When Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) CEO Brian Roberts said during last July's second-quarter conference call that "for years, we felt that video over the Internet is more friend than foe. We believe it plays to our strengths," it would have been easy to chalk it up as a throwaway comm
The market was crushed on Thursday, extending a brutal sell-off. Highlighting the market's steep decline, the S&P 500 is now down about 25% since Feb. 19. On Thursday alone, the market index fell by 7.6% as of 2:22 p.m. EDT. With a market crash of this magnitude, it's not su
Consumers have more choices than ever when it comes to subscription video on demand, and they're about to get even more. Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) introduced new streaming services late last year. AT&T (NYSE: T), Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), and venture-backed
It's a prospect Discovery, Inc. (NASDAQ: DISCA) CEO David Zaslav has loosely talked about for over a year. But it wasn't until the company's fourth-quarter conference call in February that he plainly said, "We are focusing hard at aggregating our brands into an OTT [over the to
This year will be the tipping point for streaming services. Cord-cutting reached previously unheard of levels last year, and that trend will only accelerate from here.
Obviously, travel, transport, bank, and oil stocks are getting hammered in this current market sell-off. However, there are also several high-quality stocks in other sectors that are likely to benefit from both the "stay-at-home" economy, low oil prices, and low interest rates -
Walt Disney's (NYSE: DIS) streaming service Disney+ has to be considered a smashing success. Since its launch in November, it's amassed more than 28 million subscribers. That's still less than half the 68 million Canadian and U.S. subscribers Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) currently ser
There were 1,637 stocks on the three major U.S. stock exchanges hitting new 52-week lows last week, but it wasn't a bad time for everybody. Nearly 300 stocks also managed to score fresh highs during last week's sell-off, and some of the names might surprise you.
Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA) is one of the pioneers in the access-management and digital-identity space. Making its debut on the public markets in April 2017, the company priced its shares at $17.
Streaming video is big business, and getting bigger all the time. Revenue in the industry is expected to amount to $25.9 billion this year, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.1% and topping $30.4 billion by 2024, according to market and consumer data provider S
In 2017, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) struck a partnership with wireless carrier T-Mobile to include a Netflix subscription in its mobile plans. The streaming leader has since struck numerous partnerships with carriers, video distributors, and internet service providers throughout the