One of the biggest misconceptions for tech investors is that you must invest in unproven frontier concepts to make money. While investing in game-changing start-ups can be lucrative (though often risky), investors shouldn't overlook the value created by companies that are innovat
After having a subpar customer experience a decade ago, Freshworks CEO Girish Mathrubootham built a tool to help businesses better manage and centralize their customer interactions. In this episode of Industry Focus: Tech, we talk about the company's torrid growth and the competi
While high-growth, meme, and cryptocurrency stocks get all the attention these days, cloud giant Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) just continues to do what it's always done under CEO Satya Nadella: mint money and return it to shareholders.
Stocks with game-changing growth potential can grow exponentially in a matter of years, but among the many companies aggressively pursuing growth today, only a handful seem capable of making it through the stock gyrations and hitting the coveted $1 trillion market capitalization
Google abused the dominant position of its Android operating system in India, using its "huge financial muscle" to illegally hurt competitors, the country's antitrust authority found in a report on its two-year probe seen by Reuters.
The budget bill that is currently being proposed by Democrats in Congress contains six provisions that collectively could reduce greenhouse gas emissions within the U.S. by 1 billion tons a year by 2030 according to an analysis by the Rhodium Group, a nonpartisan organization, reported CNN. The findings align with other analyses that dug into [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
It was a volatile week for the major benchmarks, keeping with September's historically rocky market trends. On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) rebounded from last week's slump by snapping a five-day losing streak. Tuesday, however, the blue-chip index notched a tr
The August numbers released Thursday by the government showed that the U.S. economy is proving more steadfast than what analysts had feared. Consumer spending at retailers was up last month, and employers retained employees at higher rates, both indicators of economic demand, reported The Wall Street Journal. Retail sales were up 0.7% in August after [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Nintendo's (OTC: NTDOY) Switch game system has surpassed 85 million units sold to consumers. It's been a massive success for the Japanese gaming brand, but it's getting more difficult for Nintendo to post strong year-over-year growth rates after more than four years since its lau
Japan's trading house Mitsui & Co and its affiliate ocean engineering firm Modec Inc have launched a digital service to help improve the productivity of energy and other companies, aiming for sales of up to $100 million in five years.
The S&P 500 ended slightly lower on Thursday, paring losses in late trading after unexpectedly strong retail sales data underscored the strength of the U.S. economic recovery.
Wall Street lost ground on Monday as unexpectedly robust retail sales data underscored the strength of the U.S. economic recovery, boosting bond yields and prompting a sell-off in market-leading tech stocks.
Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Booking Holdings Inc (Symbol: BKNG), where a total of 2,989 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 298,900 underlying shares. That amounts to about 102
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Chinese tech stock Luokung Technology (NASDAQ: LKCO) is sizzling today, trading up 17% as of 11:30 a.m. EDT after climbing as high as 34.3% in the morning thanks to a tie-up with tech giant Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). This could be just the beginning of a long-term bu
Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ: LULU) shares hit an all-time high on earnings. Dave & Buster's (NASDAQ: PLAY) delivers a surprise. Boston Beer (NYSE: SAM) falls on sluggish seltzer sales, and fintech company Affirm Holdings (NASDAQ: AFRM) soars on strong revenue growth and an Am
Longevity and reliability are important features for any stock that you buy for your retirement account. You probably don't want to stake your nest egg on a company that crumbles against the competition, even if it has promising growth prospects. There's no way to completely elim
After a huge rally that saw the S&P 500 regularly hit new highs, the stock index recently suffered a losing streak of five consecutive days before snapping out of it. The overall decline was relatively tame, a less than 2% drop.