come.But ra
Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Vornado Realty Trust (Symbol: VNO), where a total of 23,129 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 2.3 million underlying shares. That amounts to about
The benchmark S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq were set to end a year ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic with strong gains, thanks to unprecedented stimulus and vaccine rollouts that have boosted hopes of an economy recovery.
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U.S. stocks were flat in thin trading on Thursday, but the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were set to end 2020 with solid gains on hopes of more stimulus and coronavirus vaccines to support the domestic economy.